Yonatansito, it sounds as if Israeli telly is lots of fun. I'm jealous because Aussie telly sucks, but ours is always on, so I watch way to much of it. Luckily, we get a few decent British shows and this cool Danish detective show where all the detectives are cheating on their (life not police) partners and it's totally normal, no big deal. Ah, the Scandinavians... so cool and relaxed.
Anyway, I just wanted to let you all know that I'm going CRAZY because I'm running web experiments and writing papers and all at the very last second as always and Easter is coming up and I should be going to Narrandera and just hang out and a childhood friend of mine is coming on Saturday who I haven't seen in 11 years or so but I'll have no time for her because work just doesn't stop anymore for the next few weeks.
And also, I miss you all. Lots. I'm so jealous that you guys are close together and can just visit each other for a weekend and chat all day, while I'm asleep (sorry, Geoff, I know I know).
How about you all come over to Australia for my 30th birthday in December? I think that's an excellent plan! Come on!!!
Ok, I better run and get some sleep before another 14 hour work day.
Kisses, jxx
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Tuesday, March 18, 2008
I'm with stupid
Sometimes I think I should get a blog just to write random thoughts, but hey I have you guys! Too bad you don't speak Heb and I have to translate everything in my mind. So this will basically be a lot of bla bla bla.
So today I had to give a talk, therefore I became tired, therefore I went home early, therefore I didn't feel like doing anything (i.e. drink beer with friends), therefore I laid down horizontally in my bed and watched the stupidity box (well I actually do that every time I am tired from the day and don't eel like getting pissed/social so my long apology may be a bit deceptive, so let's just assume that you don't think I am an idiot for watching the teli for hours).
So I watched two shows that cracked me up and had something in common - and I will not hold you in suspense - the key to the success is this: the world is filled with idiots! ( I assume someone will google this and use this against me at some point, hopefully I will be rich and famous and just not care by then).
So the first is the Israeli version for Survivors. I think it's season gazillion in the US but here in Israel it's season 1 and no one has ever heard of it until a few months ago but now it is a MASSIVE hit. And because no one has heard of it is a bit different than in the US. I mean, the thing about americans is that they have a system. Despite the economical crisis I still believe in you guys!!! though I hate you for the dollar going down and my scholarship losing 20%!!!!!!
So, Americans make a show, the show has a system and the system works - you know, American idol, survivors etc. etc. the people change but the system remains. Well, here in the heated Mid-East things are different. We are not about being organized and having a system. We are about people, so while in the US survivors is a bunch of ugly people trying to survive on an island and having strategic battles. In Israel they just gathered a bunch of well-tanned chicks with 300cc of you know what in their pair of you know what, and the fact that they have the intelligence of an ape (95% percent genetically identical to humans mind you) is irrelevant - Hey, they are wearing a bikini for 58 days!!!!
So what actually happens on the show is that everyone is really stupid except for this one really smart guy, and basically the entire show is seeing them being dumb-asses and him manipulating them and doing what he wants. And it's amazing - how stupid can they be. Of course they become celebs, but is being a celeb really worth the entire nation seeing that you are brainless? I am confused.
Anyway this is the first show - a massive hit. The second show is called "money cab" I don't know where the format is from. And the point is that there is this taxy driver picking up people on the street and having a game show with then - you know trivia and stuff like that. So it's a regular trivia game show only with random people from the streets. And again - it's so successful I guess because you are absolutely stunned by what type of weird ass creepos exist all around us. what is wrong with the world? why are all these weird people everywhere? So the host is basically asking the passengers questions while making fun with/of them.
So like you see I found the formula for successful tv (and very high quality as you may have noticed) - just have one smart person with a lot of weird/stupid/creepy ones and they will be happy to be famous despite being presented as stupid and everybody is entertained.
Hey! I just spent 10 minutes writing this! Yay me!
PS - I am in Lisbon too in 2 weeks moo-ha-ha-ha-ha.
So today I had to give a talk, therefore I became tired, therefore I went home early, therefore I didn't feel like doing anything (i.e. drink beer with friends), therefore I laid down horizontally in my bed and watched the stupidity box (well I actually do that every time I am tired from the day and don't eel like getting pissed/social so my long apology may be a bit deceptive, so let's just assume that you don't think I am an idiot for watching the teli for hours).
So I watched two shows that cracked me up and had something in common - and I will not hold you in suspense - the key to the success is this: the world is filled with idiots! ( I assume someone will google this and use this against me at some point, hopefully I will be rich and famous and just not care by then).
