roachboy

i stopped watching tv on 13 september 2001 and didn't look back--until lately.

my nephews watch the history channel, so i watch it too.
it is mostly horseshit.
from a footage viewpoint, some of the programming is entertaining, but from an informational viewpoint, much of it is a joke, one-dimensional infotainment.
with tabloid-style voice-over no less.

on the other hand, there is a certain fascination this crap exerts if you watch it as a kind of ideological document, as a way to understand how people come to confuse flat jumpy, bad docu-dramas with information about a multivariate world....


now celebrity rehab and the fine programming provided by e! entertainment television---that's the kind of information tv does well.
*that* i watch.

tv is about itself.
the more it is about itself, the more interesting it is.
e! seems to work in a limit-state of superficiality, and there's a kind of genius in that.
vh1 has some beautifully vacant programming too.
and i like project runway....it is SO stupid.
(but what the fuck happened to bravo?)


there's some good programming on tv, though--but all of it is also good material on dvd.
like 6 feet under.
most of deadwood.
etc.

pull the plug.
listen to "i'm the slime" and just pull the plug.

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