Posts by Kebabette
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At least Curb your enthusiasm is on to counteract the shite tv mojo. Larry David ... we loves you.
Is the last season of The Wire coming? I've got the tshirt ...
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Grey's - I knew I was right to be a non-watcher when I saw the ad with Sandra Oh getting impaled by an icicle. Jaysus, is it the Omen III?
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beautiful, and your timing so on the button ... we are about to have our first baby and all we know so far is the ultrasound vision from when they were just a little thing, now so big my belly feels like a seed pod eager to pop ...
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Good call James, incidentally Dresden Doll Amanda Palmer's solo album "Who Killed Amanda Palmer" was one of my year's best ofs (love her web site too
And I am with you on Hype machine Russell, it is my go to of the year.
My musical shoutouts (admittedly with a bit of an 80s electro-influence focus and hell it's been a great year for that): Friendly Fires, Boy Crisis, Emmy the Great, TV on the Radio, Passion Pit, La Roux, Little Boots, Santogold, Neon Neon, Candy Coated Killahz, Black Affair, Ladyhawke, Girl Talk, Death Cab for Cutie, Guillemots, Richard Hawley, Dethklok (the best music from a cartoon band ever, it sh*ts all over Metallica) ...
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Happy universary.
Coincidentally my man resembles Guy of Gisborne (who I thought was just the bee's knees - and the actor Robert Addie I think without googling was also the grown up Mordred in my all time favourite movie Excalibur).
Hooray for Robin of Sherwood.
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Palin. a photo of my sister Sarah with Michael Palin has 24,890 views just because it contains the magic word.
and in a Billy Joel "we didn't start the fire" stylee:
Palin/Obama/Veitch/credit crunch
Beijing/iphone/twitter/we need a change/
nanny state/Noelle etc -
I reckon every fashion/design article I've read this year has said "bang on trend". It's godawful and it's everywhere.
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Glad someone mentioned The Tripods and The Tomorrow People. I preferred the Tripods ... The Tomorrow People were all a bit snooty for my liking.
And no remaking of Blake's Seven. Please. The joy of Pearce and Darrow as Servalan and Avon could not be replicated. Acid bon mots ahoy. And they were the sexiest love hate relationship on telly ever!
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Survivors is essential viewing, we watched it last year on a dystopian movie jag (Alice in Videoland in Christchurch has all 3 series on dvd.
If you want an excellent post apocalyptic novel, try The Carhullan Army by Sarah Hall. I interviewed her at the Auckland Writers and Readers festival:
British sci fi acknowledges very well that the problems we face are created by us and you end up having to face a problem that you've created yourself. Climate change would fall into that category. I do like a lot of those old British sci fi things like Day of the Triffids - you get all these weird happenings but at the same time very English, flat caps and a pint in the pub.There's always a sense of tradition."
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Howsabout a bit of Jasper Fforde to f*** with every genre and character in literature? Book 1 is The Eyre Affair: "In this parallel world, England and Imperial Russia have fought the Crimean War for more than a century. England itself is a police state run by the Goliath Corporation (a powerful weapon-producing company with questionable morals). Wales is a separate, socialist nation. The book's fictional version of Jane Eyre ends with Jane accompanying her cousin, St. John Rivers, to India in order to help him with his missionary work. Literary questions (especially the question of Shakespearean authorship) are debated so hotly that they inspire gang wars and murder.Single, thirty-something, Crimean War veteran and literary detective Thursday Next lives in London with her pet dodo, Pickwick. As the story begins, Thursday is called upon to investigate the theft of the original manuscript of Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens."