Saturday, 19 November 2011

Pan Am? Pan PM is a better description.

Note to self, swimming pool is well full on Saturday, keep to the Monday Friday crowd to avoid collision which was completely unavoidable. It doesn't help that the teens have a very free form undisciplined approach to pool use going randomly everywhere as fast as they can.


I'm not too bothered but it does make them almost completely unavoidable even if you're normally the most polite person on the planet. You spend the whole time apologizing even though nothing is your fault, the place is just too crowded.


And the pensioner who asked me to help put on his socks freaked me out. Normally I'm happy to help anyone in need but his heavy breathing was too creepy for me. It could have all been completely innocent but at the time I felt it was above and beyond my usual civic public service duties. I'll refer him to a staff member next time. 


It Reminded me of when I broke my arm in a cafe and the owner said I couldn't have an ambulance. I appreciate he didn't want to get a bad reputation but if you are a cafe owner and a customer breaks their arm you can always suggest a Taxi to help them out. Point blank refusing an ambulance is not the way to go. I must mention that if my friends Alisia and Simon and Ms Lajevardi who's first name I can't remeber for the life of me hadn't helped prop me up down to the hospital I would have been screwed. I never got a chance to thank them though because once I arrived I was whisked into a separate ward and couldn't let them know I'd be ok. 


Now making a summary of Financial Service documents for a job interview. It's an interesting job so I'm making a lot of effort making it.


Special mention must go to Pan Am: the series for being one of the biggest disappointments of the year. Half and hour into it had no fizz nor pop. It was the worst mix of nothing really happening at all. I craved some kind of car crash, some kind of midflight engine explosion. I think if you're going to make people sit through 6 hours of made up women fretting about their broken nails then you have to give it some chutzpah. And the well trodden path of inflight drama is a wealthy seem to ignore historically, it begs the question, which inflight drama scene is more interesting than this? Your answer, All of them.


Christina Ricci was completely wasted, the review suggested she could be the one bohemian interest in the whole sorry enterprise but all we're given is being slightly late for work! Jesus, I can be slightly late for work every day and it doesn't make it a multi million dollar TV series. Lazy, lazy lazy.


A lot of the reasons why I'm so continuously fed up with films and TV are because of the history. You, as director should be fully aware of what has come before you and try to either do it better or do it differently. Funding  being short isn't really a good excuse, you have to raise funds yourself or you only have your self to blame. And a lot of films just don't go far enough, they have great ideas but they don't explore them in enough depth. They fall short.


Things that don't fall short literally are the Ricky Gervais comedy showing on Beeb 2 thursdays. Almost all of it toe
curlingly awkward, which isn't a taste for everyone but the last line to Shaun Williamson upon asked for a quote for the Office says mistakenly' The comedy of a generation'. when they wanted a quote to paint the Office.
Leading become strange here. Must have set off some random shortcut by accident. Sorry, normal paragraph spacing will resume as soon as I work out how... Stay fresh, keep hungry and never ever give up,
Phil. 



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