Sad fact is that I can spend plenty of hours on youtube just watching trailers, and they arent limited to 'coming soon' films either, they include films ive already seen.
Firstly, stating the obvious.
I have this on my iPod, probably the best preview of the year. But im going to be in Japan when it comes out, argh! Spike Jonze <3
I'll start with 'Nine' by Rob Marshall, The guy who directed Memoirs of a Geisha and Chicago.
Youtube wont let me embed, so click click.
The trailer doesnt tell me much, except that its going to be epic, and pretty, and starring... Fergie.
'An Education'
Peter Sarsgaard and Doc Ock! Everthing looks pretty and like Sofia Coppola's dior advert. I tried to explain the story to a friend, and she was like "that sounds like crap, Emi". Whatever, I'm still seeing it.
And, uh, is Rosamund Pike not one of the most beautiful people ever?
The Brothers Bloom
I saw the first few minutes of this somwhere, and it was really cutesy and adorable. and I have a bit of a crush on Mark Ruffalo.
Dorian Gray
mainly because a. Colin Firth, and b. when I was reading this, I thought 'if they made this into a film, I can imagine Prince Caspian as Dorian', depite the fact that he doesnt have blonde hair and blue eyes. Then I decided to see if there was a film version, and found out that Ben Barnes was going to play him. I AM SO GOOD!
Fantastic Mr Fox
furry talking animals. and jason schwartzman, even though his last film I saw was a complete crap house. I will say that he was probably the most redeeming factor of Funny People. And I have more faith in Wes Anderson.
And films I am not looking forward to based on their trailers:
New York, I Love You: I liked that most comments are like "I LOVE THIS SONG!" or "COOL! PHOENIX!" because thats exactly the same thing I thought.
Alice in Wonderland: I'll probably end up seeing it, but it seems a bit 'meh' to me. I can do without it.
Friday, October 09, 2009
Monday, September 28, 2009
masterchef:
Decided to conquer the Macaron despite being constantly told that they were hard to make and fatty for you. But I found a recipe that would make everything eeeeasy. From here: My Food Geek's Almost Fool Proof Macarons
I guess it was slightly cheating because they used a italian meringue instead of a french one? But to be honest, I dont know the difference, and neither does my mother and brother, and we're the ones eating them, so I dont think it matters too much.
But, luckily they were a success! Well, I'm assuming a success.
The recipe doesnt say how to make the macaron pink, so I just added a drop of red food dye in while combining the egg white and the almond/sugar mix, and that worked out to be fine. Also, I got the Bittersweet Chocolate Cream Ganache recipe from here. I fluffed the Ganache up a bit, because I just went "LALALALA!" and combined everything together at once instead of the butter last, but I sort of saved it by adding a little extra butter at the end.
Also had some left over egg yolk left, so I attempted a Nigella Egg Yolk Sponge Cake, which so far looks like a fail, and Im willing to blame it all on myself, and being unable to line a cake tin.
I guess it was slightly cheating because they used a italian meringue instead of a french one? But to be honest, I dont know the difference, and neither does my mother and brother, and we're the ones eating them, so I dont think it matters too much.
But, luckily they were a success! Well, I'm assuming a success.
The recipe doesnt say how to make the macaron pink, so I just added a drop of red food dye in while combining the egg white and the almond/sugar mix, and that worked out to be fine. Also, I got the Bittersweet Chocolate Cream Ganache recipe from here. I fluffed the Ganache up a bit, because I just went "LALALALA!" and combined everything together at once instead of the butter last, but I sort of saved it by adding a little extra butter at the end.
Also had some left over egg yolk left, so I attempted a Nigella Egg Yolk Sponge Cake, which so far looks like a fail, and Im willing to blame it all on myself, and being unable to line a cake tin.
Monday, September 07, 2009
Redheads:
Ninemsn had this on their webpage:
Red Head Fever Hits Dutch Town
WHAT?!
Red Heads cannot die out! I love red hair. Especially since dreamy red head from the train said "hi". I would very much like to marry a red head, my friend told me she saw a red headed asian baby once, we're not sure if its possible, but that would be amazing! Except potential husbands must not be one of those "are they/aren't they" red heads. You must be pure red. No strawberry blondes, or its kind of brown like Tom Gleeson. Whether you are or aren't a red head should never be a topic of debate.
Red Head Fever Hits Dutch Town
Eager participants of all ages have painted a Dutch town "ginger" for the annual Redhead Day in the Netherlands.
