04 Mar 2011, Posted by Cat in News, 13 Comments Tagged tv

funny

rewatching Black Books for the gazzillionth time. These three never fail to crack me up

24 Jan 2011, Posted by Cat in News, 17 Comments Tagged stargate, tv

sci fi

I’ve always had a shaky relationship with Stargate. Loved the movie, thought the TV show was silly and never got around to watching Atlantis. But when I learned Robert Carlisle was to be at the helm in Stargate Universe, my first thought was ooh! Begbie in space! We’re five episodes in and loving it on Blu Ray.

Watching is really making me regret that some clueless network bastards canned Defying Gravity though. Anyone else catch that before it got axed? It would have been six months ago we saw it and I’m still fretting about what happened to Zoe Barnes on Venus after she retrieved the Orb…

Dontcha love it when you spend your time fretting about people who aren’t even real!

02 Aug 2010, Posted by Cat in News, 4 Comments Tagged tv, writing

meh

Wrote 2,000 words today.
Not sure I’m happy with them
Ah well. Better out than in, as they say.

also… The Professionals, Season 2… TOTALLY GAY

29 Jul 2010, Posted by Cat in News, 6 Comments Tagged tv

bad signal

 Rob and I take television very seriously but we almost never watch it live to air. There are several reasons for this but last night reaffirmed them all with concrete gusto. We attempted to watch an hour of the new Simpsons episodes on a commercial television channel. Every five minutes or so a bunch of shitty dancing graphics exploded in our faces, yelling crap and treating us like stupid children. Advertisements! Horrid little critters, lethal, loud and totally in our fucking faces. The same ones repeated over and over and over until I could feel the bilge valve of my IQ giving way and the dregs of my intelligence sluicing down the back of my neck. How do people stand this kind of violent assault on a regular basis? How does it not make you stupid and sap your will to live? 

We then switched to SBS to attempt some supernatural documentary thing featuring Tony Robinson, but even that was choked with adds so we gave up the ghost and slammed a True Blood season 2 deev into the machine just so we could clear our heads.

Live television anywhere but on the ABC sucks. Not going back there again.

26 Jul 2010, Posted by Cat in News, 18 Comments Tagged addictions, tv

addict

I don’t get sick often, but over the years I’ve discovered that when I do, I quite often end up with an embarrassing addiction to something. No, I’m not talking about Codral tablets or peach flavoured decongestant syrup, I mean ancient bad-arse television shows that were dated even before they left the decade they were made in. Last time round it was classic Trek. This time I ended up mainlining The Professionals, a show so utterly anachronistic and mysogenist that you could probably run the dialogue as a stand up routine at the Melbourne Comedy Festival and bring the house down. We bought season one a few years back, watched an episode or two, then abandoned the box on the shelf where it belonged. One day last week, after a solid eight hour binge beginning with quality historical documentaries and traveling through Next Gen, I eyed off that old boxed season one with caution, then slammed it in the deev thinking, as we always do, that it’s OK, I can stop any time. Come last night and I’m shivering in my trenchcoat barefoot, hanging round the back of EzyDVD in that small gap between the men’s urinals and the dumpsters, forty dollars rolled up in my fist, pounding on a paint flecked door mumbling ‘Dave says you got season two’ through the rusty letter slit. Those fucking dealers always keep you waiting…