My Comments on Big Brother (9) - Summer 2008

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Dale seems a very strange creature of the impulsive quirk. His gesture towards Rex's private parts after squirming in face of Rex's questions about what he had meant .... was quite bizarre. Dale is a pixie in disguise.

Rex and Bex...

Rex is King-in-his-own mind.

Marion's portrait of Bex as a St Trinian's girl is a simply brilliant observation.

Stuart (like Dale) is typical of men of his age who speak in riddles. In comes from a lifetime of texting and emailing, coupled with a male pride in paradoxically voluble terseness.

Mario was rabbiting on again last night about risk assessments.

Rachel met the first tragedy in her cocooned life. Not being able to prance around on moving escalators.

As to me being on BB, Gary, I would end up spouting, like Luke, as if I'm writing one of these posts to this thread. Moments of rare original observation but essentially detached, essentially not there, immune to any real human advances that the rarefied internet (where I live these days) cocoons me from.

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Painting smudged, face splashed.
A combination of events - (mainly Jen's incapability to accept Rex's apology (an apology that had been seriously given) regarding an admittedly stupid act of vandalism but, after all, an act done in the context of the Big Brother Show) - led to all sorts of repercussions and already pent-up emotions to explode. BB was right to evict Dennis and Dennis was right, eventually, to be ashamed of his behaviour. I was also dismayed at behaviour by Stu, Dale and Bex.

Quite sorry to see Sylvia go. She had a bit of spirit, although two-faced and petulant and childish.

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I thought BB did a good job in drawing the line under the previous night's events - as did the HMs themselves, eventually.

At first I thought Darnell and Mohammed came out with best credit, but I did not like their triumphalism when Sylvia went.

There are a lot of lessons for human behaviour in recent events.


The chocolate in Luke's ear incident was light relief. However, I have gone off Luke, big time. And I have more regard for Mario.

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Tedious and maddening tonight. Rex is right. I think he probably wants to leave. I sense viewers also feel they are entangled in the meaningless backbiting and will also want to leave, by switching off. It's like watching a family gradually grow dysfunctional. Bex, Dale and Jen are becoming monsters of deliberate negativity. But some of the nices ones like Kat, Darnell and Luke are becoming part of the downward spiral. A nightmare of convoluted arguments. For a change Mikey was good in the DR tonight. And one can forgive his uncothness. Beginning to think Mario should win!!!!!!!!!!!!! Still bewildered by Rachel's blank slate, despite some trial chalk marks upon it tonight. I'm beginning to like none of them. classical music for the cleaning was admirable

