Cool Fictional Characters. #3, Hansel

from Zoolander. Hansel is Derek Zoolander's biggest professional rival and wins Male Model of the Year at the VH1 Fashion Awards. Hansel also beats Derek in a walk-off, but the two of them soon make freinds when Hansel hides Derek from the evil Mugatu.
Favourite Hansel quote:

"Sting would be another person who's a hero. The music he's created over the years, I don't really listen to it, but the fact that he's making it, I respect that."

Remember this? Swine Lake

from the Muppet Show. This is from my favourite ever episode, with Rudolf Nureyev. If you get a chance, check out his and Piggy's version of Baby it's cold outside, it's really funny too. The full version of Swine Lake is on the link below;

Swine Lake

Pork Gyoza (Potsticker Dumplings)

Saturday is normally dumpling day in our house. These dumplings are fried and then steamed to finish. They are really delicious and we have been known to eat 12 each. I get the dumpling wrappers from the freezer section of the Chinese Supermarket (the one at Jervis St. Luas stop is my favourite). I have posted the recipe on my recipezaar and if you would like to find out how to make them, follow the link below:

Pork Gyoza

Friday Cocktail

It's my favourite day of the week again and if I weren't on poxy antibiotics, I would be making myself a nice Classic Champagne Cocktail tonight. My budget does not stretch to champagne, naturallement, I use dry cava or dry prosecco instead. I use brown sugar cubes, only because I think they look nicer- you can just use granulated sugar if you have no sugar cubes. You will need :

1 sugar cube
Angostura bitters (3 drops)
1 teaspoon brandy
chilled champagne
lemon slice to garnish.

Let the three drops of bitters soak into the sugar cube and place in the bottom of a flute. Pour the brandy in and top with the champagne. Garnish with the lemon slice. No need to stir but if you really feel you have to, do it gently so that the bubbles do not dissipate.
Yum yum, can't wait until next weekend.

Cool Fictional Characters. #2, Daphne

from Some Like it Hot. Jack Lemmon plays musician Jerry, who has to go into hiding after witnessing the Valentines Day massacre with colleague Joe (Tony Curtis). They end up disguising themselves as women and joining an all-female band on a trip to Florida. This is one of my top 5 favourite films and I just love Lemmon's female persona, Daphne. She may not be the prettiest broad, but she bags a millionaire at the end!

Daphne meets Osgood

Masterchef 2009

The right man won! I was very happy with last night's Masterchef final as I was convinced that Andy of the Zero Personality was going to win. I liked Matt from the very beginning, he seemed like a nice guy. It seems to me, though, that the standard was not as high for this series. Poor Christopher was defo just making up numbers.

Save money with on-line texts

Whether you are a user of Vodafone, Meteor or O2, you can avail of free web-texting when you are on-line. I use Vodafone and I simply log on to their website using my phone number. When I send a text, the recipient sees a text from my mobile number. Why pay for texts when you are on-line in work? You can buy me a drink the next time we are out with the money that you save.

Things I don't get. #1, Rumer Willis

Exactly what is her function/talent? Why, oh why, was she in People Magazines 100 Most Beautiful list? So many questions.

Cool Fictional Characters. #1, Alan Johnson

from Peep Show. Played by Paterson Joseph, Johnson is Marks' slimy slickster of a boss. Supremely confident and charming, Johnson steals Big Suze from Jeremy and Marks falls in love with him.

"Don't be alarmed, Mark, it's just Tai Chi. Take a seat and I'll just power through. Should take 45 minutes, I'm done in ten. Stick that up your dojo."

Book Review: The Road, Cormac McCarthy

Cormac McCarthy won the Pulitzer Prize for The Road in 2007. It's about a father and son travelling across America to reach the coast in a post-Apocalyptic world. I read it in one go (took about 3 hours), as it was a pretty compelling read. It was really well written, but will never be a favorite of mine as it was a real downer! I felt pretty depressed when I finished it as ultimately there was very little hope left for the human race. I'm really not sure whether I'd recommend this one or not!

Business Time

Here is the link to my favourite Flight of the Conchords song, 'Business Time'. If you haven't seen it before, please take a look, it's v. funny. The second series is currently airing on HBO and I shall be reviewing each episode on this blog as they air (Episode 7 is out this week).
Business Time

Enjoy!

Faith No More Reunion

Great news!
Faith No More have announced that they are reforming and are going to have a European Tour this Summer. I haven't been this happy since Take That got back together! For news on the reunion, please follow the link below:

http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/news/149365-faith-no-more-to-reunite-for-european-tour

Bring it on!

Update: Here's the official statement from the band