A serious attempt at a theme show here. Remarkably, it's nowhere near Valentine's Day. Ironically, I'm posting this the day after a wedding announcement party, so synergy you know.
A major component of this show is a long, rambling, torturous answering machine message of the kind that would be handled these days with e-mail. The voice aspect makes it real and immediate (painful, funny, sad), and also allows for background music (there is background music on the answering machine message, yes). This is brought in at various points until just past the point of bearability and then faded out while something new is prepared.
- The first of many overwrought poetry readings
- Careless whispers and heavy metal
- It's like group therapy without the group
- Watching the submarine races
- The inevitable appearance of that Joy Division song
- Heart trouble
- Possible wrong number
- Industrious Reproduction
- Fumbling around in the dark
- Seeing the sailors off
- It's a love affiar
- Sometimes the jokes write themselves
- 80's electro end credits to Cinemax sexy crime movie
