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ER

Just realised there are only 3 episodes of ER left. Ever. This week. Next week and the week after. Waaaaaaaa.

Oscars picnic

After thinking they weren’t going to, we discovered that Sky had a re-run of the Oscars so we could go ahead with the planned Oscars picnic of left-overs and new things made from left-over ingredients from the birthday dinner last night. Bit of a hotch potch and all entirely made up – a great picnic.

We saw the last hour of the Oscars – it’s like it’s gone all PC or something – having little speeches made to all the nominees in the best actor and actress categories. It’s not that they don’t deserve it but have they changed the format because there’ve been bad losers? Or did they have to put something in place so that Kate Winslet got some specific acknowledgment in case she didn’t finally get an Oscar? The Mister was puffing and moaning that it was all a love fest … perhaps that was our last Oscars picnic.

Marley & Me

If there’s an outside chance you’re a crybaby, don’t go to this movie. Like you’re quite manly but admit to feeling a bit teary at the end of Return of the King. Even if you’re not a dog person, don’t go. It’s great we go to a movie every Sunday but sometimes, because of scheduling we have to go to ones we might normally give a wide berth.

Yabber yabber studio cat yabber yabber

I don’t speak German but find this video from YouTube adorable – a puss cat wandered onto the set of a local TV station’s weather segment last week and the weather presenter didn’t miss a beat and just picked the cat up and carried on with the weather.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFyDJytTZyg

At one stage the cat (Lupin) actually points to the weather map as well. Am sending the link to Basel Lisa to see if she can pick out what the guy is saying about the cat – he definitely says ‘studio cat’ when he picks him up and from what I can tell refers to the cat again at the end.

Update: turns out my Orange Friend in Chicago has a husband who knows German! The weather guy says “And also our studio cat has just wandered in without permission” and picks him up then straight on with the weather. Towards the end he says something about it being cold and wintry and that he hopes that all the cats have thick fur to get through the night.

Movie hunks

V. V. exciting – hot off the Mister press is a poster of the next Transporter (3) movie which is being released in the States while we are there!!!!! So that’s going on the list alongside the next James Bond film Quantum of Solace which will also be newly released when we’re there.

Check out these lovely boys …

 

How coffee is made

Saw an interesting half hour fact-show tonight (don’t watch many of those) about coffee – where it comes from, it’s effects on us, how much our nation consumes etc. Picked up a couple of snippets that I actually thought I knew, but really I just assumed I did, because it turns out I really had no idea.

  • Coffee roasted in New Zealand – green beans, big oven. That’s it. No additives or flavouring. Just roast it until it “looks the right colour. About 17 minutes.” According to Atomic in Auckland. So how do different companies get such different tasting coffee then? Is it down to blending and length of roast? And that that’s why we can have so many coffee companies here claiming to roast their own beans?
  • Caffiene – it’s not a drug. It’s a pesticide!! A naturally occurring pesticide that the plant forms to keep away nasty bugs. Well I never. I’m drinking a spray.
  • Instant coffee – god knows what I actually thought this was made of but it turns out that it’s beginnings are exactly the same as locally roasted coffee. Just a blend of the same type of beans and a big oven. To get the instantness they soak the roasted beans in water (kind of like really crude plunger coffee I suppose) drain of the brown liquid, dry it, and smash it up into powder or the more sophisticated granules. Errr, not that I’m going to start drinking it.

Nothing alarming in the report to change my coffee habits.

Oh, the programme was What’s really in our food on 3.

Orange telly

Must find room for this AWESOME little Italian thing! (Brionvega) … and a spare $4000.00!


P.S. I Love You

P.S. don’t go to this movie if you’re a crybaby. God what a shocker. I held it together until I got home but then howled like when the cat died. There were people snivvling all through the theatre but when you go to a film about a young widow who receives letters from her dead husband to help her get back on with her life you’ve got to expect it I guess.

Following the Oscars

Had I known more than a couple of the films and folks in films being nominated this year I might’ve arranged to be near a telly this afternoon to see the frocks and speeches. However we’re making do with a taped version (that old video technology still comes in handy sometimes) which we’ll probably FF>> through tonight – really only taped it for Jon Stewart’s opening speech and funny bits between awards.


However, today when I was on stuff.co.nz just making sure I hadn’t glossed over some major nomination that I would’ve been gutted to miss the award for I found a blog called ‘Reeling‘ by the chief film reviewer for The Press.


Have to say I’m loving her running commentary on all the goings on from awards to dresses to hair do’s to who’s getting played off and who’s not, pics and wit – thanks!!

And MORE star spotting

Was out on the town last night (wahoo!) and went to the big seats at Reading (*gaaad* that’s got expensive – $31.50 per seat! A far cry from when they first started out and you could get a seat for $17! Lucky we had vouchers). The group in front of us getting tickets included Michelle Rodriguez! She looked a lot smaller than I thought she was but it was definitely her American voice.

I know her best from The Fast and the Furious but have also seen her in S.W.A.T. and various episodes of Lost.

She’s here for the same film as Sigourney WeaverAvatar.