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Dannii Minogue and Andrew O'Keefe, acoustic version of You Won't Forget About Me in front of Casino Canberra!
Selections for your viewing pleasure
The ultimate in lazy blogging - picking a whole bunch of video clips for you to watch....
BEWILDERED LOOKING PRETTY FRENCH BOY WHO IS PROBABLY A BIT TOO SKINNY (YES, I KNOW HE ISN'T WELL)
Dramatic production but what annoys me about this is that you hardly see his feet. It's just WEIRD.
THIS GIRL SHOULD HAVE MADE IT THROUGH - WHAT A PROFESSIONAL - PLUS HER SONG "ONE PERFECT DAY" IS GREAT
THIS GIRL IS BLOODY AWFUL - WHAT'S THE FUSS?
She sounds like a hideous lazy mutant of Missy Higgins and Kasey Chambers. Just hideous.
BEWILDERED LOOKING PRETTY FRENCH BOY WHO IS PROBABLY A BIT TOO SKINNY (YES, I KNOW HE ISN'T WELL)
Dramatic production but what annoys me about this is that you hardly see his feet. It's just WEIRD.
THIS GIRL SHOULD HAVE MADE IT THROUGH - WHAT A PROFESSIONAL - PLUS HER SONG "ONE PERFECT DAY" IS GREAT
THIS GIRL IS BLOODY AWFUL - WHAT'S THE FUSS?
She sounds like a hideous lazy mutant of Missy Higgins and Kasey Chambers. Just hideous.
Sydney-Canberra trip
What's good:
- Great snack on the Dash-8 - King Island Camembert, Sundried tomato dip, biscuits, red wine and water.
- Getting there fast.
- Awesome Italian bistro in Surry Hills: cheap, amazing, homely food. Can't remember the name of it.
- Bills Woolhara for breakfast. Yummy scrambled eggs.
- Horrible snack on the jet - pretzels and rice crackers. Ugh.
- Planes with not one single person on it who you find sexy.
- Idiot travellers with huge cabin baggage meaning it takes ages to get on the plane.
- Funny smelling taxi drivers.
- Rain.
Mile High: in the air and up the mountain
On the coldest Canberra night in two years, the amazing UK drama/comedy Mile High returned to Australia's screens. What a pleasure.
Thank you Channel Seven for bringing this little touch of the wonderful FRESH lifestyle to us over this cold period. But why so late at night? This should be prime time viewing.
Meanwhile the ski resorts are finally open. Hurry up and open up Blue Cow and Guthega dear Perisher and I will be up there in a flash.
Thank you Channel Seven for bringing this little touch of the wonderful FRESH lifestyle to us over this cold period. But why so late at night? This should be prime time viewing.
Meanwhile the ski resorts are finally open. Hurry up and open up Blue Cow and Guthega dear Perisher and I will be up there in a flash.
What's hot and what's not in Canberra food and drink
What's HOT
Deek's Bakery. Awesome grain-free, tasty, high protein breads, fresh pasta, lovely warm wooden feel, young multicultural looking, professional staff and all blessed by Robert deCastella.
Sabayon. Third in the Aubergine and Courgette restaurant trilogy, it offers beautiful food, beautiful (spunky staff) service, beautiful white tablecloths at value prices. Best place for guaranteed great experience in Civic.
Happys. Best after a few drinks on a Friday night and a little banquet with people you don't really know. Try not to start a food fight.
Jim Murphy's Market Cellars. Jim Murphy on the ad seems as though he's enjoyed quite a bit of his own wares. Great prices and spunky, genuinely friendly and helpful staff.
Gus'. Awesome soup, great on a winter's night, spunky, flirtatious staff.
What's NOT
Figaro. We had horrible food and horrible service there last year. Now the fact that it is awful has been picked up on by the fabulous Wendy Johnson of CityNews magazine. Word is spreading.
Canberra Centre Food Court. So sick of it. Lower the prices and up the choice please.
Ardeche. I felt sick after eating here. Icky. And it aint French.
Belgian Beer Cafe. Overpriced food and standoffish service.
MeccaBah. Nowhere near as much fun in the winter as the summer, the staff are a bit too friendly and the food is overpriced.
