OK, so all hope of me working has now been totally halted. Today, I got Sky Plus installed, courtesy of a lovely PR who offered me a six month free trial. It's ace! Within seconds of the engineer bloke leaving, I was flicking through the options with the same excitement as a four year old on Christmas morning. There are all the movie channels. There are all the porn channels. And then about a gazillion other channels that I'm sure will end up being ignored.
But the channels aren't the exciting thing. I'm still naive enough to be really, really impressed that I can rewind a TV programme *that I'm watching at the time*. And pause it, if the phone goes when I'm watching something. This seems like magic to me, even if it is only really technology. Best of all, I can tell it to record entire series of things that I like, so that there's never again that 'get home from the pub with nothing on TV' thing going on, because I've got a tonne of films and episodes of Buffy recorded into the hard-drive.
Hmm, OK, am very aware that I'm sounding like a monkey for the PR girl, but it really is fab.
TV aside, got a great text message last night.
"Hi, Em. I'm on the front cover of this month's Razzle - and on the first two pages.'
It says something for exactly how exploited women are by the industry that this particular young lady was just as excited about having her pics in Razzle as I am about getting an article in More or the Daily Star. Of course, that's not to say that exploitation doesn't exist, but all the people who I've met in the industry do porn because they can make loads of money out of it and they either actively enjoy, or have no objections about getting naked. And I'd be hard pushed to find a sector of society who was more anti kiddy-porn too.
Then got a call from another porn star mate who's applying for Big Brother and wanted to run his answers on the application form by me. Last year he got down to the last 500 people. I really hope he gets it this year, because it would certainly make for interesting viewing. He's a devoted boyfriend, father and porn star which has got to be a fairly unique combination.
However, the TV remote is beckoning so I really must go and make some lights flash and gape in wonder as I discover all the functions of my new toy.
Posted by emilyd at January 09, 2004 05:47 PM