HAPPINESS IS…

Happiness has arrived, in the form of the contents of an external Hard Drive. I recently purchased. It’s all the rage now to have your own external hard drive; mainly made popular by the porn collecting individuals so they can always present their whole computer HD memory’s worth of downloads to hand (Ahem), whilst also not getting caught with a whole load of filthy files on their pc’s at home. Well I can’t deny the many other benefits of owning your own Hard Drive, its valueability as means of storing immense amounts of back up information and acting as a savior incase your pc HD fails, but I have to give it to the perverts and such appreciation societies; collectively known as ‘the porn fans’ the award for best use of the external hard drives. Or external hards’ as they usually refer it.

The contents of my external HD? Are fortunately in my case or unfortunately for others, not pornographic. I requested a dear friend of mine to make me a happy bunny after thrusting upon him my 'external hard'. He acheived my satisfaction by returning the  'external hard' with entire downloads of sitcom series, drama series , latest holly wood films and all the things in the world that are all so important to me such as, Ugly betty, Prison Break , Heroes (Yes I love it, so sue me), Dexter (freaks me out but I cant help it) and house to name a few. Yes Scrubs and Christine (first time I’ve ever seen or heard of it!). Films including little miss sunshine, 300, Departed, Sentine, Babel, films not even screened in some cinemas across the world (certainly not ours, but that’s a completely different reason), you name it I’ve got it. I’m in ecstatic bliss with three solid month’s worth of guaranteed on screen entertainment. For once I have found something that I passionately love about this decrepitated place of whiffs, where the mentality of such matters like any others is to scavenge for such supplies without an ounce of guilt, dignity or shame. Never mind the legality of it or any international copyright laws. (Another thing I’m shamefully grateful for, otherwise we’ll get nowt) Everyone’s using these free download websites and doing it like crazy loonies and I don’t feel one bit scabby about it especially since they come out in rather good quality as well. (Nope. no silhouettes of people moving about and the occasional dash across the screen, ok, perhaps the odd sounds delay). Not when we have to live in such depravity and lack of availability for such we crave and even the perks of Mollywood and bollywood simply isnt enough to suffice. (I’ll save the thrills and the joys of television entertainment on this part of the globe for another time)

I feel rather grateful for the availability of such elation via this World Wide Web. I bow down to thee the free download websites, for helping me keep in touch with my love, and keeping whole of my sanity intact and my happiness on the speedy upload of materials on to their fast increasing list of availabilities of any material that simply exists.

I can understand the cheap and tatty-ness, and the undignified shame one should be feeling, associated with opting for the free download than supporting your local cinema, bands you love, directors you admire etc. And how this may cause the slump in industry and sales and all that jazz, but it only applies to a world where such material are available. (I don’t know though, perhaps if I was really skint I might perhaps still be swayed towards my broadband connection where ever I might be – yes the Pandora’s box has been opened). This is what I have been reduced to when there is only one cinema in the whole place that I could perhaps go to where they occasionally might show a Hollywood film. When the television screen keeps on showing high pitch screams of a song, badly acted out to, with fake rain and fog machines for the best of times. Oh yeah not to forget the skin tight PVC costumes that often surfaces. When the society at large seem to be happily satisfied with bollywood copies of Hollywood films and mollywood copies (god please forgive me for the mere mention of such obscenities such as mollywood) of bollywood films which are copies of hollywood films which are copies of sometimes the occasional Korean or Spanish film (but you got to give it to hollywood since its usually done in excellent taste- yes I liked ‘vanilla sky’ and ‘the ring’).

I must admit it’s not the same really, watching most of this on my pc screen, than going to the cinema. I was really missing the whole cinema experience of late and was thrilled to find out the other day, that they where screening Babel, at our local cinema (well the only one on the whole place that shows hollywood films, God bless ‘Athena’) and managed to convince a bunch of us to go (no it isn’t like the great big popcorn, candy fizzy drinks cinema fiasco as such but a rather basic version of it with the back rack of the only ticket booth with few fizzy drinks dotted about and packets of some sort of odd looking toffee, but yet still a cinema whey hey!) We showed up and to my dismay the greasy haired lady at the counter announced that they might have to cancel the show if a total of 8 tickets aren’t sold, since the only way they break even on running the cinema is by selling a certain number of tickets per show and ‘if it aint met, it aint screened!’ My mate and I bought one additional ticket each to complete the numbers, just so all of us could go in and see this film. And the way we thought of it, and with the measly ticket prices it was still worth the money and a whole lot more. I give the cinema two more years max, unless this whole godforsaken place is cleansed off people with bad taste (I swear its multiplying by the second) and a whole new batch with appreciation of good cinema suddenly miraculously increases. (Subject to my tastes only give or take people on the boundaries since its good for variety. (the spice of life) The voice inside my head keeps saying ‘If only those wretched swines flew’).

Alls not lost. I have my reliable Film Piracy (got to love the chinese for that) and Free Downloads sites to save my day.