A Life Most Ordinary

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So 4 tickets come in the mail to a television preview. Cool huh!?! Not really after wastign 2+ hours of my life in the conference room of a hotel watching what could not really be called a preview.

So Heather, Jessie, Mike and myself meet at the Great Dane across the street for dinner and then head up/over to this Preview thing, which is up near East Towne mall. When we get there we see this huge long line and think it might not be that bad. Then the emcee for the evening gets on a mic and starts to give sort of an overview of the program. We will watch two different shows and some commercials and then comment on them. There will be prize drawings as well (in acorance with the $250 in prizes promised on the website.

So they are really trying to get a certain demographic and that demographic was 20+. So we sat down and then waited as agroup of Madison's Finest Lesbians came strollign in holding upt he group of course. The first thing we then did was fill out our info to be eligible for prizes. Then we had a booklet of like 20 different product groupings and each page forced us to pick one iitem. So going through soda, chips, razors...pickingmy favorites...then we get to lipstick and Fiber and just circle whatever one I had heard of. We will return to this process a little later.

The first television show was based off of the KEnneth Brannaugh movie Dead Again...a crappy story about past lives. What we saw was a completely absurd 2 hour story beign told in 45 minutes, everything suffered because of it. The acting was decent as was the filming,the plot was weak and everything was noticably underdeveloped.

Lights on filled out some questions about the characters/actors and then it was time for the last show...The City

The show was kind of funny/amusing...sorta like News Radio if it was about running a city instead od a newspaper. Heavily Accented Mexican Woman, Anal Retentive white guy, fat pompous money hungry dputy mayor, sassy black secretary, and bumbling security guard...Some parts were funny some were not...sorta like watching Becker or one of those other TV shows I avoid watching at all costs.

Reviewed that movie and then we retook that survey to see if tha ads and product placement had swayed our opinions. I of course just screwed around on my desk.

Not sure if they use the previews or the consumer input but it was a huge long ordeal and I wish I could get eyes.