friday night, i went out with some friends, but after 5 bottles of water and a nice conversation about projectile vomiting i decided to come home. and i came home and made some dumplings and decided to do something that i haven’t done in ages…which is to eat said dumplings while watching the television. so i’ve just spent an hour watching television, and as entertaining as some of it was (chris rock live, will farrell on snl, the ‘one giant leap’ ‘my culture’ video, etc) it makes my head feel bad. or badly. poorly. weird.
watching tv just does screwy things to my head, which is why i normally avoid the television. is it the secret messages programmed by the illuminati? is it the x-rays being used to reconfigure my neural cortex? or is it being forced to think in tv-time? normally when we think or read or talk we do so at a pace that we determine. i think that what makes my head feel ill after watching an hour of television is that television forces us to conform to its pace.
does this make sense or do i just sound like a crackpot? or both. cracksense. sensepot. but television is very demanding. it’s bright and it’s quick and all it wants is for us to keep watching. so it creates this pace that is compelling but ultimately unsatisfying. which i guess is why i don’t often watch much tv. as if anyone cares about my tv watching habits. well, i guess if you’ve read this far that you care. thanks for caring. i feel cared for.
will farrell is a very funny man. as is chris rock. but as much as i love certain aspects of the television i think that i will continue to avoid it. until they release both seasons of ‘the office’ on u.s format dvd.
i love ‘the office’. most people outside of the uk don’t know what ‘the office’ is. it is brilliant. ricky gervais (if that’s how you spell his name?) is my hero.
let’s lobby bbc-america to release both seasons of ‘the office’ on u.s format dvd. so that we can watch more tv. yes, i see the contradiction in what i’m writing. i may be an idiot but i’m not as stupid as them think.
thanks, moby