Yes its Monday again which means we have to wait for some more weekend antics. I didn't get up to much this weekend just immersed myself in sports and there was plenty of that to go around.
Firstly congratulations go to Sebastian Vettel on a triple double. At Interlagos, Brazil he took 6th place in an action packed race. In the fourth corner it looked all over for the world champ as a touch from Bruno Senna up the inside sent him spinning and into dead last, with in two laps Vettel had caught the pack and was making in roads. At the front it looked like McLaren were going to run away with it which would give them 2nd in the constructors, nicking it from Ferrari. Unfortunately the rain came forcing Hamilton to pit for intermediate tires. Nico Hulkenburg took the lead from a struggling Button but he couldn't hang on and a couple of mistakes were made, one involved Hamilton which finished his last race for McLaren. Vettel was down in 7th at this point and his main rival Alonso had team mate Massa ahead in 2nd. Massa slowed for the Spaniard to take 2nd spot but Vettel had taken 6th which meant Alonso had to catch Button to win who was 21 seconds ahead. With 2 laps to go Paul DiResta lost control on the final corner, smashing into the outside barrier forcing the race to be completed under a safety car.
So much football this weekend as well so here's the highlights;
Sunderland 2-4 West Brom
Great match for the neutral fans to watch some good goals. West Brom continue to push into the top 4
Manchester United 3-1 QPR
United go behind again but rescue it to go top of the league after the round of games that saw Man City and Chelsea draw.
Wigan 3-2 ReadingWigan
Stopper Al Habsi with a howler of an own goal but he was saved at the opposite end by Gomez with a hat-trick.
Southampton 2-0 Newcastle
Big upset?
Finally in music.
Hardwell took the reigns of BBC Radio 1's essential mix. I've not listened to it yet but its bound to be good. I had a recent Pacha NYC podcast of him and that was just excellent so it's well worth a listen! BBC Radio1 Essential Mix: Hardwell
Unfortunately for him, he's not got my track of the weekend. I heard this 1 from Ben Westbeech on Wippenberg's podcast on Friday night:
Sorry I missed out yesterday but here's a catch up on whats been going on in sports, music and TV.
Sports As I started writing this Queens Park Rangers have terminated the contract of manager Mark Hughes following a disastrous start to the season, it could quite possibly get worse for them when QPR walk out at Old Trafford this weekend.
Speaking of 'The Theatre of Dreams' today ex-players and staff are turning out to see a nine foot bronze statue of Sir Alex Ferguson. The unveiling will be televised on MUTV. The ceremony starts at 13:30 GMT and will be free for the 90 minute program to Sky TV customers.
Last night there was quite a few Europa league games on. Because there were so many here's a few that caught my eye...
Rubin Kazan 3-0 Inter
An early goal for Karadeniz and 2 goals in the last 3 minutes for Rondon sealed defeat for Inter.
Lazio 0-0 Tottenham
More racial chants from the Lazio fans and a 'Spurs fan was stabbed in the neck prior to the game.
Rosenborg 3-2 Rapid Vienna
5 goal thriller in Rosenborg. After taking the lead Vienna were let back into the game and go ahead. Rosenborg then scored twice to seal victory in the 80th minute.
Liverpool 2-2 BSC Young Boys
After taking the lead twice Liverpool could'nt hang on and now need to beat Udinese away to seal progression.
In Cricket England aren't doing to bad after day 1 of the 2nd test in India. After a spanking in the 1st test Mont Panesar returned to the bowling line up and ended day 1 on 4 for 91. India on the other hand had Pujara at the crease and he finished the day on 114 not out. In total then India ended the day on 266-6.
Down under in the 2nd test between Australia and South Africa, captain Graeme Smith hit back at the Ozzie's massive opening day score with an unbeaten 111. At stumps on day 2 South Africa are 217-2 a deficit of 333. Yes Australia put on 482-5 on day 1, that's the second highest day 1 score in test history. They batted on till they were bowled out just before lunch on day 2 reaching a score of 550.
