Yesterday, I cleaned out my fish tank. A while ago, I had decided to get rid of my fish tank and free up the space in the corner of the living room. Most of the fish had died of natural causes and was a bit peeved to stock up the tank again. The plan was to let the remaining two catfish go to the big toilet in the sky and get rid of the tank. However, the catfish have other ideas and aren’t going anywhere. After all this time, I have decided to restock and have bought a new filter. I just didn’t have the heart to do away with them myself – even if I could just flush them down the loo in one quick motion. No – I couldn’t do that. So tomorrow we are off to buy some new fish and plants. Fishtank 1 – Darren 0.
Yesterday, I was ploughing through the usual wittering at the DGMLive Forum and the topic of conversation was about the music of King Crimson being used in film and TV. I am somewhat a fan of the band and remembered two good examples of adverts that had used the music. The first was an advert for Natrel Plus deoderant in 1996 which featured some afro-carribbean chap turn from a tree into a person to the strains of the song “Sex Sleep Eat Drink Dream”. which wasn’t on TV that often and I don’t have a copy of anywhere in the sprawling Lock Videotape Archive.
The second advert was for Dunlop, which was just a retread (get it) of the Tony Kaye campaign which was originally scored by The Velvet Underground’s “Venus in Furs”. This time around it featured King Crimson’s “21st Century Schizoid Man”. Of course, I don’t have this clip in the collection either, but a brief scout online found a digital copy of the original advert. So I went into the editing studio, cut out the Velvet Underground track and added an edited version of the song how I remember it. It probably was nothing like this at all, but this gives you an idea of how the music of King Crimson can help shift some tyres:
In The Apprentice last night, weedy Samuel bought the farm. Thank god. Despite being a relatively local boy (from Woodford and his gurning face appearing in the local paper every week with the headline “Sam Stays In”) I took a dislike of the guy from the outset. This is probably because he was one of the indecisive, too scared to put his balls on the line, wishy-washy coasters that go through life climbing on the back of others and generally, dodging the bullet. This time he couldn’t avoid being the target.
Hopefully, next week, Alan Sugar will dump Tuan as he is getting up my nose too…and that Sharon, who appears to be strung out on Angel Dust each week – it’s the only way to explain her foul mood swings. I still think there should be a UK/US special where Trump and Sugar head two Anglo-American teams in an Apprentice Battle Royale. Heck, give me a million quid for the idea, Mark Burnett.