22 Wednesday Jan 2014
Posted in birthdays, friends, television, video
Yay! The package has arrived!
I had been given fair warning by the lovely Sledpress that this specially pre-ordered item would be arriving after my birthday, so to prepare I rewatched Season 2 on the way to Barcelona and back. And now I am about to close up shop for the day, make a wee snack, pour a glass of wine, and ENJOY. Gracias amiga! xx
14 Wednesday Aug 2013
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It’s been a long while since a television programme just blew me away like this one. Got it delivered by Amazon on Monday afternoon and I am just about to watch episode 8. Great writing, acting, characters… am loving it. Okay, it helps that I am on “semi-hols” so I can watch up to four episodes at a time… but I also don’t want it to end. This is right up there with The Wire, The Sopranos and a few others I can’t think of at the moment. Okay, gotta go…
25 Monday Feb 2013
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awards, awards shows, bafta, brits, emmys, golden globes, goya, mtv, oscars
So that’s the awards season over (right? or have I missed some?). I don’t know about you but I feel increasingly out of it when I either watch or read about these awards shows these days. Especially MTV – have no idea who most of those people are, other than the ones receiving lifetime acheivement awards. And although I’ve got used to not knowing what half the films up for awards are about on Oscar night I was shocked this time to realise I didn’t even recognise a lot of the actors on the red carpet. I can’t blame all of this on living in Spain and mostly seeing tv series and films after they come out on DVD. I suspect it has some connection to the fact that so many world leaders are now younger than me – what do you think?
08 Wednesday Aug 2012
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So this is part of some kind of promotion for a new BBC America series called Copper, which will feature some of 1864’s greatest rogues, and allows you to make your own mugshot in which your face morphs into a photo of a famous criminal of the day. Of course I used my mugshot of a passport photo for this, but I can’t decide if I was a con woman, thief or prostitute. Or something else? What do you think?
Why not make your own? G´wan, you know you want to…
14 Saturday Jul 2012
Posted in gadgets, rants, retail therapy, television
After some surprising news from the gyno yesterday (I don’t have a cervix!) I felt so relieved to know that there was one less cancer-causing factor to worry about in my life that I decided to buy a blu-ray player. Yes, it makes sense.
Anyhow, was all excited about this new purchase (50 euros less than a slightly larger Sony model with WiFi I’d previously seen) until I got it home and discovered that it didn’t come with any connecting cords. WTF? I mean, bad enough there weren’t any cords in the box but why didn’t the salesclerk tell me this at the time so I could have picked one up while still at the store? And so, after a bit of delayed gratification while I went out to buy an HDMI cord I came home to set this baby up and… it doesn’t work!!!
I’ve tried everything but am pretty much stumped at the first step of any operation, which says “switch the input selector on your tv so that the signal from the player appears on your tv screen”. This doesn’t happen no matter what I switch. The only thing I’ve had appear on my tv screen is a notice saying there is no signal and that I should check my antenna. Huh? Maybe it’s the player? Or maybe I got a dud HDMI cord? Help?
casa azahar 