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My friend is right, tv is so bad right now it's like an art form
Fucking SERIOUSLY. I wanna fucking rip my eyes out it's so bad. Right now my sister is watching a show on VH1 called " Show us your tats! " A half hour of television dedicated to celebrity tattoos. I really wish the US still did public tarring and featherings.
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Appreantly, you are watching TV.
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if i have kids im going to bring them up without tv. id love to raise them in a commune. thats would be amazing.
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You could always move to Utah. |
it's gotten really bad. i use to watch alot of tv before i had internet
but now i just rot my brain while at this place |
I haven't watched TV since about 1994, except when I'm at my mom's.
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are there lots of communes in utah? i plan to move to the states when im older, but i want to be a proper hippie and have hippie kids with strange but beautiful names. |
most of tv is a trench in our cultural landscape, i agree, but there are some good, thought-provoking shows. battlestar galactica didn't have the strongest second season (it was divided into 2.0 and 2.5, most of 2.5 blew) but there's always topics they bring up that i sit and think about afterwards. lost could be a friggin' college class with all the analyzing you have to do to remember what the hell happened the last time they actually showed an episode. for sheer entertainment, the office is brilliant comedy and is THE best comedic show ("sitcom" is a horrible word) to come along in basically forever.
there's no excuse for vh1 or mtv, though. it's just horrible. screamingskull- the commune thing is a neat idea. i'm too in love with big cities to ever do it, however. |
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I think the Utah comment was a joke...That is where fundamentalist Mormons control everything and you can't even drink beer at a restaurant or buy it in some cities. |
All the shows I like get cancelled, and all the shows that get hyped up by everyone almost never lives up to its hype.
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like a dry county?, that sucks. there are communes in the uk i could go to. as for tv the only tv i will be watching tonight will be 'lost in translation' on Film4 |
Parts of Utah are almost as ass backwards as Kansas. They are very sincere about what they believe though.
You can become the 15th wife of a preacher in rural Utah and live on a commune. Is that hippie enough for you? |
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No, i want to live in a tent and eat strange food and take strange drugs and go to strange experimental shows and have friends called 'coyote' and 'moonbeam'. |
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On the one hand, there have been some of my favourite new TV made in the past decade eg Life of Mammals, The Mighty Boosh, Lost; and also the continuation of existing favourites eg Time Team, Horizon,.
On the other hand, channels such as ITV seem to cosist entirely of 'bring a barrel' programming (ie if you bring a barrel, they'll happily scrape the bottom of it). THere's a lot more tosh around, but is that not merely because there are so many more channels, with so much more airtime to be filled? It's possible to detect cause for optimism, though; in the UK we've had more good comedy in the past ten years than we've had for a long time, news coverage has improved and there have been some excellent TV dramas (eg almost anything Stephen Poliakoff writes, especially the twin peaks of Shooting the PAst and Perfect Strangers which rank in the highest pantheon of productions). Even Channel 5 are no longer a pile of shit: their recent series The Buildings that MAde Britain (or something similar) was excellent, as are their art documentaries. And a special mention for Jonthan Meades, who when he presents Abroad In Britain manages to combime insight and humour splendidly. |
Screamingskull, I think you want to live in America 40 years ago.
But yeah, communes sound cool. Politically speaking, I am closest to being an anarcho-communist, or some other form of Libertarian Socialism. |
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don't knock Kansas, man. i grew up there. |
Six Feet Under we need you.
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The Sopranos
Huff The Office Late Night With David Letterman The Shield Weeds Penn & Teller: Bulllshit! Rescue Me Entourage NUMB3RS |
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I will knock Kansas because for 21 years I've lived right next door to Kansas. Not to mention:  Oh and:  Also:   |
You can always watch reruns of Seinfeld.
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I also reguarly watch Supergroup, Nova, Live with Regis & Kelly, Late Night with Conan O'Brien, The Simpsons, South Park, Larry King Live, Saturday Night Live, & Monday (soon to be Sunday) Night Football.
& on reruns The Twilight Zone, The Andy Griffith Show, Three's Company, Seinfeld, The Simpsons, South Park, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Sealab:2021, The Venture Bros. |
oh yeah, Supergroup! great show.
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Shows that I watch that have not been cancelled, as far as I know:
Law & Order in all forms Supergroup (heck yeah atari) Project Runway (although nothing could beat the 2nd season, which was divine) The Daily Show The Colbert Report My TLC shows: What Not To Wear 10 Years Younger Those last two could be considered extremely guilty pleasures. I don't really take TV seriously, so anything that I can get a laugh out of is fine. Except Law & Order, which isn't very funny. I tend to like shows that are fashion-oriented but that don't focus primarily on celebrities. Project Runway is a shining example of this, where it's like, "Well they have to make a dress for Iman, but really I just want to see more of Santino." |
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its called bonnaroo :) |
Oh and i watch:
ADULT SWIM (Aqua Teen, Futurama, Fam Guy, Mission Hill, Oblongs, Sealab, Robot Chicken, & Venture Bros) Boy Meets World Its Always Sunny In Philadelphia Nick @ Nite (Full House!) Home Improvement thats about it |
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I'll move to a commune with you :D I once told my mom that I want to be part of one and she was like "Whhyyyy????" Well why the hell not, I think I'd enjoy it. As for TV, I only watch crime shows and Take Home Chef. |
Monk. I love Monk.
