Friday before last I went to a Melbourne Writers Festival session with Emily Nussbaum, the New York Times TV critic. It was a small session at ACMI, only about sixty or so people, and the topic was Desert Island Films, which is part of a series that ACMI does with well-known people where they come… Continue reading ->
I blitzed through season 2 of Orange is the New Black last week and man, I love this show. I love the mix of comedy and drama, the darkness of some of the characters right next to the light-hearted nature of others in the prison, the snippets of the guards’ private lives, the way nobody… Continue reading ->
Veep (Clip has a bit of colourful language, so NSFW-ish) I’m not a hugely political person. I don’t often watch shows that revolve around politics, I don’t engage in political debates, I don’t read a lot of political news articles. This is due to a number of reasons, reasons that are, I suspect, fairly boring,… Continue reading ->
Working and having a toddler means I don’t watch as much TV as I used to. Shame, because I loooove TV. I love it so much I studied it at uni (along with film and popular culture. People may say an Arts degree is useless, but hot damn it’s fun to do anyway). And these… Continue reading ->
So annoying that the week I went back to work after three and half weeks off and THEN the heatwave hit! Anyway, we had a lovely Christmas and New Year and I spent the Christmas period relaxing and hanging out with my sisters, because it was the first time the three of us had been… Continue reading ->
Listening: I bought the Of Monsters and Men album, My Head is an Animal, about three months ago and it hasn’t left my car stereo. I bought it because I love their song Little Talks, but every single song on the album is fantastic. My favourite song, though, the song that has me hittting the… Continue reading ->