Saturday and sunday saw the London leg of the Redbull Air race, and after a whole pile of blagging, emailing and form filling I mangaged to get the 11th down there. So myself and a rough looking Remy rolled up at to start with completely the wrong tube station in east London, the the right one via a pasty to find a sufficient lack of excitement.

We hung around, did a few shos, interviewed the event organiser, but not getting the gold that we wanted, time with the best of the best, the guys who would shit all over Miramar, Iceman and wouldn’t even entertain Kelly Mcguiness’s advances. Problem was that they were all getting prepared for flying through gates at 230 mph 10 ft off the ground. I mean why would they need to get in the zone for that? Ponces.

I shan’t go into what we filmed at the air show other than we did get (some) interviews and that the Army helicopter shat all over the navy one.

Keep an eye out for this episode in the next couple of weeks and I shall leave you with womething that I’ve posted before - Quentin Tarrantino’s interpretation of Topgun. And the top gun theme as well. Whats a blog with out some homo erotic behavior eh?

i used to be a man. A hunting, gathering, providing, head of the tribe man. (that was all true apart form all of it)

Now I’m sat in on a thursday night having just done the washing up while watching the start of Big Brother (is it eight? do I care?) and the only word I seem to be able to mutter is “COCK”, cause that is what they all are. Without exception. I challenge you to watch BB for more than 20 seconds before you utter that most fantastic of describing words at our TV screen.

But then I may moce, and I do, but here I am sat here watching the “COCKS” co in, scream, pretend they like each other and generally act like “COCKS”.

So early judgement of whos gonna win? actually no, thats passe and I can gurantee that every other blog will do the same thing. Lets go with who will be the most hated and take the plaque off Charly Uchea, Jo O’Mera and Jade “jabba’s Palace” Goody to be our most “chersished celebrity.

I’ve thought of 4 categories….

Most likely to be lynched.

Most likely to get their respective twinkle/sausage out on camera

Most Likeley to have a spread in the Daily Star when they get out

Most likely to make a shit load of money

Feel free to let me know your thoughts on those categories if you can be arsed, if not then I shall watch tonights proceedings and post later with my guess at my early contenders.

COCKS! (apart from the blind one, he seems alright - watch him be a closet nazi or something now)

Is it sport? is it art? is it dance? who knows and frankly who cares, as all that matters is that Air guitar is something we have all done at one time or another. Though probably we can’t or don’t want to remember it..why cause we we’re probably pissed.

But a few years back some ingenious guys n gals decided to take it to the next level and created the World Air Guitar Championships. Now obviously if you are going to have a World Championship a national championship will be needed to select the mighty specimen who will represent his or her country.

That’s where OJ and this episode of The Eleventh Commandment comes in.

Yup OJ met up with Zac “The Magnet” Monro twice world champion and co-founder of Air Guitar UK to get the low down on the whole shebang..

And as he is going to be competing in the UK  2008 Air Guitar UK Championships at the Islington Academy on Friday the 8th August 7pm, he also bagged himself a few tips form Gabi Matzeu alias “The Hoxton Creeper” twice UK champ and current UK champ.

Make sure you go see the show..Oj will be competing under the name of ‘johnny hot sausage’.. from what I’ve seen so far a fiver says he won’t make it through the first round! Actually he probably will! as he does seem to pull em out of the bag from time to time..

Full details: http://www.airguitaruk.com

Look forward to seeing you perform OJ and catching it all on film..from what I saw at the IV I think you may be needing a little practise….More info here

Well due to my galavanting around the world (Well America and Canada) we haven’t really done much for the Elevent but myself and Jimmy are right back on it.

Starting today we interviewed the current reigning UK Air guitar champion… The first guy you see here is that man….

And it’ll become a 2 pronged show as during the interview I have decided to take part in the championships to see how well I do on the 8th August.
Then on sunday we are breaking out our boogaloo at the Sony Ericsson BBoy Championships - I may show them my awesome worm.

And monday day sees us finally filming a show we’ve been trying to sort out for about 4 months…… Burlesque! Chrys Columbine will be my teacher.

So there - for the bosses who think me and Jimmy just go out and booze….. well we do but we need to get some work done as well!

Yes the festival season is well and truly upon us. Every weekend there are music festivals going off here, there and everywhere. A few weekends ago it was Glastonbury where apparently Jay z proved that he was a great choice to headline! Some will disagree but that’s life innit. Last weekend was the 02 festival in London Hyde park. And you guessed it, your’s truly and OJ borg blagged our way in for free! It was a great event, sunshine, not too crowded and some great beer, wine, cider, apple and pear! (first time for everything and actually tasted quite nice) and even some rose wine. Yup they served it we drank it. We were there to have fun and not film…The two big acts that really got the crowd going were Underworld and Fat Boy Slim.

All this and loads of advertising around London has reminded of the Love box weekender. This year’s one is on the 19th July I think..just around the corner and like last year they’ve got a pretty impresive line up. Not that it matters to us because we’re not going! Though Gill Mills over at Flyposter maybe be dropping in and she will probably get a whole lot more interviews than us. Why because at last years weekender no one would speak to us, we spent the whole day wandering about trying to steal, blag and beg for an interview with anybody! But just as dusk was dawning we got our IV with Jazzy B from Soul 2 soul. Saved by the bell as squeech would say!