======================================= Yes, flat, flat, flat... If the summary shows the interesting bits, what must the rest be like? It still gives me lessons in life and artifice, though. Mikey's description of blind person's dreams, for example. What are they doing at Mario's workplace without him for 3 months? Health and Safety gone hang? Risk assessment and Facilitation dropped for darts matches with human darts-boards? Lisa is something out of a Bosch painting. And it's official - I no longer understand the sexual politics of this group of Housemates. It's an avant garde film that was once one pretended to understand in the Sixties but now makes as little sense as it ever did. Jen now begins to look like an evil Snow White, as her mind begins to create pitfalls from once smooth skin. Mind over matter. A Hammer horror film where chronic, cronic truth shows through youth by black magic. ======================================== Luke is court jester, dramatic chorus, shakesperean clown, repressed soul, sometimes malvolio -in-turpitude... Bex is the Clod-of-the-Remove who'd try and entice even Billy Bunter further than he would like to go with girls, even with the temptation of a cream bun... Jen is the silver-tongued foundling elfess who leaps from forfeit to forfeit in a game of Touch-me-if-you-can-understand-me-long-enough... Dale and Stu are doleful elves who've lost their selves, but perk up when they they think long and hard enough about perking up - but it's a slow ignition and nobody is sure if they have any sex drive at all, except the show kind. Rex to go, simply because he's not eye candy. Mario and Lisa are not tenuous clowns in the Luke mode - they are real circus slapstick roustabouts. Tit and bum and mock-cuddles laced with moments of pseudo-seriousness when they show that even tumblers have some regard for safety. Mikey sees it all. ======================================== Zoo task - all a bit flat, despite the colourful costumes. Throwing buckets of tuna fish brine all over Jen is rather appealing, though. Hard to decide on the eviction - I think Luke is right in saying it will be the public's vote on who they blame for picturegate and its repercussions. I personally blame Jen. But I think Rex is more suitable for going - for his own sake - The Kipling task sounds a difficult one to me. I wonder if, generally, blind people can learn poetry by heart better than sighted people. The description of Rachel as someone with 'Gordon Brown' smiles was quite intriguing. Can't say I've noticed it in her. Rachel and Kat in a rendition of Happy Happy House is both cringingly awful and strangely uplifting... ============================== Mikey was hirrarious extemporising Kipling and then shaving his eyebows in an attempt to get nearer the 'satiable curtiosity'. Kat screeches out loud and then screeches quietly inside. Bex and Rex clash antlers. ================================ Missed the new arrivals. And the eviction. Horror! And video was mistimed. Thanks for keeping me up to date above, Marion. Rex must have been astonished! ===================================== Goats and Monkeys! Tribes and Constellations! Balanced stars: Luke Luke Luke and Belinda Belinda Belinda. Two articulate giants. The game indeed starts now. Flat has become full. The two younger new ladies seem very nice. Rex has perked up. I have perked up! Bex's wild flaming has been doused. I note Mario was a postman for 22 years. ===================================== A complex house. Burning Rex's pizza on purpose seemed a bit nasty. Luke is either quite nasty in himself or has become that through the unnatural focres of reality TV. Mario has a cynical streak... and a power to self-believe beyond the margins of his eesence as a cipher. Out-of-the-body Lisa - why am I not surprised by that? Belinda 'Vanessa Felz' is a real show-woman. Snores like Ken Russell. And will cause ructions. The personality forces are tightening into knots of unpredictable tentacles. Quite like Sarah and Maysoon. Rachel, too. All in a quiet way, allowing me to relax and not worry too much about the tentacles tightening elsewhere. Darnell is still my favourite for winning (from day one). Mind-over-Kat is one dream too far .... watching her float towards the ceiling. I don't know if Kat is genuine or just another Belinda with a better disguise? ================================ I'd've thought Lisa - with her mind-over-matter powers - would have been able to get out of a paper-bag more efficaciously. This season of BB is indeed Pinteresque, almost fustian to the nth degree. Luke is my old auntie. Weepy, creepy, inscrutable, immutable - the collective consciousness creature of BB9 squirms upon a crumbling plinth like a Lovecraftian Old One knitting its own tentacles. Meanwhile, the House's genius loci defaults to an aura of BelindaBelindaBelinda. Or BeLukeBelukeBeluke. Or BeLisa Beacon. The Bebex and Berex of the