movies:- trading places (1983) i don't like dan aykroyd. i will usually tolerate his presence in a movie, but spend the whole time willing his character to die. this was different. this movie is just so damn bitchin' that i not only tolerated him, but loved everything about him. he looks gorgeous too, young, foppish. and hey, eddie murphy! great movie. righteous ending. good times.
- growing pains (1985-92) season one, eps 1-2. growing pains is about as daggy as it gets, and for that, i love it. i actually find it quite hard to watch, for two reasons. one is kirk cameron. what an arsehole, seriously. the other is the extreme embarrassing dad-ness of alan thicke's jason seaver. i find him hard to watch in a larry david/curb your enthusiasm cringy kind of way. worth the pain.
- full house (1987-95) season one, eps 0-1. i watched the unaired original pilot (with some other guy playing the dad, danny tanner) for the first time, followed by the final pilot that went to air (with bob saget in his rightful place). bob saget was the original choice to play danny tanner, but was committed to a morning show at the time, so they filmed the pilot with said some guy (john posey, who went onto great things, such as a bit part in robocop 3). then in a wonderful twist of fate, bob saget was fired from the morning show, so they told john posey to go jump & reshot the pilot with bob & one of my all time favourite tv shows was saved from certain death, hooray! the other guy was so wrong. wrongtown. wrongtown usa. long live bob saget.
uncle jesse to DJ: "you've gotta understand this world is not a perfect place...bruce willis has a record deal"
- the golden girls (1985-92) season one, eps 12-15. in episode 13, rose dates a little person. cue 25 minutes of dwarf jokes. bitchin'. bizarrely, not long after filming this episode, the actor who played the dwarf was diagnosed with marfan syndrome, which causes sufferers to grow taller than normal. his sudden rapid growth from his short stature caused him to suffer a fatal heart attack. so there you go.
music:
- 91.5 fm at work...they're playing entirely too much farnsey, not enough barnesy.
- bubble o' bill. the greatest ice cream in existence. actually, my favourite icy treat back in the 80s was an icypole shaped like a rocket with a chocolate ball at the top. can't remember what it's called, but i haven't seen it for at least 15 years. you see plenty of chocolate on ice cream, but not so much on icypoles anymore. it was a pretty gnarly combo, may it return to the world of food soon!
- twinings english breakfast tea & a wagon wheel.
- vegemite salada (worms!) & mineral water.
- a crapload of food at dumpling specialist with lush people & k-man. i forgot to photograph it all, robbing whitey of her food porn (sorry!). pictured is the red bean cake. i also ate steamed vegetable dumplings, spring onion pancake & vegetarian noodles.
challenges/comments:
POO CAR. on our way to dumpling specialist, there was this car. covered in bird shit. COVERED. my brain still hasn't quite recovered, so my only comment for day ten is this. poo car.
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