Pic of the Day (above)
Models Georgia Salpa and Hazel O’Sullivan with Team Polizei, Jorgen and Hans, at the Merrion Square spectacular sight as 160 of the worlds finest cars and Irelands most colourful Cannonballers line up for Cannonball 2010 in association with Barretstown.
Tonight’s Telly
Pick of the night: True Blood, TG4, 12.05am.
We’re still waiting to sink our teeth into the third series of everyone’s favourite vampire drama (or the only good current creation involving vampires) True Blood, whose second series is repeated from the wee hours tonight. If you need a quick sell on why you should watch a show focused on blood-suckers having been forced to sit in front of Twilight, here are a few reasons – True Blood is packed with violence, nudity, southern drawls, and its creator Alan Ball wrote the Oscar-winning American Beauty. Give it a go, you’ll be surprised.
Movie pick: District 9, Sky Movies Premiere, 10.00pm.
Avatar may have won over the box office with its dazzling 3D visuals, but for sci-fi purists there was none more interesting than Neil Blomkamp’s debut feature District 9, a thinly-veiled science fiction thriller laced with Apartheid overtones. Set in South Africa, stranded extra-terrestrials are living in slum-like conditions and derogatively referred to as ‘prawns’. Star Sharlto Copley stars as an Afrikaaner bureaucrat in charge of re-locating the aliens to an internment camp, when he accidentally becomes inextricably linked with those he fears. Emotionally affecting, bittersweet and consistently thrilling, District 9 is an absolute must-see this weekend.
Mood Swingometer
Today JOE has mostly been feeling… clever.
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Live Like JOE
Try our exercise of the week. This week we’re looking at the plank.
