Dale: "All this stuff, you know, -- you know, sort of, stuff and things, I'm really missing ... you know ... my family."

Stuff and sort of nonsense.

Didn't quite understand all the Sara and Darnell stuff and things, you know. But it's all a typical sort of BB mating-dance, I'm sure. Things will shake out into their due place.

The ultimate Shakesperean moment last night: Darnell in Othello mode, head lowered pitifully: "I'd rather be in Hell than Heaven..."

Yes, some touching moments last night.

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The lubrication and regurgitation by our wise but scatoloical blindman represented one of the highlights of TV in all times and tradtions of TV.

Dale and Stu should go off together, arm in arm, heads bent, and like a part of the drunken group in The Tempest --- steeped in a quenched kaleidoscope of boring good looks disfigured by self-dramatised pining and mean mouths.

Vote for a dual eviction!

Rachel's washing up, Rex/Nicole machinations, Lisa's stern smirks of stolid Wagnerianism, Mo's complte abandon to putting everybody off as a way to win BB - all these things are just the flatulence of sprouts spread on the summer air like tedious spent Biblical plagues of pointlessness.

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THAT'S THE WAY TO DOOO IT!

Puppets R Us.

Puppets can be very funny. But they can be pathetic, or emblems of death as in Ligotti fiction. The HMs are puppets too, with BB as the marionette-master.

Mikey is already a puppet figure of sorts in his benighted world. He also suffers - with his usual piquant charm - the frequent alarms towards creating his own stick-puppet games ... as controlled himself in turn by BB ...

Mo seems to like his feminine shoes he's been made to wear, already clopping around like a puppet before his task begins.

Darnell never had a girl friend before? Sara stringing him along for the sake of the show?
Stringing him along? There we go again.

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With the Nicole-Rex terrorganza of a televised relationship played out in a semi-dramatic, learned-script-way, knowing all the time that it is natural and painful, both performed for cameras and truly felt - this is probably one of the highlights of TV 'drama' to match all the Wednesday Plays and Plays of the Month and Armchair Theatres of classic TV drama of the past (which you don't get any more as drama) all merged together and one can only sit back and gasp at all the real-and-unreal angles of the situation, gasping with admiration at the 'performances', and gasping with pathos and bathos amid the stupidities and typical intense couple-infighting spiralling out of control as, indeed, over-control meets submission and vice versa in almost a strobing rhythm.

When one comes to judge the people involved one has to tussle through that sort of sick kaleidoscope - and even then, I am unsure whether this couple had all this planned out and BB is the sucker, not the couple. Rex's recipe to end all recipes.

The table-tennis performance was superb and seemed to symbolise in a stylised way some of the implications above. The black-draped people being the demons that BB has set loose...

Kat and Mikey are fast becoming strong contenders, whatever the cynicism behind their performances.

The rest of the HMs have meanwhile taken backseats as bigger fish are fried on the big wide antique smoke-misted cinema screen in the distance above the heads of the audience.

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A low-key summary programme after all the creative excitement of the puppets and the Nicole-Rex involutions. A suitcase can calm many a nerve, like a snail reunited with its sinistral shell.

MonkFish-faced Dale is going, then. He is far moe inscrutable than given credit for. I really think he is slightly twisted inside. Which brings us back, neatly, to the involutions of a snail. Indeed one can imagine Dale with slimy knobby horns. He really is that bizarre. His beefcake exterior is all front. Indeed if you look closely at him, his body is ill-shaped, too, except - like a body-conjuror - it has the illusion of good looks.

Mikey was certainly spot-on re Rex. Mikey has taken over Luke's role of Greek Chorus.

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Well, Dale the Snail is afraid of moths?
He fabricated joy at the surpise arrival of Jen. He's thinking of Hello Magazine. I don't think Dale is all that he seems. But that's irrelevant now. He's gne.

Back to Tyrranosaurus Rex.

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I don't think we are on opposite sides, Marion, but I do think Rex and Nicole are as bad as each other. And you can glimpse the fermenting monster in both of them, worse than any monster that they currently already are.

I do beleve the Sara-Darnell-Stu thing is a set piece. A show for the cameras, to which all are implicit. Darnell is not innocent as he makes out. He is very streetwise. You can see it in his amblng gait. And the knowing smirk glimpsed beneath the mock-embarassed laugh.

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When Mikey is in the DR talking about people and events of the day, he sounds as if he is commentating on the end of an exciting race in the Olympics.