So the first is the Israeli version for Survivors. I think it's season gazillion in the US but here in Israel it's season 1 and no one has ever heard of it until a few months ago but now it is a MASSIVE hit. And because no one has heard of it is a bit different than in the US. I mean, the thing about americans is that they have a system. Despite the economical crisis I still believe in you guys!!! though I hate you for the dollar going down and my scholarship losing 20%!!!!!!
So, Americans make a show, the show has a system and the system works - you know, American idol, survivors etc. etc. the people change but the system remains. Well, here in the heated Mid-East things are different. We are not about being organized and having a system. We are about people, so while in the US survivors is a bunch of ugly people trying to survive on an island and having strategic battles. In Israel they just gathered a bunch of well-tanned chicks with 300cc of you know what in their pair of you know what, and the fact that they have the intelligence of an ape (95% percent genetically identical to humans mind you) is irrelevant - Hey, they are wearing a bikini for 58 days!!!!
So what actually happens on the show is that everyone is really stupid except for this one really smart guy, and basically the entire show is seeing them being dumb-asses and him manipulating them and doing what he wants. And it's amazing - how stupid can they be. Of course they become celebs, but is being a celeb really worth the entire nation seeing that you are brainless? I am confused.
Anyway this is the first show - a massive hit. The second show is called "money cab" I don't know where the format is from. And the point is that there is this taxy driver picking up people on the street and having a game show with then - you know trivia and stuff like that. So it's a regular trivia game show only with random people from the streets. And again - it's so successful I guess because you are absolutely stunned by what type of weird ass creepos exist all around us. what is wrong with the world? why are all these weird people everywhere? So the host is basically asking the passengers questions while making fun with/of them.
So like you see I found the formula for successful tv (and very high quality as you may have noticed) - just have one smart person with a lot of weird/stupid/creepy ones and they will be happy to be famous despite being presented as stupid and everybody is entertained.
Hey! I just spent 10 minutes writing this! Yay me!
PS - I am in Lisbon too in 2 weeks moo-ha-ha-ha-ha.
Thursday, March 13, 2008
Lisboa!
I'm coming! I'm coming!
The ticket isn't paid yet, but I'm so pissed of with the uni admin bullshit combined with travel booking complications I had to deal with all morning that I decided to take half an hour to paddle to the surface of the work flood that is trying to drown me and instead write to you guys. By Monday it should be all watertight. And guess what: the Lisbon trip costs me a whole AUD$85 extra on top of the university travel that they hopefully will pay for! Even I can afford that!
Ah, Lisboa! If everything goes to plan, I'll be arriving on Thursday, 22 May, leaving Sunday, 25 May. I know, it sucks that there is only one full weekend day, but it was so hard to get flights anyway and there are so many other places I have to go to. Like Marrakech... poor me!
This also means that I won't be able to spend any time in Amsterdam, although I will be flying out of there to Lisbon. But Reut, we'll be seeing each other in Marrakech. Now that the flight is almost booked we should start looking for accommodation. It seems as if LREC is the reason why flights in and out of Marrakech are getting so expensive, so maybe accommodation will become a problem too.
I suppose any real blogger would be appalled by this entry which should much rather be an email, but hey... we need to get something up here once in a while.
Lots of kisses to all of you! jxx
The ticket isn't paid yet, but I'm so pissed of with the uni admin bullshit combined with travel booking complications I had to deal with all morning that I decided to take half an hour to paddle to the surface of the work flood that is trying to drown me and instead write to you guys. By Monday it should be all watertight. And guess what: the Lisbon trip costs me a whole AUD$85 extra on top of the university travel that they hopefully will pay for! Even I can afford that!
Ah, Lisboa! If everything goes to plan, I'll be arriving on Thursday, 22 May, leaving Sunday, 25 May. I know, it sucks that there is only one full weekend day, but it was so hard to get flights anyway and there are so many other places I have to go to. Like Marrakech... poor me!
This also means that I won't be able to spend any time in Amsterdam, although I will be flying out of there to Lisbon. But Reut, we'll be seeing each other in Marrakech. Now that the flight is almost booked we should start looking for accommodation. It seems as if LREC is the reason why flights in and out of Marrakech are getting so expensive, so maybe accommodation will become a problem too.
I suppose any real blogger would be appalled by this entry which should much rather be an email, but hey... we need to get something up here once in a while.
Lots of kisses to all of you! jxx
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