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green_amberPredictably I now feel more awake (and indeed, more hungry) than i have for 10 days..
So expect some mock profundities to take you through the dreamtime(or hopefully not - have taken sleep amphetamine thing..)
Cultural catch up no 1. I want to marry Charlie Brooker (possibly in a polyamorous relationship with Stephen Moffat and Peter Petrelli - god is he hot this series...)
"The gap between your stupid face and cold hard reality is increasing all the time. We plod down the street holding remote conversations with voices in little plastic boxes. We slump in front of hi-def panels watching processed, graded, synchronised imagery. We wander through made-up online worlds, pausing occasionally to chew the fat with some blue-skinned tit in a jester's hat. We watch time and space collapse on a daily basis. Our world is now running an enhanced, expanded version of reality's vanilla operating system.
As a result, it's all too easy to feel like a viewer of - rather than a participant in - your own life. And living at one remove can be crippling. You spend more time internally criticising your own actions, like a snarky stoner ripping the piss out of a bad movie, than actually knuckling down and doing stuff."
Couldn't say better myself. The reflective self - who fucking needs it? (as Lee from The Apprentice might say..)
Which takes us to catching up with The Apprentice - I'm not nearly as original as Brooker's insights naturally, but fuck, it sudenly becoms crystal clear that this is not just the car crash fascination of reality tv, but the acutest yet most opaque examination of class in British society we currently have. No wonder we're glued. And omg what a set up!! dumping posh Rafe by not letting useless Michael be project manager and thus denying him another week to fuck up!!! Not very subtle Surallen.
My money's, unfortunately, on Lee; Surallen is fed up with women winning, otherwise I'd say Clare. Dreamboat Alex is too young, too polite and too nice ( I expect him to be on Pop Idol by Tuesday) and I think SurA would rather pull out own oesophagus than work with Lucinda (whom I actually like best). And I can never remeber who Helene is, which probably means she'll actually win..
[Poll #1198319]
So expect some mock profundities to take you through the dreamtime(or hopefully not - have taken sleep amphetamine thing..)
Cultural catch up no 1. I want to marry Charlie Brooker (possibly in a polyamorous relationship with Stephen Moffat and Peter Petrelli - god is he hot this series...)
"The gap between your stupid face and cold hard reality is increasing all the time. We plod down the street holding remote conversations with voices in little plastic boxes. We slump in front of hi-def panels watching processed, graded, synchronised imagery. We wander through made-up online worlds, pausing occasionally to chew the fat with some blue-skinned tit in a jester's hat. We watch time and space collapse on a daily basis. Our world is now running an enhanced, expanded version of reality's vanilla operating system.
As a result, it's all too easy to feel like a viewer of - rather than a participant in - your own life. And living at one remove can be crippling. You spend more time internally criticising your own actions, like a snarky stoner ripping the piss out of a bad movie, than actually knuckling down and doing stuff."
Couldn't say better myself. The reflective self - who fucking needs it? (as Lee from The Apprentice might say..)
Which takes us to catching up with The Apprentice - I'm not nearly as original as Brooker's insights naturally, but fuck, it sudenly becoms crystal clear that this is not just the car crash fascination of reality tv, but the acutest yet most opaque examination of class in British society we currently have. No wonder we're glued. And omg what a set up!! dumping posh Rafe by not letting useless Michael be project manager and thus denying him another week to fuck up!!! Not very subtle Surallen.
My money's, unfortunately, on Lee; Surallen is fed up with women winning, otherwise I'd say Clare. Dreamboat Alex is too young, too polite and too nice ( I expect him to be on Pop Idol by Tuesday) and I think SurA would rather pull out own oesophagus than work with Lucinda (whom I actually like best). And I can never remeber who Helene is, which probably means she'll actually win..
[Poll #1198319]
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Date: 2008-06-03 12:05 am (UTC)This is my favourite thing he's ever written. And two years later is still so depressingly true!
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Date: 2008-06-03 12:38 am (UTC)On the up side I don't think he's single right now tho..
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Date: 2008-06-03 07:47 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-06-03 11:53 am (UTC)That's what I thought when I saw him in week one. Having watched all but one of the episodes since then, I've learned that he is a complete and utter wanker. He's very good at sales and if that's what Sir Alan wants then he'd do well to make Alex the winner. But as a human being, he's a very, very unpleasant one (he has ostracised and bullied some of the contestants he perceived as weaker than him, and I know that business isn't about being nice, but nor is it about being hugely nasty and extremely cruel).
I want Lucinda to win even though I know that she won't, because she's decent and can actually work well when given something to do (as opposed to being shafted by her teammates). Helene is useless and a total bitch, Claire is very good in terms of business but also has a bitchy side. As for Lee, he and Alex have a tendency to gang up on the 'weaker' members of the group, but he has shown more elements of decency than the other nasty ones so far...and he's reasonably good at what he does too so I think he's probably the best of a bad bunch...