Nitro Circus on MTV

posted by Jaitu at 22:17

MTV has recently started showing Nitro Circus on Sunday nights in the UK. I caught this by chance and am hooked. It's like Jackass but more focused on jumps and stunts and less on vomiting and public humiliation. The group of regulars is lead by Moto X and freestyle rider Travis Pastrana and includes other Moto racers, mountain bikers, bmx riders and base jumpers.

Each week sees a collection of insane stunts ranging from racing kids big-wheel trikes downhill to sky-diving without a parachute to loop the loop slip'n'slides through the woods to driving a trophy truck across the desert at 170mph to base jumping from Las Vegas hotels to attempting to back flip a monster truck.

It looks like the whole lot is available online at the Nitro Circus Vimeo channel. I'm currently resisting the urge to watch more online and just letting 'traditional T.V.' drip feed it to me.

To find out whether it's something you might like then check out the clip below which appears to be the whole of the first show.

Nitro Circus ep. 1 - Welcome to Pastranaland from Nitro Circus on Vimeo.

I'd Recommend More Than-A-Lot

posted by Jaitu at 15:41

No, this has nothing to do with any kind of insurance product.

Thursday night we went into London with our neighbours to see Monty Python's Spamalot. Spamalot is a musical stage show based, mostly, on the classic film Monty Python And The Holy Grail. The film focused on Arthur - King of the Britons and his quest to find the holy grail. The show follows roughly the same course with some minor and some major changes to make it more suitable for stage production and to set it quite distinctly apart from the original source. There is more than enough of the original to keep fans happy but I don't think you have to be a fan or have any prior knowledge of Python to enjoy the show. One of our party is not too keen on the movie but found the show to be an excellent evening's entertainment. All the new material fits nicely and is genuinely funny stuff. There is a touch of the post-modern self-referencing that I would ordinarily put down as an easy way out but in the context of Python's anarchic humour is is not an issue.

I cannot recommend this show highly enough.

Below is a clip from Australian television with a report on the London show. It is from a couple of years ago and features the original cast. Possibly the entire cast has since changed and currently Sanjeev Bhaskar is playing the part of Arthur brilliantly.

Also the Aussie reporter seems to think that Holy Grail and Life Of Brian are the same film.