HGTV show Freestyle? Apparently, not so free afterall.
You know, the first time I watched that show, I said out loud, "If THAT guy had THOSE votive candles randomly in his house already, I'd be shocked." OK. Freestyle? Dead to me.
Well, my days of not taking you seriously are certainly coming to a middle.
Mal ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
Natter 45: Smooth as Billy Dee Williams.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Jesse - Jun 22, 2006 1:24:24 pm PDT #3423 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
§ ita § - Jun 22, 2006 1:29:09 pm PDT #3424 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Was the Freestyle conceit (didn't read link, am lazy) that it was all done with stuff found around the house already?
DebetEsse - Jun 22, 2006 1:30:06 pm PDT #3425 of 10002
Woe to the fucking wicked.
ita, yes
JZ - Jun 22, 2006 1:31:40 pm PDT #3426 of 10002
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Was the Freestyle conceit (didn't read link, am lazy) that it was all done with stuff found around the house already?
Yup. Except it turns out that the sooper-seekrit conceit is that it's all stuff found around the house already plus whatever one large item of furniture the householder agrees to buy at his/her own expense on the designer's orders, and if the householder doesn't want to play along then, presumably, the householder doesn't get to do the show. Humph.
Plus a sooper-seekrit $200 budget for incidentals like votive candles and extra pillows and stuff that the designer then just happens to find lying around your place. @@
Jesse - Jun 22, 2006 1:33:49 pm PDT #3427 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Totally @@.
msbelle around? DUDE. I'm watching the BB from last night, and you can go vote for who you want on the show!!!!!
Aims - Jun 22, 2006 1:35:17 pm PDT #3428 of 10002
Shit's all sorts of different now.
There's a show on A&E called "Find & Design" where they go to flea markets and yardsales and such to redesign a room. During one of yardsales, they approached us to "buy" something from our yardsale. They had really just purchased it from Pier1 and wanted to plant it in our piles of stuff and then "buy it" from us.
Lee - Jun 22, 2006 1:35:44 pm PDT #3429 of 10002
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
msbelle around? DUDE. I'm watching the BB from last night, and you can go vote for who you want on the show!!!!!
And then you can feel like a Ginourmous Dork when you realize that you voted for Chicken George.
Not that I would know or anything.
Jesse - Jun 22, 2006 1:37:41 pm PDT #3430 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Fucking Chicken George. I swear to god, if it's Chicken George and Cowboy and Mike Boogie, I'm boycotting. Oh, or Allison.
§ ita § - Jun 22, 2006 1:37:58 pm PDT #3431 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
They had really just purchased it from Pier1 and wanted to plant it in our piles of stuff and then "buy it" from us.
Would you get the money? I mean, they should be buying your silence.
I'd be interested to see what they could do with what I have. I might even agree to replace/add one piece of furniture. Maybe. If I were feeling flush. The $200 extra budget is CHEATING.
Jesse - Jun 22, 2006 1:39:05 pm PDT #3432 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I might even agree to replace/add one piece of furniture. Maybe. If I were feeling flush.
Eh -- the whole point of going on TV is for the free stuff!