Thousands of redheads including a legion of children celebrated their day at Breda with picnics, art, workshops and competitions.
The event, Roodharigendag, was created in part to help spread awareness about redheads — who make up about 1 percent of the population worldwide and are becoming rarer, according to genetic research.
WHAT?!
Red Heads cannot die out! I love red hair. Especially since dreamy red head from the train said "hi". I would very much like to marry a red head, my friend told me she saw a red headed asian baby once, we're not sure if its possible, but that would be amazing! Except potential husbands must not be one of those "are they/aren't they" red heads. You must be pure red. No strawberry blondes, or its kind of brown like Tom Gleeson. Whether you are or aren't a red head should never be a topic of debate.
Thursday, August 13, 2009
Friendly Fires
Although my Phoenix obsession is not diminishing at all, I think im sort of liking Friendly Fires.
But it may be mainly due to the lead singer's dancing in their video for 'Kiss of Life'.
I wish all people danced like him, and then I would have more fun going out, instead of not fun dancing to R'n B music. I dont like dancing to that music. Everyone's doing the same thing, or there are slutty girls dancing that just make you feel major second hand embarassment for them.
Also, Kiss of Life came on TV last week, and i was like "WHAT?! TOMAS BERDYCH! WHAT ARE YOU DOING ON TV DANCING IN A DRUM CIRCLE?! GET BACK ON THE COURT!"
Well, I think he's pretty. His name is Ed MacFarlane.
(JACK2000!)
But it may be mainly due to the lead singer's dancing in their video for 'Kiss of Life'.
I wish all people danced like him, and then I would have more fun going out, instead of not fun dancing to R'n B music. I dont like dancing to that music. Everyone's doing the same thing, or there are slutty girls dancing that just make you feel major second hand embarassment for them.
Also, Kiss of Life came on TV last week, and i was like "WHAT?! TOMAS BERDYCH! WHAT ARE YOU DOING ON TV DANCING IN A DRUM CIRCLE?! GET BACK ON THE COURT!"
Well, I think he's pretty. His name is Ed MacFarlane.
(JACK2000!)
Tuesday, August 04, 2009
PHOENIX!
Yay! Yesterday I experienced hard core tears and extreme happiness in the second half of my day. My first half, the A.M side, was crap, but everything else just deleted the crapness of that.
I went to see My Sisters Keeper with Bridget and Ash and the Nova near uni, which I wasnt so keen on, because I heard it was sad, and I cry at anything and wasnt in a sad mood and there was some vomiting. But, I started crying in the first five minutes of the movie and I didn't stop. SOMETHING IS WRONG WITH ME. It was horrible, just like a river falling off my chin, it was gross. It was an alright movie, except, there was one part where at the end they were like 'so and so went back to school', they didnt make it clear that he wasnt at school in the first place. I thought he just liked to hang around the city at night, which im sure is a pretty legit teen thing to do. I saw some doing it the other day, and I didnt like it.
THEN, the possible highlight of my year.
PHOENIX! at the Palace Theatre.
Somewhere i've never been before. Its a nice venue, its quite small and it looks like you would have a nice view from just about anywhere. But none of that was relevant as Sylvie, Shannon and I were stationed at the front, one row removed.
The people around us were generally all right, excluding the guy that looked like Russell Coight and his friend, and the short blonde girl. It was very 'yeah, stop, you're not going to be able to get any further'.
Catcall, the support band were horrible. Just not very good at all. There was a random girl who sang backing vocals, but it didnt seem like she was doing anything at all. She sometimes swayed, but thats about it. Maybe she was nervous or had a cold. But I heard the guy in front of me saying "HAS SHE ALWAYS BEEN THERE?!"
People went crazy when Phoenix came on. Like, one arm stuck to my side, while the other was able to escape and be free in the air.
ARGH, just so so so amazing!
Though, I was slightly disappointed that Laurent was on the other side, but it was made up for by things like this:
The set list was mostly from their new album, and they only played 'Run, Run, Run' from Alphabetical. Strangely, they played 'Sometimes in the fall', I would have expected maybe 'Everything is Everything' instead.
Oh, and they played 'Love like Sunset', which was amazing, and Thomas just had a bit of a lie down during the song.
I panicked so hard when they didnt play 'If I Ever Feel Better', at first, I was like "its alright, they'll play it during the encore", but then the realisation that they hadnt played 'Too Young' or '1901' set in, and i was feeling intense sadness, because you know, usually bands play like 2 songs during an encore. But Thank God they got straight into If I Ever Feel Better as soon as they got onto stage. Aah, my life is complete now.
