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Watch: Star Trek, Ivanhoe to the power of 3, John Simm in Crime and Punishment
Read: The Year of the Flood – Margaret Atwood
Listen: “In every dream home a heartache” Roxy Music, The Virgins, Glasnost
October 2009
Watching: Mongol, Frost/Nixon, The Devil’s Whore, America’s Next Top Model, Outrageous Fortune, The Riches
Reading: Logicomix, The Model as Muse, Curiosities of Literature by John Sutherland, LA Candy by Lauren Conrad, Stalin’s Nemesis: The Exile and Murder of Leon Trotsky
Listening: Dizzee Rascal, Kittens Ablaze
August/September
Watching: More than this (Roxy Music doco), America’s Next Top Model, Outrageous Fortune, Who do you think you are?
Reading: The Angel’s Cut by Elizabeth Knox
Listening: Calvin Harris, Roxy Music
June/July 2009
Watching: Wuthering Heights, Let the right one in, Outrageous fortune, Satisfaction, Gok’s Fashion Fix, Tabatha’s Salon makeover
Listening: Dan Black, Blitzen Trapper, White Lies, Teddy Thompson, Dizzee Rascal/Bonkers, N.A.S.A., Depeche Mode
Reading: Gothic: Dark Glamour by Valerie Steele and Jennifer Park
Paint a vulgar picture: fiction inspired by The Smiths
Bad vibes : Britpop and my part in its downfall by Luke Haines
Wetlands by Charlotte Roche
Desperate Romantics: the private lives of the Pre-Raphaelites by Franny Moyle
April/May 2009
Watching: Thunderstruck, Satisfaction, Gok’s Fashion Fix, Tropic Thunder, Battlestar Galactica, Live forever (Britpop doco), Lord of War, final season of The Wire, New Zealand’s next top model, Underbelly: Mr Asia
Listening: Pale Young Gentlemen, Junior Boys, Doves “Kingdom of rust”, Blitzen Trapper, Bat for Lashes
Reading: The Clash
The Suspicions of Mr Whicher: or The Murder at Road Hill House by Kate Summerscale
Greed by Richard Hall – about Mr Asia
Vlad the last confession by C C Humphreys
March 2009
Watching: Final season of The Wire, Young at heart, New Zealand’s next top model, Sex and the city movie, Rise (vampires), I spit on your grave, Joy Division, Underbelly: The Mr Asia story
Listening: Doves “Kingdom of rust”, The Indelicates, Blitzen Trapper, La Roux, Morrissey, Lily Allen, Bat for Lashes, Aphex Twin, Handsome Furs, Little Boots, Blitzen Trapper
Reading: Remix by Lawrence Lessig
The Queens and the hive by Edith Sitwell
Sunday Times Style
February 2009
Watching: Starter for 10, Robot Chicken 3, Made in Sheffield: the birth of electronic pop, The Kovak Box, The Duchess, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Metalocalypse 2, St Trinians, Miss Pettigrew lives for a day, Paranoid Park, Preacher, Sylvia
Listening: Fever Ray, N.A.S.A., White Lies, Patrick Wolf, Sam Sparro
Reading: Angel Uncovered by Jordan
Firmin by Sam Savage
Preacher by Garth Ennis
The Tomorrow Code by Brian Falkner
English eccentric interiors by Miranda Harrison
January 2009
Watching: The Holy Mountain, Angel, True Blood, Mystery Men, Juno, Happy go lucky
Listening: Handsome Furs, Dead can dance, Zero 7, Sam Sparro, British Sea Power, Girls Aloud, Animal Collective, Art Rush, Hot Pink Delorean, The Auteurs, The Cars
Reading: Native Wit by Hamish Keith
Snuff by Chuck Palahnuik
Cretaceous Dawn by L.M. Graziano and M.S.A. Graziano
Homicide by David Simon
Top 10 49ers by Alan Moore and Gene Han
Testimony by Anita Shreve
In search of the English Eccentric by Henry Hemming
December 2008