The Cakes of London will be used by our own Olympics committe as templates for iconic stadiums in 2012.

Rachel did right to choose Mikey's instinctive design for a sick Dome. Better than many exhibits in the Tate Modern, I say.
Full of loving Mikey-slimes.

Rex continues to act in character.

Rachel had to come off the fence. She deserves a gold medal for the high jump.
I'm not sure she is really upset, though. She knows after all that all this is nothing but another game. They should have BB tasks in the Olympics.

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Indeed. Mikey would make a good boss in any busniess that needs to see quick results. He is actually quite amazing with skills that transcend (or derive from?) his blindness. He is also a bit wild. Maybe that's the secret. He is a braintstormer.

I see that both Mikey and Darnell have become Cone Zeros !

Lisa is very strong - and has become a detached force - more considered than Luke ever was. She stands a chance.

Rex and Nicole continue to be an aberrant force. Belly-button and dare-kisses, included. Marion, you're right about your observations above about the kissing in this context.

Mo is a loose cannon.

Rachel has become a curtain. On silent runners. She needs an eye-patch.

And Kat secretly strokes her log.

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last night, I didn't understand many of the intense conversations. Reminded me of Bedlam or the 'Marat Sade', particularly with the bald heads.
Enjoyed the rapping of Rex, Mo and Darnell at one stage.

The Duckie water that Mikey sprays around - seemed apt (A-P.T) as did Rex's threat of pissing on Mike - because in the early days, one could easily imagine scatological Mikey actually carrying out such a threat. In tune with the mucks and messes he created with the Dome Cake.

Rex and Nicole are a symbol of couples these days in certain celebrity circles. A nigtmare worthy of this Forum that deals, at least in part, with the Horror arts.

Darnell as Black Static? or White Noise?

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The House task is a mock-Olympics, complete with opening ceremony, flag-waving parades and endurance tests for all, where less than 100% effort entails losing the luxury budget. Bizarrely, this is 'overseen' by a blind Mikey with golden baggy bifurcated golden raiment (wielding a megaphone to spur people on), looking and acting like a clown-like bald-headed cheer-leading Gandalf with a white wand.

Most of this task is done with happiness and aplomb. Lisa twirling ribbons (having spent the previous part of the day applying eye-shadow) was particularly good. The House came together – but later there was a row about someone pinching Rex's cider where Rex accuses Mo of lying.

The highlight however was a double act of gradually increasing tearful sorrowful hugs by Rachel & Kat, upon the news that Rachel had been nominated for eviction (along with Stu), where they had orginally started off vowing to each other that they would not cry, to save the other from crying, but ending up with both crying.

Rex says he has never been wrong so far in predicting who is to go on eviction night. This time he says Rachel will go.

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Daaay 70

Mo's "Trying to be Me" and was the most interesting character today. Coining that phrase in Diary Room conveys much of the existential angst embodied by BB at its best. Mo is almost admitting to insanity as his self-described paranoia grows, and wondering who is fake or not. And the ultimate conundrum is whether he himself is fake by thus fulfilling the role of this new-born Mo-ism?

Mikey fulfilled the shopping task by guessing enough times who would win the Olympic events: The Short Jump, Feather-Throwing, Floating-with-a-small-tropical-island-attached-to-the-groin etc.

Rachel was fulfilling another aspect of her essential Rachel-ism by caringly nursing Heaven and Hell, the goldfish, and then breaking down in tears when Heaven finally went to Heaven. Nicole at least showed her real feelings (probably the least fake of all the HMs) by gaining no credit with the audience in her mocking of Rachel's tears about something as trivial as a dead goldfish!

Lisa said she dreamed of famous Olympic athletes in the BB House. Darnell and sara have another intense tete-a-tete, as do Mo and Kat. Re the latter, were they talking in code about nominations?

Sara is deemed the fakest faker of them all.

Well, I guess Stu is going tonight, after Rachel's dizzy egg-race .... and exploiting the dying goldfish. But that's me being cynical.

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And now we have a raw brain, courtesy of Mikey. Seems appropriate.

Seems I was right about Mo and Kat talking in code.

Stu with the black-painted nails and the quirky  (if handsome) clowny face to go!  Rachel and Kat slobber together in celebration.

Rex continues to complain in raw bass tones as a continuous undergrunt on the soundtrack, while Nicole acts like a spoilt sixth-former.

