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J said J would not say, any other thought, but the other thought she thought. You heard, except she said be. Locked in a TV studio you can only be, not watch TV. The bright lighting says, what is watching but there is anyway night vision. This advert is for a car and is v long and they say it is inspired by (an endorsement deal). You can win (an endorsement deal) and (a photoshoot) you can win. Easy money is money, they said. I said ‘I would not leave the WC. Sometimes I needed to tweet, I (…)

OR you do not bite your tongue you do unbite your tongue you do release your teeth seemingly you do return your tongue seemingly your tongue do rest. You do reverse the signal. You do examine the impulse. You do use your eyes. You do use your ears. You do breathe. You do breathe in substances and hear in silences and see in shades. You do let all this happen. All this do happen without you. You do smile sometimes. You do smile at any behaviour without seeming a loon. You do smile at any (…)

DAY 29 TO DAY 42 a slapped arse e.g. a headless chicken e.g. an ostrich e.g. The Industrial Revolution Reality Television Technological Singularity Nothing in here is real so why would I risk putting myself ‘on the sofa’ directly I entered the house directly I made my entrance: no movement no response no entertainment no expression no opinion no position. When the time comes I will not go. When the time comes to go I will go here ‘on the sofa’ When (…)

DAY 15 TO DAY 28 A FAERY TALE WITH TALKING FURNITURE! A FAERY TALE WITH WHISPERING WOOD! A FAERY TALE WITH CAPTURE AND INTRIGUE! they use PUPPETS in therapy don’t they please do not repeat the same phrase nine times please do not repeat the same phrase nine times please do not repeat the same phrase nine times please do not repeat the same phrase nine times please do not repeat the same phrase nine times please do not repeat the same phrase nine times please do not (…)

DAY TWO TO DAY 14 THINGS ARE REALLY Everyone who watches can help it. Everyone who watches can help everything they do Everyone who watches is o O WHATCHA MEAN HALF A WIG this is a life dream and it makes me angry I overheard (someone on the bus) love her friend but not who he is not really. What do you mean he is how do you know. What do they say (they say, they say) about jokes and how they sound. Funny how I don’t know to feed your opinion. They are for: bailing out (…)

Ringu was released in Japan in 1999 and was an instant hit. It became the highest grossing horror film in Japan at 15.9 billion yen ($137.7 million). Its reception in the UK was much more muted when it was released in a handful of art house local cinemas and then on Channel four in 2002. A few months later remakes where on the way in the US and in Korea as, mainly through word of mouth, its popularity gathered momentum. From a small number of horror fans, Ringu reached an international mass (…)

Swept up in the recent scuffles over representation in parliament (PR/AV/FPTP…) I’ve been thinking about representation on my little tv. It’s clear that of all my machinery the tv is the one least likely to make me ‘think the world more radically’. I expect it to be disgusting, disappointing and particularly muffling- like stuffing a load of sponge in your ears (I’ll admit the muffling is especially desirable sometimes). Glee facetiously claims to rupture the mind-numbing life-scheduling (…)

Here begins Zk’s mapping of the final series of Big Brother UK: DAY ONE DAY ONE IN THE BIG BROTHER HOUSE the creative director saying there would be EIGHTY of them. I think he said EIGHTY. All day I run through the practicalities and possibilities of this variation in format. Can Endemol guarantee our trust? Do they really have the resources? THE FIRST RITUAL OF BIG BROTHER, as with any suburban do, is a tour of the house. Minor format changes are now inbuilt in the format. There (…)