Basa fish. Anywhere. It's from the Mekong River and tastes like mud. And it's the only sort of fish you can get at most takeaway shops in Canberra. Disgusting.
Deek's Bakery. Awesome grain-free, tasty, high protein breads, fresh pasta, lovely warm wooden feel, young multicultural looking, professional staff and all blessed by Robert deCastella.
Sabayon. Third in the Aubergine and Courgette restaurant trilogy, it offers beautiful food, beautiful (spunky staff) service, beautiful white tablecloths at value prices. Best place for guaranteed great experience in Civic.
Happys. Best after a few drinks on a Friday night and a little banquet with people you don't really know. Try not to start a food fight.
Jim Murphy's Market Cellars. Jim Murphy on the ad seems as though he's enjoyed quite a bit of his own wares. Great prices and spunky, genuinely friendly and helpful staff.
Gus'. Awesome soup, great on a winter's night, spunky, flirtatious staff.
What's NOT
Figaro. We had horrible food and horrible service there last year. Now the fact that it is awful has been picked up on by the fabulous Wendy Johnson of CityNews magazine. Word is spreading.
Canberra Centre Food Court. So sick of it. Lower the prices and up the choice please.
Ardeche. I felt sick after eating here. Icky. And it aint French.
Belgian Beer Cafe. Overpriced food and standoffish service.
MeccaBah. Nowhere near as much fun in the winter as the summer, the staff are a bit too friendly and the food is overpriced.
Basa fish. Anywhere. It's from the Mekong River and tastes like mud. And it's the only sort of fish you can get at most takeaway shops in Canberra. Disgusting.
Why don't pool parties like THIS happen in Canberra?
Well, probably because:
- Canberra isn't exactly the Cote d'Azur
- There aren't that many hot Swedes in Canberra
- Canberrans don't listen to quality pop music like this (except PopGoesCanberra)
Here's a call for any Canberrans who have a pool like this and who love Da Buzz, do you wanna make tonight the night?
Rant rant rant: vintage cars and the Top 50
First of all, vintage cars SUCK. Yes they really do. I was trying to get home from the south coast yesterday in a decent amount of time, no intention of speeding, just a safe speed slightly under the limit to save petrol. There was this really annoying non-descript truck (with a concealed number plate I might add) that went at a decent speed on a straight flat bits, then crawled up hills. There were about twenty cars behind it, mine being one of them. So, to replicate the success of a short-cut I had taken coming down on Thursday, I zipped off through a side-street in Braidwood.
BAD MOVE!
Worse short-cut ever!
I, along with several others who decided to follow, got stuck behind a horse and carriage! Hello! Why the HELL would you go on a horse and carriage in BRAIDWOOD???? Why? We have cars! It'll spoil the experience for you when you really want to go on a horse and carriage in Vienna (home of Inspector Rex), Salzburg, or somewhere equally romantic and Austrian, when you are pining for some clop clop on
cobblestones.
To make it worse, being stuck behind the horse and carriage gave time for a whole FLEET of VINTAGE CARS to pull out onto the single-lane highway between Braidwood and Canberra. What is WRONG with these people? These cars are DANGEROUS. Go and drive on your own roads!!! What if I was trying to ge to the airport on time? What if I had a woman in labour in my car? You get in the way and people are already driving like nutcases on Easter Sunday and here you are, getting in the way in your little "hobbies." You might say I like vintage cars, you like Swedish pop music, each to their own. Well no, it doesn't work like that, because your hobby annoys thousands of other road users. Mine doesn't, I have the windows shut, thank you very much.
Now for the Top 50. I've decided to class the current ARIA singles chart into "Shit", "Not quite as shit" and "Not really very shit at all" categories. Just for fun.
SHIT
FOREVER YOUNG Youth Group
LOVE GENERATION Bob Sinclar (derivative shit)
SO SICK Ne-Yo
PUMP IT Black Eyed Peas
GRILLZ Nelly featuring Paul Wall, Ali & Gipp
ALL I HEAR Kate Alexa (you're not very good you Australian girl)
GOODBYE MY LOVER James Blunt (ultimate in shit)
NASTY GIRL Notorious B.I.G.
