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Apr. 30th, 2009 08:11 amI know that most of the UK people already know that Charlie Brooker is brilliant and - indeed! - Right About Everything - and the rest of y'all are sadly unable to watch him on the tellybox due to geographical restrictions - though, we get Brooker and you get hockey at a sensible time of day, I like that trade-off :D - but honestly, if you didn't see Newswipe last night for some reason, make sure to watch a repeat or iplayer it or something. The whole thing was excellent, but his piece on Susan Boyle - oh look, the media have fallen over themselves because someone who doesn't fit the appearance mould has some talent, something somewhere has gone very wrong - made me applaud the television, like a twat.
For international benefit, "Charlie Brooker is a British comedian, writer, columnist and broadcaster. He is particularly known for his TV shows Screenwipe and Newswipe and his review columns for The Guardian newspaper, and is one of four creative directors of comedy production company Zeppotron. Recently, he has become known for his five-part horror drama Dead Set for E4, for which he was nominated for a BAFTA."
But more importantly, he says things like "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, which is a pity because this week the National Association of Beholders wrote to tell me that I've got a face like a rucksack full of dented bells," wrote this about "psychics", and uses swearwords in a way I can only aspire to. He is great. This will never be disputed ever. Hurrah!
Today I am mostly pondering how to become cleverer. I don't think this will be easy. You see, I long to understand science and philosophy and psychology.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
jennywooyay has sent me a list of books about how minds work, which will be enormously helpful. This leaves science and philosophy, which are broad, I know, so I MAY need to narrow that down... see, I'm reading lots about atheism and humanism right now. This, naturally, leads to wanting to understand evolution better, and that leads to Darwin. I know, however, that I am not clever enough to understand The Origin of Species properly, so I've ended up buying one of those beginner's guides to... In theory, this is sensible. In practice, I feel like I've bought The Duhface's Guide to The Bleeding Obvious. Seethe.
By the way, I was going to study philosophy as a second subject at university, but I thought no, that has no practical application in the REAL WORLD. So I did history. See if you can work out the flaw, there.
Humanities are as valuable as sciences, I know this. I just think I did one of the wrong humanities. English is a wonderful thing, all that literature, but history? I cannot remember anything I studied. I don't even have a copy of my dissertation and I can't remember a word of what I wrote, an enormous regret of mine since the subject - Vietnam and the publication of the Pentagon Papers - isn't exactly the most boring in the world. Ask me a question on that subject, though, and I will go so blank as to render me faceless.
Bollocks. I did ponder the idea of doing an Open University course in Psychology, but the fact that I know two people who are doing OU courses and they seem to be stressed out to blazes over them puts me off somewhat. Then again any university course can be stressful. Oh I don't know. I just want to be intelligent, god dammit.
Playoff round 2 is back tonight, I think I'll go and hide in it.
For international benefit, "Charlie Brooker is a British comedian, writer, columnist and broadcaster. He is particularly known for his TV shows Screenwipe and Newswipe and his review columns for The Guardian newspaper, and is one of four creative directors of comedy production company Zeppotron. Recently, he has become known for his five-part horror drama Dead Set for E4, for which he was nominated for a BAFTA."
But more importantly, he says things like "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, which is a pity because this week the National Association of Beholders wrote to tell me that I've got a face like a rucksack full of dented bells," wrote this about "psychics", and uses swearwords in a way I can only aspire to. He is great. This will never be disputed ever. Hurrah!
Today I am mostly pondering how to become cleverer. I don't think this will be easy. You see, I long to understand science and philosophy and psychology.
jennywooyay has sent me a list of books about how minds work, which will be enormously helpful. This leaves science and philosophy, which are broad, I know, so I MAY need to narrow that down... see, I'm reading lots about atheism and humanism right now. This, naturally, leads to wanting to understand evolution better, and that leads to Darwin. I know, however, that I am not clever enough to understand The Origin of Species properly, so I've ended up buying one of those beginner's guides to... In theory, this is sensible. In practice, I feel like I've bought The Duhface's Guide to The Bleeding Obvious. Seethe.By the way, I was going to study philosophy as a second subject at university, but I thought no, that has no practical application in the REAL WORLD. So I did history. See if you can work out the flaw, there.
Humanities are as valuable as sciences, I know this. I just think I did one of the wrong humanities. English is a wonderful thing, all that literature, but history? I cannot remember anything I studied. I don't even have a copy of my dissertation and I can't remember a word of what I wrote, an enormous regret of mine since the subject - Vietnam and the publication of the Pentagon Papers - isn't exactly the most boring in the world. Ask me a question on that subject, though, and I will go so blank as to render me faceless.
Bollocks. I did ponder the idea of doing an Open University course in Psychology, but the fact that I know two people who are doing OU courses and they seem to be stressed out to blazes over them puts me off somewhat. Then again any university course can be stressful. Oh I don't know. I just want to be intelligent, god dammit.
Playoff round 2 is back tonight, I think I'll go and hide in it.
