Showing posts with label Breaking Bad. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Breaking Bad. Show all posts

Monday, September 30, 2013

Monday Funday

The finale of Breaking Bad has aired, and I have to wait another two hours to get home and see it... torture! The weather's miserable so I'm spending my break at my desk unable to browse any part of the internet for fear of spoilers. This show has been such a huge part of my life for so many years now. I think I first started watching early 2009, catching up on the existing episodes in a big binge, then devouring each new release over the following seasons. I've watched season one to five-and-a-half through more times than I can remember, and so many one-off re-watches when there was nothing else to do.

It's been a long time since I wrote on this blog and I am starting to miss it. I've said this before, I know. But I'm not really sure what direction I want it to go in anymore. Space is serevely limited at home, so the past couple of drawings I've done have been quick pieces resting on my coffee table in front of the TV which is less than ideal. Over the weekend I found out my old bloggy pal Caitlin is coming to New Zealand for a holiday later this year which is SO EXCITING, and that news especially made me miss the old days of blogging whatever the heck I liked. Summer's approaching, so I'm going to try harder. I bought a better camera recently and have recorded a couple of YouTube videos which is super fun, but I'll try to take more photographs with it too.

The last couple of posts I've made have still been getting hits, so I guess some people out there are still dropping by! (Thank you!) Break's over. The countdown begins.

Monday, September 24, 2012

Fancy

A few posts back I couldn't come up with a good answer for my favourite celebrity couple. Well duh, it's quite obviously got to be Aaron Paul and his ridiculously beautiful fiancĂ©e Lauren Parsekian. Also yay for all the Homeland Emmy wins, I am so excited for season two!

Image source.

Tuesday, June 05, 2012

Tuesd'y Tidbits


^ This is not the first time I've urged you to jump on the Breaking Bad bandwagon if you're not already aboard. This poster release has brightened my otherwise miserable Tuesday (which feels like a Monday due to Queen's Birthday weekend). Beyond excited.


^ Emma Anderson is a brilliant New Zealand photographer whom I feel privileged to know in the 'real world'. She's currently in New York and Always Sometimes Anytime has featured a bunch of her photographs. Upon reading Emma's first Facebook update after she arrived, I dropped the little orange Google Maps man onto a Manhattan street and went for a virtual walk. If I spent as much time painting as I do on Streetview, maybe I could actually afford to visit these places in real life? Ha, ha...

As a teenager, Steve Braunias' column in Sunday magazine was pretty much the highlight of the Sabbath for me (I lived in Masterton, okay?) and his recent The Secret Diary of... Jaime Ridge piece is, to quote commenter Sam, 'a triumph'. Though can this please be the last word? Enough.


^ Has anyone seen Prometheus? I'm pretty sure I'll just wait for the DVD release since Michael Fassbender features in 100% of my reasons to see it... but let me know your non-spoilery thoughts if you've been.

Breaking Bad poster image source.
Michael Fassbender and Charlize Theron image source.

Thursday, November 04, 2010

Square eyes

  • Your favourite character from a TV show
I always choose my favourite TV characters based 100% on their acting talent. I'll admire those who are babes, or who I can identify with, but the most important element for me is an actor's ability to make me cry. I'm not that tough or anything; I cry at Extreme Makeover The Home Edition every week, and even Neighbours on-screen deaths get me sniffling. But when there's no one dying, and a character's just going through something dramatic and intense and emotional... if they can make me cry over their personal anguish then I fall in love. My top two are from what are, in my opinion, the best shows on TV; Deb (Jennifer Carpenter) from Dexter and Walter (Bryan Cranston) from Breaking Bad.