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After completing Half Life 2: Episode II I went to see what else got installed when I bought the Half-Life 2: The Orange Box (PC DVD).

Portal is by far the most imaginative game I have played in a long time – with a portal gun you fire it at a wall/ceiling/floor and then do the same again at a wall/ceiling/floor and the two points are then joined as a portal. So fire it in the ceiling and then in the wall and when you walk through the wall portal you fall out of the hole in the ceiling.

There are some fantastic puzzles in it that require a mix of lateral thinking and quick reactions. No baddies to shoot – the only shooting that happens is by sentry guns which you have to disable/knock over.

The tune you get at the end is sung by the computerised voice that guides you all the way through the rest of the game. It is really melodic and weird but I can’t stop listening to it…

After watching a documentary about the 1975 Queen album ‘A Night at the Opera’ last night on BBC3 or 4 (can’t remember which) I am listening to it today.

Note to self – make sure not to sing along with the tracks here in the office…

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It all down to a South African football (soccer) team called the Kaizer Chiefs. They saw the name and thought it sounded cool apparently…

Since we have just got tickets to see them in April I’ve been listening on good old MP3 at work and Minidisc on the bus to Employment

I’m intrigued to see where they got their name from since I found out about our last gig Franz Ferdinand.

This week and last I’ve been listening to the soundtrack of “O Brother, Where Art Thou”.
I can only describe it as a sort of wild west soundtrack with banjos, fiddles, probably moonshine jugs, and double bass made from a broomhandle and a tea-chest.
Most amusing and quite different.

I’m sure I’ve seen the film but other than remembering George Clooney trying to jump onto a moving train I can’t remember the rest of it!