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[Sep. 27th, 2009|11:11 pm] |
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| | Don't Stop Believin', Glee | ] |
Australian Idol ads were trumpeting "80'S NIGHT".
...I wonder how many of the participating contestants remember the eighties. It'd be getting fewer.
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| "My mother made me a homosexual." "If I gave her the wool, would she knit me one too?" |
[Sep. 22nd, 2009|11:07 pm] |
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| |  cynical | ] |
I've been watching Glee.
...Or maybe "watching" implies less interaction than I've been having. "Jumping through" might be more apt terminology. I find a scene irritating, so I skip it, only to realise that I've gone too far and have to go back in smaller jumps to figure out what I've missed... And wind up more or less seeing the annoying scene anyway.
One of the characters is this painfully camp young boy. In the most recent episode, he confessed to one of the girls that he was gay.
...I would have been more shocked if he was totally straight. At least then they'd be doing something to bend stereotypes.
But this is American TV. Stereotypes act as a shorthand, providing a crutch that prevents the necessity for character development. Alternatively, as my father put it, "They're Americans. They need things spelled out."
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[May. 11th, 2009|08:07 pm] |
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| |  uninspired | ] |
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| | The Young Ones | ] |
To stop Rob whining about me never having seen The Young Ones, I picked up the DVD today at Kmart, because it was running cheap.
I'm not sure I'll manage to watch it long enough to see the demons. It's a little too painful. Especially the overuse of the laugh track when there's nothing obvious actually happening onscreen.
...It's like Monty Python, but without the chuckle factor. I guess I just don't get it.
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[Apr. 24th, 2009|09:50 pm] |
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| |  amused | ] |
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| | Sugar We're Going Down, Fall Out Boy | ] |
Haha! Zac Efron had a one-scene appearance in Firefly! ...I thought it was him!
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| Heroes in a half-shell! Turtle power! |
[Mar. 29th, 2009|09:54 pm] |
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| |  dorky | ] |
Chris knows (at least some of) my obsessions a little too well.
I now own three DVDs' worth of Ninja Turtles. The proper stuff, none of this silly "Men in suits" thing.
Ginger durdles!
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PS: I can't help but be amused by the back of the case, which lists the region encoding variously as "NTSC" and "Region 4". Well, which is it?
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[Mar. 1st, 2009|09:20 pm] |
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| | We Used To Be Friends, The Dandy Warhols | ] |
Someone should do a tally of how many times Veronica gets arrested.
...But then you'd have to decide whether things like her being cuffed, shoved into a police car and then released without actually getting to the station qualify...
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[Oct. 30th, 2008|07:17 am] |
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| |  sleepy | ] |
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| | Caves, Jack's Mannequin | ] |
Anybody fancy a marathon of Halloween episodes from random geeky TV shows (Buffy, Angel, Sabrina The Teenage Witch, maybe new Dr Who if there have been any, possibly The Simpsons; also maybe Jonathan Creek, despite it not being "Halloween"ish, just because I love it) tomorrow evening?
Chris and Liz are in. Also possibly Dedney and Hailey. The more the merrier, but warn me, obviously.
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| *chortles uncontrollably* |
[Oct. 20th, 2008|10:55 pm] |
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| |  giggly | ] |
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| | Camille Saint-Saëns' Danse Macabre by Julian Stewart Lindsay | ] |
Jonathan Creek!
OMGSOGOOD
*fangirls*
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[Jul. 4th, 2008|08:52 pm] |
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| |  sick | ] |
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| | Can't Stop, Maroon 5 | ] |
Having watched the double-length season opener to Firefly, I can say this:
It isn't quite as funny as Buffy is at times. Admittedly, that could easily be blamed on the fact that I've had all the best jokes telegraphed to me progressively over the last couple of years, through encountering its fandom one place or another.
Since when I first tried to type "encountering" I wrote 'enoughering', and I'm shivering uncontrollably at random intervals, I have a feeling I should go to bed. Maybe I'll feel marginally less lousy in the morning.
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| Be strong and you'll get strength back; feed the fire and you'll get warmth back... |
[Sep. 22nd, 2007|11:57 pm] |
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| | sleepy | ] |
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| | Fall For You, The Whitlams | ] |
Come to Utopia; the skies are made of diamonds!
