Pic of the Day (above)
Heavy metal fans dance as they listen to the bands at the open air Heavy metal music festival in the northern German city of Wacken. This guy in particular looks to be enjoying himself.
Mood Swingometer
Today JOE has been feeling…competitive.
As any football fan knows, the Premier League and your club’s fortunes mean little in the grand scheme of things compared to your fantasy football club, and the bragging rights a good week can afford. At JOE we’re tired of exalting our football knowledge to you mere mortals and have decided to allow our readers to pit their wits against us in the forthcoming JOE fantasy football league, with prizes to follow for the best teams in the competition. Have a look and you’ll see it couldn’t be simpler to test the newly-created JOE side throughout the 2010/2011 season.
Tonight’s Telly
Pick of the night: Hiroshima, RTE TWO, 8:00pm.
Today is the 65th anniversary of the American atomic bombing of Hiroshima and appropriately enough, RTE are showing a docu-drama charting the effects of day the bomb was dropped on the Japanese. Re-creating the horror of the explosion and what it was like to live through the event, Hiroshima is a sobering watch for a Friday night, but is essential nonetheless.
Movie pick: Face/Off, Sky Movies Sci-Fi/Horror 9:00pm
Forget Knight and Day, if you need a Tom Cruise fix (really?) stay in tonight for Steven Speilberg’s stunner Minority Report. Cruise stars alongside Colin Farrell as cop John Anderton, who solves crime in 2054 Washington DC with the aid of ‘pre-crime’, a supposedly infallible method of catching criminals before they have committed the act. Seemingly infallible, until Anderton himself is accused and forced to go on the run. Blistering action is supported by a vision of the future that in many ways (gesture-based computer interfaces, robot scouts) is proving eerily prescient.
Live Like JOE
Embrace the mud mask
Yes, we at JOE are unused to facial, exfoliating or any other ‘wimmin’s stuff’, and usually the only mud on our face would involve a particularly unfortunate paintball day out. However, JOE’s Robert Carry decided the risk the mocking and chiding of the JOE office and our faithful readers by testing out the pros and cons of applying a mud mask and looking your best for the opposite half. Sadly, the article doesn’t include last-minute excuses should your family and/or mates want in on you with a face full of mud, but it’s worth a look anyway.
