uninspired
Carol at work reported a conversation she overheard between two employees of Tesco while shopping there:
1ST. WOMAN: Did your kids see that video about the earthquake in Fahiti?
2ND. WOMAN: Don't you mean Haiti?
1ST WOMAN: Whatever.
But never fear, lest the disaster slip from the public's mind a group of celebrities have come to the rescue with their new version of REM's Everybody Hurts. Earthquake survivors, should they be in a position to listen to this, will be pleased to be told that they're not so special - because everybody hurts. Even Leona Lewis. So just, you know, get over it, why don't you?
On Thursday I went to the Swan with Richard and Paul, with the idea of exchanging ideas in some sort of creative forum. It suffered slightly from the fact that none of us had any ideas - or no viable ones at any rate. My 'Prawn Ring' idea sounds a bit lame when you say it out loud - almost as though it actually is quite lame. As for Richard, all he could come up with was something about Michael Bolton being kidnapped and having his hair cut off, which for mysterious reasons imperils the entire world.
Only Paul provided anything that seemed even faintly plausible, a TV series in which an angel and a demon compete to influence the life of a different character each week. Only not quite as obvious as that might sound: Paul didn't even like the idea of a 'will they won't they' romance between angel and demon, which struck me as a clear selling point. Although he did quite like it if both the angel and the demon were female. Then it wouldn't be 'will they won't they' so much as 'they will'. Every week. Possibly to the exclusion of all else.
1ST. WOMAN: Did your kids see that video about the earthquake in Fahiti?
2ND. WOMAN: Don't you mean Haiti?
1ST WOMAN: Whatever.
But never fear, lest the disaster slip from the public's mind a group of celebrities have come to the rescue with their new version of REM's Everybody Hurts. Earthquake survivors, should they be in a position to listen to this, will be pleased to be told that they're not so special - because everybody hurts. Even Leona Lewis. So just, you know, get over it, why don't you?
On Thursday I went to the Swan with Richard and Paul, with the idea of exchanging ideas in some sort of creative forum. It suffered slightly from the fact that none of us had any ideas - or no viable ones at any rate. My 'Prawn Ring' idea sounds a bit lame when you say it out loud - almost as though it actually is quite lame. As for Richard, all he could come up with was something about Michael Bolton being kidnapped and having his hair cut off, which for mysterious reasons imperils the entire world.
Only Paul provided anything that seemed even faintly plausible, a TV series in which an angel and a demon compete to influence the life of a different character each week. Only not quite as obvious as that might sound: Paul didn't even like the idea of a 'will they won't they' romance between angel and demon, which struck me as a clear selling point. Although he did quite like it if both the angel and the demon were female. Then it wouldn't be 'will they won't they' so much as 'they will'. Every week. Possibly to the exclusion of all else.
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