December 2010
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John James & Josie
@Josiestweet & @John____James lit up UK telly screens for months, as well as each other’s faces every time they locked eyes! Oh my days, did they keep us hooked! Locked inside the very forced environment that the Big Brother house creates, John was convinced it would be best to wait until they were outside the house to get together. Meanwhile, Josie seemed...
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The Office, ‘The Delivery’ Parts 1 & 2
It was just SO good. One thing The Office has always been able to balance is comedy and emotional drama. I guess having a wedding and a birth in one season put that to the test as you want to give the fans the cute, emotional scenes, whilst not turning this comedy into another show. The wedding went into a league of its own - but I...
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Take That - Progress
It’s the biggest selling album of 2010 in the UK, having already sold over two million copies and remains number 1 in the album charts in its sixth week. Take That fans had waited patiently for two years sine the last album, and there is no doubt that the band didn’t put every energy into making the best record they could. Every record on the album could be...
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Joy
It’s my new favourite shop, and one I’d quite like to keep all to myself! Having popped in with barely any time to, on a trip to Greenwich, I was hooked. There’s no Joy at home, so I’m stuck on the website or planning the next trip to London or Bristol. With flattering designs that suit a girl with boobs and hips, often unlike a lot of the highstreet shops like...
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She & Him - Volume Two
One of my favourite bands of the moment, the first volume of She & Him’s catalog was thoroughly enjoyable from start to finish - filled with melodic pop/ country songs that were like a musical rainbow of joy. I think it takes a couple of listens with any album to form a proper opinion, but having been listening to this beauty all year - the review’s...
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Deathly Hallows, Part 1
The first part of the most highly anticipated movie franchise finale ever, the latest Harry Potter was a stark contrast to its predecessor in Half-Blood Prince. No longer set against the backdrop of the much-missed Hogwarts, and with the ensemble cast playing much lesser roles, it was wilder and even more focused on the journey of its title character. More than any of...
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Wild Target
It would have proved difficult for this movie not to be enjoyable for me, considering my preconceived appreciation of the cast. With the likeable Bill Nighy at the helm, a childhood crush of mine in Rupert Grint and the always brilliant, Dame Eileen Atkins we’re off to a good start. In addition to these killer cast members (literally!), one of my favourite actresses of the...
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Urban Decay - Naked Palette
I love good makeup and I’m usually a MAC girl all the way but having seen a makeup tutorial that used the Naked palette, I was won over and rushed out to buy. With Virgin as the highlight shadow, Toasted as the base shadow, Buck as the shader and Creep and Gunmetal together as a shadow line, with the black eye pencil on the water line - it looks fab! I totally...
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The Handsome Mens Club
I will not attempt to veil how much I loved this skit. Including some of the best looking boys from telly and film, Jimmy Kimmel led the meeting of handsome - despite being the most questionable member of all. It was John Krasinski’s obedience, the surprise appearances from everyone as more and more people popped up and simply, “What’s wrong the...
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Just The Way You Are - Bruno Mars
It was one of the biggest hits of the year, and carried such a sweet sentiment that I couldn’t resist throwing it in there. At number 10 it’s Bruno Mars’ love song that is so gorgeously devoted to its subject, that imagining all the people that might have had it dedicated to them is heartwarming like hot chocolate. It reminds me of the...
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Top 10 Things about 2010.
It’s almost time for the year’s end so I thought, when doing random countdown of year summary, why limit self to particular category? So, this is my very random and unconnected list of the best things that were this year. Mostly just related to television, music and the net.
Things that didn’t make list due to not being quite good enough:
Firework - Katy Perry
Miranda, Series 2
Ellie...
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If I Could Tell You, by W.H. Auden
Time will say nothing but I told you so, Time only knows the price we have to pay; If I could tell you I would let you know. If we should weep when clowns put on their show, If we should stumble when musicians play, Time will say nothing but I told you so. There are no fortunes to be told, although, Because I love you more than I can say, If I could tell you I would let you know. The winds must...
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The Office
The American version of a British show that I find funnier (by a huge margin) than its original. The ensemble cast is flawless including a movie star lineup of Steve Carell, John Krasinski, Jenna Fischer, Ed Helms and Rainn Wilson. Teetering on the outskirts of the cast, scene-stealers include Creed Bratton and Mindy Kaling whose very diverse roles often provide laugh out loud lines...
