We received a review of our online video preview show ‘A View from the Cheap Seat’:
“Ahahahahahahaha! I know your game. As if we haven’t been doing this for years. You set up a situation where you act as a vaguely exaggerated character (a bravado actor), so that we know its fake. Then you cut to a shot that shows us the ‘truth’ we suspect is the case , that apparently you’re a failed actor. But because you confirm what we suspect, you make us suspect our suspicions.
You think we’re going to fall for that? You think that acting as if you’re cool and then showing you’re not cool is going to make us think that you’re actually cool. M9, ffs. Actors have been wearing ridiculous clothes that make us look unattractive for years. The point is, we wear them as if we weren’t actually really attractive, but actually we are. Because obvs, to be cool you have to pretend you’re not. And OBVIOUSLY you also actually have to be cool, to pretend you’re not cool and… to therefore be cool. Like #Derrida mate, deconstructing deconstruction, do you think it’s still the Noughties or something?
I know why you think it works as well: you’re taking the model of ugly people (all makes sense really) . Unattractive people nowadays do dress up in unattractive ways, to suggest they are actually attractive. But unlike being cool, you don’t actually have to be attractive to do that. Because if you’re an ugly fuck and make yourself even uglier and take ironically ugly pictures of yourself (as if you’re actually really sexy, but choose not to be), then that’s totally not a perversely narcissistic disavowal – it’s self expression.
In your case, you’re just a really lonely cunt, whose attempt at ironic self-glorification isn’t covered by today’s notions of legitimate vanity. Out of five I’d give the show: nah mate.
Your only chance is if you can write a review a bit like this, to like disavow your failed disavowal – ironizing your shit irony, that might work.”
The reviewer wishes to remain anonymous
