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A Bear on T.V?

Bear

13:03 / 19.04.02

This is a strange one, possibly should have went into the magick box but I'll put it here to start with...

The guy who's going to do my tattoo is coming to London next month, while he's here he's being filmed National Geographic channel, who are making a documentry about Austin Osman Spare. He's asking if I'd liked to be filmed getting the tattoo done which which be broadcast on the program (worldwide).

I dunno I'm kind of buzzing about this, it would be cool I'm pretty shy though and you know TV is a bit big, also pretty worried that my folks would be watching..

I dunno I guess I just wanted to right this down, its a little bit of excitment for my Friday afternoon....

Utopia

13:10 / 19.04.02

yes. yes yes yes. it sounds like fun. well, for me anyway. don't commit to doing it though, if you know you'll feel uncomfortable in front of the cameras. what a cool thing to have though.

Bear

13:28 / 19.04.02

Cheers Utopia

I think I'm going to do it actually, I'll just get drunk first, become a hit on the channel and they'll ask me to star in my own show about Buffy the Vampire Slayer - you never know it might happen..

I've been on TV once before actually when I was about 11 dressed up in Victorian clothes and walking to raise money for the local church - funny how things change

Captain Zoom

13:34 / 19.04.02

Bear, that sounds awesome. I'm so jealous. Let us know when it's going to be on TV.

Zoom.

netbanshee

15:39 / 19.04.02

wear lots of buttons that espose personal beliefs...use the photo op to be subversive...

Shortfatdyke

22:34 / 19.04.02

that's pretty neat, bear. this is your first tattoo, though, right? talk about going in at the deep end....

Not Here Still

10:05 / 20.04.02

Do it. But be prepared to wince when you watch it.

I was asked to go on TV to talk about music censorship when I was 16.
I gave what I thought was a really impassioned argument as to why music should not be censored.
I rounded off with a Rage Against the Machine quote about 'you can't censor the facists - but you can shoot them' and thought I was really cool.
Needless to say, when the programme came out and was edited, I looked like a right fuckwit...

But yeah, do it. Sounds very damn cool to me, and you're less likely to make a fool of yourself than I did all those years ago...

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

10:35 / 20.04.02

Do it! That'd be cool.
I made a right prick of myself once on telly, on the Lowri Turner show of all things. They'd phoned up the shop where I was working (sci-fi shop) wanting people who were "pessimistic about the future", so I gave 'em loads of bullshit about how I'd been hoarding food for the Apocalypse and stuff. Bastards only went and wrote it all down, and there I was, having to explain all this stuff and remember what I'd said over the phone. "So what sort of food have you been hoarding, then?" "Umm... you know. Tins and stuff." Jesus, what a twat.

Bear

09:12 / 23.04.02

Well its all fallen through now, I'm still getting the tattoo just not on TV. I bet you all think I made it up now

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

09:22 / 23.04.02

What's it of? Is it a pirate? Say it's a pirate!

Sorry to hear that, though. Ah well, you seemed to be in two minds about the whole thing anyway. But there'll be plenty more opportunities to be on telly (though I'm gutted that I didn't take the chance to streak at the Queen Mum's funeral).

Bear

09:26 / 23.04.02

Its a tattoo of the Queen Mum riding a Harley up to heaven. Nah its just a bear paw with an eye in the middle (that doesn't sound cheesy does it?)

Yeah I would have probably bottled out of getting it done on TV anyway.

Shortfatdyke

11:17 / 23.04.02

i like the paw idea. at least now you can concentrate on just getting it done and not trying to look cool and not in pain for the camera.

i want to see both not me again's and stoatie's tv stuff. i need a laugh. i myself am on the club v video. luckily my drunken comments on hwo important it was to have an alternative to the established gay scene were cut out.

Bear

11:39 / 23.04.02

I think most people these days have been on TV even if it just for a couple of minutes...

If anyone with good Web-fu can find a bear paw print I'd be very grateful, grizzly if possible

I'm going to have a look about this afternoon.

Captain Zoom

14:05 / 23.04.02

I think you just made this all up.

Zoom.

Bear

14:24 / 23.04.02

Your right, I wanted to impress you all. I have no friends and to be honest I'm not even I real bear, I'm a human

Captain Zoom

14:33 / 23.04.02

NNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!

(All Zoom's illusions of reality come crasing down in one horrible instant.)

Zoom.

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