Mo wildly thrashes between paranoia and selfishness - with a batman mask made from a black bin-liner.

Nothing changes.  The theatre of absurdity waddles grotesquely on towards its approaching crunch. You can't credit how quickly the summer has almost gone...

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I enjoyed Stu's crowd-surfing. (What he may be remembered for).

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Rachel said she once dreamed of being in the House even before dreaming of being in the House...
She's a hard-bitten film star acting sweet innocence... jiving with Kat ...

Nicole and Rex - surely they rehearsed these parts they play. No couple could be so embittered and still survive as a couple, otherwise?

There's a lot I don't follow any more. Codes withing codes within codes.

Mikey continues to be straight with what's what. He surely must win.

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Nicole justifiably complains at Rex. He has not made her life easy in the house. Smothering her in self-referred love. Also expecting, perversely, self-defeatiingly, for her to break BB rules to please him. Maybe being head of house will be able to fill his moral vacuum.

Scary thought that Mikey's last sight before he went blind was a doctor in a mask. I wonder what all our last sights will be before we leave this mortal coil. Mikey already knows his.

Sara and Mo getting closer? Sara seems to be the little town flirt.

The statues were a tableau ... an ingredient in an old-fashioned garden party. A scene set to be disrupted by William and the Outlaws.

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 I think Rachel and Mikey are a very good choice for potential winners.

But who knows what charms have held Mo in the house this long. The same charms could be stronger than any of us think.

The Rex and Nicole situation has at least landed us with a *real* situation even if half of it is concocted. She looked elfin and pathetic in her hood as she smoked at the end of the prgramme. A bit like fleetingly glimpsing Michael Jackson's face in Maysoon's.

Darnell is a cool dude who acts highly strung. Or highly strung who tries to act cool. I can imagine him as a strong visual force shambling amid the jungle of the streets where he lives, like a savage sleek ghost.

I wonder if I should have a heart attack and die while watching Big Brother whether - in that drowning moment of past and future dreams - I will think it was all worth while? Even so, I do not think I tempt Fate. Fate is already written, like Nicole crucified on a full mankini.

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Nicole - elfin earlier ... now rat-faced? But what about Rex the Rat - but who knows things get mixed up in the BB house: t. winter-damon - in 'best of df lewis' (1993) But I do agree Nicole to go on Friday. For the record, this bit's in white: Mo ate Mikey's bogey (for the record ... or rather for the cider). If I were younger (like my avatar), I'd think Rachel would make a good Mummy, with common sense. Still Kat would make a pretty mean Mummy, too. Handing out the cookies to her brood. Hope they don't have whiskers.

========================== A pity Maysoon's still not about to dance the Michael Jackson part...'. Well, with the dolls heads, French mime task, the puppeteering and now the zombie Thriller video there seems to be a theme of sorts running through this BB... Stringing each other along, jerking each other off ... I suspect Rex and Nicole are stringing us (the viewers) along... Who holds the strings that control the strings ... the audience, Big Brother, Channel 4? Maybe I am indeed dead and I'm about to get up and have my limbs jerked in rhythm after typing this mindlessly... DNA string theory... ========================= Well, after yesterday's zany zombies we have Darnell's method of destroying his own doubts about someone: kill that person (metaphorically). A bit like an albono Michael Jackson about to drop a baby from a hotel window... Sara gives up her flirting for woman-weeping ... wailing like a baby about to be mock-dropped from a window, And Nicole Nobody leaves the house with her spiteful, rodent face intact. I wonder if she'll be booed. Rex looks pleased, although he speaks sad. Meanwhile mean Mo lurches from one self-indulgent faux pas to another. ========================= I thinks Nasty Nic (hard as nails) coped with the interview well and remained true to herself. She seemed to be sincerely sorry about her treatment of Mikey - in hindsight. And I do suspect that Mikey brought on the behaviour of Rex and Nic in that Thriller task - for his own showmanship reasons. I'm sure Nic (and Rex eventually) will do well from BB. OF COURSE, though, they don't deserve to do so. ========================= These men are all comic book sub-heroes fighting imaginary wars - for damsels whose raison d'etre is to be catalysts for irrational emotions. Meanwhile, Mikey tilts at windbags. Quite good at this, despite being blind. A becalmed episode tonight. Stuck in the Sargasso Sea as Kat summons up makeshift depths for her emotions to fathom and then fill. And Rex is back to apologising for being unforgiveable. PS: Yes, Marion, Rex's playcards were funny. He was straight with his apology about his misreading, though. ========================= But tonight's programme ended with Darnell calling Rex the Puppet-Master. That sort of complements this year's theme, I guess. But other than that, I seriously made no more sense of tonight's programme than I did of the huge bowl of spaghetti. Turgid and needs unravelling. Shakesperean motivation all tangled up. Mo, for me, is the biggest enigma of all. Greek Democracy was at play too with the HMs' withdrawing of entertainment being more entertaining than the entertainment that was withdrawn.   ========================= That's quite right. Darnell scattermongering tangled grievances and Mo impulsively feasting on inscrutability.

