As you might have gathered from my review of the premiere episode of Defiance, syfy’s first foray into real honest-to-goodness aliens and dystopian future-rich science fiction since 2009, I am mightily impressed with the show. From almost the first frame, the producers of the show made it clear that Continue Reading
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I am an extrovert gay man living in Sydney who loves Indian food, current affairs, music, film and reading, caramel anything, and a beautiful guy called Steve who makes every day a delight. I am trying to get two novels in a trilogy ready for e-publication, love my iPhone & iPod, and am secretly Canadian in my soul. Life is fun, exciting and joyful and I aim to make the absolute most of it!
Happy Star Wars Day! May the 4th be with you
I love the idea that someone somewhere figured one day that saying “May the 4th” sounds just like – well close enough to make it workable anyway – “May the force …” and thus, unwittingly, gave birth to what would one day become Star Wars Day. Disney, as the Continue Reading
Watch out above! “Falling Skies” season 3 is heading your way (trailer + poster + season 3 preview)
Falling Skies, the series that chronicles the epic battle between the remnants of humanity and aliens who are intent on wiping every last person so they can claim Earth as their own, is set to return to our screen on June 29 and what a season it looks like being, Continue Reading
Now this is music #6: my 5 favourite songs of the week – Blondfire, Sia, Taped Rai, Mr.Little Jeans, London Grammar
Once more to the iPhone, dear friends, once more! Or close up our ears with the sonic dead. OK there’s an extremely good chance Shakespeare didn’t write this exactly and certainly didn’t own an iPhone, but the sentiment remains. It’s time to plug in your playing device of choice, Continue Reading
Ring! Ring! First ad for the ABBA Museum
Now I don’t usually act as the promotional mouthpiece for museums, art galleries, and small stalls selling toy cats made out of used felt and aluminium (delightful though they may be). But in the case of the ABBA Museum, which is being opened in honour of a musical supergroup Continue Reading
Road to Eurovision: week 4 – Latvia, San Marino, F. Y. R. Macedonia, Azerbaijan, Finland, Malta
WHAT IS THE EUROVISION SONG CONTEST? Started way back in 1956 as a way to draw a fractured Europe back together with the healing power of music, the Eurovision Song Contest, or Concours Eurovision de la Chanson – the contest is telecast in both English and French – is open Continue Reading
Reverential parodies: a wholly different take on the intros to our favourite TV shows
To be fair these highly imaginative and generally well-executed fan love letters to shows present and past aren’t strictly speaking parodies as much as they are homages to much loved series. But still they are parodies of a kind, since in their reverence for the show they are saluting, Continue Reading
Stop. Go. Stop. GO! “Arrested Development” resumes its glorious dysfunctionality
It’s not long now my familial dysfunction-loving friends! Soon and very soon, Arrested Development, cancelled six years ago by the Fox network at the end of season 3 when the dysfunctional Bluth family finally came apart in spectacularly chaotic fashion, will make its much-welcome way back into our viewing Continue Reading
Judging books by their covers #1: “Room”
The object of this new series, which I am starting in conjunction with my wonderful friend, Elle, who blogs at Inkproductions.org (well-written, entertaining and thoughtful articles on all things writing and blogging-oriented) is to grab a long-neglected unread book off our shelves, speculate on what we think the book’s Continue Reading
Movie review: Iron Man 3
Being a superhero is a tough job. Physically, psychologically and relationally – no part of your life is left untouched by the rigours of a calling which throws any hope of a normal life completely out the window. Try as you might to have some semblance of a 9-to-5 Continue Reading