Fresh from releasing a collaborative album with a Brazilian TV repairman – as you do – Super Furry Animal Gruff Rhys is ready to unleash his equally strange "pyschedelic western musical."
A big hit recently at the Los Angeles Film Festival, the feature-length Seperado! finds the singer traveling to a remote part of Chile where Welsh is the first language, and sheep live their lives in constant fear.
"In 1880, following a controversial horse race that led to an unresolved death, Gruff’s family split as Dafydd Jones took his young family to join the burgeoning Welsh community in Patagonia, South America," explains the promo blurb. "There was to be no contact between the families for almost a century when in 1974 Rene Griffiths arrived in Wales with his Latin-infused Welsh love songs and became an overnight sensation.
"Director Dylan Goch follows Gruff Rhys on a tour that takes in the theatres, nightclubs and desert teahouses of Wales, Brazil and the Argentine Andes as he discovers what became of his family, the Welsh Diaspora and its musical legacy."
Your cinematic appetite can be whetted at www.separado.co.uk/trailer.html.
Blendtec are so convinced of the indestructible nature of their home and commercial blenders that their rather manic looking CEO Tom Dickson has taken to feeding them with vuvuzelas, marbles, golf balls, bits of Ford Fiesta and other random objects to test their durability. The latest gizmo to fall foul of the grinderman is an iPad, which put up a good fight but was soon turned into silicone purée. See the carnage at www.willitblend.com.
Which just leaves time for quick visits to www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSEYXWmEse8&feature=player_embedded (The 100 Greatest Movie Insults); current.com/shows/supernews (The Huffington Post and The Onion get an animated rival); www.blacktable.com/gillin030901.htm (make your own prison hooch); and www.anthonyjeselnik.com (CIN’s fave Carlsberg Comedy Festival-bound stand-up).