Up every evening, 'bout half-eight or nine, gonna pay attention to a very good friend of mine.
As I explained to paxgermanica last night (between reciting The Moon's words of wisdom, discussing the return episode of Spicks and Specks and going OMG!KADE), I feel cheated. While searching through youtube for Boosh-related videos, I happened upon a two scenes (one from Tundra and another from Hitcher) that were most certainly not played in the versions broadcast within Australia. I have those episodes on video and have watched them a score of times, and the Tundra rap scene and the Hitcher's song (both featured in the radio series) were obviously edited out by SBS for no apparent reason. These are not the only scenes to have been dropped, nosir. Hitcher was cut back in two other places, in the middle of scenes: after Vince offers his 'travel sweets' to Howard, he proceeds to emulate the manner in which turtles eat - a brilliant moment CUT; when Howard is playing his jazz-funk tape and Ivan (the hairy, Russian, carpet guy) gets restless, so Vince replaces it with Gary Numan's 'Cars', and all three partake in a mini dance routine. Basically, I feel awfully cheated by SBS for withholding from the residents of Australia for so long several instinces of comedic brilliance. Not to mention the entire second series. Shame on you, SBS. I'm going to write a heated letter of complaint. But thank you youtube for allowing me to finally witness Bob Fossil's I Don't Like Cricket dance. Oh, the love.
There is a hairy workman in my house, messing about in the kitchen, resealing counter tops and upsetting my domestic equilibrium. He's also taken the flyscreens from all the windows, and I'm getting tetchy. Moreover, while he's here and Riley is out, I can't go into the city to purchase a number of cosmetic supplies that I need. I'm going to break down.
Yesterday I (finally) saw Tim Burton's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, which was surprisingly good. Personally, I thought Big Fish was ever so disappointed, and hadn't held Burton in as great esteem as I once had. But this effort was certainly impressive, visually. The children annoyed me (granted, they were meant to, but they didn't annoy me for the right reasons), but Johnny Depp certainly compensated (his performance, at times, was strangely reminiscent of Jack from Will and Grace, which I secretly enjoyed). With the added bonuses of Danny Elfman's score and OMG SQUIRRELS, it was worth the viewing.
For those of you who missed them, here are the second and third episodes of Garth Marenghi's Darkplace. The later features an eye-child.
No further elaboration is required.
Next week is the Apes of Wrath episode, with a guest appearance from the delectable Noel Fielding. Playing an ape. OMG.
There is a hairy workman in my house, messing about in the kitchen, resealing counter tops and upsetting my domestic equilibrium. He's also taken the flyscreens from all the windows, and I'm getting tetchy. Moreover, while he's here and Riley is out, I can't go into the city to purchase a number of cosmetic supplies that I need. I'm going to break down.
Yesterday I (finally) saw Tim Burton's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, which was surprisingly good. Personally, I thought Big Fish was ever so disappointed, and hadn't held Burton in as great esteem as I once had. But this effort was certainly impressive, visually. The children annoyed me (granted, they were meant to, but they didn't annoy me for the right reasons), but Johnny Depp certainly compensated (his performance, at times, was strangely reminiscent of Jack from Will and Grace, which I secretly enjoyed). With the added bonuses of Danny Elfman's score and OMG SQUIRRELS, it was worth the viewing.
For those of you who missed them, here are the second and third episodes of Garth Marenghi's Darkplace. The later features an eye-child.
No further elaboration is required.
Next week is the Apes of Wrath episode, with a guest appearance from the delectable Noel Fielding. Playing an ape. OMG.