Saw 'A Scanner Darkly' last night but for some reason forgot to mention it when I posted yesterday.
I enjoyed the movie immensely but it must have been to 'weird' for some - a couple of girls at the end of my aisle left after the hour mark. I don't know what they expected to see and to be honest I don't care - it was their loss.
I've realised that I've become a voyeur. I seem to do nothing but read blogs. I read a lot of the blogs of the girls on this site and I've also been following Girl With A One-Track Mind.
The thing is with this particular blog is that it might dry up. The reason: a fucking stupid-ass so-called journo thought it would make a good story to 'out' the anonymous blogger to sell a few newspapers on a Sunday morning.
I fucking can't stand tabloid journalism. If the woman who wrote this wanted to remain anonymous, she should have been allowed that right. It's not like she was killing anyone, she's just a woman who wanted to write about her perspective on sex, and how it affects/drives her daily life. There's a good reason why anonymity was important to her - she didn't want her views/stories/sex-life affecting her job, her friends and family and she didn't want to hurt anyone who had been a lover in the past. Having read today's entry, she pretty much says that her career is fucked.
I found the blog damned insightful - and very amusing. I also loved the book which seems to be the reason why the 'journalist' thought she was worthy of the story - she's managed to transfer some of her tales from the web to print and although it reads more like a girl's book, it's still an enjoyable read.
One thing also noting in this tale is that the newspaper in question wasn't the fucking News Of The World or some rag like that, it was one of the supposed mildy high-brow newspapers.
This country (and the US as well I guess) has a problem with tabloid journalism. At least in the US (from what I've seen - I could be wrong) there's no pretense that the tabloid rag is anything but a tabloid rag. There's no news as such, no worldly affairs - it's just celebrity gossip. This isn't a justification for the shit that they write but at least they don't pretend.
In the UK it's fucking awful. We're now being hit on two fronts (at the newsstands/agents). Firstly, we also have the tabloid magazines - Heat, Closer, Zoo, etc. But then we have the so-called newspapers - The Sun (+TNOTW on a Sunday), The Mirror, The Daily Record (in Scotland). These are all a waste of paper (IMHO).
And what has this new wave of journalism given us - more fucking celebrities - except we now find ourselves reading about people who haven't actually done anything - except maybe dating a footballer, shagging an actor, appearing on a fucking reality TV program, wearing a skimpy outfit at a movie premiere.
It's fucking sad.
I want to get back to a time when musicians were known and respected for the music that they wrote, not for being a junkie waste-of-space (I fucking hate Pete Doherty). I want to get back to a time when actors and actresses were known for their body of work, not who they slept with. I want to see the end of reality television. It's run its course. I don't want to see how Z-list celebrities do and don't get on (they're Z-list for a fucking reason). I don't want to see another bunch of attention seeking twats with no redeeming qualities get more than their share of 5 minute fame.
Some of my original points are probably now lost but the latter ones are equally important.
To go back to the beginning, I think it will be a sad day indeed if the Girl With A One Track Mind has to stop being so honest in her blogs - it'll be worse if they stop outright.
Rant over - hopefully my next post will be a boring did this, did that effort.
I enjoyed the movie immensely but it must have been to 'weird' for some - a couple of girls at the end of my aisle left after the hour mark. I don't know what they expected to see and to be honest I don't care - it was their loss.
I've realised that I've become a voyeur. I seem to do nothing but read blogs. I read a lot of the blogs of the girls on this site and I've also been following Girl With A One-Track Mind.
The thing is with this particular blog is that it might dry up. The reason: a fucking stupid-ass so-called journo thought it would make a good story to 'out' the anonymous blogger to sell a few newspapers on a Sunday morning.
I fucking can't stand tabloid journalism. If the woman who wrote this wanted to remain anonymous, she should have been allowed that right. It's not like she was killing anyone, she's just a woman who wanted to write about her perspective on sex, and how it affects/drives her daily life. There's a good reason why anonymity was important to her - she didn't want her views/stories/sex-life affecting her job, her friends and family and she didn't want to hurt anyone who had been a lover in the past. Having read today's entry, she pretty much says that her career is fucked.
I found the blog damned insightful - and very amusing. I also loved the book which seems to be the reason why the 'journalist' thought she was worthy of the story - she's managed to transfer some of her tales from the web to print and although it reads more like a girl's book, it's still an enjoyable read.
One thing also noting in this tale is that the newspaper in question wasn't the fucking News Of The World or some rag like that, it was one of the supposed mildy high-brow newspapers.
This country (and the US as well I guess) has a problem with tabloid journalism. At least in the US (from what I've seen - I could be wrong) there's no pretense that the tabloid rag is anything but a tabloid rag. There's no news as such, no worldly affairs - it's just celebrity gossip. This isn't a justification for the shit that they write but at least they don't pretend.
In the UK it's fucking awful. We're now being hit on two fronts (at the newsstands/agents). Firstly, we also have the tabloid magazines - Heat, Closer, Zoo, etc. But then we have the so-called newspapers - The Sun (+TNOTW on a Sunday), The Mirror, The Daily Record (in Scotland). These are all a waste of paper (IMHO).
And what has this new wave of journalism given us - more fucking celebrities - except we now find ourselves reading about people who haven't actually done anything - except maybe dating a footballer, shagging an actor, appearing on a fucking reality TV program, wearing a skimpy outfit at a movie premiere.
It's fucking sad.
I want to get back to a time when musicians were known and respected for the music that they wrote, not for being a junkie waste-of-space (I fucking hate Pete Doherty). I want to get back to a time when actors and actresses were known for their body of work, not who they slept with. I want to see the end of reality television. It's run its course. I don't want to see how Z-list celebrities do and don't get on (they're Z-list for a fucking reason). I don't want to see another bunch of attention seeking twats with no redeeming qualities get more than their share of 5 minute fame.
Some of my original points are probably now lost but the latter ones are equally important.
To go back to the beginning, I think it will be a sad day indeed if the Girl With A One Track Mind has to stop being so honest in her blogs - it'll be worse if they stop outright.
Rant over - hopefully my next post will be a boring did this, did that effort.