.: Cath’s Blog:.

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I went to see Billy Bragg this evening at the Prince Band Room. He was awsome.

Mario Paint Composer can be downloaded here.

Paddy O’Connell’s Natural Lemon Sours give hours of hilarious entertainment. Impress your boss, fool your friends. A free “Kiss Me I’m Irish” badge is printed right on the box for your pleasure. Get another box for Sean. 1 oz. / 28 g.

Eight ways to say “Have A Nice Day”. The translation is included on each of these 8 magnets.

6 coasters for when you’re at a loss for words. 3 different designs. This style is also featured in the Festive Holiday Coaster Set. Created from the best selling Subversive Cross Stitch art.

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I met up with my old friend SteVen, whom I hung out with when I was in Sydney back in 2003…was really great to see him. We met up at Fed Square and then went to Crown Casino for Dinner, which was very nice.

This evening I went to see ‘Priscilla Queen of the Desert - The Musical’ at the beautiful Regent Theater, with Ruth and Nicole.

The music, wardrobe, routines and Kylie references were fantastic…and Bill Hunter (original Bob from Priscilla and the Dad from Muriel’s Wedding) was playing Bob…YAY!

• The wardrobe department cares for over 300 costumes that are used throughout each performance.
• This means there are nearly 300 costumes changes each performance, many of which are undertaken by the principals.
• Over 150 pairs of tailor-made shoes are worn by the cast throughout each performance.
• Nearly 200 hats and headdresses are worn by the cast throughout each performance, one of them contains 25 yellow rubber ducks, another 75 butterflies, another a bowl of fruit and a forth an aquarium complete with fish.
• Over 100 wigs are worn by the cast throughout each performance
• 160 masks are worn by the cast throughout each performance; they are made up of 46 designs.
• Thousands of feathers were used on the costume and headdress construction.
• The casino shirt fabric is a Ken Done original, called ‘Tropical’.
• When not on stage, the 1.5 metre cupcakes are stored in their very own cupcake oven.
• Each week, there are 80 loads of washing, using 8 litres of washing liquid, requiring 24 hours of ironing and 10 cans of starch. Two people sort costumes almost all day, 6 days per week.
• 60 lipsticks, in 5 different shades, are used each month.
• The cast use up to 5 pots of makeup glitter each week.
• 6 bottles of hair products including shampoo, conditioner and super strong hairspray are used each week.

http://www.bopo.com.au/

This is exactly what I need.

After rehab I went along to the Bay to see ‘The Kite Runner’ with a lad who is also attending the sessions.

An Afghani man, now living in America, returns to Afghanistan to find a child. In doing so, he hopes to find forgiveness for choices he made when he was young. However, the Afghanistan he returns to is now controled by the Taliban, and finding the child becomes a rescue mission.

I haven’t read the book but heard it was a great story and it was.

AGAIN

I managed to get to see Juno today, I loved the dialogue, it was hysterical.

Juno (Ellen Page) is a Mid-Western highschooler, who decides one day, out of boredom or curiosity, to have sex with her friend Paulie Bleeker (Michael Cera), a member of her school’s track team. She likes him well enough, but isn’t hung up on him. This one time encounter results in Juno’s pregnancy. She and her best friend Leah (Olivia Thirlby) decide to take control of the situation by browsing for prospective adoptive parents in the local Pennysaver newspaper, and Juno settles on seemingly the perfect, affluent couple Mark (Jason Bateman) and Vanessa Loring (Jennifer Garner) who is desperate to have a child. Junos sensitive father (J.K. Simmons) and stepmother (Allison Janney) are very supportive of her and help Juno with her decision to give the baby up for adoption. Juno and her father check out Mark and Vanessa Loring to see if they are the right couple. As time moves closer to having the baby, Juno grows more into a woman, yet she is still a teenager with all the same problems and a few more.

Also, as it was free, I went to see The Waterhorse’, which I really enjoyed too…surprisingly!

Now the film has a modern frame as well as the WWII story. An old man tells two young visitors to Loch Ness what they assume is a tall tale. Frames usually don’t add much to movies but in this frame is an exception.

In WWII a young boy, who doesn’t know his father was lost at sea, finds a strange egg. While the egg grows into a likable, gigantic plesiosaur, a strange man, who might be a German spy, starts as caretaker of the boy’s father’s estate, and a gunnery unit takes over the estates grounds. The captain of the gunnery unit takes a shine to the boy’s Mom, and tries to instill discipline to the boy by treating him like a drill sergeant would a recruit. Meanwhile, the new caretaker decides to keep the boy’s new pet a secret. and wins the respect of the boy’s mother.