I hate the BBC

I hate BBC America.

I don’t HATE hate it, I just hate the programming.

I really do.

I think BBC America thinks its viewers are stupid morons who love “cash in the attic” marathons and that Chef that always curses people.

I’m a full anglophile and I crave for anything British but BBC America is just horrid putting on shows that the Brits probably rejected.

Now I’m not talking about their “primetime” programming, that’s another story.
But in the daytime and on the weekend daytime programs…they are just appalling.
In the Morning it’s like 3 hours of News, who wants that much of news? Then its 5 hour marathons of either “Cash in the Attic” or “Bargain Hunt”. Now one time I saw “Cash in the Attic” and it’s an all right show but 5 hours of it? It literally killed me when I tried to see it.

If it’s not a show about making trash into treasure than it’s “what not to wear” or chef shows. This is basically telling you BBC America have nothing to put on.
Then the so called primetime shows, If it’s not Doctor Who or Footballer’s wives (which is okay for me ) then it’s these horrible documentaries about people who have parts they shouldn’t have or anorexic people, or sex maniacs. These shows are put in primetime?, am I watching BBC America or The Learning Channel?

When I had BBC America on Friday nights they would put two hours of great British shows like “The Office”, “Black Books”, “I’m Alan Partridge”, and “Saxondale”. And in the daytime they would put shows like “My Family” or “My Hero”
But not anymore, they put these “documentaries” to entertain or sicken you. When I had it they didn’t even put Monty Python! Now I see they do, probably because of overwhelming demand or complaints by people who want to see something good.
My anglophile or Brit fan friends want to learn the Brit slang, the shows the Brits watch, the music that they make, practically everything but BBC America does nothing to help.

So If I were the programmer of BBC America, I would think that this channel is for those who love the United Kingdom , are ex-patriates or anglophiles. I would put what Britain is most famous for: Shakespeare, James Bond, Dr. Who , Football, Music Scene, Harry Potter , British Humor, and did I mention Music?

I am surprised BBC America has never mentioned the music Brits make that has been rocking ever since 1964. No mention of the British Invasion of the 60s, Glam Rock, Punk, British Invasion of the 80s, the Romantics of the 80s, New Wave, Rave , Britpop , Garage Rock Revival, Neo New Wave or Dance Rock, and Nu Rave. No Mention of Top of the Pops, T in the Park, The Reading and Leeds festivals which are a big part over there.

Nothing

I would put in the daytime weekdays, the three hours of news in the wee small hours of the morning, then I would put some non-cursing chef shows like that Oliver guy, and maybe ONE episode of “Cash in the Attic”. Then I’d put in a vintage two hour British movie from the 60s, one preferably with Peter Sellers. Or one with classic British comedians like Peter Cook and Dudley Moore such as the film “Bedazzled”. Classic films from the swinging sixties such as “To Sir, With Love”, “Smashing Time” and “Georgy Girl” .

Then I would put East Enders and a classic episode of Top of the Pops. Then I would replay the classic film or put some vintage episodes of the avengers or the prisoner. Or Ab Fab and/or some 80s comedy series.

Then every night would be a set of different shows. Like one night would be “Sci-fi” night with episodes of Dr. Who , Torchwood, and Life on Mars. Another night would be footballer’s wives and other drama shows. Thursdays til Sundays would be comedies by greats like Dylan Moran and Steve Coogan and I would put “the mighty boosh”, Along with Monty Python and anything Python related.

On the weekends, the day would start with three hours by BBC News and then either football matches or top of the pops marathons. Not five hours but maybe two hours.

And then because there’s always something happening in British music, I would do an original program where young brit kids would show a weekly 90 minute show showing music videos MTV and VH1 never play by bands like The Libertines, Babyshambles, Dirty Pretty Things, Kooks, The Courteneers, The Enemy, Arctic Monkeys, etc, etc. Along with music videos they would also have performances by those bands. When the time came, I’d try to be mates with NME or New Musical Express and have a live feed of festivals like Glastonbury, T in the Park ,and Reading.

On weekend nights, I would show James Bond Flicks, or Harry Potter flicks. Or Modern British movies like “Love Actually”, “Hitchhiker’s guide to the Galaxy”, and “About a Boy”.

AND on Late Late Nights, late shows by graham norton or the sunday night special would be fine. Or some episodes of jools holland or jonathan ross.

It's not perfect but theres alot of thought put into it. Unlike the BBC America programmers.:P

tranquility in the ice

Here is a great video by a great musician. A musician called Spiritualized.

I don’t live in the cold parts of the earth so people that do live in those areas might shudder or get chills when watching this video but I like it.

I would love to wear a silver jacket, go to Iceland or one of those Scandinavian countries and just lie in the snow as the wind is blowing and just listen to this song. Or sit and lie in the middle of a frozen lake and also hear this song in my iPod.

