I’m going to BrisVegas!

After a little bit of confused timing and rebooking my tickets, I am now going to be heading up on the 13th of July and return on the 16th. Just a few spare days I have to offer to the Land of Queens.

I’ll be staying with filmmaker, lyricist, screenwriter, vocal talent, outspoken SRC representitive, Playstation SingStar expert, and great friend Becky. I’m so excited! I’m also nervous about the flight! I’ll cope!

In the mean time I’m working on the kids show and pottering around. Yay, Brisbane!

I’m so ready for Christmas.

It all started when my favourite and most evocative christmas carol came through iTunes one day, ‘Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas’. Since then i’ve been dancing through the cold weather with empty dreams of hoards of perfectly-hollywood wrapped boxes with giant bows gently flickering under the watchful eye of a warming fire.

In fact, twice so far I have had the thought, “Why don’t I go to America? It’s their christmas over there now”. Could I be getting dumber?

I miss the childhood christmas days of early 1990′s sitcom christmas specials. I remember watching many a Full House christmas special before being tucked into bed. And that show with Erkle that was so annoying for so long. Don’t think about it for too long – it might become popular again.

I have gone crazy about this show and have spent the past few weeks downloading whatever episodes I can get my hands on.

In case you haven’t heard (and if you’re from Australia, it’s quite likely you haven’t), Dog is a bounty hunter with a heart. After getting out of jail for murder, the man, well into the second half of his life, decided to turn to God and use his strengths (brute force, etc.) to better serve the community. This show, which is totally real, is Dog and his family of bounty hunters at work to chase down those who are on the run from the law in Hawaii. Dog always makes a surprising turn at the end after calling the fugitive abusive names, to once captured, trying to talk him/her into good and help him/her out before he/she goes to jail. Perhaps it’s last minute repentance, but the fugitives almost always seem to take Dog’s advice.

Now, I have no time for shows that try to push religion, but this family is more like the family over the back fence of the Camden’s from 7th Heaven – the kind of family you don’t mention when you’re trying to sell your house. I think perhaps I have some kind of attachment to the show as I first saw Dog on an episode of “Take This Job”, a very late night show here which featured Dog’s hunting efforts as an extreme job. It was from this episode that Dog picked up his own show.

If you think an ex-crim turned good, Bounty Hunter with a Heart named Dog might appeal to you, just look up your favourite torrent tracker.