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[shermarama]

The other day I found myself trying to justify why Charlie Brooker was a really good thing to someone who basically doesn't watch TV. Earlier this evening I walked into the lounge to get my drum key, further to doing preparatory things to my drumkit in time for the recording tomorrow, feeling moderately cheesed off at various aspects of the whole shebang, no doubt exacerbated by this lurgy refusing to budge, and found that the man himself had just got into his stride on an episode of Screen Burn. I retrieved the drum key but sat and watched the rest of the episode before I went and did anything with it, trying not to laugh too hard because it really hurts my fucking throat at the minute. I don't know, there are plenty of times when automatic cynicism irritates me; my house in Brighton had a Private Eye subscription for years and spot on as some of it was, some of it was obviously done on reflex and not necessarily very well justified or thought through. Perhaps the change of medium, a fast-moving TV show, makes it all okay by not giving me time to think; mainly Screen Burn just leaves me glad to have had all that spleen vented - especially at the minute when I can't shout at anyone myself, even if in truth I hardly ever do because it seems to always turn out to be basically a bad idea in real life, even if I'm not much of a TV watcher myself and half the stuff on there isn't something I had heard of to know it needed ranting about. Apparently there is a sort of charity gameshow going on with Jeffrey Archer being among a panel of celebs deciding who's worthy of getting money for their causes. And now I don't need to bother trying to come up with a description of how bad an idea that is because Charlie's done it for me, much funnier than I could, and without me even needing to remember the details - the evil is revealed in the same instant as its undoing, allowing no time for it to fester in my brain and irritate me, leaving only the fond memory of the joyous act of flinging it away. Thanks, Charlie, I know it sounds unlikely but you appeal to my optimism.

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[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

screen burn = harry hill's tv burp with more swearing and less jokes.

also it's on at stupidly random times meaning i never remeember it's on...

...i do ♥ brooker though, his thing on "why i hate macs" (http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,2006031,00.html) last week was inspired, OH THE IRONING, look it's surrounded by the same ad it's ripping on, on the website...

[shermarama]

I don't think I could ever be organised enough to remember to watch it on a regular basis but it's nice to run into it.

The whole PC and Mac advert malarkey mainly confirms to me why I want a PC. I'd rather like to have a computer that can do stuff like spreadsheets and pie charts, actually, and though Macs can do this, if they're going to sell Macs entirely on the basis of whether you shop at Gap, well, I'm a non-Gap-shopper and proud.