Hours of tacky viewing ahead!
Roll on next Wednesday!!!
I have a feeling that it will induce snorting with laughter, quite possibly.
We've got
The Simpsons.
Futurama.
That 70s Show. World Comedy Unplugged.
But then the ABC has a night of premieres!
Starting with
Bromwell High, cartoon series set in a South London school.
(after Dave Anderson gets a record deal)
Dave Anderson: Mornin' Martin
Martin: I'm not jealous...
Dave Anderson: Of what?
Martin: Nothing. F*ck!
Dave Anderson: What'd you mean f*ck?
Martin: I love teaching, I don't wanna be a millionaire (begins to cry).Blackpool also gets going, which has David Tennant in it, who's the new
Dr Who guy, and was in
Casanova.
After that we've got
Seven Periods With Mr Gormsby, a show from New Zealand that seems to promise to be totally non-PC.
Oh, and
Scrubs at 11 on some channel like 7 or something.
Bitter sweets and large French eyebrows
It's sappy, somewhat sentimental and oh-so-rainbowadelic, but I love
Queer as Folk. Now that it's the final series ever of it, every episode is taking on a bittersweet quality.
It never fails to amaze me how people react to the show, though. For instance, I said to one of my friends who was on MSN that I was watching it, and he instantly said, "Oh, that show about poofters. Were there any good lesbo sex scenes?"
Hmm... Men and their stupid double standards.
Whatever, the show is good. Although perhaps it's a bit odd for a Christian to be saying that (and no, I'm not gay *lol*). Still, somehow the program is important, perhaps to challenge assumptions, encourage discussion, stuff like that.
And there are usually good movies after it *lol* Although tonight's one has got me feeling like screaming at how French and vaguely demented it is.
The tongues have spoken!
Speaking in Tongues still sucks.
How unfortunate!
Histoire d'BORING!
Le joir de destruction... It is tiring to be ones self...It is also tiring to see yet ANOTHER documentary on
Histoire d'O on SBS.
I have read the book, it is not bad. Perhaps an interesting introduction to the idea of
BDSM, even if the submission is perhaps rather extreme for a first-time sub.
The other documentary on it was on earlier this year and focused more on Dominique Auery, who wrote under the nom de plum of Pauline Reage, and was far more interesting. The way it dealt with the book and its content was also more elegant.
Read the book, avoid the documentary that was on tonight on SBS.
Mercy me!
Apparently, Aaron Jeffrey might go to jail!
Sydney Morning Herald story about it all...I sat next to him on a flight to Adelaide once and he was a very pleasant guy, even though I had no idea who he was. We talked about South Australia, wines, books, work, general twaddle. You see, I don't watch
McLeod's Daughters, and thus had no idea that he was an actor!
Then the flight attendant asked him how the filming and whatnot was going! Suddenly it twigged when that happened about why he looked vaguely familiar from adverts for the dratted show!
And I remember when I got back to uni and mentioned to a friend about it that she almost had a heart-attack and probably would have worshipped my book that he'd handled had I not left it back at my parent's place *lol*
Sad about the domestic abuse thing, though.
Australian Prances... ermm... Princess!
Isn't is amazing what women become like when men are around?
The claws come out, flirting gets brought out of mothballs, tears are shed and the whole TERRITORY element springs into play, which is quite frightening. Friends become enemies... frightful!
The Baroness's accent had me puzzled until I realised that it reminds me, in a distant way, of the accents the women have in
Footballer's Wives (albeit polished up over a few decades). As well as being rather snarky, but once you have a title, that's quite permissable, clearly.
Laura K, the stripper lady, gets her claws into all of the lads, though. The Baroness said that she wouldn't make a good princess, and I have to agree. She's really only got sex to offer, as the older chap said, and that is frightfully true.
Of course, that works for some people, but then when that's all there is on offer, you probably aren't going to make a great princess.
I have to say, I loved the Baron-to-be guy. He was hilarious! So very British.
