Posts by Danielle
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And my all time favourite author at this point in time is Coetzee: Disgrace is the best
I did not enjoy that book at all. It is entirely possible that I just didn't get it, but the theme seemed to be 'woman brutally raped as symbolic revenge for apartheid', and I was all squicked. Like, OK, awesome, she's your sacrificial Jesus figure or whatever, but don't expect me to find it moving.
Also, Austen rules. A pox on you naysayers.
Also (2): I hardly read anything worth a damn any more. I really need to win Lotto and stop working so I can concentrate on something worthy.
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the Civil war never ended for them
<muttering madly under my breath once again about the red state/blue state thing being a bunch of reductive hooey>
Also, you people always end up having interesting conversations while I'm on holiday! Sort it out please.
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This whole thing is making me ridiculously thrilled. I haven't even started delving into it properly yet, but it's so exciting! And seriously, I could listen to the It's In The Bag theme song all. day. long. That track is the *business*.
(Perhaps, just for variety, I could intersperse it with a few plays of the theme to Country Calendar. And that instrumental version of 'Flowers on the Wall' from A Dog's Show.)
It is conceivable that I am somewhere in that 1998 Hero parade broadcast. I was on a float that year, I think...
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Any 'Spaced' fans lurking?
Not only funny, but terrifyingly accurate.
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Nigel, you meant handshake, right? Right?
(Although I might enjoy all sports a lot more if they involved celebratory handjobs, actually. Get your Olympic medal, and then have some poor hapless official deliver the wanking as the national anthem played. In the bonds of love we meet, indeed.)
(Erm, also, I don't mean to make light of your cousin's underreported medal. That is, indeed, bullshit.)
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The original miniskirt uniforms, if you look closely, also had built-in matching underwear - a bit like rompers. No random shots of vulva allowed!
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Really? I've never really been a Colbert fan
I'm not either -- Colbert works, or not, to the extent you're familiar with the O'Reilly/Sean Innanity school of right-wing screaming skull talkback television he's parodying.
Oh, I'm very depressed by this assessment. I actually think Colbert's 'thing' is so, so much harder to pull off - he *interviews people in character* yet still manages to satirise - that I'm stunned that his show has continued to be a comedic success. I think it really shows how truly, deeply talented he is.
Note: I'm also not sure I agree with your idea about how Colbert works, Craig. I have the 'Best of the Colbert Report' DVD and gave it to a friend who has never watched a right-wing Fox-esque pundit in his life. He thought the whole thing was brilliant.
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If only every awkward cross-over segment with Stephen Colbert could be replaced with Jon in furious proud New Yorker mode.
I must disagree. Any day which includes Stephen Colbert in any form is a good day.
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Looks appropriately awful though. Hullo bad 1960s Star Trek uniforms :)
OK, fuck *all* y'all (:)), because TOS is clearly the best series by a long, long way, and I include the uniforms in that assessment. Beatle boots on everyone! And Shatner in a gold skivvy with a girdle *totally* beats Shatner in burgundy nehru faux-military shit with a tight curly perm (and, erm, another girdle). Plus: the original series had those insane miniskirts, and alien chicks in lurex and body paint. And they had no budget for prosthetics, and so barely anyone had that goddamned forehead wrinkling so prevalent in all alien races from The Next Generation onward.
I will admit that this film looks icky, though. You can't recapture the magic of that dude in the giant lizard costume throwing polystyrene rocks about. Or Spock's kidnapped brain running the entire planet full of infantilised sexy ladeez. It's not going to happen.
Craig, you are a veritable font of wisdom today! I don't know whether I like 'From This Moment On' or 'Too Darn Hot' the best in
that film.Ann Miller could only do one thing, but she was so brilliant at it. Luhrmann was probably wise not to do Chicago. I might have been even more annoyed with him...
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NZ Onscreen, the living archive of New Zealand television and film
Eeeeeeee! I am doing a lot of squeaking today, but this is great!