TV anymore is just mindless. But it's always there when I wake up, thinking I'm going to get things done around the house and then turn on the box and then see another eight to ten hours of my life drained away by countless commerical crap such as male enlargement, diabete drug commericals, other drug commericals, the annoying Verizon guy and even more male enlargement commercials.
Once upon a time music videos used to be on tv but not anymore. Watching the asnine MTV and VH1 networks proves that and CMT has gone the unreal reality shows as well. GAC remains probaly the only channel that provides some kind of music video but after a while one does get tired of seeing the same two to three videos and like anything overplayed annoys. But if nothing else you can always order up some Midnight Special DVDs to which are hocked around the hour that they used to show the show. And once upon a time television was a great way to be exposed to new music but not anymore. Just wasted infocommericals of a time thirty years ago that you had to live at that time to enjoy it.
As a old hippie, now a old crank I'm too old to really go out and expierence new music or hang in smoky bars to check out bands trying to cover something off the radio. It's a bitch getting old, you can't hit on the young ladies like you once could (but even then the success rate wasn't that great anyway). Nothing like introducing "hey sweetheart" only to get a curt "yea Grandpa?!" in return. So basically saturdays are now reserved to college football games up till bedtime and then the next day more football or between breaks trying to watch some overplayed move on TBS that was seen on TNT the other week or AMC the previous. We live in a era to which there's so much out there to see and hear and all we get is the same old same old. AMC used to be the movie channel to which you can watch commerical free but they're the worst in terms to trying to watch a movie, five minites of show, ten minites of commericals per hour.
My favorite channels still remain TCM because they remain the only channel that doesn't cut up their movies with commericals every five minites and they do show some relics from the past. Where else can you see the original William Castle version of 13 Ghosts? Now, if we can get a channel that can promote the classic tv shows without trying to hock them as DVDs that you can see only that way. I still turn on to GAC more often but have been getting a bit more annoyed with them with repeated programming rather than trying to turn us on new music. The Edge Of Country showed be promoted more than usual but I'm sure that the bigwigs will eventually retire that for endless repeats of the Top 20 Videos to which are probaly the only videos that GAC plays that week. And Brad Paisely still looks more wimpy with a goatee.
Still as much as I bitch about ESPN and ESPN2 they still get watched a lot, despite endless Sports Center repeats and the usual No clue announcers and the odious and overblown Chris (Bore me) Berman, thirty years later trying to add cute nicknames to football players. Cartoon Network's Adult Swim has been getting worse and worse with their horrible shows and since losing Futurama, I haven't noticed except for Family Guy or American Dad or Robot Chicken, the only decent show that Adult Swim developed on their own. WGN remains my choice for superstation fun although it looks like they have taken off Becker at the 11 30 slot and once was the place to watch Chicago baseball, it's not like the old days to which you got to see 150 Cub games. Hell, we're lucky just to get to see half of them and the White Sox paultry 30 games. Yup cable was much better thirty years ago, we seem to have more variety on less channels.
Now we have more channels but less programming. Go figure.
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