watching: The X Files movie, Teeth, La Bete, Joe Strummer: The future is unwritten, Infernal Affairs 3, Clerks, Farscape, I am a sex addict, The Mist, The White Countess, Entourage season 4, Cloverfield, .Rec, Doomsday
listening: Empire of the sun, White Lies, Frankmusik, The Knife, Friendly Fires, Boy Crisis, Emmy the Great, TV on the Radio, Passion Pit, La Roux
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- La Vie en rose, The Dark Knight, Inside Deep throat, Outrageous fortune, Aachi and Ssipak, Blades of Glory, Little Miss Sunshine, The Notorious Bettie Page, Black snake moan, Underbelly, Scars on me eyes, Tudors, Top Gear, The Outlaw Josey Wales, Top Model, Project Runway
- Arcade Fire, Fairport Convention, Beck, Joan as Police woman, Girl Talk, Patrick Wolf, Janis Joplin, Muse, The Eels, The Beatles, Palmsout, Brendan Benson, Tom McRae, Nick Cave, Santogold, The Fratellis, Blossom Dearie, Bloody Beetroots, N*E*R*D
- Lullabies for little criminals by Heather O’Neill
- Renegade by Mark E. Smith
- Perfumes: the guide – Luca Turin and Tania Sanchez
- Lanvin
- Rogue Economics – Loretta Napoleoni
- Company of Liars – Karen Maitland
- The secret life of the love song – Nick Cave
- Journal of Dora Damage – Belinda Starling
- Watchmen
- The Other Queen – Philippa Gregory
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- Robot Chicken, Jeeves and Wooster series 2, So you think you can dance Australia, Rome, The Big Lebowski, Elephant, Sunshine
- Fedde Le Grand, Rumours – Fleetwood Mac, Ministry of Sound 2008, Tom Paxton, Hard Fi
- Guy Bourdin, Marie Helvin autobiography, Dandy in the Underworld, True Romance allegorien, Anglomania
- Lost Girls by Alan Moore
- Antony and Cleopatra – Colleen McCullough
- Kicking against the pricks bout Nick Cave
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April 2007
- Flickr toys
- Gods and Pawns – Kage Baker
- Arrested Development
- Caught by the HOT FUZZ
- Music via Idolator
March 2007
- Shall we take a trip – Northside – A classic vinyl discovery starring the poptastic Ian Broudie “The Lightning Seeds”
- Monsieur Gainsbourg revisited – sexy English cover versions of Serge’s finest by singers like Jarvis Cocker
- Carnivale – Season 2 sinks further into the damn dark
- Heroes – Hiro is the cutest hero
- Kenny – heroic, epic, romantic, toiletic
- Q & Empire & Vogue – music movie fash mag hag
- Renfield Slave of Dracula by Barbara Hambly (novel) & Vampire Loves by Joann Sfar (graphic novel) – about to give it a vampiry whirl
February 2007
- Hipster Cards
- 80s videos
- Netquizzes
- Invisibles movie quiz
- itunes
- Carnivale
- Sar in Chch
- Spare Room
- Fabby food – The Bodhi Tree (Burmese)in Colombo St is up there with Indochine. Tongue Bliss.
- Simos (Moroccan) in Cashel St also had lots of tantalising flavours and lovely ambience
January 2007
- Elegance by Kathleen Tessaro – superior chicklit
- New tv show Heroes – very cartoony&crazy
- Doctors Who – Eccleston and Tennant
- Kuler – colour tool
- Shoes @ Amazon
- Eifelheim by Michael Flynn
- Headband mania @ Equip, Portmans etc
- Sodastream
December 2006
- The Cars – Candy o
- Richard Cheese “The Sunny Side of the Moon”
- Coriander
- Active gym gear at The Warehouse
- DJ gear at The Warehouse
November 2006
- Fritz the cat
- Artem Chigvinsev, hot Russian dancer from “So you think you can dance”. my o my
- Deadwood, cocksuckers!
- Fireworks
- Curb your enthusiasm season 5 – Larry is still DA MAN. OH YAY!!!