 

Kat's biscuit-banshee is in my nightmare too.


And the Presbyterian Mikienster? I'm sure he's ever a-hunting to haunt those who slip into selfishness and ego-excess.

Sleep is blindness, but for the dreams. Yet dreams, like crystal balls, are probably realler than what they contain. Real or not, we rationalists ignore any such signs upon our running noose called life.

Well, I thought the Mario-Lisa thing yesterday was extremely sick-making and contrived. Sorry, Marion.

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Mo does seem to have a charmed life. This time probably because those voting for him as HoH felt he was the one least likely to do well with the public when push comes to shove in the final. What were those pieces of paper he (and Kat?) was crying over?? A mystery to me?

Another mystery to me was the Darnell-Rex vs Sara situation. Was this just a misfired attempt to spice up the entertainmemnt in an otherrwise low-key episode? Or something far more insidious? Judging by Marion's comments, it is the latter.

Kat's face bursting into tears. Mikey's self-satisfied silent lounging. Rachel's innocent excitement at non-excitement? All ingredients in a slow fizzling-out of BB this season. A shame really when there have been some genuine high points of both reality and fabrication this season, too.

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Yes, Mikey stole the show as Kiki Dee. I'm sure he really enjoys dressing up - as does Mo. Stocking-feelers - was that a joke Davina cracked? Rex and Darnell were justly scolded for their treatment of Sara. However, of the two, I feel Rex is the most sinister. (Darnell is just confused). But Darnell received - over all - the biggest stigma. Albino Crucified - a painting in El Prado by Dali. Sara is a tease, though. She was complicit in many ways - an easy smile pushing through her (fabricated?) gloom. As Sara and Lisa (why Lisa??) were nominated for eviction, the Prisoner's Dilemma task was a costly damp squib for Ch 4. I'm sure if some of the others were chosen, the outcome would not have been so predictable. BB has become too much of a show show, rather than the (un)reality show it used to major on. The HMs in and out of the bedroom while the sets and scenes are continuously changed. The HMs have become too 'show' savvy over the years.

