Posts Tagged ‘telly’

25
Aug

Yo!

   Posted by: Fence   in Ramblings, Shiny, TV

Okay, can some one kindly tell me where this last year has gone? Cause look, it is time for this year’s RIP Challenge. Decisions decisions. But I think I’ll go with the first peril, reading any four books from any subgenre of scary-ness. I just got to go find them now. I think that The Host by Stephenie Meyer qualifies, so that’ll be one. And I’ll have to take a gander through the tbr pile to see if any of those fit. And then probably a trip to Chapters and book buying. But its all good, I haven’t been there in at least 2 months, I’ve been very good about not buying books. I think it is time for a splurge.

I haven’t quite managed to keep up with the two proper blogs a week that I mentioned a while back. But you know, intentions are worth just as much as deeds, right?

Yeah, okay, so thats a lie. But you just gotta deal.

Spent most of Sat. watching the telly. Well, I say telly, I mean dvds. And I know that I’ve mentioned this before, but I just love Rocky Balboa. It is just brilliant. Full of cliché and sentimental shots, but it just works. Rocky just works. Still have to watch the commentary, that’ll be fun.

I’ve been doing a fair bit of rewatching stuff lately. Over the past few weeks I’ve been rewatching Firefly. Its been a while. Don’t think I’ve seen any of those episodes since the film[1] came out. And that was years ago[2] It is so great. Every time we’re about to watch a new episode I say “oh this is a great one” or “I love this one”. We just got up to Out of Gas last week. Awww. Watching them all get together and seeing Mal fall in love with the ship.

Oh, and while I’m moaning about time flying, when did it get to be the end of August? For those of you not in Ireland, well, maybe you lot got a summer. Us, we got rain. Followed by more rain. Followed by some more.

So where was our summer? huh? Life is so unfair sometimes…

Linknotes:
  1. in 2005 people. 2005!
  2. which is scary. I mean, years! Where does the time go.
Tags: awww, brilliant, Firefly, rewatching, RIP Challenge, Rocky, Rocky Balboa, Serenity, Stephenie Meyer, telly, The Host

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5
Jun

Oh my gawd!

   Posted by: Fence   in TV

Do you know that I have watched no real telly so far this week. Okay, so I spent the long weekend watching nothing but House season one. But that was on dvd, so it doesn’t count. Apart from that I’ve watched the finale of this season’s Lost and the season finale of Bones and thats it.

And to be honest I was impressed by neither. Meh to both I say.

I did catch 5 seconds of Rome repeats on Discovery last night. I miss good telly :(

Even Medium is repeats now. I can tell, Alison has long long hair. le sigh Nothing to watch.

Tags: Bones, House, Lost, Medium, meh, Rome, season finale, telly

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30
Aug

Erm…

   Posted by: Fence   in TV

Channel-surfing does terrible things. Terrible. There you are, innocently flicking past the mindless and the horrendous that passes for entertainment, when suddenly you find yourself watching Bull-riding.

And worse than that.

Enjoying it.

God-damn you Extreme Sports Station.

Tags: bull-riding, channel surfing, extreme sports, telly

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30
Jul

Reaper 1.01

   Posted by: Fence   in Moving Pictures, TV

The ReaperDir: Kevin Smith
Writ: Tara Butters & Michele Fazekas

  • Bret Harrison - Sam Oliver
  • Tyler Labine - Bert ‘Sock’ Wysocki
  • Missy Peregrym - Andi
  • Ray Wise … The Devil
  • Allison Hossack - Mrs. Oliver
  • Andrew Airlie - Mr. Oliver

Yet another pre-air show has escaped onto the wilds of d’internet. Isn’t modern technology a wonderful thing? Right, on with the recap. We open with Sam on his birthday. He is 21 today, but his parents seem a little off, odd would be a good term[1] His brother Kyle is more normal in his response, the usual brother banter goes on. Sam, at first distracted by a news story about an arsonist on the news, retaliates by asking, ever so innocently about a letter from Stanford. It turns out that Kyle had applied, and didn’t get in. His parents are a little upset at this, something that Kyle can’t quite understand and protests that Sam never went to college. His mother however disagrees, Sam did go to college, for a whole month, it just made him sleepy so he came home. They are both very proud of him.

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Linknotes:
  1. strange is another good word
Tags: 8 Stars, Allison Hossack, Andrew Airlie, Bret Harrison, death, humour, Kevin Smith, Michele Fazekas, Missy Peregrym, pre-air, Ray Wise, Reaper, Reaper 1.01, sff, Tara Butters, telly, The Devil, Tyler Labine

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I’m hoarse today. So hoarse I can’t actually speak at all. Well, the odd croak and a bit of a wheeze. Totally the fault of the cough I have. And the playing football in the rain. Nothing whatsoever to do with the drunken singing in the pub. No siree bob!

