The Importance of Being Idle

We're Gonna Need A Montage

I've just watched yet another of the BBC's utterly amateurish 'news' programmes and they really are pretty funny. They're certainly setting a somewhat different news agenda than everybody else, largely focusing on trivia, poor delivery, shoddy editing and a generally unfocused 'feel', whereas all the other news outlets are leading with the BBC being rubbish and showing clips of them being rubbish. Seriously, I'd never considered reading the news to be any kind of highly skilled job, I mean it's largely reading aloud, but having watched the B-team doing it (y'know, the sort of people who only get to read the news at 2am Christmas morning when absolutely nobody else will do it) I see that I was wrong, oh so very wrong. Its not just the talent in front of the camera, its the contributions of the guys & gals behind the scenes that are really missed. For reasons which ellude me I was just watching a few minutes of the live coverage of the Chelsea flower show, and the camera work and general editing is just obviously being done by an amateur. I can see what they're aiming for, but they're not getting anywhere near it. Its not just TV either, BBC radio stations have been pretty messed up too... much as I complain about the whole License Fee issue, the BBC is such an integral part of everyday life in this country that you really do notice it when its gone, or even when its just slightly messed up.
I saw Team America: World Police again today, and damn that film is so funny. I mean basically, it is a typical Jerry Bruckheimer action movie (it copies so many of Michael Bays camera moves its not even funny - except that it is funny), but done with puppets. And sex and extreme violence. And did I mention the puppets? It's just one of the funniest things I've ever seen. There really are no sacred cows where this movie is concerned, and it should offend almost everyone at some point, but it'll make you laugh and it might even make you think about a few things. Oh yeah and it has awesome songs too.
I'm thinking about doing something to my flat, but I don't really know what. Probably not furniture moving, I can't really see how that'd help, but I am thinking about some serious re-organisation of all the crap I keep, maybe trying to slim some of it down to a manageable amount. Of course thinking about it doesn't make it happen, but then I've thrown things out before in haste and regretted it later, so I don't want to do that again. Still I do think that I have huge amounts of stuff from chapters of my life that are closed, and that I'd have more room for the things I like if I got rid of the things I used to like (insert your own joke about my ex-wife here)...

posted by BadMonkey @ 7:00 PM