Barmy Blue's Bland Blog

Has it really been a whole week again? Man I am getting lazy. Well, a few things have happened. I’ve watched more anime, had no lessons this week so I should’ve been using it to do my work, I have to fill in a notebook with all the stuff I’ve been doing in creative writing. I should’ve been doing it as I went along but I didn’t so now I’ve got to get it done before Wednesday, six weeks worth of work and all the homework I didn’t do. Well, all I can say is let this be a lesson to me. I’ve got to write up my presentation and do an essay still. Why am I so damned lazy!
I’ve got a new air freshener in my room, vanilla and festive spice. I don’t like it as much as my old one but I can get used to it, no sense in wasting it now it’s been opened. This past week I’ve been enjoying some of our comedy heritage, the violent slapstick of the 80’s and early 90’s in the form of The Young Ones (I can only really see clips of it but I’d like to see them properly some time) it’s weird because it was made six years before I was even born, I didn’t even physically exist, and Bottom (You can look them both up online if you’re not sure what I’m going on about). I’m just wondering if those kinds of comedies were just for that era, in other words, could such violence still be seen as funny if it was put into a new, modern comedy? Well, I don’t see why not, judging by the crap we have these days. I’d say the whole comedy genre needs a good kick up the arse, and maybe a TV thrown over it for good measure . But when I say that I don’t mean real, excessive violence and stupidity, as seen in a program on channel four which I tried to avoid because it was either too stupid or grotesque to be funny to me, just enough to be funny but not overly stupid. I don’t even know what I’m saying now. My typing’s a mess.
One other thing I’ve been wondering about. Looking up The Young Ones it’s been mentioned that each character embodies one of four decades, "Mike the 1950s Fonzie-style ladykiller; Neil the 1960s hippy; Vyvyan the 1970s punk; and Rick the 1980s sociology student." The 50’s is a bit too far back for me to comment and I don’t recall ever really seeing a representation of the 80’s seeing as I was born just at the end of it and it was too close to the era I did start taking things in (over half way through (the 90’s)). But the thing I’m wondering is if each of those decades had a particular thing that defined them, a particular fad, a particular group then what kind of character would embody the 90’s, or the 00’s (We’re nearing the end of that decade too, just over two years to go). Nowadays there’s a new label slapped onto a group every year or so, yes I’m referring to the “chav” and “emo” don’t ask me what they are, I still don’t know. I’d hate to think that either would define the 00’s.
What defines the two main decades that I’ve been living in?
That briefly brings me onto another thing I’ve been thinking recently. History always grows. The further forward you go the more there is. Nothings original anymore, not really, it’s always built on something else. A writer can write a book but there’s no doubt that the ideas will be based on something already past, a historical event, a particular writer, a particular TV program, a song even. Everything we have now is based on something from the past. There’s nothing I can think of now that didn’t already exist in some form or another. Think of a library. It has to have so many old books, centuries old because those stories are still loved today but it has to fit in all the new books people love too. How long will it be before someone says Hang on, I’ve read something like this before, can’t you come up with something original? Or even how long before the library runs out of room? What can it do? Get rid of the old books to make room for the new ones or stop taking in new books to keep the old ones? Is this making any sense at all? I don’t know. I hope it kind of does. I’m feeling tired.

Bluebiird out.

Oh, also we saw Oldboy on Tuesday to JCS and I have been keeping up with that story a day thing.