Futtocks
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I watched 'Samurai Cop', which is actually worse than the title suggests... and the title suggests badness to start with.
The cheapness, crassness, fumbled pacing and wooden performances are something to behold, but it is actually far more entertaining to watch this interview (in two parts) with the star, Matt Karedas/Hannon instead.
The scene with the nurse and co-star Mark Frazer's botched reaction shots is painfully funny.
Happily, Matt can laugh about it now and many of the best worst bits are shown during the interview.
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Second attempt at coffee roasting/frying. I started on medium heat, then raised the temperature in two steps 'til the husks started cracking.I also used a very thick-bottomed saucepan, to even out the heat distribution and stirred the beans more than I did last time. A much more consistent-looking result.This batch will get its first grind for tomorrow morning's cuppa - I will report back.
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I've just roasted (well, dry-fried) coffee beans for the first time. The beans are currently cooling, but I think I had the hob heat too high, as the results are visually a little uneven.The tasting's the thing, though.
Oh my, that's one hell of a brew! A little over-roasted for my taste, but incredibly aromatic.
More practice will make for better and more even roasts in future.
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I've just roasted (well, dry-fried) coffee beans for the first time. The beans are currently cooling, but I think I had the hob heat too high, as the results are visually a little uneven.The tasting's the thing, though.
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Brendon McCullum's final innings - makes you wonder why he's retiring!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fefa_8Y1cU
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Does it physically strangle the man or does it have some strange psychokinetic power and chokes him with its mind?
You should be so lucky - it is a purely physical strangulation.
And, just to make it worse, this is the facial expression he uses while he is carrying out the deed in question.
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lol, wtf?!?
Exactly. What. I. Said.
Unfortunately.
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Billie's "albums" are a bit of a lottery - I've mentioned before about artists from the pre-album era. She did record albums but my favourite Billie is the 30s stuff with Teddy Wilson and Lester Young. For the truly obsessed or just obsessive-compulsive, this is the most comprehensive discography I've ever seen for any artist. http://www.billieholidaysongs.com/
The later stuff is the best-known, but her voice was past its peak at that point.
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Issue 3 of the DeAgostini jazz series is in my local Sainsbury's and it is Billie Holiday - Lady in Satin. This is the first full price issue, but I have to admit I'm tempted.
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Last night, I watched Welcome home, Brother Charles, a thunderingly inept piece of Blaxploitation from 1975.
It is all completely generic apart from one thing - HE USES HIS MAGIC PENIS TO STRANGLE A MAN TEN FEET AWAY!
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J Dilla - Donuts. Imaginative stuff, although with 31 short tracks, it can leave you a bit bewildered as it shoots off in another direction every couple of minutes.
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I have a e-voucher for Marks & Spencer, but I'm also tight, what do M&S do well on the food front that will either i) freeze ii) be long lasting iii) is booze?
Depends on the size of the shop. The larger ones have a very good and varied wine section. Not sure about the beer, and the spirits are a mixture of own-brand and major brands.
The food (both fresh produce and ready-meals) tends to be of good quality and the packaging will say if its freezable or not.
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The Amazon Fire TV Stick is making it very easy to keep up with the very funny John Oliver and his 'Last Week Tonight' show. Not to mention Red Letter Media's occasional 'Wheel of the Worst' episode.
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A Challenge Cup draw from Leap Day 1908. Who are Castleford Half-Acre? Are they the Cas we know now, or another club?
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I do something similar with a slow cooked chicken in red sauce. I freeze and re-use the sauce and it is considered mature after several uses.
The sauce is originally made with light/dark soy, rice wine, sugar, ginger root, star anise, cinnamon sticks.
Very easy to cook and the kids love it.
That sounds pretty much the same sauce. Great stuff!
But when I cook it with the pork, the sauce is all used up in the cooking process, as reduction makes it into a sticky-sweet glaze, so there's none left unless I've done it wrong. I think it's the addition of sugar, which makes the caramelised coating.
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Balls! Pointless Celebrities is on, but Jenny Powell (who still looks fab) looks like she's going out at the first round.
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How mad could Top of the Pops get? Hazel O'Connor and Gillan, sandwiching Tony Capstick doing his Hovis advert monologue, that's how mad!
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Vinyl.
Drama series about heavy rock bands.
Sky Atlantic , Monday
Martin Scorsese and Mick Jagger are behind this series, so it should be interesting.
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Inspired by Rick Stein's most recent BBC2 episode, I made Shanghai-style red braised pork belly. A lot easier than I expected - really easy, in fact - and it tasted fantastic!
I served it with cauliflower rice instead of real rice, which turned out to be pretty bland (won't be buying that again), but the rich and sticky pork didn't need much accompaniment, to be honest.
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Happy birthday today to a very mixed bag - Dennis Skinner (84), Mary Quant (82), John Surtees (82), Burt Reynolds (80), Sergio Mendes (75)
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Shooting continues on the new PG Tips advert...
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Comic Relief is bringing back its Pro/Celeb Darts tournament this year. It was a lot of fun the first time.
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Gloria Gaynor's I will survive, rewritten as a Shakespearean sonnet.
The cheesy B-Movie thread
in Any Other Business / Any Other Sports
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It is so sloppy - when the sex-mad female cop is attacked in her house, she opens a drawer with an automatic pistol inside, but when Robert Z'Dar disarms her, a revolver is taken from her hand. And so much more in the same vein.
I have Samurai Cop II on disc and will watch it soon. It'll have to go some to beat the original. And it probably won't.
But after watching the interview, I really changed my opinion of Matt. He was funny, articulate and charming, if you discount his scary eyes.