I grew up with Sesame Street which began on November 10, 1969 just before my 4th birthday and only a few months before my mum and dad returned to Australia with my sister and I for good after six years or serving as missionaries on remote postings in Bangladesh. Continue Reading
MIKA evades my pop culture radar
This information-drenched modern age of ours is a double-edged sword in many ways. On one hand we have the chance to not only hear the latest news about our favourite music artist/author/actor’s latest project but hear about it often from the person themselves. It is a level of accessibility Continue Reading
Movie Review: “Not Suitable For Children”
Just when you have resigned yourself to the apparent fact that there is nothing new under the romantic comedy sun, along comes director Peter Templeton with a completely off-the-wall take on young love. And it all centres on testicular cancer. Yes, you read that right. Testicular cancer. If ever Continue Reading
New “Dr Who” trailer released by BBC
I have to say that the new Dr Who trailer released by the BBC looks amazing, and has so much “blockbuster-yness” in it than I am expecting him to be battling Jaws, Forrest Gump, all the dinosaurs from Jurassic Park, and several of Marvel’s superheroes all in one almighty Continue Reading
Comics: “Cheeky Weekly”
Like most kids, I got into comics in a big way growing up. But unlike most kids in Australia, instead of avidly following the adventures of Spiderman and Batman, I gravitated mainly to British comic books that celebrated a very idiosyncratic type of English humour. It obviously struck a Continue Reading
“Brady Bunch” reboot: Has TV caught Hollywood Disease?
When I first read the news that there are plans afoot to reboot The Brady Bunch, which ran from 1969 to 1974 and starred Robert Reed and Florence Henderson, I thought “Why not? It worked well for Battlestar Galactica, and Dallas.” But as I digested the news, I realised Continue Reading
Sonic Bliss #12: My favourite songs of the week
It has been one of those weeks where I got a dreadful cold and didn’t do much besides sleeping, reading, and eating of comfort foods. So my choice of songs is resting heavily on music I heard last week. But hey they’re great songs and I would like to Continue Reading
Book review: “The Long Earth” by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter
The Long Earth, the first in a planned series of novels by these two giants of the British publishing scene is an expansively imaginative work. Flavoured more by Stephen Baxter‘s high-concept reckonings of future realities, with only traces here and there of Terry Pratchett‘s warmth and whimsy, it Continue Reading
Review: Opening ceremony of London Olympics 2012
I did an extraordinary thing this morning. I set the alarm on a Saturday morning for 5.30 am, at my boyfriend’s behest, so we could lie in bed and watch the Opening Ceremony of the London Olympics 2012. It wasn’t so much the early hour of our “rising” (to be Continue Reading
RETURN TO: “Parks and Recreation”
It’s been three years since this superbly-written show debuted as a mid-season replacement on April 9, 2009, its initial six episodes introducing us to the perky, optimistic and ambitious Leslie Knope (Amy Poehler) and her almost Herculean plan to turn a giant pit in Sullivan Street, Pawnee, Indiana into a Continue Reading