I am so excited! Just found out when the new Doctor Who episode is screening in New Zealand! The Waters of Mars will be shown on Sunday 29th November at 7.30pm on Prime.

I'm hopeful that this means Prime will be equally quick (and awesome) and pick up the rest of the specials, and the new season.

Oh I am so keen for this! If any of you Wellington peeps want to make an evening of this, let me know XDDDDD

Just a quick note that there's a mini update over at Between the Lines. Head on over and check it out (please)!

Haha so the other morning I was woken up by somthing kinda awkward. The wall my bedroom shares with the next door flat is their bathrom wall, and it's less than soundproof, esapecially when two (maybe three?) people going at it in the shower. It was kind of funny, and at the same time really awkward. That room in notorious for hilarious, unintentional eavesdropping. Lee (the_turtlemoves ) once overheard some guy breaking up with his girlfriend in the bathroom during a party they were having next door.

Saw the season finale of Outrageous Fortune last night, and it ended with a HUGE cliffhanger! This is an awesome NZ drama/comedy  of awesomeness, just so you know. AND WE"RE NOT GOING TO FIND OUT WHAT HAPPENS FOR AGES! At least they're replaying it all from season one, which means, among it's general awesomeness, lots of Wolf (who is a Hottie McSexpants).

Also, tv is peppered with "coming soon" ads for Glee, which makes me happy. I've only seen a few youtube clips (good old youtube!). The "Single Ladies" football team dance sequence is so great!

 And OMG exciting news! aimeesworld  and I are going up to Auckland at the end of October to see a performance of THE HISTORY BOYS! Aaaah I am so excited! It's going to be so fun. It's really cool, because one of the actors in Milo Cawthorne, who is from my home town and with whom I've been in plays before. He's a cool kid (I say 'kid' but he's only a year or two younger than me), and has been in a bunch of tv shows in NZ (I think he's in Power Rangers at the moment, lol) and also in heaps of productions. I don't know who he's playing, because I can't find a cast/character list anywhere, but it's looking like a good cast. We think that Gerald from Shortland Street is playing Dakin (an extreme example of not being type-cast) and McDonalds Ron, who Aimee knows, is also in it. And George Henare is going to be Hector, which is going to be amazing. I am just so excited! Our flight up to Auckland is first thing in the morning, so we're going to have the whole day to spend in Auckland, and then we're spending the night there and flying back to Wellington in the afternoon the next day. FUN TIMES!

Also fun is a new game we've been playing. It is called "What I Would Do If I Ran The BBC",  and has thus far resulted in the following plans:
- Various incarnations of Doctor Who in the background of other BBC tv shows (especially a moment when Ten runs through the background of Law and Order UK, and double-takes as he sees Freema Agyman's character, then continues running).
- a modern remake of Northanger Abbey, where Catherine is obsessed with a certain sparkly vampire novel. You know she would be a Twihard.
- a modern remake of Measure for Measure, set in a high school. The Duke would be the Head Boy who "goes away on a leadership trip" but then pretends to be an exchange student, Angelo would be the Deputy Head Boy who's sudden rise to power goes to his head, Isabella would be a younger student, one of those abstinence pledgers who is blackmailed by Angelo when her brother is embroiled in a sex scandal. It would be like 10 Things I Hate About You meets Gossip Girl.
- a mini-series version of Terry Pratchett's Carpe Jugulum with RPattz as Vlad and DanRad as Mightily Oats. It would be so fantastic.

This is a ridiculously fun game. I put the question to you. What would you do if you ran the BBC?

Went to Borders today to buy a copy of Dracula, cos it's hilarious. I bought one of those Penguin Classics ones for $12.99, the ones with the old school orange covers. But at the counter, they had another display of them.  And I ended up buying Cold Comfort Farm and Brideshead Revisited as well.

And I saw these, but for some unfathomable reason, I wasn't tempted to buy one:



Seriously, who would actually ever use an umbrella with Rpattz's great big vampiric face on it?

I'm watching Cranford. It's kind of awesome actually. It's another one of those shows that's got every english actor ever in it, but since that means Judi Dench and Imelda Staunton, that's fine by me. Simon Woods, aka New!Bingley is in it as the dashing young doctor, and he's so cute. All the old ladies are faking sickness to get him to look after them. 
NEW!BINGLEY: Your heart sounds perfectly fine.
OLDER WOMAN: I feel it beating very fast."
NEW!BINGLEY: I find that quite commen for the fairer sex.

