Can't touch me!

...conscience. If you watch it. And mine too. Staying home sick with a bout of flu since Friday (my God, has it really been five days since I left the apartment??) has meant that I have had lots of time to bum around, much more so than usual. Most of the time was spent O2jamming, surfing the internet, more O2jamming, chatting on MSN, youtubing South Park episodes, youtubing Veronica Mars episodes.

I think you get the idea. Not terribly inspiring, or very educational, or particularly fulfilling. Because bumming around can only cure so much boredom. It gets tedious and sickening after a while. And yes, it's not very productive.

I don't usually watch television, because I *cough* download tv episodes *cough*. If I do, it's mostly channel ten shows, followed by (maybe) channel 9; hardly ever channel 7, and once in about 10 months, I watch SBS. Of course, I now realise how foolish I have been! SBS is, seriously, the best thing about TV here.

SBS is the only channel here that shows South Park!! If anything, that was what got me hooked, and I tuned in at 8.30pm yesterday for a dose of "Fun with Veal" (click for link to wikipedia synopsis). After watching South Park, watching the Simpsons just doesn't feel the same anymore. At 11, I switched back to SBS for "The Green Butchers", a Danish black comedy, starring, lo and behold, Mads Mikkelson!!! Isn't that exciting??
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Hmm. Guess I should have made myself clearer... Mads Mikkelson, aka as Le Chiffre!!! Now ain't that cool????
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OK. Heave-ho. One last try. "The Green Butchers" stars Mads Mikkelson, aka as Le Chiffre, the Casino Royale baddie who cries our droplets of blood. And in that long, winding typing process, I've somehow lost all my excitement. Oy, but Suxin and Matilda would be so excited to know that the guy starring opposite him looks a LOT like Wentworth Miller. Girls, it's true - the Wentworth Miller lookalike looks really good in a wifebeater. And he's much much more muscular too. And spends most of the movie brooding in his wifebeater. He goes to work too - in his wifebeater - and SPOILER! chops people up SPOILER END. I won't give too much of the plot away, but Wentworth lookalike also sits around - in his wifebeater - and smokes and contemplates stuff while in his wifebeater. You can try *cough* downloading *cough* this film if the wifebeater descriptions intrigue you.

If they don't, here's my best attempt at a succint synopsis.

Ok, I started watching after Svend the butcher (Mikkelson) unintentionally kills an electrician by accidentally locking him into the deep freeze cooler. Bjarne (wentworth-lookalike) comes into the shop and discovers what happens. Unfortunately the dead electrician is missing a leg - because Svend, in a panicked daze, chops it off, hacks it into little fillets, marinades it and sells it to a customer who's preparing a big dinner. The next day, the guests at the dinner line up at Svend and Bjarne's butcher shop to get some of them dee-licious "Chicky-Wickies". Uh-oh. Svend, with Bjarne's silence and passitivity as a form of complicity, is compelled to find new er, sources, for his best-selling meat. His butcher shop becomes phenomenally successful, but as you would expect, this success is built on very very shaky and illegal grounds.

Sounds good? It's pretty hard to stomach (no pun intended). Certainly, it's not for everyone, but if you think you can manage a chicken meal after watching this, I highly recommmend it. If you don't think you can, the wifebeater is incredibly distracting.

Ah I'm so tired. I've got lots more to blog about interesting SBS programmes, including two other very interesting shows I watched today. I'll have to take a raincheck though - the next show is starting.

Labels: Movies, Television