Stupid stupid brain

Posts I have written in the past few days and then decided I am feeling too stupid to finish off and deal with the comments for: three.

(On things you hate to love, arguing on the internet, and shocking art)

I am feeling bored but unchatty. *passively consumes the internet, and where's the fun in that?*

Ad vs reality in the House

So I stopped watching "House" early last season, and all I've encountered since then has been via fandom, ie bits of fanfic etc here and there, and some comments about how the writers are quite clearly pandering to fans and slashers etc. I was pretty sure it was still pretty understated (if not entirely in people's imaginations) though.

And then I randomly flipped channels to commercial tv for a change, and hit a trailer for the upcoming episode (8:30 on ten, if you care), which basically implied that House becomes obsessed with a male soap opera star and kidnaps him for his own nefarious purposes, a la Love and Death on Long Island. I sat there incredulous.. and then of course looked it up online.

Alas, the real plot, as exhibited by the american ad, is much less interesting :)

On the ohtr hand, how awesome is it that I can watch an ad and immediately find a synopsis of the episode and a similar ad for the same episode. I love the internet.

This is what happens when I say I'm not posting

Anyway. Anyone watch The Gruen Transfer? It was..interesting. A mix of commentary, humour, and offensively smarmy ad execs.

I think where it's going to suffer compared to, say "Spicks and Specks" or "The New inventors" is that unlike inventors and musicians, nobody likes ad executives. This may be an insurmountable flaw in the "watch ad executives talk for 30 minutes" format, although I did get some joy from watching them prove just how smarmy they really were (the two dumpy guys anyway, the other two weren't so bad)