So this is from a TV spot for car insurance company. Its a street in Birmingham which has the highest number of insurance claims in the country. And was covered in bubble wrap for the day. I like bubble wrap and climbing ladders, so this was a good day to be me.
I've forgotten how to blog. I must have done because look, I haven’t done it in ages. It used to be easy. I just read a book or watched a film and then moaned about how stupid it was or how much it would have been better if I had written it. But I haven't done that in ages. I'm sure I've got loads to talk about.... I went to see Dylan Moran and David O'Doherty (I made him laugh. Twice). I saw La Premier Jour de Reste de ta Vie, which is possibly not spelt at all like that but made ME laugh twice...
I read Johnny Magic and the Card Shark Kids, which was awesome, and David Karps One which I should have read years ago. I finally saw The Sure Thing in which John Cusack out-Cusack’s himself.
I discovered Wavves, painted a shop front in Carnaby St for the good people at WeSC and got a Yoda eight-ball for Christmas.
I dipped my TV-watching-toes into the terrifying waters of US reality monstrosity Jersey Shore (Seriously, Hey! America! We have reality TV too... remember when the two girls on Big Brother got upset and threatened to hit each other, and Channel 4 cut its live feeds, called security and police, and took the girls off the show? .... they did not 1) Continue filming ACTUAL PHYSICAL FIGHTS 2) Broadcast the footage 3) Do nothing that would in any way resemble a consequence to peoples actions. America you are so strange. Or right-on... I mean, why shouldn't the little scrappers be treated like the performing monkeys they so clearly are? Jersey Shore is insanity. It’s this unbelievable hyper-escalation of real-time life. Its like the eleventh dimension. That’s the only way I can describe it. Some people go and live in a house by a beach and fall in love with each other and then fight each other and then go into another room and find someone else to fall in love with and fight and each episode is nearly an hour long just to cram in all the loving and fighting and then you find out that the entire span of the show is about three weeks. I have been alive Twenty Seven Years, and have found no one to fight and very few people worth falling in love with, but not only are these guys doing more fighting and loving than entire nations, there’s only seven of them! How does that ratio work? Put me in a room with seven people and it's probably going to be a few hours before I'm comfortable enough to chat, and there could be several years hiatus before I get bored enough to want to kill or kiss someone. Oh look, I remembered how to blog I guess...)
CheatingWhore, Hysterical Whiner, Perky Midget, Departed but Atrocious Human Being.
Anyhow, these are the kids from Jersey Shore. There are eight of them here, but purple top girl (the spectacularly obnoxious Angelique) didn’t manage to hang around for the whole series. If you ever, ever see any of these people coming in your direction, turn and run unless you want to be violated in some unspeakable way.
Its kinda worth looking at the Wikipedia entry for the series, as it details the piles of controversy surrounding the show, and has this to say about Nicole (she’s the shortest girl one) "She is not an embarrassment to Italian Americans – she is actually an embarrassment to the entire human race". This is funny, because as far I've seen in the series, she was a contender for Most Quazi-Human Entity in Jersey Shore. Her or Vinnie, anyways.
