This strange land called New Zealand

Musings about this strange land called New Zealand for May

Kiwi TV: I only get 3 channels and one fuzzy music channel.

The best show: Kath and Kim, an Australian show (an import) about making fun of the affluent working class. Very funny and someday (in the art imitates life file), we will see that this show arguably predicted the fall of the economy for its hilarous send ups to the disease called consumerism.

Music video: Avril Lavigne, Celine Dion’s bastard child’s new video "Girlfriend" is about the joys of bullying: stealing another woman’s man just because she can and hurt her too, emotionally and physically to the amusement of the extras.

Ad for Kiwi Police: 4 blokes bored about one of their mates re-telling some ‘work’ story, selling the idea that you will have better work stories if you join the New Zealand police, destroying any credibility of belief that there is privacy when one is a victim of a crime. No matter what you do, you may be a story too around the barbie. Nominated as the number one irony ad for the stories that have surfaced lately about the conduct of the NZ police: rape, bestiality, group sex, and more.

Ad for Burger King: The most degrading women’s ad on TV I’veg seen this month. Four young women, called BK girls (it sounds like BJ girls) in bikinis sharing everything together, from bikinis to a bed to a burger king hamburger (with head thrown back and wide pouting lips) to golden showers....(golden showers: actual words in the narrated voice-over of this ad) to describe the bikini clad women dancing in water from what appears to be a garden hose sprinkler.

Ad: runner up for worst of May: Toyota promoting its car with a film showing two cars racing. Bad taste considering how many people are killed (and some become martyrs)die every month in NZ from ‘boy racing”. The police claim to be helpless to stop it. I have a suggestion, take away their license AND the car.

TV news: two Pakeha reporters grinning ear to ear as they "report" the latest "news" on Paris Hilton as if their reporting on her sentence is at a higher level than what she did to get 45 days in jail (driving with a suspended license for drink driving because she doesn't read, only signs what she is told to sign, hence not knowing she signed a document that her license was suspended.)

Runner up for best TV show: coming