- Hanmer – oh yes please
October 2006
- Howl’s Moving Castle
- Entourage
- The Boleyn Inheritance by Philippa Gregory
- The Aristocrats
- SMH/The Age Blogs esp “All men are liars”
- Top Model and So you think you can dance
September 2006
- Seinfeld, Little Britain, etc
- 1610 by Mary Gentle
- Benvenuto Primavera
August 2006
- Extras ‘Get ’round here ’cause I’m fudding myself stupid and I’m bloody loving it.’
- Pandaemonium – with Wordsworth as a right git and Coleridge as a prophet
- Vinyl vinyl
July 2006
- Twisted Hop & quizzes
- Rome – toga-ripping fun “Assume the position”
- 3 Blythes in one week
June 2006
- Dangermouse
- King Arthur’s Disasters
- Tipsy toppings from Prenzel
- Exercise your creative impulses with:
- Snow and Hibernation
- Eau Dynamisante
- New bed and new pc
- Blake’s Seven series 2
May 2006
- SS’s cooking
- Le Bon Bolli
- Nissan Figaro
- Chocolate crackles
- Plethora of parcels from Japan
April 2006
- Kees Bruin at Art Gallery
- Bloomsberry & co chocolate
- Knitting for psychos
- V for Vendetta
- crepes at Crepe Cafe at the Palms in Shirley
- House party chez Greer, live music, harmonising etc
March 2006
- “The Cell” by Stephen King, cellphones launch “Dawn of Dead” type civilisation breakdown
- “Wolf Creek” – scared me sh**less. Eeek
- “The Life Pursuit” – Belle and Sebastian
- The Rasterbator
- Nick Cave mon amour
february 2006
- Coming Home
- Madame Pompadour at Queen Vic Market
- Latest Kage Baker novel “Children of the Company”
- Koko Black hot chocolate in Lygon Street
- Melbourne
- Belgian Beer Cafe: beer, mussels and fries mmm
- Dance class at Les Mills – harder, faster, fitter, stronger. Keep it coming and dance till you can’t dance no more
january 2006
- Leverage
- The mixture of beautiful and freaky plantlife in Hagley Park and the little planthouses
- Glassons idea – cut feet off your fishnets and make footless tights
- Asian horrors – check out “The Eye” etc = fear and crying in Christchurch
- Curb your enthusiasm
- Bookwhores
- On a foodie tip:
- Roast beef and horseradish sauce sandwich at Carnivores
- Vietnamese spring rolls at the Asian food court
- Black bean vege burritos at the Burrito Company in Armagh Street
- The mint lemonade and the eggplant tempure at Maido in New Regent StreetGreek pizza at Winnie Bagoes
- A crack in the edge of the world : America and the great California earthquake of 1906 by Simon Winchester
2005
december 2005
Blake’s Seven at Alices
Family Guy is back
Seinfeld, esp George, aka Biff
Project Runway, esp Austen Scarlett
november 2005
Shooting a pink uzi at “Time out”
The Boobilicious range from Kayser
The return of the evil Jeremy Wells on “Eating Media Lunch”
The beach at Sumner
Turn yourself into a South Park character
Sorry Ralph and Kimi et al, but Antonio is le man du jour
Wardrobe culling
The sun
Hagley Park
october
Blythe doll – List of all Blythes released
Kimi winning at Suzuka
Shaun of the Dead
Day of the Triffids
FAMILY GUY on TV – Saturdays at 8.00
cheap and cute hair thingies from Casino 711
september
My sweet casa
Partying in red dress
Nik in NZ Idol – he looks like a young Shayne Carter, and loving that falsetto
august
Jasper Fforde – The Big Over Easy
Furniture shopping
Big Brother games
Alfonso Gomez
John Safran
“The Borgia Bride”
Hell Pizza
Narnia
july
Bryan Ferry at Live 8
june
and a Twizel one too Emma!
Team America World Police
Uchenna and Joyce winning “The Amazing Race”
Making mixtapes … Bah to iPOD
may
Family Guy Season 3
Formula One and especially the huge cojones of my man Kimi
The Polysyllabic Spree by Nick Hornby … a book about books
“America’s next top model”
“Dancing with the Stars”
april
Jeeves and Wooster
Dinah Washington
Mary, Queen of Scots
Christopher Eccleston
eggplant
