indie 103.1 ads

every now and again they change the ads as obviously they must realise that people get pissed off hearing the same crap day in, day out

however – they must think their audience are basically idiots given the way they present them

jonesey did an ad with the bloke from toyota as though its a random phone call, then a month later he has this ridiculous phone conversaion with a women whos been working at a vets and bought her car from the toyota place – its excruitiating

then theres the ais insurance ads, which if i lived in santa monica etc i would go out of my way to avoid simply because of the ads

the ads are done as though are “friendly” and not “ads” – oh fuck off – they are adverts – do em like ads so we can ignore them and get on with life

and i personally hate the way they do the ads in shows that make out that the presenters are making some off the cuff remark as though the audience doesnt know its paid for – if the ads work then i fear for the general state of intelligence in that area

and much as i love the sundays please stop playing the same fuckin track – theres a whole catalogue

and surf junkey jeff and joe escalante can fuck right off

dont use presenters/on air jockeys to front ads – it doesnt make your product anymore believable

the office, 30 rock, 24 etc

just when i thought the office was getting, shall we say, a little lax, halpert comes up and restores my faith in human nature. the opening sequence was brilliant – i thought jim’s piss taking of dwight had gone but the whole episode was genius.

if you havent seen it, its worth waiting for dwight at the end – rainn wilson is superb

30 rock is again back to “normal service is resumed” – if only because tina fey is showing a load more cleavage than previous episodes – another great episode

i dont know what im going to do when 24 finishes in 2? weeks – i think both the office & 30 rock are a couple of episodes away from season finales as well – what am i going to do ?

when are eureka, intelligence etc coming back ? answers on a postcard

i have to find a couple of decent tv series before the footy season ends to last me though the summer – though looking at the summer “blockbuster” season theres going to be a few films to look forward to

some updates about ibiza and stuff

the last few weeks have been a bit strange – weather has been all over the place – one minute were out driving the island and im photographing everything that doesnt move and we geotag everything, the next minute its crap weather and im in the flat coding all the photos and the maps

the weather though has definitly seemed to have turned – i cant decide when to get the shorts out – could be shortly – arf…

tonight i tried to find a tv prog i wanted to watch and realised i have to do some house keeping with my filling system:

i realise that there are many people with far larger sets of hard drives etc etc – but i cant be the only one who cant find bloody anything because i forget where i put it and have too many drives and folders to do a search (ie dont have the patience to wait for the search)

opening season is upon us now with a load this weekend – now i’m having to juggle “oh i’d love to come for dinner but man utd play milan next weds, tues? er no livepool are playing chelsea, saturday? er maybe in the afternoon after the lunchtime kickoffs, and er i’m not sure about if there are any midweek games..” not saying i’m not appreciate of the invites but ask me in june when the footy season is over, the tourists are here and i cant work during the daytime… i’ll gladly spend all day chewing the fat over whatever anyone wants to talk about – come the evening i’ll go out, take some photos, do some stuff on the site, work till 2,3-4 in the morning and do the same thing the next day

just not now…

p.s i dont know whether anyone has ever trashed a mobile phone – but its getting close (the five years i lived here a couple went in the sea and a couple got a hammer to them) – the good side is that we have a landline with an answerphone on it so i can screen calls, so if i decide to throw the phone its not too bad…

the end times

just watched tony robinsons take on the doomsday code and the “endtimes”

jesus its scary – its going to be a self-fullfilling prophecy

Second Life & Ibiza

went into second life this evening for the first time in probably 3 months – jesus what a change – bloody nightmare. i’d seen in numerous rss feeds this week about “ibiza” in sl (and others) being flooded as a thing about global warming so since im back on xp and not vista i thought itd be a laugh to see if someone had actaully done what i wanted to do and do an ibiza island.

sort of.. other than a reasonable recreation of space the island is er nothing like where i live…

last night i watched the man utd game obviously and while not too bad a result it couldve been worse

the last few days and the next few days we have been and are going round the island for the new project www.ibizaa-z.com – the one thing i love to do is spend the day driving round the island – it maybe work but i cant think of anywhere else in the world i’d rather do it – you can cover the island in a day and still get a reasonable amount of things done – it all depends on how many canya breaks you have and who you run into

its also challenging to try and remember where everything was – its been 4 years nearly since i lived here and at first i thought nothing had changed much but it has – the gret thing though is that the roads are pretty much still in the same place

agro tourismo – now that has been a eye opener – 4 years ago there was nothing really as far as middle of the campo hotels – how did you find them? – now they are all over the place and they all look fantastic

i’m really getting into the google maps thing and by next weekend hope to have the island mapped – bloody nightmare to code and deal with the pics but what the hell (and where have all these ibiza blogs suddenly come from?)

premonition

ive just had the misfortune to watch premonition…. what a load of tosh – about 3/4 of the way through i was thinking about the film groundhog day, then i remembered one afternoon a few weeks ago where i had spent an hour or so looking at all the related links in wikipedia to self fulling prophesies (sp?), the grandfather paradox, etc

suffice to say that i was left decidely underwhelmed by this film – i watched wild hogs last night and it was better (in that it culdnt be worse)

now i remember i watched shooters the other night as well and to me it was a poor rate bourne identity/supremacy

also im sure i saw the (geek/nerd) guy from national treasure in a restaurant opening here last night as well as at another do at the weekend – either that or he has a doppleganger (which is more likely)

ibiza stuff

a strange weekend… this is the end of my 3rd week back on the island after 4 years and to be honest nothing really much has changed. theres a ton of new faces ive had to get to know, or attempt to remember their names…

it was of course, apparently, a full moon last night, which would very adequatly explain how today went. (i just checked on the pacha full moon poster we have.. according to that its llena moon tomorrow)

for some strange reason the island differs around the full moon (im not sure that its not actually a self fulling prophecy)but with all the nightmares we had today doing the live thing, when somone said its a full moon – i did say “that explains it” – yet ive not thought about the full moon thing for at least 4 years and had not thought about the full moon since being back… yet someone mentions the full moon and within a sec i know

if youve ever tried to do a live net presentation on a beach – its a fookin mare- dont do it…

now im waiting for motd to download cos theres very few bars here that i go into and watch motd cos they wont stay open…. i miss my sky tv (even though i was on the mainland) – ok so i just want to hear the panel wax lyrical over utds 2nd half …

i listened to city and colours (dallas green) “coming home” tonight when i got back and i’m glad i did – currently playing on chez mrlk is one of my favourite live bands, the cure and i think their best album – disintigration..