1) Great News! Someone finally gave me a reason to watch the Take On Me video 6 dozen more times. This has been making its rounds on Our Lovely Internet, so maybe you've seen it already. There's also one for Head Over Heels. It has its moments, but nothing quite so epic as the phrase 'ass-full of pipe-wrench'.

2) Work has been picking up in Tokyo, mostly in anticipation of the Halloween weekend. There are a bunch of parties, parades, and costume contests and we'll be covering as many as we can fit in our schedule. Halloween is, truth be told, my favorite holiday.

A friend of mine just introduced me to this clip. It amped me up pretty bad, so I thought I would share it. Steven Hawking is one of my heroes. So, to see him in it made me really really happy. Had they access, I imagine they would have invited my other big hero, Abraham Lincoln. But, I guess the timing just wasn't right on this production.

In The City Manchester ‘Do Charts Matter for Music Videos Anymore?’ Panel
Radar was in Manchester last week doing this panel with:
• head of MTV UK
• MD for The Official Charts Company
• The Box
• Joost
• BT Vision
• Dylan White

My last few weeks in London were extremely tough, to the point of nervous breakdown. Quite literally every project I was working on (and at the high point, it was about five at once) went wrong in some way, and I personally lost a fairly hefty amount of money on two videos going over budget. I don't really want to talk about it, because it would involve me saying things that might hurt other people's feelings.