Dag 795: I've never done good things

I have been working at a television company on some project or something for some time now. I used to work in a big room full of people with about 10 TVs at the front showing various TV channels. Usually it was sport and Australian aerobics, but one day about 2 and a half years ago it was decided that there wasn't enough available power for the computers so any non essential bit of kit that ran off electricity would need to be switched off and so all of the TVs were switched off never to be seen on again.

So it remained until about 1 month ago. By this time I was working in another room which was much smaller. There was 1 portable TV in here, but it only got switched on at night so when I was on the night shift I could watch Sinefeld, the simpsons or futurama. But about a month ago the TV was moved down to my end of the room and started being switched on during the day. Rather than showing sports channels the TV was tuned into music channels so I have been watching music videos for some weeks and it had been a revelation. When I was about 17 I used to listen to John Peel on the radio at night. I heard all the latest songs and knew pretty much all I needed to know about what groups were hot an which were goats. As I got older I started only listening to the music I liked. I bought all the albums produced by the groups I liked, but I never heard anything new as I never listened to the radio any more.

In the last few weeks I have heard many groups that I previously knew nothing about and I now feel I am getting back to my original status of knowing more about what groups are cool than anyone else.

Only this afternoon before leaving work, as well as hearing Mr Blunt telling us about his semi by the sea, I saw the video of "Don't forget to white your weekly woss weport" by Coldplay.

As usual I missed the beginning - but not as much as I usually miss.

First up is Mr Sir Tom Jones of Lady's knickers fame.

It seems Sir Tom is 65 years old but still going strong in the old tonsils department. He seems to have done pretty well of late as he is one of the few older performers that still seems to be considered cool.

Mr Woss showed a clip of Tom doing the song obla dee obla da, which reminded me that I had the single of this song, but mine was sung by a group called Marmalade. I remember it had an orange label, but I can't remember what the B side was.
I can't remember what the first single I ever bought was, but the first album I ever bought was Hunky Dory by David Bowie and the first 12 inch single I bought was Marquee Moon by Television. Both of these were played to death and were major influences on my life.

Soon after this Mr Jones leaves and Mr Woss starts talking about Tom Cruise and then goes on to relate the story of Xenu that Scientologists of level 3 and above seem to believe in.

This is followed by some footage of a stripper who just happens to be the next guest. It seems that she is the number 1 burlesque stripper of modern times and I suppose I'm not really in a position to argue against that as stripping is not currently one of my specialist subjects.

I've never done bad things.

I'm not sure if I have missed something but I think that Mr Woss may have just said that this stripper is married to Marilyn Manson.

The stripper has now left and Wossy is talking about the time he had a video camera up his bottom and they videod it. This reminds me of an episode of Jonathan Creek. Now he has decided to show the video accompanied by music from Sigur Ros. I can think of other things I would rather see to the music of Sigur Ros.

Now it is the final guest - Mr Graham Norton. I first came across Mr Norton on Father Ted. I think he has been on 2 or 3 episodes and at the time Father Ted was just about my favourite comedy on TV. I recorded the whole of series 3 on video and I used to watch it ever night when I went to bed for about 18 months around 2000. I haven't watched any Father Ted for some year so so maybe it is time to watch them all over again.

They are talking about some new program on TV presented by Mr Norton that is some sort of dancing competition or other. Some sort of follow on from come dancing or something - not my cup of tea so I think I will concentrate on trying to write the opening as I haven't thought of what to put yet. Up until now you may have thought that I write that bit first, but that is not the case - I regularly write the opening seg-way after I have written the actual Woss Weport. This is what is known as a trick of the trade and normally we are not allowed to tell people about these, but I have never been one to keep to the code of the magic circle, so now you know.

The show ended with a new song by Mr Jones which sounded ok to me, though I won't be rushing out to buy it in a hurry.

I've never done anything out of the blue.