Oho, I bet you do! *wink wink*

I've also been watching a documentary called Broadway: The American Musical. It was really interesting, with lots of interviews and old footage of performances. It was hosted by Julie Andrews. I love her so much. She kept making cute little references to things she'd been in, like saying "So let's start at the very beginning, which, as you all know, is the very best place to start", and that it was "Loverly" to be in My Fair Lady. They showed some footage of Julie Andrews as Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady, and I really wish she'd been in the film version, because she was amazing. Aimee and I are thinking we should have a Julie Andrews Extravaganza. 

 Also, my fangirling of Stephen Sondheim has been renewed, because, man, that guy is clever.

I've had show tunes going round in my head all afternoon :D

Between the Lines is updated! You should all go read it and tell us how much you love it. :)

And in return, I'll tell you how much I love the film The Young Victoria, since I just got back from seeing it with Lee, Rita and Kelly. It was the loveliest movie, seriously. You should all go and see it, because it's a historical love story that doesn't star Keira Knightley that is just so romantic and well-portrayed. Emily Blunt and Rupert Friend are perfect. I can't even explain how adorable and sweet and wonderful they were as Victoria and Albert. And the supporting cast were stellar too - Miranda Richardson, Jim Broadbent and Paul Bettany = awesome.  I don't want to spoil anyone, in case you don't know the story, but I'm going to say that it's nice to see a historically-based film that doesn't star Keira Knightley that isn't all a big tragedy. I think I might have to buy it when it comes out on dvd. It;s a film I can forsee myself watching over and over.

Coraline was fun. I really liked the art style - the animation was cool and appropriately creepy. I haven't read the book, so I can't comment on it as an adaptation. The end was a bit disconcerting, though - there were a lot of loose ends, like how the other mother creature wasn't actually vanquished. Nightmare-fuel much?

This past week has been pretty disney-tastic. We rented Beauty and the Beast, Robin Hood and Hercules, and I found a totally awesome episode of the Disney Hercules tv series on You Tube that was a crossover with Aladdin. Seriously. So Cool. Jafar dies and goes to the underworld, where he teams up with Hades so they can defeat both Hercules and Aladdin. They attempt this by kidnapping Hercules' friend Icarus and Aladdin's monkey Abu, and making it out like each of the heroes is the kidnapper of the other one's friend. So they fight. Yep, Aladdin and Hercules fight each other. Hercules goes to Agraba to fight Aladdin. It. Is. Amazing.  The episode is here: Part One and Part Two. The writing isn't spectacular, but the concept itself is so awesome, it totally doesn't matter :D

When my brother was staying with us - oh, it was so cute - he took me out to a movie and bought me dinner. We saw Inglorious Basterds, ( and here are my thoughts (some spoilers, I guess) )

This post started out all happy and nice and ended up kind of ... less so. Sorry about that.

quasiadastra  I got your letter! Thank you! I am totally digging this pen-pal thing! :)

I am quite excited that Richard Coyle (Jeff From Coupling) has been cast as Moist Von Lipwig for an adaptation of Terry Pratchett's Going Postal. He is going to be fantastic, I just know it.

Here is a promo pic:


I just can't wait until he has to wear a gold suit.

But seriously, it is such a cool book. If I hadn't just borrowed three books from the library, I'd re-read it again.

But I am being kind of thematic in terms of my "To Read" pile of books - I'm reading the Johnny Maxwell trilogy which is also by Terry Pratchett.

I am also really enjoying Desperate Romantics. It's not exactly true-to-fact, but it's really fun, and endearing. Aidan Turner reminds me of Liev Schreiber. He talks the same (except Britishly, of course) or something. It's also a bit freaky how much the actress playing Lizzy Sidell actually looks like her. There are some steller actors in that show, Tom Hollander for one, who seems to have been a feature in pretty much anything I've watched over the last week or so. Samuel West is another one. Samuel West (who is possibly better - or at least more hilariously - known as BBC!Caspian) was a lord who marries Annie Miller (who might actually be my favourite character in Desperate Romantics). And Tom Hollander and Samuel West were both in a mini-series a few years back called Cambridge Spies which is pretty interesting. It's about four men at Cambridge who get recruited just before WW2 to be Soviet spies. It also has Toby Stephens and Rupert Penry-Jones. Rupert Penry-Jones has possibly one of the ponciest names I've come across recently, but that's hardly his fault.

