Ooh, heaven is a place on earth … and it’s in the North of England in Bury. Ever since I’ve been old enough to hold a NES pad, I’ve loved computer games. Last Saturday, I had the opportunity to visit the Arcade Club in Bury and it was amazing.
The Arcade Club is a free play video game arcade made up of 2 floors, a classic arcade level and a modern arcade level. Upon arrival, you pay the £15 entry fee (£10 entry and £5 for children is available) and make your way up the industrial building to the 2nd and 3rd floor.
The classic arcade level provides a nostalgia fuelled time travel back to your youth with classics such as SEGA Rally, Time Crisis, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and the Simpsons among many. This time you won’t have to pull on your mother’s coat tails demanding all her loose change as all the games are free to play. You just hit that start button and go. Queuing was minimal and there is plenty to keep you entertained while you wait to play Mortal Kombat 2 for the first time in 20 years.
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With the release of Blade Runner 2049, I thought it would be a good chance to reminisce and listen to the soundtrack from the original Blade Runner. The original soundtrack was composed by Vangelis for Ridley Scott's 1982 film. It is mostly a dark, melodic combination of classical composition and synthesizers which mirrors the futuristic film noir envisioned by Scott. It was produced by Vangelis and performed by The New American Orchestra.
Well after a bit of a break I'm back. Classical Music Mondays has changed to Movie Music Mondays, there will still be some classical music from time to time, but I wanted to share some other great movie tracks as well.
This week's Movie Music Mondays track is from the film Tron: Legacy. I enjoyed both the original Tron and Tron:Legacy and hope Disney will develop the franchise in the future, although that currently doesn't look likely.
One of the stand out features of Tron: Legacy was the soundtrack which was produced by Daft Punk. Daft Punk have produced some great albums in the 90's and 00's and classic songs like 'Around the World' and 'Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger'. There are some great tracks on the Tron: Legacy album like 'Derezzed' and 'End of Line', but the track which takes this weeks Movie Music Mondays title is Daft Punk - 'The Games Has Changed'.
I love the track and if it comes on while I'm driving I have to be careful not to hit the accelerator and imagine I'm driving a 'light cycle'. Enjoy the tune and let me know in the comments your thoughts and favourite Movie Music.
Autumn is a great time of year, yes it gets wetter and colder but the autumnal colours are amazing and you know it’s getting closer to Christmas (and who doesn’t love Christmas). Here are a few activities you can do with the kids this Autumn to get them in the mood for the season of red, orange and yellow.
Autumn Collage Use the fantastic autumnal colours to create a wonderful collage. Collect some leaves and let them dry out. Once dry you can either stick them straight on to paper or if your kids are a bit older then maybe get them to cut the leaves in to smaller pieces to create a more detailed collage picture.
Paint a Tree
You can do this activity straight on paper, card or a canvas, but it is going to be messy. First you need to get your child to make a brown paint hand print and a bit of their wrist. This gives the impression of a bare tree. The next step is use finger painting to show the leaves in red, orange and yellow. We’ve been baking again, this time we followed the Sunny Carrot Cake recipe. Our eldest wanted to try another recipe from ‘I Can Cook’, we just substituted the walnuts for raisins. This was a lovely cake, very soft and we all wanted more after our first bite.
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