Sep. 6th, 2009 11:00 pm
The real thing
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muckefuckSo I've been brought back to Project Runway by that tool of the Devil, the Sunday afternoon rerun marathon. Lifetime either learned the trick from masters Bravo or hit upon on its own during the 99.9% of my lifespan during which I ignored its existence entirely. As per usual, ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
monshu was looking for twenty minutes' distraction while ironing and I began by looking for the same when I had some laundry to fold and ended up losing two hours to manufactured drama plus another forty minutes or so to the wickedly funny wrap-ups on the recently rechristened Project Rungay blog.
At least it gave me an opportunity for applying some of the lessons learned watching a lovely dissection of the sausage-making behind reality television by some cynical Brit bastard named Charlie Brooker, which I stumbled upon from rewatching a bit of Stewart Lee on YouTube. He won't tell you fellow overintellectualising knobs much that haven't figured out yourself from critical examining a reality programme instead of simply yielding to its mindless distraction, but it's entertaining to have it all laid out there nonetheless.
If you enjoy Brooker's abrasive style enough to want to invest a bit more time into seeing him behave like a truly massive prick, check out his breakdown of creation of a contestant show starting with this clip: Screenwipe S4E5P1.
monshu was looking for twenty minutes' distraction while ironing and I began by looking for the same when I had some laundry to fold and ended up losing two hours to manufactured drama plus another forty minutes or so to the wickedly funny wrap-ups on the recently rechristened Project Rungay blog.At least it gave me an opportunity for applying some of the lessons learned watching a lovely dissection of the sausage-making behind reality television by some cynical Brit bastard named Charlie Brooker, which I stumbled upon from rewatching a bit of Stewart Lee on YouTube. He won't tell you fellow overintellectualising knobs much that haven't figured out yourself from critical examining a reality programme instead of simply yielding to its mindless distraction, but it's entertaining to have it all laid out there nonetheless.
If you enjoy Brooker's abrasive style enough to want to invest a bit more time into seeing him behave like a truly massive prick, check out his breakdown of creation of a contestant show starting with this clip: Screenwipe S4E5P1.
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