New Job

I got a new temping job. I've been there two days now. It's pretty cool. There's like a partition that blocks me off from the rest of the office, so no one can see me or my screen (which is a 22 inch flat screen), which is nice. I have a pretty big cubicle actually, with a window. There's art on the walls. The people are not mind blowingly retarded, which makes a change. It's £7.50 an hour which is badass. I pretty much get left to my own devices which is good and bad. Good because it means I don't get bored/frustrated, if I can decide what to do and when, I know what I need to do during the day and as long as it all gets done i can pace myself. When i have someone constantly handing out tasks to me and waiting for them to be done, I feel trapped and irritated and just cant wait for the day to end. Also it's audio typing mostly and I'm typing letters for this guy with an awesome south african accent so listening to that all day doesn't suck.

I realised today, that even in my nice office clothes, I always look somewhat scruffy. I just have an innate scruffiness about me.

Depressing

I just got hit on (in a kebab shop) by a guy who simultaneously had long greasy hair AND was balding, and looked about 17. And his chat up line was "Right, we're off now, you coming?" to which I mumbled that I had no idea who he was and he then rambled for 2 minutes solid about how I should go with him "because right, I think you're gorgeous, right."

Also, worse than that, I then came home and blogged about it.

Marketing

Just saw a commercial for some mens' wrinkle cream:

There's a guy, probably 30-40 years old and, shock, he has wrinkles.
A woman walks by him, they make eye contact and he watches her walk off with a smile.
The commentary:
"What you think are great lines, she thinks are the start of wrinkles" and you see that the woman is rolling her eyes as she walks off.

Translation:
"Happy with your body? You shouldn't be! Buy our shit please, and when it doesn't work, you too can begin your descent into self loathing!"

Comments

So I only just realised yesterday that I now have to review and accept comments before they show up. All this time I thought no one was reading or commenting and then meowza asked me why I hadn't accepted his comments, so I hunted around and found the "moderate comments" section.

Oops.

Inspiration

It occured to me that something the world is missing is carrots deepfried in batter.

Carrots are one of the few vegetables I really like and I think carrots in batter would be fucking awesome, to say the least. You get potato in batter, fish, chicken, even mars bars in certain infamous northern english fish and chip shops. The world is ready for deepfried carrots, nay, the world is crying out for them.

Let's make it happen.

lost

Alright, I think I have an actual new and original theory about Lost.

So much insane stuff has happened on the island and in the flashbacks, and there has been so much symbolism and crazy science, that I can't see that there can be any possible way to tie it all up.

I mean, think about it, we have crazy psychology references, science for the insane, mythology references, literary and music references (the books/records in the hatch), christian symbolism, chinese symbolism (the dharma logo), the black/white symbolism, the NUMBERS, the fact that all the characters are tied together and weird fantastical happenings (walt's "special powers", people's visions).

Can you honestly conceive that there is any way all this could tie together and make sense? I find it hard to believe there is explanation that explains nanobots or whatever is in that cloud, random electromagnetic fields yet also explains the fact that six symbolic numbers showed up on six basketball players' sweaters and hurley's spedometer.

"When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth" It's impossible for all those things to tie together. So what remains is the idea that they don't. Nothing in the show is supposed to make sense. The writer/producers are making it up as they go along (heck they've even pretty well said as much themselves).

The aim and idea of the show is just to keep people watching. So they're doing this by having crazy interesting and mysterious stuff happen for us to be intruiged about, including all these random references so there are things to research and talk about, then they throw in touching scenes of emotion and funny oneliners from quality characters and BAM, 18 million people are tuning in.

Haven't you ever noticed how perfectly Lost can manipulate your feelings towards a character? People hated Shannon for more than a whole series, then the episode she died, they needed us to have emotions towards her... so they made us have them. They know exactly how to control the audience and keep us watching.

In addition to this, the show is now working in a kind of "meta" or "recursive" fashion. Because as we keep watching the show without knowing any answers... the characters keep pressing that button without knowing any answers. We could theorise that this is a psychological experiment by Dharma to see how long they will do it for, but really it is more of an experiment on us, to see how long we will watch.

FLAME lol

Making up unrelated and borderline nonsensical analogies to support your points while arguing over the internet is the new mentioning the Nazis.

Johnny

Scarlett Johanssen

scene

sporadic blogging for the win.