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The Office
The American version of a British show that I find funnier (by a huge margin) than its original. The ensemble cast is flawless including a movie star lineup of Steve Carell, John Krasinski, Jenna Fischer, Ed Helms and Rainn Wilson. Teetering on the outskirts of the cast, scene-stealers include Creed Bratton and Mindy Kaling whose very diverse roles often provide laugh out loud lines...
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Big Brother 11
Some may be surprised that it only reached the number 2 spot given that it’s sort of crossed over into my real life but I thought I’d keep the order strictly as television programmes and whilst I loved every second of watching, it’s not something I’ll really be watching re-runs of.
It was the last EVER Big Brother and to ensure that it went out with a...
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Miranda
I mentioned more beeb comedy and here is the most sitcom-formatted comedy of them all, with even a laughter track to boot! On paper, I would abhor this creation of slightly American-style comedy. But the reality, inclusive of eccentric characters, no real ‘straight guy’ character amongst the insanity and catchphrases, is the best thing EVER! Even when characters don’t...
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Private Practice
So, when Grey’s Anatomy got a bit shit somewhere very early on in season 6 - which I totally don’t understand since my two least favourite characters both got ditched - one has to find a new medical show to follow. What better than the very show’s spin-off?! But I mostly just got into this show because I find Charlotte’s accent amusing and I’m...
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Downton Abbey
Period drama is one area where the beeb has been a total let down this year following huge triumphs with the genre from Pride and Prejudice to Jane Eyre. Not quite as far back in time though, Downton’s set shortly before the outbreak of the first world war, with the first series’ timeframe being 1912 (beginning after the sinking of the Titanic) to 1914, with the...
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Bones
So, sometimes you got to have a bit of murder/mystery in your life and whilst Midsomer doesn’t quite do it for me, Stateside I found a bit of love in my bones for Bones. Whilst this year’s episodes haven’t been able to match the dizzy heights of brilliance that Aliens in a Spaceship offered, that’s by no means an insult. I’ve enjoyed the recent episodes,...
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Glee
You can almost hear the opening bars of Don’t Stop Believing just thinking about this television programme. Whilst it has suffered over-exposure to the nth degree, there’s no doubting the appeal of this show. It has a cast of triple threats, a trail of celebrity cameos and Brittany S. Pierce to boast. I don’t look forward to it quite as much as I did before it really hit...
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Outnumbered
Ordinarily it would be Channel 4 who might hog my top ten list of television shows if it were to be filled with comedy, usually of the surrealist variety, but this year the network produced nothing of interest. This is the first of two comedic offerings from the beeb. It is a bit genius to be honest. Both of the Outnumbered parents are excellently played respectively, but as the...
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Gossip Girl
There’s two very good reasons to watch this show, and they are both in the above picture. I also give props to this show for being a billion times more sustainable than co-creators’, Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage, previous show, The O.C. which after one very successful season because worse than 90210 on alcopops. Despite producing the most irritating teenage actress...
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Top 10 Telly Shows of 2010
Just because I’m bored, watch a lot of television and… Laura did it.
10. Parks and Recreation
Created by Greg Daniels and Michael Schur, writers on The Office, it shares the workplace mockumentary format seen on The Office without an English equivalent. The cast is led by Amy Poehler, whose charm is as present in Parks and Rec as it is in Baby Mama. Poehler’s character, Leslie Knope is...
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2010.
The 2009-2010 New Year celebrations were the first time I had ever got emotional about a year end, because 2009 was a pretty incredible year for me. I had some of the best experiences of my life in 2009, and went into 2010 knowing it could never compare. How wrong I was.
Granted, January was a bad start. An awful, awful start. In fact, possibly the worst month of my life in retrospect. The first...
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2010.
The 2009-2010 New Year celebrations were the first time I had ever got emotional about a year end, because 2009 was a pretty incredible year for me. I had some of the best experiences of my life in 2009, and went into 2010 knowing it could never compare. How wrong I was.
Granted, January was a bad start. An awful, awful start. In fact, possibly the worst month of my life in retrospect. The first...