25 January 07 - 00:18So baaaad it could be really good: Black Sheep

I definitely have to see Black Sheep when it comes out.
With taglines such as "Get the Flock Out Out of Here!" and "The Violence of the Lambs", it sounds like a splatstick classic.


Of course, if Bruce Campbell was in it, it would be perfect, but even without him, it still looks really good.

Here's a link to an interview with Black Sheep director Jonathan King and a couple of stars from the movie on the red carpet, at the 2006 Toronto International Film Festival.

Thanks to Damien for letting me know about Black Sheep.

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24 January 07 - 23:50Melbourne + Summer = watching sport

It's summer so I have been inflicting fun things like cricket and tennis on the poor guys I share a house with. I'm un-Australian, though, because although I'll happily watch the aussies thrash the poms in the cricket, I always want Lleyton Hewitt to lose whenever he plays.
I've been pretty busy lately, so I've missed a lot of the Australian Open, but I was home sick yesterday, and woke up halfway through the Serena Williams vs Shahar Peer match, and was transfixed by the rest of it. They were both amazing, and it's great to see Serena Williams on the way back to her best. I hope she wins the whole thing.

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07 January 07 - 11:05Instant noodle inventor dies

The inventor of instant noodles, Momofuku Ando has died, aged 96. I would like to thank him for his products, which I grew up with, and without which, I would have struggled in my first year out of home.

When I was in primary school, we used to sneak maggi two-minute noodle packets out of the house every now and then, and take them to school for lunch. Not having any way of cooking them, we'd shake the flavouring satchel over them and eat them raw. This only stopped after one kid insisted that raw two-minute noodles caused cancer, and being gullible 10 year olds, we believed her.

Then, through high school, I started avoiding pot noodles after I heard an urban legend about a girl who tucked into a pot noodle only to have a spider, somehow still alive, crawl out from the cup onto her fork. It didn't matter that the story was obviously crap, after hearing it, I couldn't hack them for years and doggedly stuck to only two-minute noodles in a packet, where I could see what I was getting. When I was really sick with glandular fever in Year 11 and stuck at home for 6 weeks, I lived off vegemite on toast for breakfast, spaghetti bolognese for dinner, and oriental flavoured two-minute noodles for lunch. I used to sit on the couch with a bowl of noodles and watch Days of Our Lives and the Young and the Restless. I wish they'd had Jerry Springer on tv back then.

No-name two minute noodles and farmland spaghetti covered with grated tasty cheese became the staples of the first student household I lived in back in 1994. It was also around that time that I discovered that you should always buy green capsicums instead of red, because they are much cheaper. When I drank in 1994 (which, like many students, was way too often), it was usually VB at the Notting Hill Hotel, or Stones Green Ginger Wine from the local bottle shop (but never Impact Vodka). My drinking of brewed black coffee hit an all-time high, to the point where I'd be drinking up to 15 cups of the stuff at the West End Cafe per day. It was horrible and burnt and it would probably have been cheaper if I'd taken up smoking instead. I won't touch the stuff anymore (nothing but properly made espresso or nice frothy lattes for me), and I'll often buy the red capsicums as well as the green, but every now and then, I'll get a packet of two minute noodles, heat them up, and sit down in front of the telly for an afternoon of bad American soap operas.

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04 January 07 - 17:01Argh!!

F#%$ing torque heap of cr$%p, garbage, dumb thing.

I feel better now.

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01 January 07 - 11:54New Years Rocked

I had a really good time last night. We went to two parties, and had a lot of fun at both. It was great to catch up with so many people I haven't seen in a while. We got home at 5 am. That's always a sign of a really good party.

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