THUNDER IN MY HEART AGAIN Meck Feat. Leo Sayer
GASOLINA Daddy Yankee
ANYTHING FOR YOU Lee Harding (my WORD you are unattractive)
LIKE YOU Bow Wow
JUST FEEL BETTER Santana (just unbelievably hideous)
THEY DON'T KNOW Savage
BIG CITY LIFE Mattafix
RUN IT! Chris Brown (you are too young to "run it", whatever that involves)
IF IT'S LOVIN' THAT YOU WANT Rihanna
OPPORTUNITY Pete Murray (Jamie Durie wannabe)
WASABI Lee Harding (my word you are ugly, what is wrong with you little girls?)
GET YOUR NUMBER Mariah Carey
WHEN I'M GONE Eminem
FAR AWAY Nickelback
PUT YOUR RECORDS ON Corinne Bailey Rae (just because the papers say you are good doesn't mean you are)
IS IT JUST ME? The Darkness
WAKE UP The Living End
SUNSHINE OF YOUR LOVE Cream Vs The Hoxtons
THE RIVER Live
ONE CROWDED HOUR Augie March (Augie. Imagine being called Augie.)
THERE IT GO (THE WHISTLE SONG) Juelz Santana
CONFESSIONS OF A BROKEN HEART (DAUGHTER TO FATHER) Lindsay Lohan
DON'T LISTEN TO THE RADIO The Vines
GET UP OUTTA THE DIRT Butterfingers
REAL SOON Snoop Dogg
I'M SPRUNG T-Pain
NOT QUITE AS SHIT
FLAUNT IT TV Rock (no comment)
BEEP The Pussycat Dolls Feat. Will.I.Am (I want to hear what's behind the beeps please!)
YOU RAISE ME UP Westlife (well at least it's pop)
STUPID GIRLS P!nk (not really very good, really)
TOUCH THE SKY Kanye West Feat. Lupe Fiasco (interesting)
L.O.V.E. Ashlee Simpson (no comment)
WALK AWAY Kelly Clarkson (too many good looking people in video clip, I don't agree)
LIFT Shannon Noll (much better after being made The Biggest Loser theme)
NOT REALLY VERY SHIT AT ALL
TOGETHER WE ARE ONE Delta Goodrem (heart-warming!)
WHEN IT ALL FALLS APART The Veronicas (is this Swedish written like the first two singles?)
FADED Kate DeAraugo (Kelly Clarkson-esque as Kate proclaims herself!)
WATCHING YOU Rogue Traders (I loved seeing Natalie on Thank God You're Here, she was so pretty)
SORRY Madonna (oh yes we know you're good)
NEVER SAY NEVER Vandalism (surprisingly saucy)
UGLY Sugababes
HUNG UP Madonna
BAD MOVE!
Worse short-cut ever!
I, along with several others who decided to follow, got stuck behind a horse and carriage! Hello! Why the HELL would you go on a horse and carriage in BRAIDWOOD???? Why? We have cars! It'll spoil the experience for you when you really want to go on a horse and carriage in Vienna (home of Inspector Rex), Salzburg, or somewhere equally romantic and Austrian, when you are pining for some clop clop on
cobblestones.To make it worse, being stuck behind the horse and carriage gave time for a whole FLEET of VINTAGE CARS to pull out onto the single-lane highway between Braidwood and Canberra. What is WRONG with these people? These cars are DANGEROUS. Go and drive on your own roads!!! What if I was trying to ge to the airport on time? What if I had a woman in labour in my car? You get in the way and people are already driving like nutcases on Easter Sunday and here you are, getting in the way in your little "hobbies." You might say I like vintage cars, you like Swedish pop music, each to their own. Well no, it doesn't work like that, because your hobby annoys thousands of other road users. Mine doesn't, I have the windows shut, thank you very much.
Now for the Top 50. I've decided to class the current ARIA singles chart into "Shit", "Not quite as shit" and "Not really very shit at all" categories. Just for fun.
SHIT
FOREVER YOUNG Youth Group
LOVE GENERATION Bob Sinclar (derivative shit)
SO SICK Ne-Yo
PUMP IT Black Eyed Peas
GRILLZ Nelly featuring Paul Wall, Ali & Gipp
ALL I HEAR Kate Alexa (you're not very good you Australian girl)
GOODBYE MY LOVER James Blunt (ultimate in shit)
NASTY GIRL Notorious B.I.G.
