Extreme Couponing Pilot

The Extreme Couponing pilot has just been uploaded by my personal hero, daily motion’s Samiam2546, whoever they may be (marry me). This is where it all began folks. Some of the more observant amongst you will remember Nathan ‘Mr Coupon’ Engels from episode 3. Sorry ladies, he’s married. In this episode, not only does he slay the competition with his mad couponing skills, he also has fun with art!  I think we could all stand to learn a thing or two from Mr Coupon, he’s got it going on.

Becoming Chaz

Two of my favourite things, Cher and documentaries about transsexuals, have been brought together in the form of Becoming Chaz. A documentary that chronicles Cher’s daughter Chastity Bono’s female to male sexual transition. The same kind soul that brought us Extreme Couponing has just uploaded Becoming Chaz in its entirety to Daily Motion for our televisual pleasure. I now have to find this person and marry them. Part one is below and the rest is under the cut. Enjoy. I can’t wait for the sequel Becoming Dave...

Hairspiration Part Deux

Whilst Caleb Followill may have been my Hairspiration for my hair style, I have another Hairspiration that is more colour specific and somewhat subconscious. I recently indulged in a Sex and The City marathon, all 6 seasons and 2 movies from the beginning. Not in one sitting, I might add. I’d moved to new place without a TV aerial in my room so my viewing options were limited to DVD box-sets or static.

Watching Sex and The City from the beginning wasn’t something I’d done since my university days, which may explain why I only got a ‘Desmond’ (2:2). Who cares, it was totally worth it and I felt it better prepared me for life than knowing the meaning of the word hegemony. God, the fashion in 1998 was appalling, and at the rate things are moving it should be back in fashion late next year, if so let’s hope the Mayan’s got it right about the whole apocalypse thing. Anyway, something dawned on me; I’ve had every one of Carrie Bradshaw’s hair colours.  

And from the very first moment I Thor you...

I love Home and Away. There, I said it. Now that’s out of the way it should partly explain why I was so excited to see Thor 3D. You see I always get a little excited to see Summer Bay alumni making it big in Hollywood because like a proud parent I’ve witnessed their shaky first steps into the world of acting and fallen in love with them on their journey watching them deal with evil twin cousins, Summer Bay stalkers and more natural disasters than any one town has ever seen. So when Kim Hyde (Chris Hemswoth), one of my favourites, left the show in 2007 I was left reeling with empty nest syndrome...

The Voice

If you haven’t seen The Voice yet you need to. The premise of the show is sort of The X Factor meets Dragons' Den, skipping past the freak show element of the audition stages and only focusing on those with proven vocal ability. There are four mentors who each have to pick 8 of the hopefuls for their team, and they can only do it based on the contestant’s voice. Get it? They don’t get to see the contestants sing until they have committed to mentor them. And herein lays the genius of the show. You see Christina Aguilera, arguably the most famous member of the mentor panel, is perfection and here’s why…

My heart is cryin' Indian and I'm begging for more…

I’m dangerously close to being the person that’s issued with an ASBO for playing too much Cher. And here’s why; Cher is my pharmaceutical free antidepressant. I just got off the phone with a friend who, without wishing to undermine her situation, is in a somewhat of a funk. It’s my personal belief that you can’t actually feel depressed while listening to (selected*) Cher songs. Part of the elation I feel when listening to these songs comes from the sheer embarrassment factor of loving them so much and the other part is from the ridiculous awesomeness of them.

Extreme Couponing

Usually when I get this excited about a TV program there is a groom planning a wedding for an unsuspecting bride, some perma-tanned people from Essex in staged melodramatic situations, any sort of variation on the ‘Come Dine With Me’ theme (Dinner Date) or Kirsten O'Brien describing her breasts as norks in a shameless (and fruitless) attempt at getting an FHM spread. 


Yes, I may be easily excited, but if someone had told me about a program where extremely frugal Americans, using large quantities of coupons on their supermarket trip, would make for edge of your seat television I probably wouldn’t have believed them.  The program I’m talking about is ‘Extreme Couponing’ and my friends, it is indeed gripping television.