... does anyone else here find television *really* irritating?
I flicked the tube on tonight, thinking I'd check out the Monday Night Football. And who's playing, but the Falcons and Saints IN THE SUPERDOME. I can't believe they didn't take a wrecking ball to that atrocity. Hello? People DIED there. Horrible deaths. And were attacked. And lived in squalor because our country didn't give a shit about them. And they're playing fucking football there? What the holy fuck?
So I shake off that anger and think, all right, enough of that crap. Let me see what else is on... I land on NBC and "Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip." And in the space of about 30 seconds, I kid you not, I count not one, not two, but three gay jokes. So I think, "Well, fuck this noise." I fly through the chanels. I get up to Showtime and stop on "Weeds." In the space of 60 seconds, another derogatory gay reference. But I think, "You know what? I'm taking things too seriously. Let me step back a bit and give this show a chance - I hear it's really good." I see it through. I like certain aspects of it, don't like others. Get to the end of it and find out it's produced by my buddies at Lionsgate. I about yak.
I just give about give up on the whole shootin' match altogether, but I come across "Pleasantville," just starting. And I can't help but watch because it so perfectly matches my black mood.
Katie Freaking Couric doing the Evening News? Fox "News" driving Bill Clinton to spew in the general direction of Chris Wallace (aka Shithead Extraordinaire)? Homophobia passing as entertainment on what's perported to be the "biggest hit" show of the new TV season?
Screw television. I'm watching movies from now on. I've pretty much given up on the major networks altogether. I can't help but take it all too seriously. Somebody's got to.
I want you all to go to your windows right now, open them up, and yell at the top of your lungs, "I'm mad as Hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!!!"
The truth is, television is gonna get us.
Don't wanna be an American idiot - one nation controlled by the media. Information Age of Hysteria - it's going out to Idiot America.
This country is going straight to hell, and TV is lighting the way.
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(Sorry, y'all. Just needed to partake in a good, old-fashioned American bitch fest.)