In case you haven’t seen the show you can see it here just go to previous episodes and scroll down (currently page 2), you’l find it. It’s called the Lovebox weekender! And if you haven’t been before it will give you a taster of all the other fun things you can do there when not listening to music, cause we filmed OJ doing them all!!

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So if you hadn’t noticed, I’ve been away. Away on work no less, but not for the Eleventh Commandment. This work was for Nuts TV again and I got to do the Bullrun 08. Now don’t get confused here, one is a race through the streets to get away from fat sweaty animals and one involves cows.

Basically it is a really up-market Cannonball run style of thing that I brought down in the posh stakes with my low rent shenanigans.

These ranged from locking my keys in the boot on the start line which has been immortalized by this handheld piece of youtube gold…..

…..To every woman I rode with trying to kill me by way of a automobile accident. I really bring the best out of the female species. Now I shan’t tell you anymore as the whole lot is going up onto the Nuts website over the next few weeks. You can find that here.

I shall leave you though with the item that is top of my christmas wish list this year. I’m sure Santa knows how to get hold of one………

mmmmmmmmmmmm click here.

Since we’ve recently had a company name change here at Podshow. I.e In the US the company is no longer called Podshow it’s called Mevio…I think it stands for my view..but don’t quote me on it. I started thinking about how other companies got their names…and here in case you’re wondering are some interesting stories..I’m not sure if they are all true though so don’t quote me on it!

Apple Computers

It was the favourite fruit of founder Steve Jobs. He was three months late in filing a name for the business, and he threatened to call his company Apple Computers if the other colleagues didn’t suggest a better name by 5 O’clock.

CISCO

It is not an acronym as popularly believed. It is short for San Francisco.

Compaq

This name was formed by using COMp, for computer, and PAQ to denote a small integral object.

Corel

The name was derived from the founder’s name Dr.Michael Cowpland. It stands for COwpland REsearch Laboratory.

Google

The name started as a joke boasting about the amount of information the search-engine would be able to search. It was originally named ‘Googol’, a word for the number represented by 1 followed by 100 zeros.After founders - Stanford graduate students Sergey Brin and Larry Page presented their project to an angel investor, they received a cheque made out to ‘Google’

Hotmail

Founder Jack Smith got the idea of accessing e-mail via the web from a computer anywhere in the world.When Sabeer Bhatia came up with the business plan for the mail service, he tried all kinds of names ending in ‘mail’ and finally settled for hotmail as it included the letters “html” - the programming language used to write web pages. It was initially referred to as HoTMaiL with selective uppercasing.

Hewlett Packard

Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard tossed a coin to decide whether the company they founded would be called Hewlett-Packard or Packard-Hewlett.

Intel

Bob Noyce and Gordon Moore wanted to name their new company ‘Moore Noyce’ but that was already trademarked by a hotel chain so they had to settle for an acronym of INTegrated ELectronics.

Lotus (Notes)

Mitch Kapor got the name for his company from ‘The Lotus Position’ or ‘Padmasana’. Kapor used to be a teacher of Transcendental Meditation of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.

Microsoft

Coined by Bill Gates to represent the company that was devoted to MICROcomputer SOFTware. Originally christened Micro-Soft, the ‘-’ was removed later on.

Motorola

Founder Paul Galvin came up with this name when his company started manufacturing radios for cars. The popular radio company at the time was called Victrola.

ORACLE

Larry Ellison and Bob Oats were working on a consulting project for the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency). The code name for the project was called Oracle (the CIA saw this as the system to give answers to all questions or something such). The project was designed to help use the newly written SQL code by IBM. The project eventually was terminated but Larry and Bob decided to finish what they started and bring it to the world. They kept the name Oracle and created the RDBMS engine. Later they kept the same name for the company.

Sony

It originated from the Latin word ’sonus’ meaning sound, and ’sonny’ a slang used by Americans to refer to a bright youngster.

SUN

Founded by 4 Stanford University buddies, SUN is the acronym for Stanford University Network. Andreas Bechtolsheim built a microcomputer; Vinod Khosla recruited him and Scott McNealy to manufacture computers based on it, and Bill Joy to develop a UNIX-based OS for the computer.

Yahoo!

The word was invented by Jonathan Swift and used in his book ‘Gulliver’s Travels’. It represents a person who is repulsive in appearance and action and is barely human. Yahoo! Founders Jerry Yang and David Filo selected the name because they considered themselves yahoos

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I myself think the win was how shall we say it…allowed! But Chess Boxing is a great new sport and I reckon it could catch on. Garry Kasparov vs IBM’s Deep Blue Computer…hmm

Yes its finally cut, and ready to be seen…Oj Meets and gets to listen to the Bleeps at the Launch of their new single “These things happen and Doing so well at the Carahartt store in Covent Garden.

Hailing from east London and Essex, Remy Lamont (guitar, vocals) and Paul W Parker (drums, backing vox), formerly the rhythm section in the band, Father of Boon, now present their two piece project The Bleeps.

With various influences ranging from Jacobs Mouse and No means No, to Funkadelic, Prince and an array of 90’s hip hop, their garage rock/electro noise has been compared to John Spencer, Beck,and The Beastie Boys.

Make sure to check out the show site to view it..