Comments on: Lazy Sunday! http://larvatusprodeo.net/2009/02/01/lazy-sunday-47/ Life, Culture and Politics from BrisVegas Tue, 14 Feb 2012 00:53:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: David Rubie http://larvatusprodeo.net/2009/02/01/lazy-sunday-47/#comment-172064 David Rubie Mon, 02 Feb 2009 12:24:33 +0000 http://larvatusprodeo.net/2009/02/01/lazy-sunday-47/#comment-172064 re: US Kath and Kim Sure, it isn't the Oz version, but if you've even spent 5 minutes in the US, it makes more sense. Not the funniest show, but wicked in a way that 70% of US citizens will never get. Which probably makes it an epic fail on both sides of the pacific. However, the market there is so big, there'll be plenty who do get it and it might go cult. This is the same country that produced "30 Rock" - they know how to laugh at themselves better than we do. re: US Kath and Kim

Sure, it isn’t the Oz version, but if you’ve even spent 5 minutes in the US, it makes more sense. Not the funniest show, but wicked in a way that 70% of US citizens will never get. Which probably makes it an epic fail on both sides of the pacific. However, the market there is so big, there’ll be plenty who do get it and it might go cult.

This is the same country that produced “30 Rock” – they know how to laugh at themselves better than we do.

]]> By: Ambigulous http://larvatusprodeo.net/2009/02/01/lazy-sunday-47/#comment-172063 Ambigulous Mon, 02 Feb 2009 10:37:07 +0000 http://larvatusprodeo.net/2009/02/01/lazy-sunday-47/#comment-172063 Ta, I thought so. I just wanted to use your lovely sentence: "Has this ever been noticed?" Test drive successful. Ta, I thought so.
I just wanted to use your lovely sentence: “Has this ever been noticed?”
Test drive successful.

]]> By: epicene http://larvatusprodeo.net/2009/02/01/lazy-sunday-47/#comment-172062 epicene Mon, 02 Feb 2009 10:27:55 +0000 http://larvatusprodeo.net/2009/02/01/lazy-sunday-47/#comment-172062 AmbiG - noticed? I thought it a given! Even when it remakes amerikan stuff they tend to ruin it but when they, shamelessly, try to remake foreign classics (or even Kath'n'Kim) they just can't grasp do it. The perfect example was the attempt to remake & sanitise AbFab for wundabread sensibilities, ie without smoking, drinking, drugs or sex. Ummm AmbiG – noticed? I thought it a given! Even when it remakes amerikan stuff they tend to ruin it but when they, shamelessly, try to remake foreign classics (or even Kath’n'Kim) they just can’t grasp do it.
The perfect example was the attempt to remake & sanitise AbFab for wundabread sensibilities, ie without smoking, drinking, drugs or sex. Ummm

]]> By: Ambigulous http://larvatusprodeo.net/2009/02/01/lazy-sunday-47/#comment-172061 Ambigulous Mon, 02 Feb 2009 10:18:52 +0000 http://larvatusprodeo.net/2009/02/01/lazy-sunday-47/#comment-172061 epicene can't answer your question, but here's another. When Hollywood remakes an old, beloved fillum, it's a dud. Or remakes a foreign fillum. Has this ever been noticed? epicene

can’t answer your question, but here’s another. When Hollywood remakes an old, beloved fillum, it’s a dud. Or remakes a foreign fillum. Has this ever been noticed?

]]> By: Pavlov's Cat http://larvatusprodeo.net/2009/02/01/lazy-sunday-47/#comment-172060 Pavlov's Cat Mon, 02 Feb 2009 08:46:52 +0000 http://larvatusprodeo.net/2009/02/01/lazy-sunday-47/#comment-172060 Epicene, I loved your kookaburra story so much I went Googling, and found several people mentioning it. This from a punter review of the movie sounds like the explanation, though I don't know whether this person actually knows it to be true or whether it's a guess: <blockquote>I wonder at the inclusion of the Australian kookaburra laugh (as also featuring in Weismuller's Tarzan flicks of the 50s) for an evocation of the 'alien'.</blockquote> Epicene, I loved your kookaburra story so much I went Googling, and found several people mentioning it. This from a punter review of the movie sounds like the explanation, though I don’t know whether this person actually knows it to be true or whether it’s a guess:
I wonder at the inclusion of the Australian kookaburra laugh (as also featuring in Weismuller’s Tarzan flicks of the 50s) for an evocation of the ‘alien’.

