Judging from the feedback I receive on texts published on the pages
of
thekonst.net, it looks like you guys have a great interest for
what is happening at my geografical location. That's why tonight there
will be a bunch of Romanian tales by uncle Konst. They'll be about mass
media, personalities and also about scandals related to them.
Not so long ago whole the media space of Romania was filled with various
debates on the bilateral treaty with Russia, which was singed on July
the 4th. A significant event. Numerous analysts were making their
judgements whether it was good or bad. In fact, the main and the most
important part of the treaty is that of economy, and it will be great
if one day it turns from letters on the paper into real business
collaboration.
Television is the literature of the illiterate, the culture of the low-brow,
the wealth of the poor, the privilege of the underprivileged, the exclusive
club of the excluded masses. -- Lee Lovinger
But everything comes to its end sooner or later. So talk shows caught up
talking about relations with Russia. Crowds of viewers caught up phoning
to the
numbers given on TV, and felt their active participation in
composition and signing of the international document already composed
and signed without them
. Threads on web forms filled up with
discussions
and closed. And after a short pause the media space (TV,
news-papers and
internet mainly) revived again. This time the topic was
less global,
however interesting for many. Morality, with its specific
to everyone
meaning is a really funny thingie.
One doesn't have to spend too much searching for a list of mankind's
primary passions. It's enough just to take any of the holy books of any
monoteist
religion and to leaf it over. Here Christianity comes first,
with its not
tolerating sex before marriage, polygamy, homosexuality
and anal sex. During
many centuries it was the best way to bring more
people into church, arousing
them a guilt complex for their own natural
desires (at least the first two).
Also, it's not allowed to envy, to
get angry and to eat as much as you like.
This way the majority of
pleasant activities are replaced with the sole obligation
to pray. You
cannot even masturbate, because it's considered a sin. The list of
passions mankind would never stop wanting can be extended by looking at
Islam. Here you've got even more restrictions, like you cannot paint
people
and animals (I will definitely burn in hell for my 9 years of
fine arts
studies). Also, as you know Islam prohibits to drink alcohol,
and also to
peep at someone. I bet you've just remembered "Big brother"
and numerous
clones of the TV show. Why I'm saying all of this.. If you
think more about it,
you'll notice that all the restrictions of the
monotheistic religions for
actually natural things are successfully
exploited by the television. And by
Internet too, of course.
A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known,
then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized. -- Fred Allen
A short introduction. There is such a show on one of Romanian TV
channels. The channel is called "Prima TV", and the show's name
is
"Faultfinders' chronicle". Every week on Tuesday two guys make fun
of
recent sayings of TV presenters and politicians. Though if I was one
of
them whose name is Serban Huidu ("hui" in Russian slang means pennis)
I
would think about being not-so-fault-finding ;) j/k. At the other hand,
if working or
studying somewhere in the former USSR is not among his
plans, having Huidi
as a lastname is quite ok. The name of the second
"faultfinder" is Mihai
Gainusa. There is also a decoration of the show:
two nice looking and
appetizingly dressed young cheerleader ladies who
dance on the table during
pauses between fault-findings.
Television is more interesting than people. If it were not, we should have
people standing in the corners of our rooms. -- Alan Coren
Next, there is a popular news-paper in Romania, called "Libertatea"
(Liberty), quite a "yellow" one, but popular mainly due to this very
feature.
I don't read it here, but its reprints at gazeta.ru sometimes
make
me feel amused. Good they're published only in the site's "yellow"
section.
Really, there are quite ambivalent fellings I have reading
titles saying
something like "Romanian scientists cloned Dracula" or
"the city of Brasov
was attacked by wolves" :) I suppose there is
something in their staff who
can speak Romanian, so they decided to use
such an opportunity to extend their
sources, for all the Liberty's
materials are accesible on the news-paper's web site.
Now, what kind of "yellow" press doesn't like scandals? It just makes
living
of it. Somehow, reporters of the respective editorial found
photos of one of
the cheerleaders at the TV show mentioned below. There
was almost nothing
special on them. Roxana Girnita of 22 years old just
drank too much vodka with a
funny name "Sankt Petersburg". Actually, I
wouldn't recommend anyone to drink
vodka made in Romania. Like tequila
produced in Russia would sound just
weird to you. Here you'd better
take palinca (local home-brew), wine or beer. So, the girlie grew weak
and limp, no wonder. Being drunk, her
boy-friend and she took photos on
which it's possible to see an empty bottle
of vodka introduced you know
where, a dick in her mouth, sticks inside genitals, etc. The photo
session
culmination was a picture showing the quality (along with
quantity) of the
drunken alcohol: a nude lady puking on the floor. It
definitely won't be the
most apetitizing sight in your life.
Amateur shots from the party can be compared with the artistic works by
Roxana
in "Playboy Romania" published recently,
where oiled and
luminated well, she posed in various productions. Frankly
speaking,
thekonst.net prefers buxom ladies with more noble face
features.
Thus, maximum 7 points by Klyagin's ten-point scale.
I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television. -- Gore Vidal
After quite a pathetic publication by "Libertatea" (quotation -- "serie
of photographs of pornografic kind that surpass imagination of any
normal
man"; looks like the author never puked or screwed drunk), which
said the
photos were already circulating the web, Roxana was
immediately fired
from "Prima TV". Numerous sympathizers on forums said
it was the end of the
lady's TV career. And something suggests me it
wasn't. I even think it's
even opposite, -- scandalous reputation will
rise interest at her potential
employers. "Say something good about
me if you want, if you want -- say
something bad, but please don't
muddle up my lastname", like wise people
used to say.
They predict many millions lawsuits for "Libertatea" for the girl's
lost
career (what I also doubt), but myself I don't think the
news-paper is
guilty. It's more probable that the boy-friend shown on
one of the shots is the
jackass. At the other hand, it's also strange
why would he want to put out somewhere a
photo with his own mug making
oral sex. So it's also possible he's not a
jackass, but a simpleton,
who knows.
Now, what the conclusion would be. Hide your digicams when screwing or
having
too much alcohol. Or at least watch the safety of the shots you
made. People
will remain the same like they were a hundred years ago.
Others' dirty linen
is one of the hottest topics, which is not just in
vain exploited by TV
and Islam (from different points of view, of
course). And I bet you (right,
exactly you), the dirty pervert
who's sitting now in front of his
monitor at this very moment, you're
slobbering, wishing to see the shots I've just told
about. Well, I can
understand you quite well. So, here you go: one, two,
three. And here you will find pictures with the same lady
published
in "Playboy".
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