This episode we’re talking about the Laneway Festival, Herman Rockefeller, and we do a Summer movie wrap up… of sorts.
The Fever Ray acceptance speech: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzY-c2ecnKI
And the MadTV iPad skit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsjU0K8QPhs
So, who would play you in the movie of your life?
Tags: avatar, Fever Ray, florence and the machine, herman rockefeller, it's complicated, laneway festival, movies, podcast, sarah blasko, Tilda Swinton, up, up in the air
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The Movie of My Life
Star: Sandra Oh
Director: Chris Cunningham or Chan Wook Park -
Hehehe, yes John, your life does remind me of Cunningham’s ‘Rubber Johnny’ short film!
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I’m sure you already know by now that the iPad will come with both wifi and (for an extra cost) 3G. But will also require yet another mobile plan. I think we need to see our mobile telcos starting to bundle plans. I mean especially for non-Vodafone customers they might have: their mobile phone with data, their home internet, their mobile internet dongle and now an iPad. It should all just be wrapped up into one account and have one fee regardless of how you consume the data.
I say non-Vodafone cause we can already use our iPhone data plans to connect our laptops to the internet. Sucks that the iPad won’t have the ability to just tether to our iPhones as well. (at least this feature hasn’t been announced yet)
Also sucks that we won’t be getting iBooks in Australia. Of course as a developer I will be getting an iPad
And with the keyboard dock and the new iWork for iPad it certainly could be used for wordprocessing and I believe Apple is really looking toward the education market to be its biggest buyer.
I also grew up on horror and also (like Billy) it was a cousin influence.
I remember being about 4 or 5 and watching Trilogy of Terror (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073820/), with the stupid little doll who loses it’s necklace and comes alive chasing the woman around the house. After which we went out for a walk and everyone ran off on me and started jumping out of bushes creaming “scow-wow” cause that’s kind of the sound the doll made as it hunted the woman down. I was freaked out by it for years.
I still love horror for thrill and the suspense culminating in that heart thumping fear-fuelled adrenaline rush when the scary shit happens.
But hate the new gore-horror. Not because I’m queasy but because it’s lazy horror. The plots are straw-thin and are only used to link one bit of gore to the next… kind of like the plots in porn.
Oh and I find (quite irrationally) that I avoid mirrors after watching horror.
Nice a Corey Haim interlude!
Finally some people who didn’t LOVE Avatar. I wasn’t a fan.
I did cry in “UP” in those first 10 minutes. The whole movie is amazingly wonderful.
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Go Corey Haim go! I so heart The Lost Boys, yet another film I watched religiously as a child.
Oh my, I haven’t thought about Trilogy of Terror for YEARS, but now i’m so going to make Billy watch it with me for an upcoming episode! I totally agree with the whole gore = lazy horror thing, hence why the Saw franchise is a bore. In saying that though, I still find late seventies and early eighties slasher films somewhat amusing, mainly because the FX are so bad ;p
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coolest word cloud ever! the words move!
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