Actually no, not completely complete. Patrick Wolf, stop hiding from me.
THE SET LIST:
Listzomania
Long Distance Call
Consolation Prizes
Lasso
Napoleon Says
Funky Squaredance
Rally
Girlfriend
Sometimes in the Fall
Armstice
Love Like a Sunset Parts I & II
Run Run Run
Rome
If I Ever Feel Better
Too Young
1901 (extended)
I went to see My Sisters Keeper with Bridget and Ash and the Nova near uni, which I wasnt so keen on, because I heard it was sad, and I cry at anything and wasnt in a sad mood and there was some vomiting. But, I started crying in the first five minutes of the movie and I didn't stop. SOMETHING IS WRONG WITH ME. It was horrible, just like a river falling off my chin, it was gross. It was an alright movie, except, there was one part where at the end they were like 'so and so went back to school', they didnt make it clear that he wasnt at school in the first place. I thought he just liked to hang around the city at night, which im sure is a pretty legit teen thing to do. I saw some doing it the other day, and I didnt like it.
THEN, the possible highlight of my year.
PHOENIX! at the Palace Theatre.
Somewhere i've never been before. Its a nice venue, its quite small and it looks like you would have a nice view from just about anywhere. But none of that was relevant as Sylvie, Shannon and I were stationed at the front, one row removed.
The people around us were generally all right, excluding the guy that looked like Russell Coight and his friend, and the short blonde girl. It was very 'yeah, stop, you're not going to be able to get any further'.
Catcall, the support band were horrible. Just not very good at all. There was a random girl who sang backing vocals, but it didnt seem like she was doing anything at all. She sometimes swayed, but thats about it. Maybe she was nervous or had a cold. But I heard the guy in front of me saying "HAS SHE ALWAYS BEEN THERE?!"
People went crazy when Phoenix came on. Like, one arm stuck to my side, while the other was able to escape and be free in the air.
ARGH, just so so so amazing!
Though, I was slightly disappointed that Laurent was on the other side, but it was made up for by things like this:
The set list was mostly from their new album, and they only played 'Run, Run, Run' from Alphabetical. Strangely, they played 'Sometimes in the fall', I would have expected maybe 'Everything is Everything' instead.
Oh, and they played 'Love like Sunset', which was amazing, and Thomas just had a bit of a lie down during the song.
I panicked so hard when they didnt play 'If I Ever Feel Better', at first, I was like "its alright, they'll play it during the encore", but then the realisation that they hadnt played 'Too Young' or '1901' set in, and i was feeling intense sadness, because you know, usually bands play like 2 songs during an encore. But Thank God they got straight into If I Ever Feel Better as soon as they got onto stage. Aah, my life is complete now.
Actually no, not completely complete. Patrick Wolf, stop hiding from me.
THE SET LIST:
Listzomania
Long Distance Call
Consolation Prizes
Lasso
Napoleon Says
Funky Squaredance
Rally
Girlfriend
Sometimes in the Fall
Armstice
Love Like a Sunset Parts I & II
Run Run Run
Rome
If I Ever Feel Better
Too Young
1901 (extended)
Friday, July 31, 2009
DAUL (L)
I like to fork myself.
This happened to me yesterday when i was walking to the bus stop in front of the train station. Except the difference with Daul and myself is that I was in too much disbelief over it and just stared at them. Its such a shame that comebacks only come to me after reflecting over the situation. I wonder how this is hilarious or necessary in anyway at all. It happens occasionally, which is extra sad in a country like Australia, but luckily it hasnt happened at uni, if it did i'd cry and probably never go back.
The people that did it were horrible people too, they were the type that sat in front of the train station all day and smoked. gross people.
Monday, July 27, 2009
Christian Bale:
I watched American Psycho last weekend. Which is quite suprising really, especially due to me not watching anything containing gore and slashers and horror. For example, Shannon and I sat on the floor listening to our ipods when we went to see Saw 3 for Marlee's birthday, before we decided we could'nt handle it anymore and left after ten minutes. But Bret Easton Ellis could not keep me away, even after the shit fest that was the film version of Less Than Zero.
Anyway, Christian Bale is probably one of the most fascinating and terrifying people ever. He's excellent, but you would never ever ever want to make him angry. He's such an intense man in real life and films. Though, I never thought he was that heart stopping attractive, like Clive Owen.
But, I did find this:
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