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Monk is so-so as is the new Psych show on USA.
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia... I forgot that one...that's a pretty good new comedy...which reminds me that in my picks before I forgot Thief which is also on FX. Tuesdays at ten is when FX has been showing The Shield, Thief & Rescue Me, but all during different times of the year. Lucky Louie on HBO is a newer sitcom that's okay. Entourage is the lead-in & it helps one kill time until Huff on Showtime, which is the second-best program on television right now. and I watch The Daily Show, but not daily or anything...I usually catch about one or two of them per week either on the following afternoon's repeat or during the normal scheduled time. I wonder if VH-1 will do a new Supergroup next year...or if Damnocracy will be featured again possibly...supposedly Ted isn't into doing the band as a real thing. The point to all this is of course that while it is true that most television sucks, there is, in fact, some good programming too. However, I know !@#$%!, that guy who's never around anymore, wouldn't agree & neither would Laurie Anderson. She did a a series of pseudo-public service announcements once & one of the PSAs is called "TV Lunch" & was just added to YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIJac...rie%20anderson |
Did you see they aren't bringing back Huff? Great show.
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TV fucking sucks. It's true. There is very little quality programming on. There really is very few entertaining media left in this country. 95% of tv shows suck, 99% of the radio sucks, 90% of newspapers suck. We have no more mediums through which we can express our crappy ideas.
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Supergroup is not a great show. There's onl;y tow good musicians in that show: Ian Scott from Anthrax and that guy from Biohazard. Ted Nugent is a backwards, hick pedophile and Sebastian Bach is a retarded drunk.
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under God has turned into one nation under the influence of one drug [chorus:] Television, the drug of the Nation Breeding ignorance and feeding radiation (2x) T.V., it satellite links our United States of Unconsciousness Apathetic therapeutic and extremely addictive The methadone metronome pumping out 150 channels 24 hours a day you can flip through all of them and still there's nothing worth watching T.V. is the reason why less than 10 per cent of our Nation reads books daily Why most people think Central Amerika means Kansas Socialism means unamerican and Apartheid is a new headache remedy absorbed in it's world it's so hard to find us It shapes our mind the most maybe the mother of our Nation should remind us that we're sitting too close to... [Chorus:] Television, the drug of the Nation Breeding ignorance and feeding radiation (2x) T.V. is the stomping ground for political candidates Where bears in the woods are chased by Grecian Formula'd bald eagles T.V. is mechanized politic's remote control over the masses co-sponsored by environmentally safe gases watch for the PBS special It's the perpetuation of the two party system where image takes precedence over wisdom Where sound bite politics are served to the fastfood culture Where straight teeth in your mouth are more important than the words that come out of it Race baiting is the way to get selected Willie Horton or Will he not get elected on... [Chorus:] Television, the drug of the Nation Breeding ignorance and feeding radiation (2x) T.V., is it the reflector or the director? Does it imitate us or do we imitate it because a child watches 1500 murders before he's twelve years old and we wonder why we've created a Jason generation that learns to laugh rather than to abhor the horror T.V. is the place where armchair generals and quarterbacks can experience first hand the excitement of warfare as the theme song is sung in the background Sugar sweet sitcoms that leave us with a bad actor taste while pop stars metamorphosize into soda pop stars You saw the video You heard the soundtrack Well now go buy the soft drink Well, the onla cola that I support would be a union C.O.L.A.(Cost Of Living Allowance) On television [Chorus:] Television, the drug of the Nation Breeding ignorance and feeding radiation (2x) Back again, "New and improved" We return to our irregularly programmed schedule hidden cleverly between heavy breasted beer and car commercials CNNESPNABCTNT but mostly B.S. Where oxymoronic language like "virtually spotless", "fresh frozen" "light yet filling" and "military intelligence" have become standard T.V. is the place where phrases are redefined like "recession" to "necessary downturn" "Crude oil" on a beach to "mousse" "Civilian death" to "collateral damages" and being killed by your own Army is now called "friendly fire" T.V. is the place where the pursuit of happiness has become the pursuit of trivia Where toothpaste and cars have become sex objects Where imagination is sucked out of children by a cathode ray nipple T.V. is the only wet nurse that would create a cripple [Chorus:] Television, the drug of the Nation Breeding ignorance and feeding radiation (4x) Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy |
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Goooooo television! Yay! |
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Once again, I want to direct everyone's attention to my signature. Sebastian Bach: retarded drunk, or savior of rock and roll? Probably the former, but let's just pretend it's the latter, Mmkay? |
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You know, in my memory that really is about the time TV started to go down the tubes. I'll admit I watch mayyybe two shows, I don't think tv is like a plague on society or anything, but it's sort of becoming that. I just think it's gone to shit recently. I do think that now more than ever, if people are gonna let their kids watch, they should watch it with them DEFINATELY. I saw 2 commercials the other day at 2 pm. One was a woman in very revealing lingere, sitting on top of a man pumping his chest. Another was for some reality cancun bullshit with like 3 women in bikinis rubbing soap on eachother, at 2 PM. Pretty fucked up. As for TV shows, I enjoy Saturday Night live reruns and Iron Chef. Beyond that, TV is of no intrest to me. Cept that stupid E channel is the only channel that runs the SNL reruns now and the only ones they show are the ones with hosts who are like, super popular celebrities at the moment, so they only show ones from the past 3 years. Jackasses |
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