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Tuesday, March 19, 2002 Fake Reality Television: Never make promises, when you've been drinking! First of you won't be thinking straight, which in my case means (to quote The Get Up Kids) I'm down for whatever. Second, you'll have completely forgotten about it the next day, so either you're going to disappoint someone by not showing up or you'll get really surprised, when they call to remind you. In my case I went to see Belle & Sebastian Saturday night and had quite a few drinks. I'd been looking forward to this concert for a while, and it was really great. They played a great mix of songs, pulled a kid up on stage with them to sing Dancing Queen and they even did an encore. What more can you ask for? At the concert I met a friend, who told me about a movie him and his friend wanted to pass of as a documentary at the school they attend. And because the movie was great, he wanted me to be there at the screening. Like I said, I'm down for whatever, so I told him to call me and we'd figure something out. After the concert I went on a real bender and not surprisingly I was so hung over the next day I could barely move. If you’ve ever read “Go Now” by Richard Hell and can remember the bits, where he’s quitting heroin, you’ll have an idea as to how I feel every time I’ve been out drinking. I somehow manage to get into work Monday around 11 (still feeling quite poorly) and after a while I get a call from my friend. He reminds me the screening is that night (“What screening?” I’m thinking) and that I should call the other guy for details. I call him and as it turns out I had promised to pose as a reality television expert at The European Film College and introduce some movie. I felt bad about going back on a promise (although made under extenuating circumstances), so I promised to be at the school several hours before the screening, so we could go over, what was supposed to happen. As it turns out these two students at The European Film College had announced that they had hired a reality television expert to come by and give an example of the latest in American reality television. They brought in a real professor to introduce me to make it seem real and then I was supposed to pretend to be said expert. My job was to talk bollocks for five minutes about this show “taking reality television to the next level” and so on and then they would screen the movie Series 7: The Contenders without the opening credits, so it appeared as if it was a piece of real American television. In case you haven’t seen it the movie is about six people, who are in a game of life and death and the one, who survives wins the game. So basically you’re follow six people running around trying to shoot each other, but mixed with background stories and personal profiles like on a show. The thought was that when Blair Witch Project was shown over here everyone knew it wasn’t a real documentary. But there hadn’t been as much hype about this movie, so chances were that some of the students might (at first at least) believe that this was real and hopefully that would spark some kind of debate. I was sitting in the front row during the screening, so I couldn’t see how people responded, but when the lights came on it was obvious that several people had left. And apparently they had been sitting in the café outside the cinema and talked about what a disgusting concept this was. So it worked as planned. And apparently I was believable as well, because some of the students in the back snickered, when I was spewing clichés about this show being “groundbreaking” and “hardcore”. So that was great as well. And as a bonus my friend might bring me back later this year to present and talk about a couple of Warhol movies (but this time as myself), so that would be pretty cool.
- John Fogde 10:45 PM [+]
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