Hello everyone in netland!
So I'm sitting here watching "reality tv" and realize that this is so scripted it's ridonculous. Most of you have already come to this realization, however, for me...the whole point in reality tv is to escape into that magical real-world of make believe. When it becomes unbearably obvious that it's fake, it kind of takes the 'escape' part out of the equation making it pointless to watch.
Cable tv is slowly becoming my arch nemesis. I can't live without it because there aren't enough books yet published filled with sex and/or pictures to hold my attention. Yes I said it. Here I am, a thirty-something year old woman that cannot read literature for what it is (or rather what it should be). There has to be an entertainment factor. None of that lesson to learn/moral stuff or ongoing diatribes/babble and overuse of hyperbole to say something in twenty words instead of five. Kind of like how I just did.
Fifty Shades of Grey is the last book (or set of books) I have read. Thoroughly enjoyable. Lots of sex. LMAO. I honestly don't understand why the books were so "controversial." Black women who know authors like Zane and Cairo, probably would find this book rated PG by comparison. The only taboo issue becomes evident by the third chapter and that's the only thing that makes it steamy. But that's just my opinion. Some of the terminology was seriously unfamiliar territory for me so I actually had to Google some things. Maybe that's what the hoopla is all about...women just want to read their sexy books and not have to look up what words mean to understand what makes the book sexy. I dunno.
But back to cable. If I turn off the cable, I'm forced to find ways to entertain my cats which really become much like children. The very reason why I have cats is because they are far more independent than dogs (generally speaking) until they notice that you aren't paying attention to them...and actually feel like being paid attention to. My cats in particular love to bother me when I'm doing something. I think its annoyingly cute but if I wasn't doing anything it would be worse. They have more energy than I do and that's not what I signed up for. I kind of signed up for the company factor (i.e. not being totally alone in my apartment, hearing the pitter patter of their paws on my hardwood floors).
So cable. There are literally a thousand channels and the same shit is on all of them. Every day. When I say every day, I mean literally every single day. They have no playlist. I don't know why that is. It would seem to be a requirement of having the zillions of choices for channels. Then again, it makes me think that cable tv ratings aren't as important as ordinary tv ratings. Otherwise they wouldn't show the same things over and over and over and over and over and over and over...you get the idea.
For that matter, what in the world has happened to ordinary tv? Remember when tv shows would last from September until December? What is with this new half-a-semester/season thing? Me no likey, so me no watchey. Hence the cable. Yet lately, I find myself watching the same channels:
HBO for True Blood - now over, and the Newsroom - also over now,
Showtime for Weeds - which I keep missing so I have to record it
Lifetime for Drop Dead Diva - now over
CNBC for American Greed
MSNBC for the "murder/death/kill" type shows
Cartoon Network.
Of all the channels, CN gets the most airplay in this apt. I think I've seen nearly every episode of Family Guy, King of the Hill, and American Dad but they never get old. Yet flipping through the guide and seeing what is on at the moment on the premium channels has me constantly thinking "wasn't that shit on yesterday?" or worse "aren't they showing the same damn thing on the OTHER HBO channel?" So I guess I'll hold onto it until I feel that it is seriously financially unnecessary. Then I will remind myself that without cable, I can only get 8 channels of PBS so I'll end up keeping it.
Not sure what else to write now, so ...
K. Bye!
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