zeitghast

Although the caffeine/nicotine balance remains precarious, a reminder to myself that not all English television is shite: Nathan Barley. Chris Morris at it again. Alas, as I'm not currently in the UK, I missed the show itself, but the write-up in the Guardian linked above perfectly evinces the Morris aesthetic at its most perfect. He captures not only the surreality of the every day (is it possible to imagine The Office without the office sketches of Brass Eye?), but the herd mentality of viva-la-youth, viva-la-difference 20-something and 30-something alterna-culture. Although technically, generically speaking, I suppose it's parody, the write-up itself is masterful. The neologisms, sounding perfectly like the buzz-words of hipsterism (berk?), the blend of acidity and co-dependency that marks the culturati (uggh) as trapped - lovely. Genius, even.