‘It is no good printing the truth once’
Some great words from Sir Harold Evans. Grabbed this from the Guardian this morning. Inspiring stuff.
Notes from Nirvana: a weekend with man flu
There’s nothing like being bed-ridden for a couple of days with a nasty cold to really make you think about everything that’s going on in your life. When the very idea of watching TV, surfing the net, or even reading a book makes you go green, you know you’re in for some serious critical self-reflection.
Here’s a small selection of those thoughts:
All I can say is thank god for TV so we can all tune in and switch off – the best cure for existential man flu ever.
The SEO Pyramid
Just watching a live meeting now with Scott Willoughby from SEOmoz and trying to get my head around the SEO Pyramid. Seems to make sense to me. You can’t really make an impact at the top unless you have the basics (base) covered.
Click here to see a video with Scott explaining the Pyramid
The SEO Pyramid
MSN Movies interview with Ricky Gervais
Here’s a very honest interview with Ricky Gervais promoting the DVD release of ‘The Invention Lying’. Hilarious. He also talks about the benefits of hosting this year’s Golden Globes. Click on the image below to watch the video.
Kill Survivors before it kills us
Come on, be honest. You must agree that the BBC’s latest adaptation of Survivors is a complete waste of time and money.
It’s not strictly this series alone that strives only to fail. I’m getting pretty sick of all these TV shows that start with a pretty decent premise, throws in some interesting characters and then nothing, Kaput, de nada. I’m going to call it the ‘One In Three’ rule. You hook ‘em in with a semi decent storyline and then drag it out so that there’s only one decent hour in three. There might be a rising trend in consuming programmes like these as part of an entire DVD package over a single weekend – but you do have to draw the line at drivel.
The thing that is particularly bad with Survivors is that tries to be a cosy catastrophe like The Day of The Triffids and other post-apocalyptic visions, but it ends up being nothing at all.
And, speaking of Triffids, did you see the way the Beeb botched that one up at Christmas as well?
Rant, rant, rant. One of the many ways of demonstrating why this series sucks is the casting of Paterson Joseph in the lame character of Greg Preston. Now Joseph is, in my opinion, one of the best Shakespearean actors out there. If you ever see him on stage you’ll see how talented this guy is. But translated onto screen his talents are wasted. It’s like inviting Chekov in for a nice cup of tea at the Queen Vic.
The BBC describe Paterson’s character thus:
‘Greg Preston (Paterson Joseph) A former systems analyst for a big multi-national, Greg felt trapped and dreamed of a new life. But his wife, who had grown used to a wealthy and comfortable lifestyle, was appalled by his utopian vision of a new, hard scrabble future. Nursing bitter personal wounds, Greg is now a man who believes he can live without love, friendship or family. ‘
Hardly Troilus and Cressida is it? And it plays out like this:
In fact, this clip alone was perhaps the most exciting part of that particular episode. Painful to watch.
I’m not having a dig at the actors, it’s the script I’m on about. And the audacity of slopping this up for a full hour each week.
But, being a sucker, I’ll probably watch it to the end.
