OK, my holiday stretches to the end of this week, but next week I get back to work. I have to really as my run at the Arts Theatre starts on Tuesday. Please
come and see me. Buy your tickets right now!
Anyway nothing has changed. I just wasted my day, fannying around on the internet and watching telly. Ah Youtube. What a wonderful friend you are to the work shy prevaricator.
I came across a couple of very funny songs from New Zealand duo, "Flight of the Conchords" from their new series. I first encountered these fellas at the Melbourne Festival in (I think) 2002. I think they had just started then, though already they were turning into a localised smash. Typically for me I didn't really get out to go and see them, though I did catch them at one showcase event in a late-night bar. I can't remember anything about it. I think I probably resented them for doing so well, when no-one seemed to notice that I existed. I should have become their friend and learned the guitar and tried to join the group, but my usual mixture of awkwardness and shyness and stupidity meant that I didn't even talk to them.
Despite my lack of input and assistance, the Conchords have managed to make a breathtakingly rapid rise to superstardom and I have to say that from the clips I was looking at it is entirely deserved.
This one is very funny. But
this one is even better. I probably watched it about five times in a row, laughing as much or more each time. They are a pair of funny fuckers. It's only taken me five years to realise. With insight like this I should become a TV executive.
Which reminds me of another idea I have had for a TV show. I have always felt that shows like the X Factor and those things where people audition for Grease or Joseph and his Technicoloured Dream Coat are slightly insulting to professional performers who have worked for years to get where they are, only to then lose out on jobs to chancer members of the public.And I wondered how TV executives might feel if there was a similar show, with the aim of selecting a member of the public to become the new controller of, say, BBC2. With the public voting their favourite candidate into the position. One suspects they wouldn't like it, claiming that you would need the requisite experience to take such a position. But this isn't something that seems to bother them when the person is a singer or an actor. I think members of the public might well do a good job of being TV executives. I am going to write the proposal up. I suspect that this one might not get a series.
