Woohoo! DAAS (thats the Doug Anthony All Stars) are FINALLY releasing a DVD. DAAS gold is a 2-disc set, due to be released on the 6th of Nov.
For all my non-Aussie readers, here is an example of their work (my favourite song of theirs is Commies for Christ, but I can’t find a clear enough version of that on you tube. Not that this is all that clear, but that was worse. Look it up tho, if Friends catches your fancy). Hehe, enjoy, my friends.
I had to travel about 2 hours out to the country at 7am this morning to help 7 other people count out 100 germinated seedling in each of 580 plots. We were facing a day out in the muck with 16 degrees celcius temperatures and a forecast of rain and possible thunderstorms. Thankfully, while it was certainly that cold and there was a nasty wind blowing, we got almost no rain while we worked and only had to run for the cover of the vehicles once. On top of that the company bought us breakfast, morning tea, and lunch and we got all the work done in record time. So all in all it wasn’t a too unpleasant trip for some field work in the country. It was kinda nice even (although my back is kinda complaining now). Anyway, I digress. Knowing the people who were organising the trip and having listened to the weatherman, I was expecting it to be a bit of a fiasco, so one would think that having to wake up at 0530 in the morning and facing a day like that, I’d have been somewhat grumpy. But no, I wasn’t. It would be pretty difficult to catch me in a bad mood on a Wed morning these days. If you do, it wouldn’t be entirely far-fetched for you to assume that for some reason a new episode of season 11 of Top Gear didn’t air in the UK that week. Tehehe I love that show. According to Jad, the theme song (which I use as my ring tone ) always makes me smile, even when I’m feeling grumpy. Anyway, that was my (very) roundabout way of leading to this week’s episode. (more…)
Two deaths in as many weeks. This time I’m marking the passing of Don Davis, who died on the 29th of June from cardiac arrest. He is best known for his role as General Hammond in the Stargate series and spin offs. However, I grew up watching this guy (usually playing guest parts) in any number of shows. He’s played roles in 21 Jump Street, Twin Peaks, Highlander (the tv series), Viper, etc. Apparently he was also Dana Elcar’s (Pete Thornton) body double in McGyver… I always thought he looked a little bit like Pete… only a little mind you.
Supanova was a lot more enjoyable than I expected it to be. I even caved in and bought a bunch of comics; mainly very early Uncanny X-Men issues (numbering in the teens, twenties and thirties), so they’re in bad condition, but they were verging on affordable at least. Also picked up a few World’s Finest issues. The main reason I went tho is to see Joe Jusko and get a sketch from him. In that I was successful. He draws females so well I asked him to sketch Wonder Woman for me, but looking at the Spider-man sketches he did for other people afterwards I started to think maybe I should have asked for Spidey… Meh, I’m just happy I got something and that I got to meet him. I was also pleasantly surprised to find out that “Sydney artist” David Yardin is an artist who’s work I recognise and really like. I didn’t recognise his name when I first saw it on the Supanova website, so when I saw the “Sydney artist” bit in front of his name I immediately discounted him. But when I got to the con and saw some of the posters he had up, and his portfolio, I was flabbergasted. “THATs him?” The guy is one of my favourite storm artist. He does a mean Spidey too (just for fun tho, I don’t think he’s actually done any official Spidey work). I picked up a gorgeous Spidey print from him (one of his “just for fun” pieces) and asked him to do a Storm sketch for me. Unfortunately he didn’t actually get around to my Storm piece by the end of the day (the man puts so much detail into his pieces that he only manages to get 5 to 7 done in a day), so he did a very quick Storm headshot for me for free, and offered me an Iceman sketch, that someone else asked for and never picked up, for a reduced price. “Iceman!? Do I want an Iceman sketch?! He’s only my favourite damn X-Man. Heeell yes, I’ll buy it off you for $50.” So all in all I came away pretty happy (and much the poorer). (more…)
I watched Mongol on Friday with a couple of friends. Considering the fact that the last movie I watched was The Happening, my standards might have been somewhat lowered, but I thought that Mongol was a pretty good movie. The original language it was made in is Mongolian but they didn’t dub it, thankfully; the whole thing was subtitled. Usually I dislike watching subtitled movies (only slightly less than I dislike dubbed movies). The way I see it, if I’m going to read I might as well get a book. But as you might be able to guess, this movie wasn’t really heavy on the conversation, so the subtitles didn’t really distract you from much and they weren’t so long that you couldn’t finish reading them before they disappeared. It really was an altogether alright movie. I can’t think of anything outstandingly bad or anything outstandingly good about it. It could’ve been just a bit shorter but thats my only real complaint. Mongol most definitely gives you a very different (much more humanised) view of good ‘ole Genghis Khan. From all accounts they’ve used historian/scholarly best guesses in writing the movie too, so I guess its about as accurate as a movie about a figure from that far back in history can get (if that kind of thing matters to you). I liked it. I’d definitely recommend Mongol to anyone looking for something to watch.
) always makes me smile, even when I’m feeling grumpy. Anyway, that was my (very) roundabout way of leading to this week’s episode.
