In response to another post I was told a certain show was a comedy and I would know that if I watched it. My response was I don't watch a lot of tv so have to be picky about what I do watch. This is a true statement and I wonder if the shows have really gotten that bad or is it just me? The TV is never on during the day unless my husband is home. He has fallen in love with Roseanne so tapes that and crosswords for me. When he gets home from work Roseanne is on while I make dinner and we watch crosswords after that. Then it's time to clean up the kitchen and I do watch Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy. If it's a 5:30 morning to get up the next day that's pretty much it. We do watch House but generally tape it and watch it the next morning. If there's something going on in the world we want to know about it we do put on the news, but since one major news channel is liberal the other conservative you don't get fair and balanced political coverage on either, so we take anything they say about the opposite party with a grain of salt and do our own research. I guess that's one thing I've learned in my life - never make a judgement based on what someone else tells you is true or it's what you should believe. Just because someone else thinks it is the absolute right doesn't make it right. I have tried to watch a few of the new shows but find them lacking and boring. Me, I prefer a good book or writing my poetry or spending time online playing scrabble. While doing housework I generally put on an audio book or music. And yes, I do sing along with my karaoke machine when the muse moves me. All these things are more stimulating than sitting in front of a tv watching someone get blown up, or listening to canned laughter over a bad comedy, or listening to someone spout rhetoric about their personal political views. We figure we're both intelligent, educated adults capable of doing research and making a decision. Personally we're getting close to following John Prine's advice in his song Spanish Pipedreams. If you don't know it here are the lyrics.
She was a level-headed dancer on the road to alcohol
And I was just a soldier on my way to Montreal
Well she pressed her chest against me
About the time the juke box broke
Yeah, she gave me a peck on the back of the neck
And these are the words she spoke
Chorus:
Blow up your T.V. throw away your paper
Go to the country, build you a home
Plant a little garden, eat a lot of peaches
Try an find Jesus on your own
Well, I sat there at the table and I acted real naive
For I knew that topless lady had something up her sleeve
Well, she danced around the bar room and she did the hoochy-coo
Yeah she sang her song all night long, tellin' me what to do
Repeat chorus:
Well, I was young and hungry and about to leave that place
When just as I was leavin', well she looked me in the face
I said "You must know the answer."
"She said, "No but I'll give it a try."
And to this very day we've been livin' our way
And here is the reason why
We blew up our T.V. threw away our paper
Went to the country, built us a home
Had a lot of children, fed 'em on peaches
They all found Jesus on their own
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TV has gotten that bad. Like you I don't watch much unless it's downloaded. My shows are "Heroes" and "Psyche". "House" is okay but I find him irritating. I'll watch it if I'm too tired to turn off the tv after Pscyhe if I watch it live. But as I said in the other post, if I can possibly do it, I catch "The Daily Show" and "The Colbert Report". They have the ability to make me laugh out loud and I even got my apolitical son Ian to become an addict by watching them while he's over visiting.
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