======================= Sara to go? Late into house, true. But flirt/tease. A catalyst for fun. Lisa to go? Cheesy engagement to Mario!! Yes Lisa to go! Rex still banging on about the Millennium Dome cake! Kat and Rachel are ne'erdowell do-gooders! Mikey must win, really. Mo exploded like a terrorist bomb and sprayed the DR walls with bodily innards and half-digested burger. ============================= Lisa, bye! I think she was too stolid, too much an expressionless stalwart, the other half of Mario .... a circus act slightly gone to seed. I think the rest of them are suffering from an uncommon disease. Uncommon, because few people are allowed to suffer it. End-of-BBitis - where many recriminations, bluffs, double-bluffs, thoughts, thoughts about thoughts they thought they thought, asides, confusions, assumptions etc all come together and curdle and fizz and backbite... What else can one say? Kat and Rachel took a backseat tonight because they have not only lost the plot, they have lost even the desire not to lose it. ======================== Lisa presented a dilemma in her interview - to relish her unintended zaniness or to deplore her innocent boring ordinariness. A paradox, which really shows that there is more to her than I can put my finger on. So perhaps you're right, Marion. She was part of a show-business couple, even before going into the House, I reckon. That grates. ====================== Well, Kat compared Darnell's 'boner' to a chup chupa lollipop. That should make some good material for Mikey's stand-up comedian act he apparently conducts in the outside world! He is a very crude boy! Sara hugged Darnell's white prickly beachball of a head in the pool... She really is a a goofy girl. Rex is beginning to look the winner, despite my terrible misgivings about this... The only one who has truly been himself? I note Rachel was very excited about the beans she had for dinner. ========================== Rex: "Zero, Zero, Zero, Zero, Zero, Zero, Zero, Zero, Zero, Zero, Zero, Zero, Zero, Zero, Zero, Zero, Zero, Zero, Zero, Zero, Zero, Zero, Zero, Zero, Zero, Zero, Zero, Zero, Zero, Zero, Zero, Zero, Zero, Zero, Zero, Zero, Zero, Zero, Zero, Zero, Zero, Zero, Zero, Zero, Zero, Zero, Zero, Zero, Zero, Zero, Zero, Zero, Zero, Zero, Zero, Zero, Zero, Zero, Zero, Zero, Zero, Zero, Zero, Zero, Zero, Zero, Zero, Zero, Zero, Zero, Zero, Zero, Zero, Zero, Zero, Zero, Zero, Zero, Zero, Zero, Zero, Zero, Zero, Zero, Zero, Zero, Zero, Zero, Zero, Zero, Zero, Zero, Zero, Zero, Zero, Zero, Zero, Zero, Zero, Zero, Zero, Zero, Zero, Zero, Zero, Zero, Zero, Zero, Zero, Zero, Zero, Zero, Zero, Zero, Zero, Zero, Zero, Zero, Zero, Zero, Zero, Zero, Zero, Zero, Zero, Zero, Zero, Zero, Zero, Zero, Zero, Zero, Zero, Zero, Zero, Zero, Zero, Zero, Zero, Zero, Zero, Zero, Zero, Zero..." ===================== For me, Fiction and Reality can become symbiotiic on some occasiosn when looking at BB - as long as one can otherwise withstand the shallow selfishnesses that often abound. I think Mikey craves celebrity. I gather he is (or is hoping to be) the country's only blind stand-up comedian! I sense his BB 'act' was well fore-planned. As also was Kat's. Rachel is indeed a mystery. ====================== It was classic BB, too, the programme with those 2 evictions. Rex also looked genuinely upset. Be intersting to see the others' reactions tonight. I think Darnell still could win - despite Davina giving the game away (by implication) that he would have done better about 3 weeks ago. My heart says Rachel. My head says Mikey will win. Another Pete, in many ways. =================== Marion wrote: I don't know why, but I found Mikey and Rex's silent water fight in the garden oddly moving. Blind Mikey stalked silent Rex, not so confident in his mask, and each tossed sparkling water at the other. ... The stuff of BB. Rex is sometimes child-like, even childish in both his brashness and his naive sense of awe at the things going on in the BB house. Why are people voting for him, one wonders. At least a good few must be voting for him Rachel packing Kat's case was poignant. I still don't know whether she's consistently method-acting all the time she's been in the house. Mikey must be the favourite. He is a one-person walking Sixties Happening, however fake in his art of righteousness and honourable putdowns of Rex. However Tate Modern. (Genuinely?) chuffed at his apparent votability with the public, Darnell slopes and shambles around the house like an eskimo simian. I hope that doesn't get me into Wendy Richard sort of trouble. ================== we mustn't forget perhaps BB is a game in which various measures (measures that can misfire as this one did) are taken by the contestants to win (or not). Or Rex was genuinely annoyed at a whole bag of chick peas being thrown around the room and he genuinely thinks Rachel has been method-acting the innocent from day one. ====================== Quote from Rex right at the end: "This year the show's not been about being good but about being real." I think Mikey will win. He seemed to be pelased to 'watch' an edition of BB. I love the image of Rachel that she's created for herself. And after all, in real life, she 's probably like that, too! Interesting by a certain pretence of being boring!? A new paradox. Sara is feisty and flirty. Probably real. Darnell: oblique and jaunty, with an edge of darkness. I thought the raps were good. ======================= Well done, Marion. Your two choices are 1st and 2nd. But which is going to be which? Mikey, the self-confessed Circus Clown will be the winner!! Only apt for this Ligotti-inspired BB. But will there B another BB? I'm told this BB has had the lowest ratings ever. ========================== Very surprised! Well done, Rachel - Mother and generally nice person. Perhaps this is a turning-point for our Society. ========================= Snow-white Rachel Rice (previous child co-star in a Hugh Grant film) won fair and square. But NOT a good result for BB and Ch4, I guess. She also appeared in Sherlock Holmes on TV and has this site: http://www.rachel-rice.co.uk/ ========================= CELEBRITY BIG BROTHER 2009 HERE: http://weirdmonger.blog-city.com/celebrity_big_brother_2009.htm