Having just caught a little bit of Grayson Perry's TV program, I have to admit to a liking for his thoughts, presentation and have enjoyed many of his TV series.
I'd seen him previously on HIGNFY and found him quite funny, but the outlandish dresses and make-up put me off a bit. His motorbike and teddy bear, only adding to the WTF is this bloke on, arty farty bollocks, I suspected him of purveying. I was wrong.
His All Man series was great, and really got to the crux of what makes people tick. "Who Are You?" was equally good.
It's nice to have your preconceptions challenged every now and again.
Grayson is halfway to national treasure already. There is a brexit documentary he did in the Divided Britain series which would get him a job in concillation. Some of his outstanding TV work
I'd barely heard of her prior to her gig at Manchester Arena last year but had her pegged as a vacuous teeny-bop pop princess, just another pouting self-absorbed little Bieber. Couldn't help noticing though, in the aftermath of the bombing there, that she's an extraordinarily courageous and compassionate young woman. Admirable.
In reply to krikoman: Being a fan of dub reggae, meeting a friend of my Dad's new partner (who is a conservative voter), who, also being a conservative and striking me as being rather circumspect (nothing to do with her politics - she looked at me sideways), suddenly started talking about the dub reggae she liked, and saying that she'd not met anybody else who liked it.
Coming from a liberal family, and as a consequence only happening to move in liberal circles, and in Sheffield it seeming to be dreadlocked hippy types (to use a stereotype) who like the music, it was a surprise to meet 'a middle Englander' (to use another stereotype) who also liked it.
Music crosses all boundaries - and that makes it cool.
In reply to Tom V: He's a funny one, he can make me laugh, and I've respected him for some of the programmes he's made, but I think I'd probably want to leave his company after not very long if I met him.
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