You know how you'll set a goal, and then fail at it?
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I DON'T DO THAT
Tuesday, 29 January 2008
Sunday, 27 January 2008
Thursday, 17 January 2008
Corey Delaney - Dead Set Legend
There is nothing inherently interesting about Corey Delaney. But, by virtue of his being a very model of a modern Australian teenager, he has landed himself in a battle over the morals of youf.
If you look at ACA's incredibly mishandled attempt to shame him into repentance:
you'll realise that this is way bigger than the generation gap. This is new media vs old media - TV, radio, they just don't know what to do with him. Time was, scoundrels could be rooted out by shows like ACA, and they would run to their cars, hands over their faces. Shamed.
But shame doesn't work on the unshameable. And for a generation of kids who have grown up with Big Brother, notoriety doesn't just resemble fame - it is the same thing exactly. Desirable in every sense.
He's unflinching, unrepentant, neither cowed nor dazzled by the lustre of old media. He walked out of a radio interview after one of the hosts tried to get his famous glasses off. You'll see the same fight in the aisles of supermarkets all over the world, between stubborn toddlers and their exasperated parents. It's the frustration of someone who feels that they're not getting the deference that they deserve, that surely this should be easy - this is just a kid, after all.
But that's exactly why it works. No one but a 15 year old could manage to be this unimpressed by everything. Being unimpressed is the raison d'etre of 15. The people he's supposed to be awed by are irrelevant to him and his mates. I'd love to see him on Dr Phil, he'd probably reduce the old bastard to tears.
There are Facebook groups for and against, and threats have been issued. This isn't what things used to be like, for sure. TV used to have some kind of authority, you know? But they destroyed that when they handed most of their programming content to The People.
It's all fucking entertaining though, like watching the Hindenberg go down, safe in the knowledge that every single person on it is a complete wanker.
If you look at ACA's incredibly mishandled attempt to shame him into repentance:
"You need to take a long, hard look at yourself."
"I did. Everyone did. And they love it."
you'll realise that this is way bigger than the generation gap. This is new media vs old media - TV, radio, they just don't know what to do with him. Time was, scoundrels could be rooted out by shows like ACA, and they would run to their cars, hands over their faces. Shamed.
But shame doesn't work on the unshameable. And for a generation of kids who have grown up with Big Brother, notoriety doesn't just resemble fame - it is the same thing exactly. Desirable in every sense.
He's unflinching, unrepentant, neither cowed nor dazzled by the lustre of old media. He walked out of a radio interview after one of the hosts tried to get his famous glasses off. You'll see the same fight in the aisles of supermarkets all over the world, between stubborn toddlers and their exasperated parents. It's the frustration of someone who feels that they're not getting the deference that they deserve, that surely this should be easy - this is just a kid, after all.
But that's exactly why it works. No one but a 15 year old could manage to be this unimpressed by everything. Being unimpressed is the raison d'etre of 15. The people he's supposed to be awed by are irrelevant to him and his mates. I'd love to see him on Dr Phil, he'd probably reduce the old bastard to tears.
There are Facebook groups for and against, and threats have been issued. This isn't what things used to be like, for sure. TV used to have some kind of authority, you know? But they destroyed that when they handed most of their programming content to The People.
It's all fucking entertaining though, like watching the Hindenberg go down, safe in the knowledge that every single person on it is a complete wanker.
Saturday, 12 January 2008
She doesn't give a fig for Newton
Among the more memorable sights and sounds at Ding Dong last night:
A certain Nightwatchman wailing the shit out of a harmonica. Then some tiny woman crossed the floor to tell him just how much she liked it. Instrument of love indeed.
One specific hipster with elastic-ankled high water jeans, no socks and sandshoes.
Two particular tits flagrantly disobeying several Laws of Physics. Although the owner displayed an uncanny facility for the one about levers.
And the best overheard conversation snippet?
A certain Nightwatchman wailing the shit out of a harmonica. Then some tiny woman crossed the floor to tell him just how much she liked it. Instrument of love indeed.
One specific hipster with elastic-ankled high water jeans, no socks and sandshoes.
Two particular tits flagrantly disobeying several Laws of Physics. Although the owner displayed an uncanny facility for the one about levers.
And the best overheard conversation snippet?
I haven't seen Brokeback Mountain, but...
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