I watched Cambridge Spies with aimeesworld  and how_nifty . They are so much fun. On Saturday night Lee and I went over to Aimee's for dinner. Aimee made an amazingly delicious daal, and Anne made a fantastic salad, and Lee and I brought "Gone Fishing" ice-cream which is the one with chocolate and caramel sauce and tiny little chocolate fish,  and barvarian dessert thing that tasted of caramel and banana. It was a succuessful evening, in my opinion. We finished off the night by watching the Lawrence Olivier verison of Pride and Prejudice, which never ever fails to amuse me, and by making fun of Mills&Boon books. So much fun :3

New part up at Between the Lines! Go check it out! :D


the_turtlemoves  and I are watching Coupling. I love Coupling.  I actually can't choose my favourite character. Oh, Steven Moffet, you and your Doctor Who references! I need some Coupling icons.

This Saturday we're going to have a High School Musical marathon. It's going to be good times, lol. The first two are playing on tv from 7.30, and we're going to rent the third one. Feel free to join us if you're in the neighbourhood. ^_^

And just because this pic the_turtlemoves  made never fails to amuse me:




XDD

Just got back from seeing HBP again, and I have more things to say about it.

( More spoilers this way )

So it's been a good weekend for films. On Friday I was lucky enough to see Bright Star, Jane Campion's film about John Keats and Fanny Brawne. I went with the_turtlemoves , aimeesworld , annemjw , Rosie and Llewellyn.  It was a special early screening of the film for the NZ International Fim Festival.
Spoilers follow:
( Was it a vision, or a waking dream? )
So, if you get the chance to see this film when it's released, do. I will definitely be seeing it again.  

And on Saturday, after a marathon of the earlier films, I went to Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince with the_turtlemoves , annemjw , Erin and  Rita. It was fantastic, and I may or may not be seeing it again tonight >_< 

Spoilers follow...
( SNAPE KILLS DUMBLEDORE! )</div>

XDDD

Possibly one of the coolest things just happened. Was sitting here watching the new torchwood eps on youtube, and overhear a guitar playing. It sounds like its coming from outside, so we have a look out our window. There's three or so guys outside, one has a guitar. He's totally serenading someone. It was amazingly cool.

But then he went inside, so I'm thinking he maybe lives in our building and just decided to have an impromptu concert. Either way, it was a very cool random happenstance.

I wish a cute guitar boy serenaded me. We even have a convenient balcony from which to appreciate it, Juliet-style.

Things of note:

I can't get over how awesome this ad is. Seriously. It always makes me giggle.




Just finished class for the day. I had a final test for my Baroque Art class, and the same yesterday for Renaissance. They seemed to go all right... hopefully, anyway. One of the questions for Baroque was "How does this work (the Louvre) demonstrate the French approach to Baroque architecture?" and I realised halfway through writing the answer that I was actually thinking about Versailles, not the Louvre. Lol. Luckily it's similar enough concepts, but still. I felt like a bit of a moron.  Anyway, I'm all done ofr Art History this semester, and only have onbe exam for Romantic Lit on the 15th.

Saw Planet of the Dead on monday. It was Queen's Birthday in NZ, so we all had the day off. Aimee and Jen came round and we watched The Runaway Bride and The Next Doctor before Planet of the Dead. I made TARDIS cookies. It was awesome.  But in regards to the episode, I've got to say, Christina was kind of a Mary Sue. I mean, she was a jewel-thief aristocrat who was really clever in the same way as the Doctor. I'm definitely glad she isn't going to be a long-term companion, because I can see her being really annoying. I kind of wish I hadn't seen production shots from upcoming Doctor Who specials, because then I could have more fun at guessing what's going to happen. Does anyone know when the Waters of Mars is going to be played? Also, how cute is the new companion?

I also watched the trailer for the new Torchwood five episode series, and it's got the Roman dude from Fires of Pompeii, and Matthews from Hornblower, lol.

Lee and I went to Easy Virtue the other day. It was really fun. Ben Barnes should sing all the time, and now I am doubly keen for Dorian Gray, becuae seeing Ben Barnes and Colin Firth ina film reminded me that it was happening. I love Colin Firth (seriously, who doesn't?) and Kristen Scott Thomas was marvelous, as usual. And Jessica Biel has gone up in my esteem for being in this film. Do you remember a while ago when she was touted as the next hip thing, and then she started dating Justin Timberlake and that was it? She didn't really do anything else to live up to the hype. But she was fab in this film, and Colin "god of sex" Frizzle (I admit, I don't know the actor's real name) was definitely a surprise high point. I liked how they used more modern music and made it all 1930s-sounding.

