Just been watching the Chris Morris/Chris Brooker sit-com "Nathan Barley" with my girlfriend. It's about London media idiots, with their failed art projects, horrible clothes, scummy/trendy houses, and daft modes of transport (tiny BMXs or toy tractors running up the pavement).

Now ... I can't help wondering if this sit-com had been written back in 1988/1989, Bill and Jimmy might well have been targets. Especially Jimmy. Think of the evidence: Jimmy was driving around in a grafitti-ed 1960s cop car, living in a squat (which he actually owned, didn't he?), writing endless experimental dance music (and probably annoying the neighbours), releasing limited edition 12" singles only for his mates, and launching overly ambitious projects that failed to succeed and wasted huge amounts of money. And Bill hung around when not on his farm.

Maybe Jimmy was the archetypal "media node", back in the late eighties, that inspired all the Banksys and Joel Veitches that inspired the sit-com ... what do people think?