THUNDER IN MY HEART AGAIN Meck Feat. Leo Sayer
GASOLINA Daddy Yankee
ANYTHING FOR YOU Lee Harding (my WORD you are unattractive)
LIKE YOU Bow Wow
JUST FEEL BETTER Santana (just unbelievably hideous)
THEY DON'T KNOW Savage
BIG CITY LIFE Mattafix
RUN IT! Chris Brown (you are too young to "run it", whatever that involves)
IF IT'S LOVIN' THAT YOU WANT Rihanna
OPPORTUNITY Pete Murray (Jamie Durie wannabe)
WASABI Lee Harding (my word you are ugly, what is wrong with you little girls?)
GET YOUR NUMBER Mariah Carey
WHEN I'M GONE Eminem
FAR AWAY Nickelback
PUT YOUR RECORDS ON Corinne Bailey Rae (just because the papers say you are good doesn't mean you are)
IS IT JUST ME? The Darkness
WAKE UP The Living End
SUNSHINE OF YOUR LOVE Cream Vs The Hoxtons
THE RIVER Live
ONE CROWDED HOUR Augie March (Augie. Imagine being called Augie.)
THERE IT GO (THE WHISTLE SONG) Juelz Santana
CONFESSIONS OF A BROKEN HEART (DAUGHTER TO FATHER) Lindsay Lohan
DON'T LISTEN TO THE RADIO The Vines
GET UP OUTTA THE DIRT Butterfingers
REAL SOON Snoop Dogg
I'M SPRUNG T-Pain
NOT QUITE AS SHIT
FLAUNT IT TV Rock (no comment)
BEEP The Pussycat Dolls Feat. Will.I.Am (I want to hear what's behind the beeps please!)
YOU RAISE ME UP Westlife (well at least it's pop)
STUPID GIRLS P!nk (not really very good, really)
TOUCH THE SKY Kanye West Feat. Lupe Fiasco (interesting)
L.O.V.E. Ashlee Simpson (no comment)
WALK AWAY Kelly Clarkson (too many good looking people in video clip, I don't agree)
LIFT Shannon Noll (much better after being made The Biggest Loser theme)
NOT REALLY VERY SHIT AT ALL
TOGETHER WE ARE ONE Delta Goodrem (heart-warming!)
WHEN IT ALL FALLS APART The Veronicas (is this Swedish written like the first two singles?)
FADED Kate DeAraugo (Kelly Clarkson-esque as Kate proclaims herself!)
WATCHING YOU Rogue Traders (I loved seeing Natalie on Thank God You're Here, she was so pretty)
SORRY Madonna (oh yes we know you're good)
NEVER SAY NEVER Vandalism (surprisingly saucy)
UGLY Sugababes
HUNG UP Madonna
I *heart* Kim Watkins: superstar
David Reyne and Kim Watkins along with their team of experts provide topical information, conversation and practical tools to get viewers through the day with warmth and humour. 9AM with David & Kim is "all about you".
It is indeed all about me! Me me me! I love David and Kim. Particularly Kim. She's such a champion. She's a race car driver you know, she came 3rd in the celebrity challenge at the Grand Prix this year. I love the way she puts her arm over the back of the couch. And she tossles and jossles with Dave and then smiles heartily, at the camera, saying to me "oh isn't he silly". Love it. Nothing better than getting in to work late and watching David and Kim bantering. Good on you guys for giving it a good go!
What's Hot or Not Autumn 2006
This is in no particular order...
WHAT'S HOT
1. Punch
Preferably weak and then getting stronger as the night goes on...add some champagne...vodka...tequila...absinthe...jungle juice...and you end up wonderfully sloshed amongst fine company at a wonderful Canberra house party.
2. The back page of The Sydney Morning Herald
It's so darn funny. I spend all day...well 20 minutes anyway reading "Stay in Touch", "Heckler" and "Column 8".
3. Delta Goodrem Together we are one
Thank goodness they've woken up to themselves and are releasing this as a single. I got goosebumps while watching her at the Commonwealth Games. Come back to our shores if the Americans don't want you you silly tart.
