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Saw the new Aust film, Three Dollars last night. David Wenham was there, I was a mere few feet away from his glowing perfectness which made the night worthwhile but the film, despite its massive pretentions, was hugely ordinary. Another Aussie film bites the dust. Sigh.
The only important topic this weekend is the racist oppression inherent in Swedish ice cream.
I notice Homer hasn’t stopped with the puns!
Read this.
David Wenham was great in “Stiff”; pity it was only a telemovie. Still, can’t wait for the next instalment.
I bought two EPs today. “We Got Communication” by Love of Diagrams, and “Soviet Valves” by the Soviet Valves. Quite different, both worth a listen.
Today I really hate Brisbane because I picked them to beat the Hawks in the AFL and they fell over and lost to the easy beats of the competition. Last week I hated them because I picked them to beat the Sydney Swans and they blew a huge lead in the last quarter. Two weeks before that I hated them because I picked St Kilda to beat them and they maimed the key Saint and won.
And what did you do on your school holidays, Rafe?
David Wenham has never put in a better performance than in the under-appreciated “Gettin’ Square”. Thongs. That’s all I’m gonna say. Oh, and “bus money”.
Forget the Lions. Go the Eels!
And leopard print underwear, Fyodor. Can’t forget that. And the walk.
Is David Wenham that fella who was in Seachange? He does nothing for me.
I think Angelina Jolie is the sexiest siren on the screen - followed in a photo finish by Kate Beckinsale.
My vote for Aussie boy is Hugh Jackman.
Good win last night, Irant. The Knights are about to break out, I can just taste it ….
David Wenham was awful in Seachange, but then he was limited by the material he had to work with.
Angelina Jolie? Ugh. But Kate Beckinsale I can agree with. And Hugh Jackman.
Angelina in a canter, that English Rose thing Kate has going is just too bland.
Well said Irant, I should have added that I hate Brisbane because they beat the Eels by about 100 to nothing. Actually they didn’t, that is just an extrapolation from the first half. Sometimes I hate the eels because they are going to drive us to distraction, losing games they should have won, and then turning up just often enough to give us hope for another week.
Good call, Zoe. Those undies just spelled s…e…x…
I’m rather a sucker for the English rose thing.
Audrey Tautou is a hottie too, hey, Fyodor?
Delicieuse is the word, Popette. Mind you, until Emmanuelle Beart went down the plastic surgery route she was top of my list. Breath-takingly beautiful.
Kate Beckinsale is a hottie, and really knows how to work black leather. I’m hoping two vampire/bondage movies [Underworld and Van Helsing] back-to-back will ensure she’s typecast in future as a slinkily-clad succubus. Hopefully Swedish, to boot…
She’s back in the sequel to the Underworld, Fyodor. It was a good movie - nice and atmospheric and Bill Nighy was fabulous (as he was in “Shawn of the Dead”) - even despite the leather catsuit.
Hmmm, leather catsuit.
Van Helsing was a howler though!
Yes, I’d heard she was in the Underworld sequel (Uberworld?). I would have been surprised if she wasn’t given she married the director of the movie…
Second moderately interesting factoid: her ex and father of her child, Michael Sheen, played her werewolf enemy (Lucian) in Underworld.
Bill Nighy has been in brilliant in everything he’s done recently. He’s one those remarkable actors who suddenly develops a rocketing career at the tender age of 50-odd. I can’t remember him in anything before about 1998 (Still Crazy).
Van Helsing was, as you say, a howler, but I’m a sucker for vampire movies, and werewolves are always a bonus. An overblown melange of cliches and really atrocious acting. Richard Roxburgh, in particular, sucked big-time…
Nighy was particularly good as the jaunty and mildly saucy Colonel in the BBC adaptation of Trollope’s Can He Forgive Her?.
I think Kate and the director have now split up. She said that she feared Van Helsing had been a career killer and was contemplating going off to study medicine.
Another hottie is Diana Rigg’s daughter - Rachael Stirling - in the Lesbian bodice-ripper Tipping the Velvet.
You out there, cs?