]]> By: epicene http://larvatusprodeo.net/2009/02/01/lazy-sunday-47/#comment-172059 epicene Mon, 02 Feb 2009 06:39:48 +0000 http://larvatusprodeo.net/2009/02/01/lazy-sunday-47/#comment-172059 Is it too late to pose a question for lazy daze? Too hot to venture out, I was clearing old tapes and watched the original Cape Fear with Robert Mitchum & Gregory Peck. I've watched and listened several times and will swear that when the villain is prowling in the bushes to approach the houseboat, there is a KOOKABURRA calling happily. Has this ever been noticed? Is it too late to pose a question for lazy daze? Too hot to venture out, I was clearing old tapes and watched the original Cape Fear with Robert Mitchum & Gregory Peck.
I’ve watched and listened several times and will swear that when the villain is prowling in the bushes to approach the houseboat, there is a KOOKABURRA calling happily.
Has this ever been noticed?

]]> By: dylwah http://larvatusprodeo.net/2009/02/01/lazy-sunday-47/#comment-172058 dylwah Mon, 02 Feb 2009 04:54:40 +0000 http://larvatusprodeo.net/2009/02/01/lazy-sunday-47/#comment-172058 Spent rather more time on LP than usual. It was (probebly) the Hbombs last ever weekend with just her mum and dad. Nana from Honey Island via the long white cloud arrives tues and no. two in Dr. H and I's next in our series of the hybridly vigorous is due in a little under three weeks. Spent a lot of time at parks and reading books, Giraffes Can't Dance, The Cat in the Hat and Wombat Goes Walkabout appear to be the current favs. The Hbomb knows that a sister is due, and when asked will point to Dr. H's tummy but i guess that she, like her parents, is completly unaware of what is about to happen to her world. a very fun but somewhat bittersweet weekend. In the hours of darkness finished off Dexter season one, loved it so much we braved Chadstone this morn to get season two. gave up on the tennis after the fifteenth carreer defining game. Spent rather more time on LP than usual.

It was (probebly) the Hbombs last ever weekend with just her mum and dad. Nana from Honey Island via the long white cloud arrives tues and no. two in Dr. H and I’s next in our series of the hybridly vigorous is due in a little under three weeks. Spent a lot of time at parks and reading books, Giraffes Can’t Dance, The Cat in the Hat and Wombat Goes Walkabout appear to be the current favs. The Hbomb knows that a sister is due, and when asked will point to Dr. H’s tummy but i guess that she, like her parents, is completly unaware of what is about to happen to her world. a very fun but somewhat bittersweet weekend.

In the hours of darkness finished off Dexter season one, loved it so much we braved Chadstone this morn to get season two.

gave up on the tennis after the fifteenth carreer defining game.

]]> By: Jovial Monk http://larvatusprodeo.net/2009/02/01/lazy-sunday-47/#comment-172057 Jovial Monk Mon, 02 Feb 2009 03:29:03 +0000 http://larvatusprodeo.net/2009/02/01/lazy-sunday-47/#comment-172057 Made dry roasted tomatoes and pancetta for lunch, panna cotta for afternoon tea (must have left the gelatine solution sitting too long, each panna cotta had a cap of it) and it was deelish with the coconut palm sugar with vanilla bean and cocoa nibs) and stirfried duck breasts with blueberries. Supposed to need creme de cassis but I just bunged in a tbsp redcurrant jelly. In between finished of "Cryptonimicon" which took me till 2.00am today. Two of Neal Stephenson's books read now, big books with lots happening, looking forward to re-reading soon. No walky with doggy, too damn hot! Made dry roasted tomatoes and pancetta for lunch, panna cotta for afternoon tea (must have left the gelatine solution sitting too long, each panna cotta had a cap of it) and it was deelish with the coconut palm sugar with vanilla bean and cocoa nibs) and stirfried duck breasts with blueberries. Supposed to need creme de cassis but I just bunged in a tbsp redcurrant jelly.

In between finished of “Cryptonimicon” which took me till 2.00am today. Two of Neal Stephenson’s books read now, big books with lots happening, looking forward to re-reading soon.

No walky with doggy, too damn hot!

]]> By: Caroline http://larvatusprodeo.net/2009/02/01/lazy-sunday-47/#comment-172056 Caroline Sun, 01 Feb 2009 23:33:18 +0000 http://larvatusprodeo.net/2009/02/01/lazy-sunday-47/#comment-172056 Hi Helen, I may well have. Rings bells. Thanks for the link and I'll check it out. Hi Helen, I may well have. Rings bells. Thanks for the link and I’ll check it out.

]]> By: Paul Burns http://larvatusprodeo.net/2009/02/01/lazy-sunday-47/#comment-172055 Paul Burns Sun, 01 Feb 2009 23:03:32 +0000 http://larvatusprodeo.net/2009/02/01/lazy-sunday-47/#comment-172055 Hi, Dave. access to the Internet. Mostly Bebo, but also some computer games. (Drop round some time.) Hi, Dave.
access to the Internet. Mostly Bebo, but also some computer games.
(Drop round some time.)

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