Contest Blog 84 (Blog 469)

It’s another Matt Jones promo day and this time I’ll be sharing his sketch about how hard it is finding a reasonably priced apartment in Los Angeles. The one Matt shows off features a studio that is actually a small closet. I couldn’t link such a skit with a story about mental illness, right? I couldn’t! Actually when I was in a mental home, I did spend at least some time in the peaceful bliss that is a closet. Well, a cupboard anyway. Sounds crazy, right? Actually you could say cupboards are better than beds, at least in the daytime, as the former are in darkness. Whoops I’ve just made myself sound creepier, which believe it or not, wasn’t intentional. Don’t worry, I spent at least some of my time is a cupboard as a perfectly sane child so there no need to be concerned whatsoever. You’ll get funny looks, sure, but in my experience at least, you should get left alone, more so than usual even. However, I can’t say I can relate to anything else in the sketch. Why I’d rent an apartment in America, I have no idea. Technically I could as I work from home, but isn’t there a lot of crime in Los Angeles? That suggests that if I think about moving to such a place I’d LIKE crime which is odd. Combined with the cupboard-dwellings you kind of picture someone who isn’t exactly bringing anything of real value to the country he travelled to.

The people planning on renting a home were very unimpressed with the ‘pool’ that is really a bath tub. Actually I’d prefer a bath over a pool as I can’t swim. Who wants to killed by their own house, right? Dying in your own sleep isn’t quite so embarrassing, so passing away in bed isn’t that bad relatively speaking, but yeah, what you don’t want to do is die whilst ‘sleeping’ in a pool. (That’s a less humiliating way of saying you tried to swim and failed). You may get beyond-the-grave sympathy but there will be some people who judge you more than anything, only making the pain worse. You also don’t want to drown in your own bath, especially one with next to no water in (like in Matt’s sketch) as again, there will be unpleasant stories. The stuff of legends even, but in the worst way possible. The apartment was so expensive, too! It COULD be because the character Matt plays likes closets as much as I used to at least, (I’m sure Matt has no interest in such activities in real life, but if he does… great!), or it could just be because Matt’s character is greedy. If so, surely he’d never make it as a house salesman? Wrong, count me in I’ll pay every penny, now check out his video below!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUfZDBbhvRY

Now to change the subject: Techno horror! Judging by earlier blogs about me updating my computer by using code in a computer program called ‘Terminal’ and totally acing things, you’d think I’d never have any problems again. On Monday, I tried updating without the code and it didn’t work, I tried WITH the code again and it was looking good for a while, but what the FLIP was with my computer going wacky on me with nothing on the screen but a load of random colours?? I apologise in advance, but I thought AND said ‘OH (expletive!!!)’ Clearly very scared despite what looked like a friendly hippy’s artwork, (:S) I tried updating my computer again and went to bed, hoping everything would be sorted out in a few hours or so. After waking up in the middle of the night, I saw nothing a but blackness on my computer screen. Well… there go my dreams of being a computer whizz. I guess it would be time to get my computer repaired again. Before that though, I gave things one last try. I guessed that maybe the blank screen was my computer’s way of showing it was still downloading the update (a simple message would have sufficed) and you know what… I soon found it WAS updating! Imagine me getting my computer looked at and being told I just needed to turn my computer on again and wait a while. Beyond embarrassing and the stuff of legends. And on that relieved note…. BYE!