Whale of a time

“You’ll scream, you’ll blubber!” reads the tagline of this ‘fishbilly’ slasher film, which stars the original Leatherface himself, Gunnar Hansen.
Out now on DVD, you can watch the trailer at www.harpoonthemovie.com.
CITN has always been fond of bands who know how to party and Iron Maiden certainly did that last week in Norway after rocking the Bergenhus Festning-Koengen – that’s a far better name than the O2! – to within an inch of its life.
Decamping afterwards to Finnegan’s Irish Pub, the thirsty metallers managed to blow €2,536 on a bar bill that included an impressive 27 Slippery Nipples.
If you’d like to peruse their alcoholic imbibements in full, www.aftenposten.no/nyheter/iriks/article3772867.ece has a copy of their receipt. In case you’re wondering, Bunnahabhain is a 12-year-old Hebridean single malt whisky that also includes P. Diddy among its fans.
Talking of hip hip royalty, Philadelphia comedy duo Paul and Storm have come up with the wizard wheeze of captioning New Yorker cartoons with Kanye West tweets. View the gallery at www.paulandstorm.com where you can also hear their not entirely respectful birthday ode to The King, ‘Elvis Died Today’.
From there it’s but a mere mouse-click to biggusdiccus.bandcamp.com where Dublin’s self-proclaimed Kings of the Hard Rockin’ Testicular Riffs, Biggus Diccus, are giving away their Twelve Inches Of Love album. To Queens Of The Stone Age what Steel Panther are to Poison, their charming ditties include ‘She’s Got A Rabbit’, ‘Hot Prison Dykes’ and ‘Weapons Of Ass Destruction’. Hey, we didn’t say anything about the parody being subtle!
Which just leaves time for quick visits to www.brewdog.com/tactical_nuclear_penguin.php (the world’s strongest beer… ever!); youngjerks.com/print/springstreets (the Bruce Springsteen map of New Jersey); and soundcloud.com/shamantis/j-biebz-u-smile-800-slower (Justin Bieber’s ‘U Smile’ transformed into a symphonic shoegaze masterpiece).