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My (Repugnant) Pride

March 27, 2007 at 6:04 pm | In Music, Visual Media | 3 Comments

I’m not posting this to show off or be big headed or anything, but I was fucking around with a phone camera and a pulled of the first riff in Scent of the Obscene by SikTh almost perfectly and couldn’t resist sharing it with everyone who cares. I’ll probably never do it again. That’s why I just stop moving at the end of the video: I’m actually shocked by it.

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Mr. Beaner

August 1, 2006 at 2:49 pm | In Rants, Visual Media | 1 Comment

Lots and lots of friends were once grouped in one house. And to enjoy eachother’s company, they decided to put the television on. Anyone even slightly observant will know where I am going here. And what did these friends put on? Mr. Bean. This is officially the most dire, unfunny, unclever piece of crap that has ever been produced by anyone. A really ugly man pretending to be stupid and running around with an aerial is just not funny. Okay, I understand that it was originally created with an audience of four-year-olds in mind, but why would a bunch of sixteen/seventeen year-olds find it amusing. I will put a statement out to the general public from my own mouth:

If your are above the age of six and you enjoy the embarrassingly pathetic antics of a silly head pretending to be silly, then you deserve to get raped by your own grandfather.

Thank you.

My Hamster Obsession

July 30, 2006 at 11:54 pm | In Questions, Visual Media | Leave a Comment

I recently posted about my prejudice against television. Well, the two programmes I seem to be able to watch are Top Gear and Brainiac. The obvious connection: Richard Hammond. I don’t watch these problems because I like the Hamster, I just like the subjects and humour. Do I have a subconscious crush on Hammond? Or do I hate caravans? I don’t know.

This raises the question though: if Richard Hammond was in the O.C., would I watch it? This is a question I would like to have answered. I plan on emailing both Richard and the producers of the O.C. and finding out whether I can stand it or not. All in the name of mental science of course! Maybe I could get medical sponsorship…

Television/Films

July 7, 2006 at 10:57 pm | In Rants, Visual Media | 4 Comments

It was only a matter of time before I had a real go on this subject. Anyone who knows me well will know where I am coming from.

Right now, I am sitting in the room next door to the living room in my friend’s house, where they are watching the O.C. on a television. How bland! Why would you want to do something over which you have no control, and benefits you in no way whatsoever? If you want to do something for entertainment, then do something that interacts with you rather than fill your brain with mindless crap.

Even if you don’t want interactive entertainment, you can put it this way: when you listen to music, you’re listening to people doing something that is good: they’re actually doing something; when you watch T.V. or a film, you’re just watching people pretending to do something. It’s like, “I can’t actually do anything myself, I’ll pretend to do something that is interesting”.

I will summarise by contradicting myself slightly in saying that the only things that T.V. is good for is sport and news, otherwise, it is wasteful garbage.