Progress: continued poo
July 27th 2003 -
Progress: continued poo
I didn’t get any time to do writing on Saturday as well, crappily. In the morning I set up Anna’s computer in the study – we’re now a four computer household. Borrowed a keyboard and mouse from Anna’s brothers, grabbed an old 8G HD, bought an LCD monitor, and rebuilt the old 400MHz PII.
So, four computers – an old laptop, the study computer, the mac, and the PC. If you count the iPod, the palm pilot, and the PS2, we’re now a seven computer household. Aw, crap. When the computers rise, we’ll be fine – we’re officially collaborators now…
Anyway, we had a free pass to see “Bad Eggs” on Saturday morning, which we duly did, and then it was off to roleplaying in the evening, and thus no writing got done.
Bad Eggs
Another Mick Malloy/Judith Lucy film, and much like Crackerjack, characterised by a pleasant, gentle sense of humour unalloyed by such things as embarassment-based scenarios – at least, no really cringingly embarassing ones, unless you count the ’80′s references, which weren’t embarassing to the characters, so that was alright. The jokes were more along the lines of taking the piss out of police film conventions, and were pretty much in the background. They wisely decided to rely on characterisation for the big laughs. Good plan. Much enjoyed, though even as they parodied the cliches of the police film, fell comfortably into them as well.
In my view, there’s been a bit of a good run of Australian comedies lately. Crackerjack, Bad Eggs, You Can’t Stop the Murders – I’ve enjoyed all of them thoroughly.