It just looks so tranquil, peaceful, and beautiful. I feel like I could actually find inner peace by just lying there and listening to the sound of the wind or just the sound of nature (or the song of course). I also believe I could for the first time clear my mind and not have one thought in my head because I’d be too much in awe of where I was.

Spiritualized have already enchanted people with the song “ladies and gentleman, we are floating in space” which was so calming and cool and made you believe what space would sound like without the glam rock tendencies.

Spiritualized- soul on fire

Christ is Hot.

Christian Bale that is.

fine! fine! fine!

my friends want me to blog about christian bale. And yes, he is hot. IS HOT!

I saw him in some movie that was not the dark knight and all I could think about was "oh my gosh he is so hot!"


I gotta see every movie he has ever made!
He is so fucking hot!

seems standoffish in real life, but hot in all those movies. HOT!

fine, I have chronicled all the hot men from the dark knight.

savior of the doubter

Well, today is a day that sort of puts me in the border between adolescence and adulthood.

I just found out my friend is cheating on me.

Going out with a new type or group of friends and ignoring my calls and e-mails

We were really good friends, we would girl talk all the time and we would tell each other everything.

Even things I didn’t really want to know.

Like when she had her first boyfriend, let’s call him “Lionel”. She told me everything she and Lionel did, like the kissing parts, the making out parts and how she felt when he did stuff to her.

I would go, “dude! Too much information! “ I didn’t want to know what turned her on. Ew!
But she would tell me that when I would have my first experience with a guy, she would listen to me like I listened to her.

Ha! Yeah that’ll happen.

In the year 2084

So we would just talk about guys and my errors and follies with them, and how I was and am a complete loser and she would talk about Lionel.

So I don’t know what happened, but I think she became an adult before any of us did when she got a job at this theatre. Now, she would just work constantly there with no breaks or she would give up going out to concerts or movies or events with me and the “group” just to work.

Then I hear nothing from her until months later telling me she’s broken up with “Lionel” and gone with a guy way beneath her named let’s say “Izzy”, and just being very negative even when I was sort of in a smitten state.

She was negative when “Izzy” was cyber cheating on her.

But dude, okay you feel pissed off but don’t try to take it out on anyone and if someone is sort of having a happy moment, try to enjoy their happiness and not say bad things about it.

I would. If I felt pissed off or whatever and my friend had just found some awesome guy in her life, I’d be happy for her and not try to wallow unless she wants me to talk about my gripes with a certain guy.

But then I discover via the web that she’s hanging out with her coworkers to dance clubs and to the Hollywood bowl and I try to email her wanting to know how she is doing and she doesn’t even bother to write back.

Is she becoming an adult faster than me and my friends? Is she doing adult things while I and my friends have seen the dark knight a combination of 12 times? Or gone to stake out the latest indie rockers?

I think our friendship is dead or slowly dying and I think the only one who can save it is her.

I doubt she is gonna save it.

maybe.....

yey!

The Dark Knight is number 1 again! for a third week in a row!!!!

wooooooo!


my friends an relatives are all making fun of me that I have a crush on the joker because I recite all his lines, but dude! aaron eckhart has like three lines that are good and one of the main lines is "you either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain".

so, no I don't have a crush on the joker, that would be a bit disturbing. I mean I like weird guys but not homicidal psychopaths.

But......maybe............there are parts in the movie.......that make me think the joker is cute,BUT! because I see Heath Ledger first and not the Joker.

There are Exactly three parts where I get this "how cute vibe" and then I get scared by him with the next part or thing he does.

those parts are:

1. When The Joker tells gamble how he got his scars. He says "do you know how I got these scars? hmm?" and he makes this face that is so heartbreaking to me. After that of course, bonechilling.

2.After the whole truck flip, and batman falls off the batpod and is left there, vulnerable. The Joker does this kind of dance or twirl or something that reminds me of alec from "a clockwork orange" as he is approaching batman. That little twirl or dance or what....I kind of liked. and when he says "just give me a minute"

3. When after getting banged up by batman, he's in the interrogation room with a cop looking over him. When he's on the floor, and you see his multicolored socks and he "looks" helpless when they don't give him his "phone call". that shot, he looked cute.


Now that's it, the rest of the movie, I don't feel any crushworthiness on him. let's end it like that.

The White Knight

I think I have a crush on Aaron Eckhart.

He’s so cute in The Dark Knight.

If Christian Bale wasn’t married, I’d totally go for him too but he is married so Aaron Eckhart will have to do. And He isn’t bad to look at.

Now I know why it was hard for Rachel to choose, they are both hot.

Entertainment Tonight one day didn’t have much to report I guess so they profiled Aaron Eckhart to find out who he is and who he’s dated.

Well from what I recall, He was born in California, so he’s a California Boy, is 40 years old and was raised Mormon.

40 years old! He looks sooooooooo much younger!

They also talked that he dated some country singer and some other chick and that he is currently single.

They emphasized on the “single” part.

Well He’s half my age or I’m half his age? Anyway, I wouldn’t mind meeting him but something more than that, I don’t know.

A girl can dream.