Some Like it Hot
Last summer I grew chili peppers on my balcony. They were quite lame when it came to hotness on the Scoville Scale (the measurement of the spicy heat of a chili pepper (from Wikipedia)).
This year I am spicing things up by growing Habanero Chilis instead. They can reach spiciness up to 350,000 on the Scoville scale. In comparison; Tabasco measures 2,500–5,000 Scoville…
I can’t wait to secretly chop some into Sika’s lunch and then post his reaction on Youtube! I guess it’s going to look something like this:
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And the Oscar for Worst Movie at the 2012 Academy Awards goes to…
The Oscars nominations was revealed today and I thank God (if he exists) that Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy wasn’t nominated in the Best Movie category.
Janne the Director took me to see it a couple of weeks ago. I did not care about a single person in the movie and I didn’t get the story line either. After twenty minutes I wanted to stand up, scream out in anger, throw my soda on the wall and organize a riot to get my money back. And my time.
Since I’m from Sweden I didn’t do that. I stayed in silence in my seat for the full 127 minutes.
I was so disappointed. Janne says he wants to make it up to me. Next week he’s taking me to see Tree of Life. Can’t wait.
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The 2012 Academy Awards Nominations
Since we are huge fans of the Oscars me and Janne the Director decided to do a live tweet session during today’s presentation of the 2012 Academy Awards nominations.
Little did we know the broadcast was going to be shorter than a Sinead O’Connor marriage. Seriously, it was more fast-paced than an episode of Gilmore Girls. While trying to tweet we missed a bunch of categories. None of the important ones though. Janne the Director has explained to me what “Art Direction” is, but I still don’t get it.
Here are some of the tweets we posted:
The #Oscarnoms are already running late. This is how pregnancy rumors get started.—
Sika (@lunkiandsika) January 24, 2012
Best directors? I thought that was the list of who died in 2011! #Oscarnoms—
Sika (@lunkiandsika) January 24, 2012
It would suck if Max von Sydow lost to the fat guy from Superbad. #Oscars #2012—
Sika (@lunkiandsika) January 24, 2012
Wow, not even starring in a bad movie can stop Meryl Streep from being nominated! #TheIronLady #Oscars #2012—
Sika (@lunkiandsika) January 24, 2012
I think it is a sign of old age that the Academy gets @AlbertBrooks confused with Christopher Plummer.—
Sika (@lunkiandsika) January 24, 2012
We also noticed a bunch of weird decisions.. No nomination for Tintin in the Animated category? That is just ignorant. And no Best Picture nomination for neither The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo nor Drive (that oversight almost made Janne the Director’s head explode..). And sadly no Best Actor nomination för Michael Fassbender in “Shame”. I say sadly because I so desperately wanted to tweet:
Michael Fassbender got a Best Actor nomination for Shame. See Mom, masturbation can lead to other things than blindness!
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The Swedish Karl Pilkington
Me, Lunki and Janne the Director went to a party this weekend. It was a shindig with the cultural and journalistic elite here in town. We decided to leave Johnny the Intern at the office, partly because he had to watch my dog, but mainly because he started talking about getting aunomographs from all the celebrities at the party. No, it’s not a typo, that is what he (for some reason) calls autographs. Yeah, he’s a moron, but at least he’s an amusing one.
We might not be as famous as Ricky Gervais yet, but at least we have our very own Karl Pilkington.
Here’s the top 3 things our night on the town taught me:
1. Arriving “on time” for a party nowadays, means you have to wait an hour and a half for everyone else to get there.
2. Even though it tastes like a mouthful of salt, sea water and sand, oysters are considered a delicacy.
3. When someone says: “hey you, you look like the love child of Leonard Hofstadter and Seth Rogen!”, take it as a compliment.
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The Greg Proops Answer
As he has already told you, Lunki knows next to nothing about celebrities in pop culture. But he wants to learn, so earlier today he posted this question: Who the F**k is Greg Proops?
I think education is a good thing, so to help Lunki out with his question I turned it over to one of my favorite improvisational comedians of all time, Greg Proops.
I sent him Lunki’s question on twitter and he replied:
So, there you go Lunki. There’s your answer. Subject closed. You’re welcome Lunki!
By the way, I think it’s so great that Mr.Proops answered, not only because I am a huge fan of his, but also because it means that I FINALLY can check him off my bingo card.
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Who the F**k is Greg Proops?
As you might know, my knowledge of popular culture is limited. I know a lot about tv shows, music and what drink preferences musicians have, but when it comes to celebrities of any kind, I’m no Einstein. Names like Kim Kardashian and Mitt Romney are flying high over my head.
This year I have decided to change all that and I’m going to let all of you, our lovely readers, help me achieve that! Pretty please..?
In a blog post yesterday Sika compared me to Greg Proops. I know only one thing about Greg Proops, if you remove the R from his surname it becomes “Poops”. Which, even though it makes me smile, doesn’t help me at all when it comes to figuring out who he is.
Anyone that can help me out? Who the F**k is Greg Proops?
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The 2012 Golden Globe Awards
We just watched the 2012 edition of the Golden Globes here at the office and I have two comments:
1. Thank you Ricky Gervais, you are awesome!
“He’s very racist. I mean, really nasty stuff. Also, I’ve seen him punch a little blind kitten.” Ricky Gervais introducing fellow brit Colin Firth.
2. I found it really amazing that the presenters and winners did NOT know what direction to walk on/off the stage. Every single time they tried it was chaos on the stage. If you would have released a herd of chickens on stage the percentage of chickens finding the right way off the stage would have been better. I do not know what they put in the drinks at that event but I sure wish I will get the chance to try them someday.
Hi, Sika here. I totally agree with Lunki, it was like watching a 4 hour stage production of Chicken Run.
But while I still think Ricky Gervais is awesome just as Lunki put it, I also think he wasn’t as awesome as he was last year. I’ve heard rumors some of his raunchier jokes got censored by the producers, but I’m not certain that was the case. Who cares if he didn’t truly “offend” anyone this year, he was still hilarious.
Rumors says the most offended person of the night was Gerard Butler, who allegedly threw a temper tantrum in the bathroom after experiencing technical difficulties during his award presentation. And I use the term “allegedly” very sceptical, since I read it in a Swedish newspaper, and nowadays it seems they only report rumors and celebrity gossip.. By the way, did you read that Hulk Hogan is shaving his famous mustache? I did.
One last thing about The Golden Globes, I think Rooney Mara got robbed of a statue. Just because Meryl Streep is nominated in a category there seems to be a rule that she has to be award the prize. I loved her acceptance speech, but still..
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Lunki and Sika’s Improv-a-Ganza
Congratulations to all of you who have enjoyed a lovely weekend, especially Janne the Director who is on holiday in Dalarna (in the middle of Sweden).
Me and Lunki have spent it working; i.e. writing on the script for our TV Pilot episode. To make the dialogue sound “more real”, we did some improvisation around the scenes, and I think it worked. I was pretty much Ryan Stiles, Colin Mochrie and Drew Carey rolled into one and Lunki was acting like Greg Proops.
We are getting together today as well, to continue working on it. We plan to finish it this week so we can send it to Swedish Television on Friday.
Personally, I think the script is turning out great, what else can you think of a script that begins with every other Swedish comedian being burned to a crisp?
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