3 games yesterday in the NFL on Thanksgiving day and a shoddy performance by Kid Rock at halftime in the Lions game. Here's some results as I didn't get to watch any of the games =(
New England 49-19 NY Jets
Houston 34-31 Detroit
Washington 38-31 Dallas
In the world of music I've been listening to the reason I love dance music... Tiesto. Yes the Club Life Podcast opened with a mashup by TeeT's and Henry Fong. The mashup was Coldplay's 'Waterfall' and Porter Robinson's 'Language'. Because I'm kind here's a link to it:
Elsewhere, I've known of these DJ's called the BassJockeys. I've seen them play at our local clubs before and bigger nights at Sankeys Manchester and Warehouse Project. They also have a radio show on Manchester Global radio where they have guest DJ's on, recent guests include; SoulClap, Deniz Koyu, Matt Darey, Matt Zo and Michael Woods. Next week they welcome who they describe as, 'one of our biggest guests' in Steve Aoki. If you fancy checking them out or you're just an Aoki junkie the show airs on Tuesday 27th of November at 8pm GMT. Here's some links so you have no excuse to miss it!
I've been watching a series on SyFy called Continuum. It's coming to an end of series 1 now but if you can get hold of the DVD its well worth it. The show starts off 65 years in the future, a future where corporations have taken over and there's loads of cool gadgets everywhere. Go see for yourself, it does start a little unbelievable but as you watch it, it gets better and better!
A series I've picked up on Sky called Falcón gets better too! In the third episode, Falcón played by Martin Csokas, puts a bullet through his 'brother's' face and the special effects are quite graphic. Another show well worth a watch!
Thats that for now I'll be back either later today or tomorrow with some of what I got up to Friday night or some weekend tunes.
Find the elven mage from Aranea's vision. You'll find this guy in the Inn in Winterhold, he's called Nelacar. when you enter the Inn you hear the bar tender talking with him. He will tell you where to find the star, a little about it's history and try to convice you to bring it to him instead of Azura.
Find Azura's star. Nelacar will have told you that a mage from the college of Winterhold took it and some students to what is now a sunken fort called "Ilinalta's Deep" this place is located east of Riverwood in the big lake...oh look! map!
Once you're inside there's a crucified skeleton facing you with it's kitbag layed at it's feet inside you'll find a bunch of items, some useful, some not. There is a book in there about the place you've just entered read that for more info. In Ilinata's Deep there are 7 rooms. You'll encounter 6 necromancers of varied levels and 5 skeletons along the way. In and around the place there's some assorted potions and a skill book. Not forgetting some important ingredients for enchanting and cooking. Once you've cleared Ilinalta's Deep theres a door that leads to Ilinalta's Deluge, another 3 rooms with 3 novice necromancers, an adept necromancer and a necromage. These are in turn accompanied by skeletons as well. At the top of the stairs in the final room you'll find the star at the feet of a skeleton.
Now its up to you at this point. Take the star to Nelacar or take it back to Azura. I took it back to Azura and she says that the star needed to be cleansed in order for me to use it. So Azura puts you inside the star to kill this bloke Malyn Varen... best way to do this is to ignore the rest of the dummy mages he lays in front of you and head straight for him. I used unrelenting force to catch up with him. After killing him survive for a bit longer then Azura brings you out and the star is yours to keep and use as a soul gem.
So good news if you're an Arsenal fan and bad news if you're a City fan. Some comedy moments from Jose 'special one' Mourinho.
Tomorrow there'll be more from the music side. I'll be setting up some tips for FIFA and maybe some videos of epic strikes from tonight's Champions League
After loosing 3-0 away at Juventus, for some reason Chelski have decided to sack Roberto DiMatteo. Terrible decision in my eyes and as a few of my friends on Facebook have already stated, he won't be out of a job for long.
Here's the strange thing though, two early favorites for the job are; former Liverpool boss Rafa Benitez and the "exhausted" ex Barcelona boss Pep Guardiola. Whoever does take the job on... GOOD LUCK!
