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Re: Boxcutters Episode 97

jebo — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 08:49:10 -0000

hi all,

long time listener, etc.

on the strength of your high praise lads(combined with my love of julian barrett), i bought a copy of the nathan barley dvd via amazon uk - so i can confirm that it is available. there were parts of it i adored (jb, his character too, amongst others) but i'm keen to scratch the menu part of the disc, cos listening to the drum & bass with "alright" and "yeah" sampled over and over gives me the willies.

i tried getting into deadwood by hiring it, but my local vid shop had had the first disc of season 1 stolen. i did hire the second disc, but even that far into the tale, i had no idea who was who and what was what. good luck to anyone trying to jump in further down the track! happy end to this tale though - i found the season 1&2 box set at my local jb hifi for $90. that was a fine weekend.

as for jodie pfarr and her "preview" - i gave up buying the tv guide here (i'm in perth) because the critic told us every minute detail about most tv shows prior to screening. i now buy thursday's age or rely on the net to tell me what's playing when. incidentally, igt caught me out for the first time this week - did you have boston legal on monday night?

love the show and lively discussion folks - keep up the good work!

Re: Boxcutters Episode 97

jebo — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 23:07:30 -0000

if it's not too late to weigh into the debate (i've been away!), nice call jimbo - i've been umming and ahhing about suggesting SITC myself. if nothing else, i think it was quite instrumental in breaking down the barriers for lots of my favourite 4 letter words out into mainstream regular useage. i'm sure it wasnt the first show to use abundant profanity or regularly call body parts by their favourite nicknames, but it was popular and with the clever use of the (rather unlikely) friendship showcasing charlotte's coy 50's sensibilities, samantha and miranda's call it like you see it attitudes and carrie's middle of those extremes, it appealed to a large range of women. and with those bodies and short, short skirts, probably appealed to a large range of blokes too.

i imagine shows like weeds and deadwood, to name but a few, might've been a little different had SITC not existed.

Re: Thoughts on a late night chat show?

jebo — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 01:42:46 -0000

i'm bored stupid with the trad formats, and working dog group at least managed something a bit different with the late show and panel, taken on by the chaser boys.

how about tony biggs in to host....something? he could pull off both serious and comedy, could probably get wonderful acts to play if there were to be a musical segment.

a panel of hosts - biggsy, josie, marieke too perhaps? this could only be late night teev.

Re: Thoughts on a late night chat show?

jebo — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 21:40:04 -0000

yes, i know, but a girl can dream, can't she catbrain? besides, brett didnt specify which network the show had to appear on. if the creators could just ensure country-wide distribution....(we dont get chartbusting 80's here in perth - i've only seen that wee clip and heard raves)

i was a huge fan of "under melbourne tonight" in it's day - when i lived in melb. lots of melbourne's finest hosting little segments and competition like "send us a bottle of whisky". the boxcutters "send us mars bars" reminded me of that.

that said, i'm happy to concur with adam d. three cheers for micallef.

Re: Nine’s last quarter crap-tacular

jebo — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 04:29:23 -0000

Re: "are you smarter than...." - on the west coast of this little island of ours, the primary school year levels are called "year" instead of "grade", so the title would probably have to change for every state anyway.

Re: Boxcutters Episode 106

jebo — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 02:36:09 -0000

oh, how i laughed.

i was watching 'criminal minds' last night, (well, killing time between south park and boston legal, having caught up on all of my current channel BT viewing) thinking that i might perhaps drop a line in here and whinge about how excrutiating criminal minds is to watch, and there you go, you wonderful lads, announcing that it's in the running for torture awards. only i think this must be the only show in the nominations that display torture in the form of 'jason gideon' have to work with planks of 2 x 4 reading the other lines.

tut, tut mandy, what were you thinking? are you just biding time til someone offers you a part in "princess bride 2: daughter of princess bride, revisited, again"? were you smoking crack for a very long time, then suddenly stopped and sobered up, before refusing to return to set??? man, those drugs musta been good....

why is it that this crap is being given quality air time and so many other wonderfully crafted labours of love, brimming with talent, are given shitty time slots, if given any at all?

rant. thanks for letting me get that off my chest.

Re: Ep 126: Gladiators and East of Everything

jebo — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 00:41:57 -0000

interesting comment about APRA being "run quite efficently" Marc - until recently i was involved in running a small music festival and we had to pay an APRA license fee each year.

i was treasurer of the organisation for a number of years, so wrote cheques for said fee for varying amounts over that period - always increasing amounts - but last year, i was the application lady and not only did they send 3 reminder notices to the wrong address AFTER calling me to confirm my details, but when i finally rang post-festival to ask where the invoice was they told me it was for the same amount of money we'd paid about 5 years ago. when i enquired why, i was given a "oh, i came up with that number, because that's what i felt like charging you" type answer from the chap i was speaking to.

they didnt strike me as overly efficient as much as dizzy...