shallow night. ======================= The trouble is I keep hearing Luke's intonations and timbres and sing-song nagging speech-vocals in my mind's ear all day and all night. It's like a nightmare. ======================== I enjoyed Stu and Dale's imitation of Belindax3 in the DR. Her rendition of 'Over The Rianbow' was over the top, more like. She sounds as if she is at home pretending to be famous into an old reel-to-reel tape-recorder. Belisa Beacon Big-Ears is an unwilling partner I guess in the M/L relationship. It is indeed a (show)business reationship. Luke, as Gary suggests above, is indeed a bit like Paul O'Grady. Or more Lily Savage. I can see Luke one day sitting at his TV show desk with a white doggy doing a cheap imitation of Mikey! Maysoon to win. Or Darnell. Bex to go. We can save Mario for another day. We need to maintain this show as the ultimate Horror that even true Horror specialists (populating some of the Discussion Boards I attend) cannot stomach. ================================ And the two priate-ship bedrooms approach, stowaways, drummer-boys and boarding-parties readying themselves to come alongside amid all the loose cannons. Belinda is highly strung, on the brink of caterwauling Lloyd Webber favourites, also in a deep ricochet of loose gunfire from Mario and Mikey - with Lisa torn between her own common sense and Mario's. Paranoia and Conspiracy stalk between the bedrooms. Bex or Mario? I don't think we've wrung sufficient hot air-mail from Mario: the post-office messenger who conducts recorded delivery betweeen his head and the health&safety valve in his backside. So Bex to go. Did Bex accuse Kat of being over-the-top?! =========================== Biblical too in their nonsense-speak (just one rung below Street Speak). Biblical too in their inappropriate references. Pontius Pilate. Wash the face with flour. Crucify the Rebecca. Rachel Mildeyes. Darnell - White Icon. Mario Iscariot. Maysoon Magdalena. Luke was good in the DR - spelling out Rebecca and Mario as acronyms of their personalities. For me, if I were in the DR, Luke would be Lily-livered Underhand Kiddy Eunuch. What were all those shenanigans with the alcohol at the end. i think all of them are underhand! An avant garde drama acted by actors who've only half learned the script. Like the Irish dancing.   ============================= Your description of the task, Marion, reminds me of how the whole event approximated the dark absurdity of a Ligotti tale with over-made-up clowns and puppets - driven by an ill-timed beat from the the malleable anvils of a soft-furnished Hell. ======================== Mario facilitates his own exit as well as future puppy love between Bex and Luke, removed the custard cream from the biscuit and passed it over for others to ooze. I loved Lisa's rendition of Schoenberg songs in the Diary Room. Genuine modern classical vocals. No joke. Lisa is indeed a dark horse, now. With her steely glances, big ears and mind-over-matter skills, she could be the new novelty act to beat. The new clockwork clown with marionette muscles padded by silicon. ============================ Having slept on it, I feel that Lisa is not only a dark horse but someone upon whom the Universe has endowed winning, simply becauase the Universe deems it so. Who knows what motives underlie the Universe. We should rename Lisa as Gaia. Or Pontius Pilate. Yes, I've ceased warming to Darnell. And Luke is far too clever for his own boots. Posh and Bex? Can't see it really. =========================== Mario didn't really *get* the connection with Ricky Gervais during his interview last night. Lisa will know, though. Lisa is beyond human frailty. The washing-up etc is just an Earth Mother front for stern, unwavering, MrSpock-eared Goddesshood. ======================= The caryatid that is Lisa Indeed. But there is no accounting for the reverse-Medusa effects of the Universe. She will outstare anyone. ====================== I think Maysoon is Michael Jackson in disguise. ========================  can't say I remember noticing Lisa's underwear - even less noticing it with a discerning eye. But Lisa is fast becoming an underworn, understated force in my book of BB9. One of those characters - when writing a fiction - who starts off as a minor character but grows exponentially, in an autonomous fashion, beyond the control of author or reader. Bex as bunny-boiler? Luke's burgeoning sexuality (another autonomous force growing exponentially?)