I'm going to be on the television.

[davywavy]

Strolling home this afternoon from a lunch with cryx (who wanted to talk about the stock market*), I was stopped by a chap in the street who asked if I wanted to be on TV. Normally this is a question that would have me fleeing to the hills, but he seemed a friendly enough fellow and so I heard him out.

"What we want you to do is just walk in front of the camera, past that billboard", he indicated.
"What's this for?" I asked, suspiciously.
"We're making a programme about art and advertising", he said. "What we're going to do is edit images onto the billboard as you walk by, to show how artistic and advertising images of people don't reflect reality. We'll have a male model on the board-"
"And you want me to represent sorry reality?"
He looked a bit sheepish. "Yes." He said
I laughed. "Okay."
And I did just that.

So there you have it. It's a programme about the history of art that will be on BBC2 next spring; a documentary about the history of the beautiful male in art and advertising. And by way of contrast, representing the genuine sorry reality of the male in all it's shabby and saggy glory, is me.


^{*Q: How does one go about making money on the stock market, David?
A: By doing the exact opposite of me, it would seem.}

Comments

[jonnyargles.livejournal.com]

I was stopped by a guy on the street with a wobbly handheld who asked me if I wanted to be on TV. Turned out he had these leather thongs he wanted tme to model, and then one thing led to another and modesty forbids what happened next.

Although it's probably available from your local gay porn website.

[riksowden.livejournal.com]

sounds funky...

[commlal.livejournal.com]

I can think of worse examples of the normality of the british male that I happen to know. Seems they were quite lucky :-)

Drop me a line when its on, as I dont watch telly very much.

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

Sometime next spring was all they could tell me - they haven't got timetables further than that. They said just keep an eye out for it, but I don't own a TV anyway.