4. Infernal coming to Australia
Oh how exciting is this! Very! I want to see sexy blonde chick and hot Danish guy LIVE please. My prayers have been answered. April 21 in Sydney.
5. Sex
It's not bad is it.
6. Today Tonight
Did I just say that? There are now more bogans on Neighbours than TT now. Today Tonight is roaring through the ratings and good on 'em. They do trash so WELL. It's worth watching just for Naomi Robson's little remarks.
7. The Biggest Loser
More trash done well. And it's Australian too! Go you good things. Especially Kristie...she's pretty!
8. Survivor - Panama
I hate Survivor. But wait...we found ourselves watching it tonight. Not just for Aras the yoga lavender-loving man but also the team names...YOUNGER MEN...YOUNGER WOMEN...OLDER MEN...OLDER WOMEN...unless you're into animals, there is something for EVERYBODY!!! It's like the ideal dating scene.
9. Coffee in Manuka on a warm sunny Sunday afternoon with the Sun-Herald.
Eat greasy chips, drink latte, get your feet red and read "S". It doesn't get much better.
10. Melbourne
Sexiest city in Australia.
WHAT'S NOT
1. Heaving buses roaring past on Constitution Avenue.
You smell! You are loud! And you are filled with people silly enough not to take a car to work!
2. Bridge works on Kings Avenue Bridge.
Over it!
3. Sunglasses combined with an mp3 player while walking around Canberra
The ultimate in "I'm not interested in social interaction with anyone at all...you can't speak to me, you can't see my eyes, you don't know where I'm looking but I'm not interested in you so I'm highly likely not looking at you even though you are staring at me."
I can't think of any more because I'm in a positive mood today. Might add some more when I'm in a bad mood (hopefully not this week!)
WHAT'S HOT
1. Punch
Preferably weak and then getting stronger as the night goes on...add some champagne...vodka...tequila...absinthe...jungle juice...and you end up wonderfully sloshed amongst fine company at a wonderful Canberra house party.
2. The back page of The Sydney Morning Herald
It's so darn funny. I spend all day...well 20 minutes anyway reading "Stay in Touch", "Heckler" and "Column 8".
3. Delta Goodrem Together we are one
Thank goodness they've woken up to themselves and are releasing this as a single. I got goosebumps while watching her at the Commonwealth Games. Come back to our shores if the Americans don't want you you silly tart.
4. Infernal coming to Australia
Oh how exciting is this! Very! I want to see sexy blonde chick and hot Danish guy LIVE please. My prayers have been answered. April 21 in Sydney.
5. Sex
It's not bad is it.
6. Today TonightDid I just say that? There are now more bogans on Neighbours than TT now. Today Tonight is roaring through the ratings and good on 'em. They do trash so WELL. It's worth watching just for Naomi Robson's little remarks.
7. The Biggest Loser
More trash done well. And it's Australian too! Go you good things. Especially Kristie...she's pretty!
8. Survivor - Panama
I hate Survivor. But wait...we found ourselves watching it tonight. Not just for Aras the yoga lavender-loving man but also the team names...YOUNGER MEN...YOUNGER WOMEN...OLDER MEN...OLDER WOMEN...unless you're into animals, there is something for EVERYBODY!!! It's like the ideal dating scene.
9. Coffee in Manuka on a warm sunny Sunday afternoon with the Sun-Herald.
Eat greasy chips, drink latte, get your feet red and read "S". It doesn't get much better.
10. Melbourne
Sexiest city in Australia.
WHAT'S NOT
1. Heaving buses roaring past on Constitution Avenue.
You smell! You are loud! And you are filled with people silly enough not to take a car to work!
2. Bridge works on Kings Avenue Bridge.
Over it!
3. Sunglasses combined with an mp3 player while walking around Canberra
The ultimate in "I'm not interested in social interaction with anyone at all...you can't speak to me, you can't see my eyes, you don't know where I'm looking but I'm not interested in you so I'm highly likely not looking at you even though you are staring at me."
I can't think of any more because I'm in a positive mood today. Might add some more when I'm in a bad mood (hopefully not this week!)
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