the modern guide...better lies
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
...the modern guide to star wars*
Simon Pegg was on TV the other day. I'm a fan. He was talking about Star Wars - again.
I was the perfect age for Star Wars. Ten in 1977. My big brothers were playing Bowie and Mott the Hoople. I loved Marvel comics and football, was in the middle of discovering punk rock and gangs, taking the piss out of posh kids and spotty girls , and staring dumbfounded at the girls who were beginning to develop.
Star Wars meant nothing to me or the other local kids. Nothing at all! Nada , Zilch, F. all...I remember my dad taking me to it and thinking ... Jesus ... another western.
He didn't even think it was that good. He mumbled "Buck Rogers... Flash Gordon" He'd seen all the same Saturday morning B movies as Lucas. He knew a rip off when he saw it.
I don't remember talking about it at school or going mad for the action figures or my mates acting out Death Star scenes or thinking we were Luke and Hans or the posh robot or the big monkey guy!
Nine months or so later Grease came to town. Leather jackets....girls who looked dirty...burst condoms ...drag racing..."the chicks will cream ". ..T -birds and Pink Ladies ... Like Blondie and the Ramones. Kids doing the quake and chorusing "tell me more...tell me more" at the comprehensive school disco.
That's the movie experience I remember from then. That's the one the kids round my way queued round the block for.
I don't think we were any better or any worse than the kids that liked Star Wars.
I like it now, my kids like it.
I know this flies in the face of fashion, but back then to us, Star Wars was a just another movie and Grease was the word!.
I was the perfect age for Star Wars. Ten in 1977. My big brothers were playing Bowie and Mott the Hoople. I loved Marvel comics and football, was in the middle of discovering punk rock and gangs, taking the piss out of posh kids and spotty girls , and staring dumbfounded at the girls who were beginning to develop.
Star Wars meant nothing to me or the other local kids. Nothing at all! Nada , Zilch, F. all...I remember my dad taking me to it and thinking ... Jesus ... another western.
He didn't even think it was that good. He mumbled "Buck Rogers... Flash Gordon" He'd seen all the same Saturday morning B movies as Lucas. He knew a rip off when he saw it.
I don't remember talking about it at school or going mad for the action figures or my mates acting out Death Star scenes or thinking we were Luke and Hans or the posh robot or the big monkey guy!
Nine months or so later Grease came to town. Leather jackets....girls who looked dirty...burst condoms ...drag racing..."the chicks will cream ". ..T -birds and Pink Ladies ... Like Blondie and the Ramones. Kids doing the quake and chorusing "tell me more...tell me more" at the comprehensive school disco.
That's the movie experience I remember from then. That's the one the kids round my way queued round the block for.
I don't think we were any better or any worse than the kids that liked Star Wars.
I like it now, my kids like it.
I know this flies in the face of fashion, but back then to us, Star Wars was a just another movie and Grease was the word!.
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
...the modern guide to job hunting
I'm looking for a job. Its a lot harder than I thought.
The internet is awash with great jobs, poor jobs , high flying jobs and low slung jobs. You can sit in Iceland and look at a job in China. Look at a great role in New York from your home in Leeds.
You can spend all day at work looking for a job. Only to find your own advertised.
But its tiring and trying. Too many sites, too many jobs, too many recruiters, too many categories, too many agents.
I'd like to create a world job page.
A simple table listing every vacancy on the planet.
with ...job title....location....duties....benefits.
Maybe Something like this:
Pontiff....... Vatican........Flock Tendering........Infallibility;
Chairman.......Wall Street........Decision Making.......Power;
Barman.......London Pub......Serving.......Stories;
Street Sweeper....Paris....Cleaning.....The wonderment of toddlers;
That's it. No wages mentioned. No "must be motivated self starter" or "appreciator thruster" or any of that other Myers Briggs type nonsense.
Just a link to the role.
Every job in the world indexed through how you benefit as a human being.
It' a rough idea but I think I'm on to something.
In the meantime back to the job sites...
The internet is awash with great jobs, poor jobs , high flying jobs and low slung jobs. You can sit in Iceland and look at a job in China. Look at a great role in New York from your home in Leeds.
You can spend all day at work looking for a job. Only to find your own advertised.
But its tiring and trying. Too many sites, too many jobs, too many recruiters, too many categories, too many agents.
I'd like to create a world job page.
A simple table listing every vacancy on the planet.
with ...job title....location....duties....benefits.
Maybe Something like this:
Pontiff....... Vatican........Flock Tendering........Infallibility;
Chairman.......Wall Street........Decision Making.......Power;
Barman.......London Pub......Serving.......Stories;
Street Sweeper....Paris....Cleaning.....The wonderment of toddlers;
That's it. No wages mentioned. No "must be motivated self starter" or "appreciator thruster" or any of that other Myers Briggs type nonsense.
Just a link to the role.
Every job in the world indexed through how you benefit as a human being.
It' a rough idea but I think I'm on to something.
In the meantime back to the job sites...
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