If you’re like me, every time you hear The Hollowmen credits start, you think, “What IS that song?!” Tonight the Snook tracked it down for me. It’s an 80’s band from New Zealand called The Bats and the song is “North by North.” There you go!
Category: TV
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Nerdy Things We Have Debated at Work Today
- The Vulcan Salute
- WWF Wrestlers of the 80’s and early 90’s
- The Snorks
I’m sure there’ll be more.
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“Crocodile came up, bit my guts out!”
I know I don’t usually do YouTube links, but you guys HAVE to watch this insurance commercial currently airing on Australian TV. It’s my favorite and it makes me laugh and laugh. It’s little kids telling stories about being eaten by monsters. And I don’t know who that third kid is, but he needs his own show now.
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Badass Geeks
The 10 Most Badass Geeks in Film/TV. I agree with most of the items on that list, but I have a few quibbles. Was Donnie Darko really a geek? Other than that whole Smurf speech, I can’t think of anything he did that was particularly geeky. I’d probably replace him with Willow from Buffy, especially in her rare evil incarnations. (That also solves the issue of there being NO female representation in the list.) But man, I really hate Anakin Skywalker being in there. I can what they’re getting at, but I feel that the prequels just sucked out any sense of malice Darth Vader had. (Link courtesy of Bex.)
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Sit Down, Shut Up
“Arrested” alumni reunite for Fox pilot. I’d give any show that Mitch Hurwitz is involved with a try, but with Bateman, Arnett, and Winkler involved? I’d like to pre-order the DVD, please. (That said, the Snook and I can’t figure out what the hell the “Australian” show is that it’s supposed to be based on. We’ve never seen it.)
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TWoP
Oh man. When did Television Without Pity change layouts again? It’s AWFUL. There are crazy huge images in your face everywhere, and you can’t see what reviews are new without scrolling down. They seem to have done away with the drop-down nav menus too, which means you can’t go straight to a show or forum anymore (artifially inflating pageviews). It sucks.
Oh, wait! I just discovered that you can go straight to shows and forums; they’re just hidden in a stupid huge javascript rollover menu. What was wrong with the old version? The rotting yet beloved corpse of Dawson’s Wrap must be spinning in its grave…
Five minutes later: Ahhhh. The founders left the site last month. That explains it. I went to Sars’s site to see if there was any word from her. Nothing but a link to a forum post that’s already since been erased. Wow, I’ve been reading that site for more than ten years and suddenly it’s just… gone. That sucks.
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Idol blather
It was a rather lackluster performance night on Australian Idol Sunday, so I wasn’t expecting much from the results show last night. In fact, the Snook and I basically fast-forwarded through everything just to find out who got booted. My finger slipped on the button a little bit during the group sing though, and that half-second glimpse was enough to know that we were missing something special. “FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, THEY’RE DOING PSYCHO KILLER!” We went back. I can honestly say that seeing James Mathison pop up from beneath the camera singing “Fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa far better” was the single greatest moment I have ever witnessed on this show.
And yeah, Wee Ben got booted. He was boring me a little bit, honestly. So I’m not too put out. I still think it’s Matt and Tarisai’s to lose…
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Biggest Loser
BAH! So boring old Chris won The Biggest Loser last night. I thought he (and Michael) looked terrible. You could tell they’d basically just starved themselves with very little exercise. Neither of them had much muscle definition at all. Chris looked like one of those anorexic lollipop-headed women! I think he went about 10kg too far. (The official site has much debate over his tactics.) I much preferred my boy Marty, who I predict will have no trouble getting dates now. Sure, he’s a bit goofy, but he’s a nice guy who looks super fit for his age. I was also amazed by Munnalita, not least because she appears to have gotten a really good stylist. Her audition tape made her look like a drag queen, and now she looks ten years younger and a lot sexier. Good on her!
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Shocking Idol!
Idol was shocking – SHOCKING! – this week. No, really. I’m reeling. Sunday’s performances were so good across the board (except for Ricky), that I had a really hard time trying to guess who was going to be in the bottom three (except for Ricky). I decided that I was going to be sad no matter who left (except for Ricky). Too bad it wasn’t Ricky.
I’m glad they’re letting Bobby come back tomorrow night. He deserves it. He was never meant to be the Idol, but he definitely brought a welcome dose of weirdness and musicianship to the competition. Okay, so who *is* going to win this sucker? At this point, it’s looking like a three-way race between Damien, Jessica, and Dean. Holden wants Dean so badly he can taste it, and I’m not, uh, unfamiliar with that emotion. Boy is hot, yo. And he’s getting better with each performance. As TallulahBelle said, he’s “left the cheesy aspects of his performances behind and I, for one, am exceedingly grateful.” I’ll drink to that. Of the other two… I have to pick Jess. I just love her! Her singing is just so effortless and joyous. I’d give anything to have a voice like that. So my prediction is that the next bootees are Ricky, Chris, and Lisa, with Damien getting third and Dean and Jessica going on to the Final. I guess I should probably vote or something, huh?
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Bosco?
Dude, Mr T’s character on the A-Team was called Bosco Baracus?? I never knew that.
Edited 13/04/2025: Link is dead and not archived.