Tonight I think there's set to be a demolition at the hands of Real Madrid
when they take on Manchester City at the Etihad. Jose Mourinho has said he can't believe
City's form in the Champions League. But lets face it, did anyone City fan or not, expect
City to progress from that group after last year's shambles. Sorry City but it'll be a good few
years before you consistently get through and challenge the best teams in Europe. I hear there's
a manager who won it is out of a job, give him a call?
Not too much else going on elsewhere... Wenger wants his love child Thierry Henry back. And Mark Webber is jealous of Sebastien Vettel and Fernando Alonso. Standard!
Music
This morning I've been listening to a couple of podcasts, first one was "Air Up There with Tritonal" episode 096. Yes yes I woke up raving this morning. Their track of the week was a club remix of Above and Beyond's "Alchemy" featuring Zoe Johnston.
Thats that for now. Stay tuned to find out what escapade i get up to later!
Tuesday, 20 November 2012
So I came back from my football game to see the mighty reds losing to Galatasaray 1-0. But I cant fault the young lads Fergie put out.
In other places around Europe here's the scores:
Group E
Nordsjaelland 2-5 Shaktar Donetsk
Juventus 3-0 Chelsea
Group F
BATE Borisov 0-2 Lille
Valencia 1-1 Bayern Munich
Group G
Spartak Moscow 0-3 Barcelona
Benfica 2-1 Celtic
Group H
Cluj 3-1 Braga
Galatasaray 1-0 Manchester United
Tomorrow brings two big games to English teams, Arsenal host Montpellier and the noisy neighbours Man City host Real Madrid.
......btw my team came back from 3-1 down to win 3-4 =D
Playing Skyrim and the mission I'm on is "Visit the shrine of Azura" now you can find this place easy enough. Its in the Hold of Winterhold on the very peak of a mountain. If you're in Winterhold head south on the path till you pass the a mine called "The Whistleing Mine" after you've passed that there should be a path leading up the hill. When you reach the top you'll see it easy enough. Go speak to the Elven mage named Aranea Lenith and it should start the next quest called "The Black Star"
Things to watch out for:
On your way from Winterhold - theres a cave bear and an Ice Wraith. If you're lucky they'll attack each other.
On your way up the mountain side - Some rabid mountain goats and another Ice Wraith
Ok so, hi! and welcome to Games Sports Tech and Film probably not the only blog covering those four topics but nobody can cover everything right?
Firstly, lets take you through what games I'm playing at the moment.
The Elder Scroles: Skyrim (PS3)
FIFA 13 (standard choice for killing time) (PS3)
Fallout 3 (PS3)
Both Fallout and Skyrim I've started and well into the game so I'll be posting help on a mission by mission basis stuff I find along the way etc etc.
Games I'm looking at getting:
Assassin's Creed 3 (PS3)
Dishonored (PS3)
EVE Online (PC) I already have a character just not committed to it yet
Mech Warrior Online (PC) Need a new PC before I can run this =(
Sports. I play football 4 times a week only 7 a side but still it keeps me active =)
On here though I'll be keeping as up to date as possible with all the sports I take an interest in. Heres what you can expect:
Football
Formula 1
Cricket
...and some rugby
Tech. All the gadgets and gizmos me and my friends use. Good points/Bad points
An finally Film and TV. What I'm watching at the time. Film reviews etc.
At the moment I'm watching loads of stuff so look out for it. Just to name a couple of my favourites would be:
The Walking Dead (currently mid season 3)
Game Of Thrones (waiting on the next season. which is next March btw)
Nikita
Falcón
Arrow
...and more.
Also I'm a big dance music fan so I'll be posting stuff about what I've been listening to. I have a lot of podcasts to listen to so watch out for recommendations. Just a couple of names so you know what to expect from me:
Above and Beyond
Tiesto
Claudia Cazacu
So if you are reading keep doing so, it might be worthwhile
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