I (embarrassingly) really liked Angels and Demon, as well. i just like the Robert Langdon films, They are shot quite prettily, and the soundtrack is awesome, because it's by Hans Zimmer. Ewan McGregor's Irish accent was a bit dodgy, but he makes up for it by being Ewan McGregor. I also quite liked the main chickie whose name I've forgotten, and the Olivetti was really cool. Omg I just remembered where I know that guy from! He was the cool general in Prince Caspian who left Narnia at the end of the film. I love that guy, he's always awesome.  The assasin dude was also awesome and strangely attractive. I am glad that Tom Hanks didn't have that nasty long hair like in the Da Vinci Code.

I am quite happy that they're making Voyage of the Dawn Treader. Can you imagine King Caspian? Hot. That's all I'm saying.

So there's a Jazz show that plays on the radio at work on sundays. It's pretty cool, because it means I don't have to listen to a more mainstream radio station, and hear that Taylor Swift song about 3 times every hour. You know the one. "It's a love story, baby just say... yes". I am so sick of that song.

Anyway, they sometimes play fun jazz versions of well-known musical songs, like Supercalifragalisticexpialadocious (I'm guessing the spelling), and one time they played a jazz version of ther Swan Lake theme. It's really cool.

But the point of interest that I'm reporting today is that they played L'accordeoniste, that song that Posner sings in The History Boys. Sadly, not by Samuel Barnett, but cool all the same.

Maybe I'll watch the History Boys tonight. I haven't done that in a while.

( Animated Movies Meme )


So I've been pretty bad at keeping this thing updated lately. Have been working HEAPS at the shop because we had to hire someone new and I was covering other shifts in the meantime. We ( I say 'we', but I didn't actually have anything to do with it) hired a girl called Sarah. She is super lovely and is hopefully going to come with a bunch of us to the movies next week sometime.

I saw 17 Again with Aimee and Kirsten, and actually really enjoyed it. Zafron was really quite good, although now Zafron and Matthew Perry are inextricably linked in my mind. Watched Hairspray againt he other day, and HSM3, and I couldn't help imagining Chandler Bing dancing round and singing and being ridiculous. XDD

Um, what else is new? I've been working more at the Opera House and the St James. At the moment it's the Comedy Festival in Wellington, and last night I was ushering at Ed Bynre's show. I really like Ed Byrne. He's funny without being disgusting (I was pretty glad I didn't have to work at Dai Henwood's show). Whenever I see stand-up comedy shows I always try to remember parts to tell people, but I always forget they way they said it, and so my retellings never really ahve the same impact. Ed Byrne kind of reminds me of David Tennant, if David Tennant was Irish and swore a lot. ^_^

Speaking of David Tennant, I've got an early tv series he was a part of - Takin' over the Asylum. It's ablack comedy/drama set around a hospital radio in a Scottish mental hospital. David Tennant plays a 19-year-old manic depressive called Campbell. And he's fantastic, of course. My favourite part (as geeky as I am) is when he says that the rules of time and space don't apply to him, LOL. So awesome. But it's a really good show, it's touching and sad and realistic. Very cool.

We also now have Season 3 of Doctor Who, as well as Season 4, and when Lee's parents came to visit last weekend, they bought her The Next Doctor on dvd, hooray! I love David Morrissey so very much. The Doctor and Jackson Lake should just hang out together forever, they are so cute! I was looking at the dvd cover the other day and correct me if I'm worng, but David Tennant and David Morrissey are basically the exact opposite of each other. Tennant is long and skinny with boggle eyes and a long face and nose, where Morrissey is more squarish, with squinty eyes and a little nose. Don't get me wrong, I adore them both.  They are super awesome, and both weirdly attractive XD. It's probably their physical contrasts that make them so cool when paired up together. Have you guys seen Blackpool? It's SO AWESOME!

Lee and I watched The Silence in the Library/Forests of the Dead last night and disagreed about River Song, and whether or not she should/is likely to return in future episodes of Doctor Who. I think it's kind of unneccessary to show the River Song plotline, because we already know what the end is, and the relationship doesn't really add much tot he Doctor's character, because we can already see what his experience will be - he already knows the relationship is doomed, she's going to die, etc. And while Lee doesn't think so, I think that River Song recognised the Tenth Doctor, not just his 'doctorness' so for me it would be weird if they brought River Song back with a different regeneration. I mean, they could do it that way, but I just think it would be lame.  What do you think?

