I've somehow ended up on the mailing list of one of our local porn warehouses and every so often their catalogue turns up. Mrs Dave and I would flick through it, note down what we are interested in then look online for where we can buy it cheaper (loyal shoppers aren't we). I say we would, because over the last few years we found less and less stuff to interest us. They used to be maybe half quality stuff and half cheap crap. Over time the proportion of quality dropped and the proportion of crap rose until we just ended up chucking the things in the compost as soon as they arrived. Well, the catalogue turned up again the other day and instead of composting it, I decided to have a look and see if things had improved. It took me all of 2 seconds to work out that they hadn't. There wasn't a single quality title in the entire 50 page catalogue. It was all 4-hour cumshot compilations, really cheap gonzo, some low budget fetish stuff for the kinky, and a range of the worst looking cheap and nasty toys you have ever seen. It wasn't even a good catalogue - full of spelling mistakes, and descriptions that had been mis-copied from titles on the previous page. Apparently this sort of cheap crap is what people want now.
Sorry I'm going to rant here.. those with a delicate constitution should look away now...
This is exactly why I'm not working as a photographer, or jeweller or brewer (all of which I am qualified to do). People don't want quality. They just want cheap and they don't care that cheap often means crap. Who wants a hand printed B/W image on archival paper that will last for 100 years when they can print out a grainy snap from their camera phone for 10c. Why pay for a hand crafted beer when a 6 pack of VB (think Bud only worse) is only $10. Who wants a hand carved sterling silver Celtic brooch when I can buy something knocked out in a third world sweatshop using crap metal for half the price. Who wants a well produced porn when I can get 5 hours of badly-shot fucking for under $20. Am I bitter and twisted? Damn right I am.This is why we drink crap beer, eat fast food, watch shitty porn and generally fill our lives with crap that we don't need. This is why we are turning into a world of fat, clueless, lazy morons who are too busy watching crap programs on our new widescreen LCD while eating home-delivered, genetically-modified, intensively farmed grease to realise that we are drowning in a sea of our own waste.
Last year Mrs Dave and I joined Slow Food which aims to promote the opposite to fast food - good food prepared from the best ingredients and consumed in a leisurely fashion in good company. I've half a mind to set up the international slow porn organisation.
OK. Rant over. Y'all can come back now. At least the compost is good for the vegies.
