Jonbar's Screen Burn.

The job hunt is going ok. I've got applications for jobs with the GSCC (insert miss use of acronym here) for two different positions, the first being the rather plain and boring sounding "Registration Assistant" and the second, more exciting sounding one, "Enquiries Officer". Well i think it sounds cool as the job title has the word officer in it and implies to me that i'll get issued with a long coat and a kick ass hat. The other applications are for the position of in the foreign exchange desks of the local First Choice Travel Agents and the Co-op Travel Agents which both have the massive bonus of being partitioned off from the rest of the woefully over fake tanned staff and the general public by bullet proof glass. My final application is for a temp role at Brantano's.



I finally got round to watching the first episode of Dirty Sexy Money which is currently gracing our screens on Channel 4. It isn't bad folks. It isn't great either, but it does have its moments. It also has Donald Sutherland in the main line up which can only ever be a major bonus and no doubt put the shows investors at ease. The story so far goes along the lines of: Man is son of a man who was the family lawyer of a rich American family. Man doesn't like his upbringing that much. Man's father dies, man goes to funeral, promises wife he'd never want anything to do with rich family again. Man takes job a rich family's new lawyer. (Yes his opinion is turned round VERY quickly without any real explanation on the part of the writers, i guess they hoped we'd just go along with it.) Man discovers that his father's plane crash might not have been a accident and that one of the members of the rich family probably did it. Let the games begin. For the record if it turns out to be Donald Sutherland i want to say now that i fucking called it.



And now some messages to the advertisement industry. Stop it with the oh look how clever we are we've made a glorified domino rally or cleverly used all the bits of the product somehow trend that seems to be their fall back position these days. Guinness i'm especially looking at you. Ok the Honda one was very good, but remember they were also the first ones to do it and as such have the right to continue with that sort of thing. Ford, i don't care how many times you say so, you did not make a violin out of a windscreen wiper! Guinness, what the hell does all that have to do with selling Stout anyway? You had a good form going with your previous offerings (also admitted having very little to do with the product, other that the fact that Guinness is black and white), you do not have to copy Honda. Oh and Sony, we love the rabbits, keep it up!



Right now the TV schedulers! Ok guys, we have almost bugger all on during the week because some witless bastard thought it'd be funny to put things on only during the weekend and Friday night. Now i know i don't have anything else to do with my time at the moment, but a lot of other people do and it can only be reasonable to assume that this is hurting viewing figures. Why the hell is ER on on Saturday evening?! Put it back to a mid week slot! That goes for Torchwood as well! Oh and can the BBC please stop wasting the licence fee on "Damages". You put it on late on Friday night, it isn't very good and no one i know of is watching it, get rid.



My highlight of the week. Friday's episode of Torchwood, purely because it proved i was in the right place when i visited Cardiff the other week! Woop!

Now call me a geek and go and do something worthwhile!

I know, no pictures. I've been quite busy recently and thus the blog is suffering (i'm as surprised as you are, fancy that, me with things to do!)