We went to the Monet exhibit finally. It was awesome, and although the hour-long queue was less than fun, we saw Keryn and Jen who were both working at Te Papa (the national museum).

And we're going to Danny Bhoy on friday! I am so excited, I love Danny Bhoy. madhowan understands, I know. ^_^

I will try to update more often. Anne's coming round for lunch today, so I'd better sign off.

Later Gators!

Firstly, LOLWHUT?! Bahaha Twilight is so weird!

In other news, there are so many cool people coming to Wellington soon! Dylan Moran, Danny Bhoy, and Ed Byrne are all doing shows, Peter Davison (the fifth Doctor) and (lol) Kevin Sorbo are going to be at Armageddon, and there are wicked concerts going on all the time. 

the_turtlemoves  and I rented some Fifth Doctor episodes yesterday. So funny, seriously. The Cybermen are just dudes in tinfoil suits, and the leader one kept saying "Excellent", like Mr Burns, or the jazz frog in Meet the Robinsons when he's mind-controlled by the Bowler Hat Guy. So so funny, omg. It's quite cool, though, because there are definite elements of Nine and Ten in the way Peter Davison plays the Doctor. Although it should probably be the other way round, seeing as Five came before them.

I'm finding it harder and harder to take Torchwood seriously, mainly because of this, but also because it's nowhere near as polished or clever as Doctor Who.

You might have noticed that I'm having serious Doctor Who/David Tennant withdrawl atm. I keep seeing trailers for the special, but they haven't been playing them in New Zealand :( I really want to see 'The Next Doctor" becaus eit had David Morrissey, who was in Blackpool with David Tennant and Sarah Parish. Blackpool is seven kinds of awesome. It was bugging me for ages because I couldn't work out why the daughter looked familiar, and it turns out its the actress who played Fiona in The History Boys 

Work and Uni are full on at the moment. I'm really hoping I don't get rostered on for the Hannah Montana Tribute concert (with special guests The Australian Jonas Brothers!) next week. Sounds pretty soul destroying, huh? I also have to write 3 essays and study for 3 tests that are coming up (the Art History ones are next week ARGH!) which is a little worrying sing I was out of action with the Flu for almost two weeks. Embarrassing story: I ventured outside to get some tissues, losenges and ribena, and halfway through stepping over a low barrier to the carpark on Cuba Street, lost all sense of balance/coodination/ depth perception and tripped over. Fully face-planted onto the gravel, and ripped up my hand and my elbow and my knees. I'm mostly healed now, but I was achy for about a week. >_<

Still, it's easter soon, and the shop is closed on easter sunday, which means I can go easter egg rolling with Erin and Rita. Hooray!

This is for miss_bushido





Awww, he is so charming and lovely. :)

It's a bit embarrassing but I am secretly really keen for the first episode of the first ever New Zealand's Next Top Model tonight. >_< Kind of in the same way I'm tempted to pre-order the Twilight dvd from Borders to get the free Twilight tote bag, lol.

It's going to be so fantastically bad, I can't wait. There's an ad playing at the moment for NZNTM where a bunch of girls say "I'm going to be New Zealand's next top model!", and this poor girl at the end of the ad goes "I'm going to be New Zealand's nox tep model!" and she doesn't even realised she's messed it up. I like that for the most part the show is going to be taken pretty cynically. Even before the show has been aired, we're already making fun of the poor girls who, one assumes, are auditioning in all seriousness. Actually, in typing that, I now feel a little sorry for them.

It's getting cold. Summer is definitely over. I don't mind too much, because I like autumn and winter because you get to wear scarves and hats and coats, and be warm and snuggly indoors when it's grey and windy and cold outside. And drinking coffee and hot chocolate is more enjoyable when it's cold - it sucks when you want a coffee but the weather is too hot to actually enjoy it. But wintry times are less fun when it's unexpectedly cold. Today I was on campus for a lecture and tutorial for Romantics. It looked sunnier this morning when I left for class, and so I was only wearing 2 layers. But going outside after class, I just got hit with the kind of cold that shrinks you into yourself. It was really cold, and now I want to go buy more clothes.