I saw Edwin Shorts today after counseling, that man never fails to make me smile. What a guy, fantastic tutor and someone who is genuinely fun to talk with. He managed to coax me into signing up for Mooting this term. That's going to be fun.
In other news I'm still closing in on the flat, I'm hoping to put down a holding deposit tomorrow and snatch victory from the jaws of defeat as I got the go-ahead, however I need to get £150 from my father via Western Union so I'll have to call tonight and at a ridiculous time in the morning if that doesn't work. If I got that flat I'd be so happy I'd just burst or something.
Channel 4 is currently showing the last ever series of Friends and the adverts that it has posted up all over London are specially tailored for fans of the series. They include a variety of lines and images which are instantly recognisable to a fanatic and yet puzzling to anyone who doesn't watch the show religiously.
Most of them are just a plain bank of colour (for instance a pink) with an image on it. For instance an orange background with a chicken and a duck with the words "It's sooo the last series".
There is one which has been bugging me, it can be found on the walk into Moorgate Underground Station's Eastbound Circle/Hammersmith/Metropolitan line platform. It's a purple surface with the golden picture frame and the peep-hole found in Monica's apartment (interesting factoid: The picture frame over the peep-hole actually came about whilst they were decorating the set, they just left the frame there temporarily and eventually realised it looked pretty spiffy). However the peep hole in the picture is as viewed from the outside. I know it's only a small detail but it's really bugging me, as if the frame was on the wrong side of the door :)
I've included in the Snapshot archives a pic of one I saw today, two 'lazyboy' chairs - the essence of Joey and Chandler's bachelorhood.
Yeah I'm a bit of an obsessive friends fan, or rather was until I got pissed off with the writers ("Stop screwing with the plot destiny Assholes!") The whole "Rachel's baby" or more accurately the Joey+Rachel plotline really annoyed me. Apparently there's some sort of cliffhanger at the end of this last series so I guess I owe it to myself to watch it.
The thing is that Friends was all about a bunch of 20 Something Year olds dealing with 20 Something Year old issues. It was pioneering in its reliance upon characters relating their experiences 2nd hand, telling them to the group instead of you the viewer always being privy to every waking moment of their lives. However it soon lost that aspect. All I can say is vintage Friends is superb. I used to watch endless episodes with my sister when it first came out that we'd videod. After that we watched even more episodes, on VHS and eventually when they were made available in HK on DVD. It seems kind of ironic that Friends is coming to an end just as I'm entering the period in my life which that group of 6 were dealing with. Makes me wonder how mine's going to turn out.
Seems like I'll have to find a decent coffee house to hang out in.
Later
John
Posted by John Swaine at February 16, 2004 10:59 PM