i worked out the future of television today
i don't know what i get for this working out
but i will show you my working out
the future of television is thus
people singing
people voting
but the people singing don't sing songs
they sing jingles
jingling
the names of products
adverts
the people singing sing adverts
and dress as products
then the public votes
but you can keep this going for 24 hours
because you don't need adverts
see
it works
it's fucking shit and it works
......
the problem with television now
is it is fucking shit
which means
even if you're good
you're shit
so anyone working in, starring on, or involved in anyway in television
is an absolute arse of a cunt
it's like toilets
say a designer, a sculpture, someone like Antony Gormley
comes along and designs the most magnificent toilet
a 90 foot high toilet of the North
a huge Northern toilet
that can be seen from every town in the South
just one huge Sèvres porcelain toilet of the North
so beautiful that throughout the world the North of England becomes synonymous with a gigantic gleaming arse basin
Gormley redesigns the toilet
the toilet is no longer a toilet but a symbol
of hope
and creation
of peace
except every time you see that toilet
on the news, in the magazines, on the internet, on the television
the first thing you think of is shit
even though it was meant to be a symbol of hope
and of peace
a giant symbol of joy
and creation
what you always think of first of all when you see that toilet is shit
shit shit piss shit piss piss shit
and even though you might tell yourself no
of course those bad things
the evil things
the shit and the piss things
might be associated with the toilet
the real meaning
the joy and the hope and the creation
which will always be there
always
beneath the shit and the piss
and long after the piss and the shit have been flushed out across the Northern dales of England
and will one day return to the toilet
it doesn't
all that returns is more shit and more piss
the brown and the yellow
the shit and the shit and the piss
which is television
so now even the good stuff
the stuff which might have stood a chance of being taken seriously
the little glimpses of beauty and magic
the serene still water
can't escape the idea of being shit