bitful

Nadine Coyle, Sarah Harding, Nicola Roberts, Cheryl Tweedy and Kimberley Walsh. There. I can name all five members of Girls Aloud without looking it up.

The problem is I don't want to be able to. I'd like my memory slots to remain available for more important stuff. But now the damage is done and I will never forget, for this is precisely the kind of information that clings to my memory forever (ask me in ten years' time and you shall see).

I have been reflecting for a while now about how much time I spend reading/listening/watching/browsing through cartloads of information that probably gives me a small amount of instant gratification and amusement, but which does not represent any sort of long-term investment in the Bank of Culture (and by Culture-capital-C I mean anything which is challenging and makes you think and stays with you and potentially changes - even improves? - you).

I like to keep myself up-to-date, informed and entertained. Recording Girls Aloud: Off The Record every week hardly qualifies. Will And Grace has stopped being funny long ago. My Name Is Earl lost the novelty factor around episode five. The Armstrongs get on my nerves, as does every single contestant in The Apprentice. I have listened through Project Runway and its UK version Project Catwalk while engaging in other activities, often in another room (which, considering it is a reality show based on fashion, takes a very vivid imagination). Seasons 2 of Desperate Housewives and Lost and Veronica Mars are not a patch on the previous ones but hey, just a couple more episodes to go before the end. Alias lost me way back (too far-fetched), and even Green Wing that I raved about not so long ago) is becoming repetitive.

So, stop.

That said, I have to see if the three blokes in Boys Will Be Girls who are being groomed to perform as a girl band pull it off. Judging from this week's episode, I'd say not a chance in hell.

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