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Make Me A Celebrity!

 
  

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Princess
20:58 / 01.01.07
From my diary:


Now, goals one and two are pretty much being dealt with, but goal three is presenting a challenge. This thread is to document, discuss, and dissect my apotheosis in the year 2007. Advice and strategies welcomed.
 
 
Smoothly
21:07 / 01.01.07
What kind of celebrity do you want to be? What do you want to get out of it? What sacrifices are you unwilling to make?
Do you consider Mark Chapman to be a celebrity?
 
 
Princess
21:56 / 01.01.07
I want to use the celebrity status to help sell art/writing stuff. I'd rather not be famous for violent crime though. If this worked well I'd be famous like Germaine Greer (eventually), but I'll probably settle for Maureen from driving school.
 
 
petunia
22:32 / 01.01.07
Wow.

She really is a very poor driver.
 
 
Princess
22:38 / 01.01.07
Famous for it.
 
 
astrojax69
01:13 / 02.01.07
you could try winning the nobel prize for literature with your novel. that might work.
 
 
iamus
01:19 / 02.01.07
You could say you've met me.


You'll have to wait a wee bit before that one'll work though.
 
 
Alex's Grandma
09:17 / 02.01.07
You could always apply for 'Big Brother' you know. Success here would pretty much guarantee a deal for your novel, and as much paid journalistic work as you could shake a stick at. Plus you'd get into the VIP area at Stringfellows for at least the rest of the decade.
 
 
Spaniel
10:04 / 02.01.07
The old lady is correct, you know
 
 
Princess
11:27 / 02.01.07
Do you think I'd get in? I'd have to re-dye my hair and practice my falsetto.
 
 
Mon Oncle Ignatius
11:43 / 02.01.07
As an aside, will previous Big Brother contestants who are now celebrities because of appearing on the show be eligible to appear on Celebrity Big Brother?
 
 
Smoothly
12:01 / 02.01.07
Of course. You don’t even have to be any kind of celebrity to win Celebrity Big Brother these days.
 
 
Papess
12:12 / 02.01.07
Thank goodness you are here, Princess.
 
 
Whisky Priestess
12:37 / 02.01.07
Two words. Pop. Idol. Even if you can't sing. Especially if you can't sing, actually.
 
 
Lama glama
14:27 / 02.01.07
Have an incredibly embarassing dance to go with your singing too. People will adore you!
 
 
Alex's Grandma
14:52 / 02.01.07
Do you think I'd get in?

Well I don't see why not. Look who's managed it over the years, after all. I mean PJ for God's sake. Science, Scary Mary, Marco the fagbangle ... I could go on for a while here. As long as you didn't corpse at the interview, I'm sure you'd fine.
 
 
Smoothly
15:06 / 02.01.07
Do you think I'd get in? I'd have to re-dye my hair and practice my falsetto.

‘Falsetto’ is a singing voice, silly. You mean “fellatio”.
 
 
Princess
18:22 / 02.01.07
I sure do!!
 
 
Princess
18:50 / 02.01.07
Right, I think I need to start with my name. The name defines the thing and I need to be a famous thing. My current name (with the terribly hebrew start and the boringly viking end) is just a wee bit too forgettable.
Now, this isn't the first time I've needed to use a false name but as these names have all gathered their own bit of baggage, and are quite often ridiculous to boot, most of them wouldn't really work.
The only name I have spare is Dorian Bliss. Which I really like. But I do worry that it sounds a bit *too* memorable, and as such people would realise it is not my real name. What do you think? Could you all believe in a Dorian Bliss?
If not, what better names can you all come up with? Delicately vailed references to queer sex or my supernatural ability to fascinate get you all extra points.
Anyone who manages to provide the winning name (if you convince me against Dorian Bliss) will be the proud recipient of a Mars bar (or other small confectionary of their choice).

Although if Dorian Bliss is tenable, I do love it dearly.
 
 
Princess
18:54 / 02.01.07
And, is it OK to enter Big Brother under a pseudonym?
 
 
Princess
18:57 / 02.01.07
Also, I've now dyed my hair. Blue and green dreadlocks should get me in, right? Plus the minority status and high voice?
 
 
Princess
21:32 / 02.01.07
Huray, quadruple post.

Also, is the last name Blake a little bit too much?
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
21:49 / 02.01.07
Could you all believe in a Dorian Bliss?

Dude, we could go to Whitby and meet about eight. I think you're golden.

If you mean, would anyone believe it was your real name, then no, obviously not. But I doubt anyone would care very much.
 
 
Princess
21:53 / 02.01.07
Cool. Right, I'm convinced. Now, time to set up Dorian Bliss Online. Who do we recommend for hosting and buying o names?
 
 
Ex
10:19 / 03.01.07
So am I too late to propose 'Svengali Strangecock' instead?
 
 
Whisky Priestess
12:49 / 03.01.07
That's pretty good, but not quite as ... memorable as Fisty Gl'Amour.

Or perhaps these two sturdy chaps could be Dorian's Superfriends?
 
 
petunia
12:54 / 03.01.07
Dreamhost seem pretty good as hosts. If you grab a promo code (there are loads of them on google), you can get a year's hosting and domain name for about £10.

Long live Dorian Bliss!
 
 
MattShepherd: I WEDDED KALI!
13:08 / 03.01.07
I've been a Dreamhost customer for years and I'm very satisfied.
 
 
Princess
15:48 / 07.01.07
Some crazy beast seems to have already registered DorianBliss.com?
Why the hell would they do that?
And then leave it empty?

Why?
 
 
Kirin? Who the heck?
18:16 / 07.01.07
Taken, you say? GoDaddy.com begs to differ. The prices are quite reasonable there, too. Just try to ignore their repeated begging of you to get this or that extra, and you'll be fine.
 
 
Kirin? Who the heck?
18:18 / 07.01.07
...As do DreamHost. You'd be better off getting it free with hosting if you were planning to get it from them.
 
 
Princess
16:26 / 11.01.07
Um. OK. I've paid my monies to Dreamhost, and now I'm a registered user. But, upon closer inspection, I don't seem to have registered a domain name or bought any type of hosting plan.

Umm. What have I actually payed for?

Helps please.
 
 
grant
16:36 / 11.01.07
I should offer something to you, since I'm kind of tangentially in the celebrity business. I'm not sure what, though.

If you could do something creative and outrageous (but not too outrageous to actually publish in a paper read by fundamentalist grandmothers), I could get that seen by an editor. Possibly published. It can't be TOO internet-based, because of the fundamentalist grandmother computer illiteracy factor.

One example of a story: There's a dude in Tampa who's selling his soul on the internet. (Actually what he's doing is brilliant -- selling futures in his creative output along with some weird rights over how he lives his life.) This works as a tabloid story because the thing's about the soul being sold, not really about an outrageous website.

Stelarc's body modification/electronic stimulation shenanigans also make stories because they're about this freaky guy doing freaky stuff.

I'm not entirely sure this is the kind of celebrity you want, but there's a window here you can crawl through.
 
 
Princess
16:45 / 11.01.07
grant, I love you. I love like the flowers love the rain.
I'm compiling a list of gimmicks right now.
 
 
Princess
17:03 / 11.01.07
Aww dude. I've got it. I've completely got it. Let me just see how much the dress would cost before I give you the details.

Let them eat cake!
 
  

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