I agree about the Eels Rafe. Past few years have been tough and this year seems no different.
Could be worse though. You could support Newcastle.
I’m rather a sucker for the English rose thing. Audrey Tautou is a hottie too, hey, Fyodor?
Wouldn’t she be a French rose?
But I agree with the sentiment.
Oh, and Tipping the Velvet was hot.
Isn’t the point of this type of post that we can entertain ourselves because there won’t be any posts over the weekend?
Just sayin’
Mark? Not post over the weekend? Surely you jest!
Is this the Saturday Salon or the Sunday Centrefold? What is this, a competition to find the thinking bloggers crumpet?
The internet and these kinds of discussions never turn out well. Watch out, Mark, let these kinds of arguments in and your comments threads will be Kirk -vs- Picard in no time, and then you’ll have to get out the sugar soap and steel wool to get the shit out.
The thinking bloggers crumpet?
You can find us the thinking bloggers crumpet?
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE…
BTW - Wenham in The Boys put in one of the great Australian performances.
No. Star. Trek. Discussion.
Incidentally, when shopping in town today, I noticed that for funky girls the new accessory is the nerd-boy/friend. A sign of the times?
Not many posts, Zoe & Rob! Was out on Fri. and Sat. nights having a life…
Let’s not forget the converse, Mark - nerdgirl soundgirl at Rics with the 90s Britpop b/f.
Hey - if I’m every feeling provocative, I’ve found a possible new gravatar. Comments?
When are you not provocative, Kimbo
Of course, Mark, the lucky few get to see more than that some nights, yeah?
Next time yr at the chemist…
David, surely my humble self is the thinking bloggers’ crumpet (see previous comments)?
Wrong leg, Kim.
I know but I can’t be assed photoshopping it.
“The thinking bloggers crumpet?”
Jodie Foster, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Jennifer Connalley or Scarlett Johansson in charge of an orbital rail gun array or, failing that, running a small but well formed production company that’d commission scripts from drunken Aus writers (Have Pen, Will Travel).
Or even, thinking of the lovely Scarlett Johansson, Sofia Coppola?
And how the fuck could I forget Christini Ricci and Adrianne Shelley?
Bad cat. Spank me.
Nabakov is the thinking woman blogger’s crumpet.
First person to say Natasha Stott-Despoja as female crumpet gets a virtual kick in the teeth. First person to say Mark Bahnisch as male crumpet gets a ‘conga line of suckholes’ award.
What do I get for saying bloggers doing history phds who wear berets are cute?
I don’t know about awards. DREADnought never sent me that t-shirt he promised me.
The strong disagreement from my students from last semester, who gave me looks as if to say “what the fuck is that thing on your head”?
CD burners are cool. I’m enjoying my new computer and broadband. And spreading the two Beths around - Orton and Gibbons.
Them ignorant yoof, Liam!
Mark, can you please burn me Beth Gibbons? Don’t answer - it’s illegal.
Yoof are always ignorant, that’s the point of being yoof.
I still think you’re flattering, and I’m not sure what for. I do humbly acknowledge the true crumpet of the Australian blogosphere… yellowvinyl Kim.
Thanks, Liam
I’m off to watch the football. Manchester United are winning 1 nil.
Who won the soccer?
Does SatSalon have a time limit? I’m really hoping Ausculturejess goes ballistic on today’s SMH article on Kyle Sandypants.
Life is a succession of Saturdays - no time limit!
Fifty comments: Popper!
That’s quite an endorsement, Don Marco.
Looks like SatSalon is here to stay!
A benediction, Fyodor?
re Kate Beckinsale
I don’t think she is that great an actress but did Japan really have to start a war over her?
Ok, back to work.
Irant: Next pay day I am going to Sports TAB and putting $20 on the Knights to win the premiership. No retreat, no surrender.
On the upside, I am coming first in my my Bob Dylan baseball fantasy league. That Johnny Damon is prettier than either Beckinsale or Jolie.
Yes! Bless Jess!
http://www.ausculture.com/archives/001164.html
Bless Jess indeed!