? Yes, one needs to unsuspend BB disbelief in order to live with oneself even to observe this objectively! The balance of Bex and Darnell - instinctive assumptions back and forth in destructive symbiosis. Another glimpse of a a monster or ghost even beyond the shock of glimpsing Michael Jackson in the House! ======================== Everyone gradually defaults to character. It's like a life time from birth (entrance) to death (eviction or victory) with fast-motion personality-changes that point towards the end result of their BB self rather than their real self. Darnell has become BBD. Luke BBL. Bex BBB. Lisa BBL. Rachel BBR. Dale BBD. Kat BBK. StuBBS. Maysoon BBM. Sara BBS. Rex BBR. Mikey BBM. Mo BBM. Belinda BBBBB. I've become BBD. Marion BBM. BBM and BBD win! Three each. EDIT: Sorry. BBM wins with four! ========================= I think Bex can sometimes be very vulture. ========================== There was something very Fellini about the Heavenly costumes, hugely buzzing around like Piers Anthony or Cordwainer Smith creatures sufficiently clownishly done also to be Ligottian. I agree that sparks are going to fly. Bex eating 'penis' in the DR was a BB moment to ... cherish or forget? Darnell is an emotional bloke, with a body that autonomously reflects both his highs and lows. I suspect his mind knows what his body's doing. And I suspect he knows what he's doing vis a vis the ultimate prize. Heaven? No, the £100,000 prize Darnell is now the Facilitator! ============================= Does Darnell have the authority to move housemates between Heaven and Hell. Only William Blake can do that? I always enjoy Mikey's nominating in the DR. His voice and Luke's haunt my dreams. And Rex's sometimes. Bex's is in my nightmares. I must say the apparent non-punishment of wild vandalism with water-bombs ete etc is not a good message when we are all concerned with youth crime. It looks as they often damage property during their high jinx. And talking about jinx, it is good they have Lisa still among them keeping any boogies at bay with her stern spells. PS: I'm going to miss the next episode or two unless I catch the episodes on the internet. (Channel 4i) ============================ Just caught it on Channel 4 iplayer. Merci pour excellent reportage, Mme Marion. Oooh la la. I love the mime by Rachel and Maysoon. They did very well; it's harder than it looks. Also loved the music to this. Ensemble Wind is one of my weaknesses. Rex could now mature into an interesting BB contestant. Don't like him, though. Mo was very good when acting a Frenchman, as you say. The Bike task is overall a bit cruel. But Belinda was over-acting her distress, I feel, Marion, in an attempt to capture sympathy after the announcements of nominations... =========================== Rebecca slithering like a snake (having just swallowed an ass) along the corridor was another Biblical moment. Darnell was either very clever or very stupid in the gratuitous rudeness trick he played on Sara. I wonder if that will be considered, in hindsight, as BB9's turning-point. Stu, Lisa and Mikey, as you say, came out well from the French task. Must also sympathise with Dale finding various brands of red wine as tasting of ... surprise, surprise ... red wine. But did not sympathis with his don't-care attitude. The baguette task was impossible. I was conceived over a Baguette Bar. =========================== Belinda Belinda Belinda Bye Bye Bye Stu's performance should win an Oscar. Almost believed him. I also suspect Darnell suffers from action-implementation at cross-purpose with intention. Rex is beginning to enjoy not enjoying BB. ========================== Belinda Able Din Bad Line Dale Bin The Universe speaks in riddles. ========================= I found it all a bit bitty tonight. Too many oblique, sometimes inaudible, conversations. They've certainly rumbled Kat. I agree with Mikey there. And Rachel's incantation: "But I'm happy" is indeed a self-persuasive philosophy of life that may catch on. But if she's an average person, she's ceased to be that simply by being chosen for BB. A paradox. Maysoon's rare DR appearance wasn't inspiring. She's certainly taking the art of pacing herself to extremes. ============================ Rachel, Darnell... All very Shakespearean: BB has ever been thus. A modern Amorality Drama - with morals and immorals playing hide-and-seek with guile and guilt disguised as innocence (innocence in the two senses of being the opposite of both guile and guilt), all seasoned with mock soliloquys and even mockier death-scenes. ========================= A lot of rash gamesmanship tonight. Brinkmanship with bananas: eating the fruit only leaves the skins, and we all know from our childhood comics what the skins can do to one's health & safety! Or maybe they will bake the skins then smoke them? I wonder if Mario is watching. Lisa gone back to low-key mode. Maysoon, Mo and Kat tried to cut loose tonight. Strange motivations and gambles. Bex has enhanced the persona she's moulding for herself by spending less time hanging up as a gorilla than dressing up to be one ! Rachel, too, with her designer-averageness and preening boringness. Darnell, I repeat, is either very clever or very stupid. Still not convinced which. Only monkeys can be manipulated by the artful poistioning of bananas.

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