QUOTE OF THE DAY

Don't talk to me about what the man on the street thinks, I've met the man on the street – he's a ****

Sid Vicious

I had the pleasure of quoting this today to a relatively famous TV producer who told me (in a particularly irritating mockney accent) that I was "out of touch" and "needed to get down with the kids" and "had no idea what normal people wanted to watch on TV.

I think that another part of my once promising TV career has just bitten the dust. However mainstream TV as a medium has become so irritating and debased that I really want no part of it anymore. And I certainly won't parade myself on air as some sort of a freakshow ("Roll Up! Roll Up! Come see the enormously fat man! He believes in Monsters! He must be mad! ...Ah he IS mad! HoHoHo"). OK, every man has his price and mine is not as high as one might think, but to ask me to do a whole string of humiliating and demeaning stuff, and to talk about the most intimate parts of my bipolar illness on air, and to do it for nothing ("because, its not our policy to pay contributors, like") is something that I am not prepared to do.

If this is the media of the modern world, I want nothing to do with it.