So I spent the day watching telly. Showjumping at 11 or so. Quick hop out to the shops to pick up the essentials; Strepsils, cough medicine, sausages and wedges. Pour essentials. Then home to watch the GAA. Two hurling quarters were on. Tip v Wexford was on first. I switched it on thinking, ah sure, I’ll support Tip, you know, what with the family connection to that county. But then I found myself urging Wexford on. That old underdog sympathy thing got me. And they won. Which was great. And a drama filled ending.

The other quarter-final was between Kilkenny and Galway. Kilkenny being the favourites, and me having been to college in Galway I was going to cheer them on. But then I was reminded of Vanessa McGarry’s death by seeing her son and her husband (Kilkenny goalkeeper) in the players’ section of the stand and it seemed somehow wrong to be wishing the team till. Course, as some hurling fella said, life is real and can be tragic, but that is exactly why we have things like sport.

The other two quarters are on tomorrow; Luimneach v An Clár and Port Láirge v Corcaigh. I’ll be cheering on Limerick and Waterford. I think. Well, Limerick for sure. I’m not to definite about the other match. Waterford deserve their shot at glory. But then again, as I’ve mentioned before I do like to cheer Cork on. We’ll see how the teams play.

Anyway, back to my exciting adventures on the couch. I then watched bits of Coast as they were doing the West coast of Ireland today. I did miss most of it, but caught the end. Did you know that seaweed is used in the making of beer and ice-cream? Well, now you do.

After that it was time for Jekyll. The final episode. And it was good, but I’m not too sure about the final scene. Was a bit “we want a twist” rather than an ending. Still, I’ll be keeping my eye out for anything else that Steven Moffat writes.

I was thinking of going to bed then. But instead I pulled out a dvd; A Little Princess which I bought in a 3 for €22 thingie during the week. I’d watched it years and years ago when the kids I was babysitting had rented it. And it really is a beautifully shot and directed film. And the music is great too. And I discovered that Alfonso Cuarón directed it. I may do a proper review at some stage.

So, that was my thrilling Saturday. I know you couldn’t possibly have gotten upto anything more exciting than that! :)

Tags: 2007shc, A Little Princess, Clare, Coast, Cork, drunken singing, football, footie in the rain, GAA, Galway, hoarse, Jekyll, Kilkenny, Limerick, me, quarter-finals, rain, showjumping, Steven Moffat, telly, Tipperary, Vanessa McGarry, Waterford, Wexford

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25
Jul

Chuck 1.01

   Posted by: Fence   in Moving Pictures, TV

Created/Writer: Chris Fedak & Josh Schwartz
Dir: McG

  1. Zachary Levi … Chuck Bartowski
  2. Adam Baldwin … John Casey
  3. Yvonne Strzechowski … Sarah Kent
  4. Joshua Gomez … Morgan
  5. Sarah Lancaster … Ellie Bartowski
  6. Ryan McPartlin … Captain Awesome
  7. Don Abernathy … Traveler

So having been alerted to the fact that pre-air tv programmes have slipped through onto the wonder that is the internet, and, having heard that Adam Baldwin was in this one, how could I not dl it for a gander? You can see the trailer on the NBC site, and there will be spoilers if you read on.

ChuckAndMorgan
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Tags: Adam Baldwin, Chris Fedak, Chuck, Chuck 1.01, Don Abernathy, gadgets, humour, Josh Schwartz, Joshua Gomez, McG, pilot, pre-air, Ryan McPartlin, Sarah Lancaster, spy, telly, Yvonne Strzechowski, Zachary Levi

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23
Jul

Rome 2.10 De Parte Vostro

   Posted by: Fence   in Moving Pictures, TV

Dir: John Maybury
Writ: Bruno Heller
The final episode. I’m going to miss Lamb and Chicken, and even scheming Caesar/Octavian, not to mention bitch-Atia and all the others. And Beeb watchers, let me tell you, Heroeswhile entertaining, is not even half as good as Rome.

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Tags: 9 Stars, Attia, blood, Bruno Heller, Caesar/Octavian, Caesarion, Chicken and Lamb, Cleopatra, De Parte Vostro, death, define good, fights, finale, historical fiction, John Maybury, Kevin McKidd, Lucius Vorenus, Ray Stevenson, Roman Empire, Rome, Rome 2.10, telly, Titus Pullo, violence

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