To celebrate the recent reboot of Thunderbirds, one of my all time favourite childhood shows, my good friend Ricky Manson and I have started a vlogging series on just how much we enjoyed the exploits of the Tracy family.
We'll be updating the channel as often as possible and this will become a regular segment on this blog.
Without further ado, here's our promotional video, posted only this morning. Expect episode one, Trapped in the Sky to follow shortly.
It seems my obsession with the 90s has found its way
into the realms of the surreal. I know there were plenty of weird 90s TV shows
like Ren and Stimpy and Round The Twist, but having aged with the onslaught of
technology, I can only now view 90s instructional videos as weird. By that I am
referring to: The Kids’ Guide To The Internet.
I discovered this very strange PSA on YouTube this
morning through an episode of ‘Teens React To...’, where children from the age
of 13-18 were shown how the internet came into our homes in the 1990s. All you
have to do is watch the video to see just how freaked out these noughties
children are by the PSAs of yesteryear.
And now for the video itself.
The colours, clothes and bad acting is enough to
make you wonder where the hell this video came from. But the strangely catchy
and quite disturbing theme song will stick in your head forever to remind you
just how different things were back in 1997. If you fancy another nostalgia
trip full of pudding basin haircuts and terrible puns and the ideal nuclear
family talking about how many cooking magazines they’ve accessed online, here’s
the film for you.
I also think casting the family with the name ‘Jamison’
certainly reflects just how intoxicating this job was for the film makers.
And I just wonder if the writers of Avenue Q ever
watched this video as inspiration for their classic tune ‘The Internet is For
Porn’.
Greetings internet. I know it ‘s been a couple of weeks
since my last instalment but I’m still alive and writing for myself and anyone
out there who needs a scribbler.
One segment I am keen to continue here is ‘This Week in
Weird’. And this week’s instalment is on the funnier side of the surrealism
that inhabits the internet. By that I am referring to webseries: Microwave
Porn.
The title alone is enough to make you go, ‘What the fuck?’
But trust me, you won’t be left disappointed when you tune into it. Microwave
Porn was a webseries posted on YouTube around 2009/2010 by independent
production group: Cancelproof. The theme song will summarise the entire series
for you so there’s no need for me to ramble on here.
You’ll find all 12 episodes on Cancelproof’s channel. This, I
have to say is the only sitcom which has made many great laughs out of the
kooky world of urban dating. All that’s left to say, is why the hell did they
stop? If only more episodes of this show existed. And it would have done well
on some cable channel for independent comedy shows.
I guess the greatest feat about blogging is that you can get
word out to people without having to pay heaps of cash to an agent or a
publishing house. Like everyone else who wants to go into creative writing, I do
hope to see my name on the spine of a book one day. But what matters most is
that people read your work and hopefully relate to whatever you are talking
about.
I know blogging has been around for many years already, but
it is still an excellent art form that will aid in the evolution of creative
writing and news reporting. Even if you never get to publish something in
physical form, you are still a writer if you just update your blog constantly. That
is the glory of getting your scribbles out to the people of the internet.
If you think you’ve got it in you to write about anything at
all and use any means necessary like blogs or self publishing, all I can say,
is: Go For It.