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[Sep. 1st, 2007|08:27 pm] |
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| |  spooked | ] |
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| | The Curse Stops Here, The Whitlams | ] |
Gragh.
Tonight's episode of Doctor Who (Blink, for those of you who know it) spooked me so much that I had to watch it with sound turned off. ...And was still tempted to leave the room.
Still jittery. ...But that may be the, like, four cans of Coke I had today.
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| We came together, but you left alone, and I know how it feels to walk out on your own... |
[Mar. 16th, 2007|10:25 pm] |
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| | Hey Hey 16K; what does that get you today? | ] |
I just finished watching the first episode of the new (4th) season of Spooks. While I miss Tom (even if he was a whiny brat throughout Season 3), I'd forgotten how damn good the series is. It maintains its quiet, sly wit, even as the only core character still present is the old hand, Harry.
Dad and I spent a lot of the episode playing "Who the Hell is that?" - a habit that often irritates me intensely, but I just couldn't resist it this time through. Who the Hell is playing the leader of the American Special Branch? I know his face really well, but can't put my finger on it. And I didn't even catch a name, so I can't Google it.
It's interesting to list the shows I like. I often say about people that "I'll forgive almost anything if they make me laugh". It appears the same can be said of my taste in television.
* Jonathan Creek I adore, but there's only about twenty five episodes in existence. ...And I know the solution to them. It's still great fun, though.
* The Glass House was regular viewing, on the nights I remembered to watch it. I still have a couple of 'special' episodes (100th, final) on the DVD recorder.
* Spicks And Specks is good wind-down viewing. It's light, and even if you don't know the answers you can still play along at home. I've been known to watch an episode in the middle of the night when I can't shut down my brain - and be capable of sleep afterwards.
* The newer series of Doctor Who are aided by both Christopher Eccleston and David Tennant, both of whom can make me laugh. I don't, however, have the patience to watch an entire episode; I tend to start yelling things like "You're an idiot" at the characters.
* In the 'newer shows' corner, we have Heroes. While I enjoy Heroes, I find I can't watch it in the evenings (and since its timeslot clashes with Spicks And Specks, I can't record it, either). I find it interesting; however, it's very good at that whole "Get your pulse racing" thing, and I can't calm the adrenaline rush afterwards well enough to actually sleep.
It's interesting to compare my reaction to Spooks as opposed to Heroes, though. Because both are (as a Spooks review termed it) "high octane" - yet somehow I maintain the ability to sleep after Spooks. It can't even be blamed on how much I care about the characters, since I have a far greater emotional investment in the MI5 the show presents. I don't know.
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[Dec. 24th, 2006|09:56 pm] |
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| | It won't go away... *cries* | ] |
Oh, I almost forgot.
Today, as it is Christmas Eve, we went to visit David's family. The kids had a tantrum or two, but that's par for the course.
No, what was fascinating was the video that Ella watched in the afternoon. It was a DVD of The Fairies, an Australian TV show that acts as car crash television in its purest form (at least, for any person watching who does not happen to be a four-year-old girl).
There are the two females, dressed in the obligatory pink and purple. The elf... The guy in the massive bee suit that reminded me strongly of that Mexican guy in the bee suit from The Simpsons. The random kids that, as I was watching, I was convinced that the women and elf were supposed to have transformed into (at least until we saw them on screen together, and I realised that they were, indeed, two separate sets of characters).
...And... This guy. Wizzy the Wizard. It is him alone that turns fairly saccharine, but essentially mind-numbing children's entertainment into a true train wreck. He is dressed in neck-to-ankle white spandex, accompanied by a cape which he waves dramatically in the course of his dance. Oh, how he dances. I only wish there were a video available somewhere, so I could demonstrate how eye-burningly he struts across the stage. Meanwhile, the other characters look on and cheer madly. I can only assume this is because they cannot actually see the majority of the performance, given that it is played to the audience rather than the other characters.
...Also notable is the fairies' dancing around the "Fairy Ring", which the "Children at the top of the garden" have made for them, singing a song that steals the tune of My Gal's A Corker. Not that any four-year-old watching is likely to identify that one.
*shudders*
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