Unsurreality TV

From: "Rev. Ivan Stang" <stang@subgeniusNOSPUM.com>
Date: Tue, Mar 16, 2004

Reality TV -- Contradition in Terms

Yes, "contradition," an appropriate new Onanism(TM).

Princess Wei got home early because of the snow. Three days ago there
was very heavy snow on the ground and in the air. Yesterday there was
green grass on the ground, no snow to be seen, a blue sky and T-shirt
weather. Today it's a blizzard again. That's "surreal," man.

She turned on the afternoon TV and there was Jerry Springer. I haven't
seen that show in a year, and they've extremed the formula a little.
There are now bikini-clad girls gyrating on metal poles continuously
throughout the show on either side of the stage, and competing female
guests are now expected to rip each others' shirts off fairly early in
their segment, and to perform the rest of their segment topless. This
routine was repeated with three sets of marital conflicts in a row, in
the one show I watched. The Jerry Goodall show I call it.

So then we put on a tape that a friend gave us of a popular reality TV
show in which a producer hires some performers and puts them in a crazy
situation without any scriptwriters, and that's reality. Of course it's
just more contrived amateur acting a la Jerry Springer, only on
location, and slightly more newsfilm/home-movie-like. Every single
gesture is patently fake, the editing calls attention to itself, and
all excitement derives from the "bad characters" who act the wrong
version of normal. The premise: "Won't it be CRAZY if we get a square
Christian has-been, a queer has-been, a rocker has-been, a sexy movie
has-been, and three girls with big tits, and HAVE THEM PRETEND THEY ALL
LIVE TOGETHER IN ONE HOUSE?!?"

At first we had fun making fun of the show but finally it was just TOO
MUCH NORMALITY. It was just too SICKENINGLY, DELIBERATELY, PROUDLY
NORMAL. Yet what we'd been watching is called "THE SURREAL LIFE."

"THE SURREAL LIFE."

The Contrived As FUCK Life.

Dali might have appreciated it, because the show is in fact surreal in
its utter vapid negation of any possible actual surrealism -- outside
of any accidental juxtapositions of the commercials interspersing it,
of course. (Needless to say.) A surreal level of Pinkness, and
surreally contrived, but not enough to qualify as bulldada THIS year,
SORRY. Entirely wrong mix of advertent and inadvertent.

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.

--
4th Stangian Orthodox MegaFisTemple Lodge of the Wrath of Dobbs Yeti,
Resurrected (Rev. Ivan Stang, prop.)
PRABOB

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From: "rev_cletus" <rev_cletus@hotmail.com>

"Rev. Ivan Stang" <stang@subgeniusNOSPUM.com> wrote:
> Dali might have appreciated it, because the show is in fact surreal in
> its utter vapid negation of any possible actual surrealism -- outside
> of any accidental juxtapositions of the commercials interspersing it,
> of course.

I think I just jizzed in m' jeans.

--
rev_c
no, *not* interruptus

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From: "HdMrs. Salacia the Overseer" <SeventhSqueal@illiterate&inbredyahoo.com>

"rev_cletus" <rev_cletus@hotmail.com> wrote:
> "Rev. Ivan Stang" <stang@subgeniusNOSPUM.com> wrote:
>
> > Dali might have appreciated it, because the show is in fact surreal in
> > its utter vapid negation of any possible actual surrealism -- outside
> > of any accidental juxtapositions of the commercials interspersing it,
> > of course.
>
> I think I just jizzed in m' jeans.

Yeah, I've never heard him speak jive either. I had to look up advertent and
inadvertent, I thought those were Onanisms too. Or something from Joyce.

If Dali had a Time Machine TV set-where he could watch shows from today-
back in the 20's or 30's he probably would have loved the talk shows and The
Surreal Life. But I'm guessing that if he was one of our contemporaries he'd
find them just as transparent and mundane as Rev. Stang. (But secretly he'd
work bits with the catfights into his videos)

~Salacia

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