Here we are at the final bit of Christmas, as some of you might have realised there haven't been twelve of them, such as vol-le-vents left over from Christmas Day. You might think I have an idea of what to write about, well I don't. So this is a bit about bits, not necessary about Christmas more a strange experience about how exactly YouTube just changed the experience of viewing. The amount of uploads from VHS and Beta is amazing, where as any shared experiences of any event which may have happened. So hence there are a load of uploads of the Southern Ashtar Command experience and other incidents which may be remembered by people.
Let's take for example, 1981 for example, 30 years ago...
"She was working as a waitress in a cocktail bar..."
The year of the Don't You Want Me Baby, a royal wedding and riots with Manchester City in a Cup Final. Who said that 2011 was any different, but with the time of year came the listings magazines of the Radio and TV Times. Such it was so special, our family had a special folder to put them in. Its never found wanting as much, but even the junior cousin of the TV Times, Look-In made the effort to show itself to be in a festive party mood around this time of year. Though it seems with 1981 everything changed, from flares in New Romantics and with the introduction of the lime green and blue BBC1 globe in September, it was a shuddering halt to the 70's and on into the 80's with technology at the fore front.
Its not so much an innocent age had gone, but had changed with the times...
"Its for you-hooo!"
At that point when the GPO as was were still running telephones and delivering the post on time, there was something to be said about the way that they were promoted. Buzby was on the telephones side and Postman Pat on the Mail side, they were as big as anyone can imagine now. Its not like that we didn't trust them, but they were a key part of how these things were sold to us as consumers. Their lives of their own made themselves popular, the strategy and the mindset of companies was different, of being friendly and on our side. But thanks to JR and Dallas, we discovered that meaness was a way to go. Through no fault of our own, we had been sucked into the business of business, yet now from think about dramas about business, we watch as real business is being portrayed by people trying to get to a point and hope situation.
We look at YouTube and see so many different videos of the number of opinions and also thoughts as well, inbetween them there is the recording from Beta and VHS, things which might have been lost for ever but now in cyberspace, sure there are people who try and recreate stuff, badly... Though if it wasn't for that, we would have something to look at to be able to look at old adverts, junctions and bits of programmes. We have become the keepers of the archives, we create our own pasts and future.
So Merry Christmas from me, I'll be back in the New Year with more nonsense to waffle about. But until then, have yourselves a Happy Christmas and don't forget to leave the purple quality street alone...
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