I saw the ad for this and decided to avoid it like the plague…
However last night in a moment of boredom I flicked on the telly and started watching. And… I like it! Its quite different to what I had imagined. I had thought it was a tacky soapie, but its actually a pretty dark comic comment on the emptiness of the so called ‘dream suburban life’ that so many desire to live.
I’ll be following the goings on in Wisteria Lane with some interest.
Last holidays we watched the entire Kath and Kim collection. This holidays its ‘The Office’, a wonderful British comedy based on excellent character development.
I love the Gareth character, Keith is a legend and David is scary because I think I know people like him… I think occasionally David is like many of us…
If you have never watched ‘The Office’ then do yourself a favour and grab the DVDs from the local store. It is a different style of comedy, but its clever and full of laughs.
I am sitting here watching the Panel where they are interviewing that guy who cut his own arm off after a rock climbing accident.
Not a fun story!
But now I know what to do if I am ever stuck in the middle of nowhere with my arm stuck under a rock.
It seems that episode of Safran v God really stirred people up.
The key question seems to be ‘was it real?’
Other comments in Andrew Denton’s guestbook can be read here, as well as an interview with Safran & Rachel Kohn here and other viewer comments here.
(Thanks Jarrod!)
He obviously experienced something that impacted him…
God…
Nah, that couldn’t be… could it?…
Here’s one person’s reflection from the SBS feedback site:
So what do we believe?
I have been trying to follow ‘John Saffran v God’ on SBS. Sadly the badlands of the pentecostal fringe were the focus tonight.
Saffran went thru an ‘exorcism’ of sorts, but it seemed he was faking it – and no one knew… He had supposedly engaged in every kind of spiritual practice and these needed renouncing/cleansing etc.
Tonight’s episode was bizzarre. Did anyone else see it? Any thoughts?
Aussie hornbags Kath and Kim are back tomorrow night!
A new series starts… yeeha!
You can find this and other fine Christmas pressies here…
Did anyone happen to record ‘Francesco’ on SBS tonight? It was the final part of a three part series on the life of St Francis of Assissi and I forgot to tape it.
Bugger!
He is a good singer…
Another reason might be what I think
psychologists refer to as ‘recency effect’. In first year psych (17 years ago) I seem to remember it being said that when we see a long line of people or things and are then asked to make a judgement we will typically best remember what we saw first (primacy) and what we saw last.
Going last might have been an added blessing for Kurt. and it might have been a factor in Guy Sebastian’s poorer than expected result.
All this dribble from a bloke who couldn’t care less!
I’ve got to say a big well done to the podgy Nowegian hobbit plumber who kicked some huge butt (esp the US judge!) to win World Idol. I reckon this guy was the pick of the crop and definitely deserved to rank as highly as he did.
Unfortunately it seemed like that only words of English Kurt could speak fluently were the lyrics to his song so the post win interview was rather brief! Although one look at his face definitely told you what he was feeling.
It was a great response by the guy who was called ‘ugly’ by the judges.
Meanwhile our own Guy Sebastian finished up as a very average idol with 5th and 6th placings being the norm. No shame there – he is obviously a great artist and will do very well.
I have to confess I actually got interested in this whole thing after watching the world idol finals – but more than anything I was hoping Kurt would stick it right up the judges who were rude to him.
I think we could safely say he did that…
Tomorrow we find out who it is…
It seems the money is on either Kelly from the US, Kurt from Norway or Guy.
You’d have to be feeling pretty good if you were Guydownload death of a president divx