should I ditch my TV?
I think that it’s destroying me. I guess I’m like a drug addict…I think I can handle TV; I think I can take it in moderation, use it recreationally. But I’m just a fool. TV is too sexy for me, too hypnotic. It pulls me down and keeps me there, trying to convince me I’m happy and okay and not missing out on anything, that life is all fun and sun and easy answers.
But TV lies. It lies and it hides its dark side, says all the right words at all the right times, brings me back in just when I’m ready to turn away.
I’m not creative or productive or interesting or smart, because TV is all that for me. And more. It’s kind of like, “Why do it if someone on TV is doing it? That’s good enough. That’s my life there on the screen, that’s me. Not this inert brain-dead mass sitting in front of it.â€
Then a show comes along, something like this new one on HBO called lucky louie, and I am sucked in with it and I say “well, you can handle it, it’s a TV for pete’s sake, it’s not going to kill you.â€
Ha. I know better though. At least I’ll be entertained as I go down.
I watched that Lucky Louie show, and I’ll be honest, I found it as funny as a sack full of dead kittens on my doorstep. Now, I know you don’t really know me, but I’ll be explicitly clear here: I’m not amused at all by a sack full of dead kittens, and even less so when they’ve been left on my doorstep.
Also not very funny: Dane Cook’s Tourgasm, starring Dane Cook & three comedians that aren’t as famous or funny as Dane Cook so he won’t be upstaged by them on his show.
Entourage & Deadwood, on the other hand, were more than worth my monthly subscriber fee for those two shows alone. I understand they are both very much for boys, and that you may not like them as much, but as I’m reminded every time I pee standing up, I’m all man. That Deadwood may be, in fact, the greatest show ever written, or at the very least the greatest drama ever written (Arrested Development being the greatest comedy), and Buffy being the greatest of the teen vampire genre.
Why the fuck is my first fucking comment awaiting moderation goddammit? Is it the mention of dead kittens? Are you getting a lot of dead kitten commentspam? Can’t you put me on some fucking whitelist? The world can’t be made to wait for my brilliant opinions re: tv shows that no one else who reads this blog even saw.
TV was my friend , my comopanion I didnt need the world TV was all I or anyone could ever want………..Until I gained a mass of fat that would choke a lard/reduction facility.. now the swimming pool and the weight room at the health club is my friend.
I am not sure why your comment was being held for moderation. maybe cause of the swear words, I don’t know. I really don’t. I am sorry. I don’t think there’s a way to whitelist anyone. haha when I was writing whitelist my fingers accidentally typed shitlist. hahaha.
So lucky louie or tourgasm wasn’t funny? I haven’t watched either one yet, they’re sitting on my TiVo waiting for me. But I think that louie ck is one funny motherscratcher, so I just assumed his show would be funny. I will be very disappointed if it isn’t funny. I sincerely hope you are wrong jonathan.
very astute observation about dane cook’s new show though–he does have quite the ego. I think he’s funny, sure, but I don’t like his newfound popularity. it annoys me.
I don’t watch entourage or deadwood, because it’s exactly as you say–they’re for guys.
Christa, save yourself the time and energy and delete Lucky Louie from the TiVo. It was CRAP. Vikas liked it, but I’m not sure why. I think he thought it was funny b/c it was supposed to be funny. I don’t know exactly though. Start watching Entourage…definitely funny. I think we have similar taste in TV watching and I’m just trying to spare you the 30 minutes. You’ll never get that time back. Do something productive. Watch half an episode of House or something.
i can’t get into deadwood. i watch it if it’s on, but it hasn’t hooked me. i don’t mind cussing usually, but dude, there is just too much CS (rhymes with block chucker) for my taste.
I am hooked on the L Word though. I’m almost done with season 2 on DVD.
You can’t bring yourself to write cocksucker, Gina? Are there children reading? Or were you just worried about your comment being held for moderation?
A little fear of moderation, a lot wanting to think of something to rhyme with cocksucker. It was harder than I thought!
“Ridget”. Actually, that just rhymes with Bridget, my old girlfriend. My god was she some cocksucker, though, now that you mention it.
It looks like your site is corrupted by a virus or something.
The text has these weird characters replacing the ending of many words
I love Entourage, especially after I smoke a little. It is damn funny. Haven’t spent the time on Deadwood though, but god do I love that Soprano’s. Never watched much of it before, but now I am hooked since we got HBO. I can’t believe that this is the last session. It is so good.
The new show I started watching was Windfall. Pretty good and Dylan, Beverly Hills, is on it. Even better.
But, yeah TV has sucked me up so much!