And now, we have the "princess evictions" (seeing as it's like a posh version of
Big Brother). Wendy is through to the next round, which makes me cheer - she's such a lovely person! So is the blonde surfer lady, Laura is through (please kill something NOW), and finally... one spot left... And Abby is the one who gets through, surprise surprise.
Melissa is going through, and that's no surprise at all. She's so mousey. Poor thing.
Even the footmen look bored out of their minds.
Hurrah!
Now I can watch
Spicks & Specks, even though it's TEN minutes over time! RARGH! Stupid Channel 10.
Not done yet!
Bert's not leaving us yet!Well, it would seem that TV legend, Bert Newton, isn't going to be disappearing from the screens of Australian televisions. Apparently he's signed on with Channel 9, which is where he originally started out (with people like Graham Kennedy). His final appearance for Channel 10 comes on December 16, with the last GMA. Tragic!
One wonders what he'll be doing on Channel 9...
B*tch-slapping Kerri-Ann Kennerly down and taking over her
morning show??
Getting
Geoff Jansz in a head-lock, dragging him out of the studio and becoming a new cooking sensation in the mid-mornings?
New member of Hi-5???
Becoming Humphrey B Bear? (Well, there's got to be someone under that bear suit, right?)
Hosting the really, really early morning home shopping network junk where he could rave on about the joys of cubic zircona, which looks just like a real diamond, in a nice fake gold setting, which looks just like real gold, with these earings that you can buy for just $200??
Taking over Temptation?
Hmmm, the possibilities are endless!
A lesbian Mormon comedian... stop me if you've heard this one...
Compass was interesting last night.
I had meant to write about it last night, but got rather distracted by actually watching the program.
Sue-Ann Post, lesbian comedian and ex-Mormon, went to Salt Lake City to a Gay and Lesbian Mormon convention and it was interesting to see how "Christian" attitudes towards differently-oriented people are really things that go through all Christian religions.
The way the Mormon church deals with it seems similar to the majority of the more conservative denominations. And sure, Mormons aren't really classed as Christians, but they believe in God.
Watching how hurt Sue-Ann still felt about the way that she had been treated by her family and the Mormon church (she was excommunicated) was very moving and made me think about the way that we other Christian denominations perhaps treat gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people.
More tolerance really is needed, and for it to be realised that we're all screwed up, regardless of how straight or gay or anywhere in between those two things we might be.
Jesus loves everyone - that's what we shold be remembering when we deal with others. Acting like true Christians, which is the way that a number of the Mormon people Sue-Ann interacted with behaved, would do so much better for the world.
Hmm...
Speaking in Tongues
Well,
Speaking in Tongues, has started on SBS, with the sacreligiously hilarious John Safran and the grumpy old priest Father Bob.
Tonight they've had shoplifting, designer jeans, prostitution and Muslim scholarship so far. Rather peculiar! They've got Kate Holden, who is an ex-prostitute who recently wrote a book, and a Muslim/Islam scholar who is wearing a strange combination of a pink headscarf (African-style) and pink kaftan. Although it matches, it makes the lady look like she's attempting to emerge from a giant marshmellow.
And then they jump to another subject... It's a shame that it isn't more well jointed. Currently it seems to be rather disjointed, sort of like the news or something similar.
*coughs* Horseshit, horseshit *coughs*
Oh well, it's a shame that it hasn't turned out to be more like
John Safran Vs God.
Personally, I don't CARE what car Father Bob drives.
Still, it is interesting to have more faith/religion-oriented shows on TV. Especially with a man who is a Zoarastrian on tonight, which is an old Iranian faith which apparently dates back to Alexandrian times. Interestingly, the religion doesn't accept converts - you have to be born into it.
So there was my interesting thing for the night :)
And they've got some sort of thing happening with telling single people of any religion to write in to find someone of another religion to hook up with. Blah!
Very interesting thing with a former man who was in Jemaah Islamiah, an Egyptian terrorist group.
You can also send in quips and little snappy lines to be put up on the church noticeboard. So put your brain into over-drive and send some line in to them at mailbox@speakingintongues.com.au... special moments.
Father Bob makes me in the morning look like sunshine and roses o.0
Yikes.
Tune in next week? I'll think about it...
