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Showing posts with label Harry Potter. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Harry Potter. Show all posts
Saturday, 21 July 2007
Thursday, 12 July 2007
Potter has put us on the Y List
When it comes to corporate invitations the EasternMax family are firmly on the Z list. This is not how I thought it would be when Firegazer moved from a financial services to a corporate role. After all his company does make beer. Loads of other families have a social life they couldn’t possibly afford due to the generosity of corporate Australia so why can’t we?
Tonight our social life improved when the whole family was invited to a corporate showing of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. And how cool it was.
Held at the Cremorne Orpheum’s main auditorium we walked into a “Hogwarts Castle” complete with Hagrid and assorted wizards; the kids were treated to a pre-film magic show while we adults gulped down a drink; just prior to the movie show bags were handed out containing a drink, popcorn, and maltesers and then waiters walked around offering Drumsticks and Choc Tops. Even KelpieBlossom who earlier had decried "all the fuss" was impressed.
As the lights started to dim the Orpheum’s famous Wurlitzer Pipe Organ rose from the floor playing the Harry Potter theme music then trailed off and lowered back under the floor as the opening credits rolled.
Apparently this company have held this event here for each of the Harry Potter movies. They certainly do a great job. Following the movie we were each handed a box of “Every Flavour Beans” (Jelly Belly) and told to expect a copy of HP7 to be delivered to each family between 21-25 July!
Man-o-Man we may not get these invitations often but when we do they’re certainly a doozy! I think we’ve finally made it to the Y list.
Oh, and the movie was great. It was obviously hard to condense an 800 page book into 2 ½ hours, and we could argue all day whether the right bits were left in or left out, but it certainly captured the essence. Despite its M rating I thought it was less violent than HP4 but the themes were definitely more adult. Tonks and Luna were cast perfectly and Delores Umbridge was a crack.
Rating: 4 stars
Kids under 10?: take them if they’ve seen all the other movies and haven’t suffered from nightmares
Kids under 5?: won’t get it, too scary (unless of course you are my 3 1/2 year old fairy god-daughter who will not only get it but quiz us on it afterwards)
Tonight our social life improved when the whole family was invited to a corporate showing of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. And how cool it was.
Held at the Cremorne Orpheum’s main auditorium we walked into a “Hogwarts Castle” complete with Hagrid and assorted wizards; the kids were treated to a pre-film magic show while we adults gulped down a drink; just prior to the movie show bags were handed out containing a drink, popcorn, and maltesers and then waiters walked around offering Drumsticks and Choc Tops. Even KelpieBlossom who earlier had decried "all the fuss" was impressed.
As the lights started to dim the Orpheum’s famous Wurlitzer Pipe Organ rose from the floor playing the Harry Potter theme music then trailed off and lowered back under the floor as the opening credits rolled.
Apparently this company have held this event here for each of the Harry Potter movies. They certainly do a great job. Following the movie we were each handed a box of “Every Flavour Beans” (Jelly Belly) and told to expect a copy of HP7 to be delivered to each family between 21-25 July!
Man-o-Man we may not get these invitations often but when we do they’re certainly a doozy! I think we’ve finally made it to the Y list.
Oh, and the movie was great. It was obviously hard to condense an 800 page book into 2 ½ hours, and we could argue all day whether the right bits were left in or left out, but it certainly captured the essence. Despite its M rating I thought it was less violent than HP4 but the themes were definitely more adult. Tonks and Luna were cast perfectly and Delores Umbridge was a crack.
Rating: 4 stars
Kids under 10?: take them if they’ve seen all the other movies and haven’t suffered from nightmares
Kids under 5?: won’t get it, too scary (unless of course you are my 3 1/2 year old fairy god-daughter who will not only get it but quiz us on it afterwards)
Thursday, 14 June 2007
24 CDs in 128 hours
Last night at 9pm (just in time for Lights Out) KelpieBlossom finished the last of the 24 Harry Potter 5 Audio CDs (see earlier post). That's 24 CDs in 128 hours or an average of 4.6hours of listening a day. Yes, she went to school. Yes, she went to all her afterschool activities.
Back to a noisy house this morning.
Back to a noisy house this morning.
Wednesday, 13 June 2007
Harry Potter Bookpile
Book cataloguing website, Library Thing is experiencing downtime at the moment.
While they are fixing whatever needs fixing they are having a competition for a new "bookpile" photo to be placed on their home page. Entrants upload their entries to flickr. com
If you're interested in seeing the other bookpiles, entries are tagged "LTDown".
I loved this one. Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone in many different languages.
While they are fixing whatever needs fixing they are having a competition for a new "bookpile" photo to be placed on their home page. Entrants upload their entries to flickr. com
If you're interested in seeing the other bookpiles, entries are tagged "LTDown".
I loved this one. Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone in many different languages.
Tuesday, 12 June 2007
All Quiet on the Eastern Front
Earlier this year we told KelpieBlossom that if she read Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix we'd take her to see the movie when it comes out in July. Well, at over 800 pages she's found it a bit of a struggle to get through. So when we found a copy of the Audio CD version at the library on Sunday we said we would take her to the movie if she's listened to the book.
The audio version, read by the fabulous Stephen Fry, comprises 24 CDs and over 28 hours of listening. We calculated that if she listened to 1-2 CDs each night she'd be finished by the time the movie arrived in A Cinema Near You.
Silly us. Since Sunday 1pm KelpieBlossom hasn't been seen without headphones firmly planted on her ears and has listened to 16 CDs.
It's lovely and quiet at the EasternMax Residence.
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