I have been getting lots of reads of my ‘Life after Kitchen Nightmares’ article but in the format it was published (one big post) it was a pain to update, hence I decided it best to split the article up into lots of little articles so I can update and manage it easier.
http://kitchennightmares.mangatower.com.au/
It’s still a work in progress so expect lots of updates.
USA section is nearing completion.
My friend David Hall was just over looking at my impressive blog stats (sif), and after checking google we found that my site hasn’t been crawled by google since 2007….
Ooops(see pic), I think I have fixed it now.. and hopefully I can get a page rank increase~
A must watch anime series starts on ABC2 tomorrow night @ 9:30pm
Summary from ABC
‘Light Yagami is an ace student with great prospects - and he’s bored out of his mind. But all that changes when he finds the ‘Death Note’, a notebook dropped by a rogue Shinigami death god. Now he holds the power of life and death in his hands. Any human whose name is written in the notebook dies.
Light has vowed to use the power of the Death Note to rid the world of evil. But when criminals begin dropping dead one by one, the authorities send the legendary and genius detective L to track down the killer. With L hot on his heels, will Light lose sight of his noble goal… or his life?’
Looks pretty good, although my google video plugin is causing a few issues.
Website should be back to normal by tomorrow night.
For those of us dating/interacting or what not with Chinese it’s a bit awkward trying to watch English films with them unless you have subtitles.
I’ve found the best places to find subtitles for DVDs (or DivX backups) is http://shooter.cn/. Although the website is all in Mandarin it’s quite simple to use.
If you don’t know how to get subtitles to work with films there is heaps of tutorials around, good luck.
18/06/08 EVEN NEWER Kitchen Nightmare website/blog released!
Currently a work in progress, expect lots of updates!
Here.
For a bit of personal interest I decided to find out what happened after Ramsay left the restaurants, sadly it’s mostly depressing but yet an interesting read. I still have a few gaps in my information so if anyone can help out it would be greatly appreciated.
Season 1
Bonaparte’s Restaurant
[/Episode Reminder]
A 21 year old Chef who can’t make an omelette, a owner who’s unaware of what’s going on in her kitchen.
[/The Aftermath]
April 2004, London Evening Standard publishes an article alleging that the Kitchen Nightmare production company faked the culinary disasters and placed the chef there purposely. More Info
May 2004, The Daily Mail reports chef Tim has been offered a job by Gordon Ramsay to work in one of his London restaurants, but Tim knocked back the offer as he has ambitions to run three of his own restaurants and become a TV celebrity. More Info.
July 2004, Sue Ray the owner, says she is going to sue Gordon Ramsay and the television show producers for landing her £400,000 in debt. Claiming the episode unfairly portrayed her restaurant. More Info
September 2004, Gordon Ramsay goes back to visit Boneparte’s Restaurant as part of a revisited episode, and found since the episode screened, Tim was sacked, the restaurant had stopped serving food and Sue has put the business up for sale, she says she has narrowly avoided bankruptcy.
February 2005, The Guardian reports Sue has now placed Boneparte’s on the market for £450,000. More Info.
March 2005, The Daily Star reports that Sue the ex-owner of Bonaparte’s Resturant is now homeless and jobless. Sue went bankrupt owing £400,000. Within the same time Sue was caught drink driving, at her court appearance said stated that her TV appearance in Kitchen Nightmares led to her financial and personal downfall, she pleaded guilty and was banned from driving for 12 months. More Info
July 2005, The Daily Mail publishes an article about ex-chef Tim, which comments about Tim not being able to hold a job since the airing of Kitchen Nightmare and claimed he just got sacked from his third job when his boss found out about Bonaparte’s. More Info
June 2006, Ramsay won a High Court case against the London Evening Standard, which had alleged, after reports from previous owner of Bonapartes, Sue Ray, that scenes and the general condition of the restaurant, which was the subject of the first episode of Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares, had been faked. Ramsay was awarded £75,000 plus costs. Ramsay said at the time: “I won’t let people write anything they want to about me. We have never done anything in a cynical, fake way.” Wikid
August 2007, Tim the ex-chef goes to court over drink driving offenses, he claimed the negative publicity from the show has led him to drink driving. During the questioning by police Tim repeatedly made references about Gordon Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares and it being the cause of his ‘ruined’ life. More Info
[/Status] = Closed.
[/Extra]
Extra Reading 1 Extra Reading 2
Apparently the restaurant has been purchased and renamed, need more info.
The Glass House
[/Episode Reminder]
Owner who lacks self confidence, chef who is getting paid too much for the work he is doing.
10. Irene Cara - FlashDance
-FlashDance(1983)
[youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=Jcp7v0uoybc[/youtube]
[/Info] The Academy Award winning theme to Flashdance, it has also won the Golden Globe Award (best original song) and managed to hold onto the NO.1 position on the U.S Hot 100 Billboard for 36 days.
9. Huey Lewis - The Power of Love
-Back to the Future(1985)
[youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=kOu8×1gqW3c[/youtube]
[/Personal Fact] Although it began as humorous after spending an entire evening splicing ‘The Power of love’ into every song playing while co-DJing my friends party, my friends now hate the song and have banned me from DJing again. ditto.
8. Survivor - Eye of The Tiger
-Rocky III(1982)
[youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=MO_2nQj4O-4[/youtube]
[/Random Fact] Eye of the Tiger was used for a short time as the entrance theme for pro wrestler Hulk hogan (who also appeared in Rocky 3)
7. Kenny Loggins - Danger Zone Continue Reading… »
-Top Gun(1986)
I now have lots of time free to make mini-films… need to do something to keep my mind busy. =/
I’ll do something to try and get a few laughs again.
Ack long time no update but I’ve been distracted by other novelties.
Sadly I’m still waiting on my Widescreen lens to arrive, if it hasn’t arrived by the end of this week I’ll probably pull my money back and grab it locally($30 more, but at least I wont have to wait another 4 weeks).
Went up lower Mt. Wellington with my GF yesterday to grab some nature footage for my green screening. I managed to get 10 minutes of REALLY good footage before it started to rain, I’ll hopefully head up Mt. Wellington again this coming weekend.
Also on the video editing front I’ve been doing a lot of storyboarding but not much editing, previous projects I’ve done the filming first then the planning second… finally going to do it the proper way hence when the project is done expect it to be decent! (for real)
On a random note; I had too much Chinese the other week.. decided I didn’t like it anymore, then after a short break I realised I missed the Chinese… Although I’m still undecided if I really like Chinese or not, but I think I do like it.
*On a site related note; spammers seem to of found this site(over 100 msgs over the past fortnight) so I had to make comments via approval only(you only need to get approval once then all your future comments will be auto approved.)
Just a bunch of pics today,
Girlfriend jealousy.. Was my friends birthday today and his girlfriend made these for him…
Yes it’s a home made Optimus Prime birthday card! painstakingly made over 8 hours using scrap booking skills. So insanely jealous!
He also got a homemade Army Cake.
Battlefield anyone?
Onto almost serious stuff now, my Fig Rig with my Camera in it(see previous blog entry on how I made it)
My Green Screen Material
Incase you can’t read the text on it, it’s a table cover from a partyshop(30 meters) should be good, will post an entry on how it goes later.
Till next time.
