I’ve been working on the first
two big projects of the year just lately, and both are going to put me in front
of the camera which I am not as comfortable with as radio. Maybe that’s because
radio allows the listener to use their imagination, or maybe it’s because I
prefer a microphone to a camera. We all know that radio is better than
television don’t we? Technically it isn’t television, it’s the Internet, but it’s
in front of a camera all the same, and it’s only on the Internet because it’s
far easier to decide to put something online than it is to wait to be asked to
put it on television. One is a one-off documentary that will go on YouTube as a
standalone video, probably on my very little used official account. The other
is a series of short videos that have their own dedicated channel.
A proposed podcast series has
caused me to stop and consider my actions, as it could be quite easily pitched
to BBC Radio Nottingham as a small strand in an already existing show. If they
did accept it I would of course also be paid for it, not megabucks I imagine
but enough to justify making it in the first place. At the end of every podcast
I record (since the second series of LP Box and in all of my Moonage Daydream
shows) I point people to the PayPal button that sits atop this blog, and
although it gets a few good clicks, it isn’t ever going to make the amounts
that I need so the possibility of taking some money is useful. I’m not
ultimately interested in personal profit to fund a yacht and a solid gold house;
I’m more interested in full creative control and being able to share my work
with the world. Having said that, I still need to eat! Of course if the BBC
turn this idea down, I will carry on regardless and make it as a podcast as I believe
in the idea.
As I mentioned yesterday,
today is apparently Blue Monday, the most depressing day of the year. The
post-Christmas gloom is at an all time high, and basically we are all sick to
death of it all. I find this flippant reference to depression a little
offensive given that depression is a very real illness that I and millions of
other people have to live with, but I suppose we need something to tie to this
particular day and the word ‘blue’ is often associated with glumness. January
is always a bit of a bollock really, so we should be encouraged to be as
wreckless as possible. If we’re all suffering from the post-Christmas gloom,
then why the hell are people detoxing? January should be the exact opposite;
drink more, smoke, eat whatever you like, and do nothing more physically exerting
than walking to the kitchen for more snacks. Start your good intentions in February;
it’s a shorter month so it makes sense.
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