The Sweet Glow of the Cathode Ray
I love TV. And I'm not ashamed to say it. I know if I want to really fit in with the well-educated, intelligent, and charmingly snarky crowd, I should say that I don't watch TV. But I do.
I don't watch a lot of TV. Granted, I watch more than I used to, but that's because I have a very good cable package now and I have time to breathe, as opposed to the last two years where I was constantly at school, at work, or asleep dreaming about being at either of the two.
I haven't stooped to being addicted to reality shows. Though I will admit to being unable to turn the channel when Flavor of Love 2 is on, because oh my gosh, have you seen how those girls fight? It's craziness!
Mostly Brandon and I watch the Discovery Channel (he can't resist Mythbusters), the History Channel, and Comedy Central. I'm so glad to have Comedy Central again, oh how I missed it. I still watch reruns of Friends on TBS. And I still love Forensic Files type shows.
I find that whenever I'm talking to one of my friends that doesn't watch TV, I always talk about TV more than usual.
"Did you see that commercial where Little Richie is like - oh, right, sorry."
"Omigosh, that new Evanescence video is totally Scarlett O'Hara meets Moulin Rouge meets vampires. Oh, right, you're not into the TV thing."
"Do you actually know anyone who's tried that Nutrisystem diet? That girl is down to a size 2... You still don't watch TV?"
I can't imagine what people did before TV was around. I remember thinking how horrible it would be when I was reading The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe. When that Usher guy was all upset because he felt like his sister wasn't dead, all the narrator could do was read to him to distract him. That totally wouldn't work. I mean, how can you involve your imagination and entertain the idea of the story when you're mentally exhausted like that?
My friend and I were talking about this last night, and I said that I didn't think TV harms a person's ability to be creative and make use of their imagination, because I know plenty of people who watch a lot of TV but are still quite creative. She said that's because their ideas are stolen from TV. But I said that people who don't watch TV probably got their ideas from books or their friends. Because these days, is anything really completely original?
So watch TV. Don't be a hater.
I don't watch a lot of TV. Granted, I watch more than I used to, but that's because I have a very good cable package now and I have time to breathe, as opposed to the last two years where I was constantly at school, at work, or asleep dreaming about being at either of the two.
I haven't stooped to being addicted to reality shows. Though I will admit to being unable to turn the channel when Flavor of Love 2 is on, because oh my gosh, have you seen how those girls fight? It's craziness!
Mostly Brandon and I watch the Discovery Channel (he can't resist Mythbusters), the History Channel, and Comedy Central. I'm so glad to have Comedy Central again, oh how I missed it. I still watch reruns of Friends on TBS. And I still love Forensic Files type shows.
I find that whenever I'm talking to one of my friends that doesn't watch TV, I always talk about TV more than usual.
"Did you see that commercial where Little Richie is like - oh, right, sorry."
"Omigosh, that new Evanescence video is totally Scarlett O'Hara meets Moulin Rouge meets vampires. Oh, right, you're not into the TV thing."
"Do you actually know anyone who's tried that Nutrisystem diet? That girl is down to a size 2... You still don't watch TV?"
I can't imagine what people did before TV was around. I remember thinking how horrible it would be when I was reading The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe. When that Usher guy was all upset because he felt like his sister wasn't dead, all the narrator could do was read to him to distract him. That totally wouldn't work. I mean, how can you involve your imagination and entertain the idea of the story when you're mentally exhausted like that?
My friend and I were talking about this last night, and I said that I didn't think TV harms a person's ability to be creative and make use of their imagination, because I know plenty of people who watch a lot of TV but are still quite creative. She said that's because their ideas are stolen from TV. But I said that people who don't watch TV probably got their ideas from books or their friends. Because these days, is anything really completely original?
So watch TV. Don't be a hater.
