In describing how flat, non-stylized, utilitarian things can still be beautiful and function perfectly, a wise man said last night, "Look at Keira Knightley, she's just an ironing board with a face, and she works." I'll give you three guesses who said that, and your first two don't count.
That's right, my good friend and yours, Jeremy Clarkson, uttered those very words last night on… Top Gear! If you wasted your first two guesses on Richard Hammond and James May, I appreciate your knowing what I'm going to talk about, but you really have shown that you don't watch the show.
I know, I know, most people don't watch the show, most people don't get BBC America, but that's no excuse. Top Gear is, I'm told, now available for download from iTunes the day after an episode airs. It looks to me as though it's $1.99 an episode and for the previous season, $14.99 for the iTunes Season Pass, and a mere $9.99 for this season. $9.99 is well worth the price; you're going to get far more laughs, action, and actually manage to learn a little something for that $9.99 than if you went out and blew it on something like a ticket to Transporter 3.
Really, that's what we're talking about here — you could go out and see a barely scripted, nonsensical 90-minute romp (that's not specific to Transporter of any of the films in the series, just a general statement of fact), or you could buy far more viewing hours of Top Gear at the exact same price.
Wow, okay, that's a lot of shilling for Top Gear, and while it's something I totally approve of, it wasn't my intent to shill. So, let's press on.
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