Fuck Inception, Piranha 3D may just be the movie of the year.
But probably not. Either way, this episode was probably the most fun I’ve had recording this year. After 200 odd episodes across 3 different shows, I think I’m finally getting the hang of this whole podcastin’ thing.
Posted in tv on August 20th, 2010 by Peter Wells – View Comments
Here’s a nice simple drinking game to make the election coverage tomorrow night a little more enjoyable. It’s all based on the amount of times Eden Monaro is mentioned by the TV pundits.
Background
Eden Monaro is a big arse seat in southern NSW that stretches from the Southern Coast to The ACT. Because of this, it covers almost every demographic and swing voter in the land, from surfers to miners to farmers to loggers to hippies to working class Queenbeyan residents and middle class ACT beauracrats. Since 1972 the good people of Eden Monaro have always voted in the overall winner of the federal ballot, making it darling of federal election TV coverage.
Beginners
Or those wishing to remember tomorrow night, should drink whenever these facts are brought up, Eden Monaro is mentioned as the ‘bellwether’ seat, or pundits laugh and say things like “As Eden Monaro votes, so does Australia”. More recently the phrase “Australia’s Florida” can be added to the drinking list.
Advanced
Or heavy drinkers should simply drink whenever Eden Monaro is mentioned. Remember; it’s a big arse seat, it takes a long time for all booths to send in their results, you will drink all night and often.
And a bunch of other stuff too, like The A Team, Shaun Micallef, Kat Stewart, a bit more Scott Pilgrim and the standard banter between myself and the wonderful Justin Gibson. Who are you to resist, eh?
Did you know that Quentin Tarantino plans to retire from filmmaking at the age of sixty and spend his remaining years writing? The man sure likes to talk a lot, but he’s also a very disciplined mofo, so I’ll assume that he’s serious and committed to this.
Tarantino is currently 47. That gives us thirteen more years of his movies. I averaged out the time between his movies so far – three years. That means we get four more movies out of him. That’s maybe a little sad, but of course whatever the finite number of his works, it will have been too few. As for what those movies might be, here are the projects he’s mentioned at one time or another, in the order of my excitement about them:
A Southern, a spaghetti western set in slave-era Texas
Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! would be a remake of Russ Meyer’s schlocky film
Via Neven Mrgan’s Tumblr. He designs for Panic (who make some fantastic OSX apps) & has his own pixel style iOS game coming out called The Incident (which looks amazing).