The Twilight Zone knew what to do about the media forty years ago

Just don't look.

Remember the episode where the monster went away when you ceased to pay attention to it - and the Simpsons parodied it on one of their Halloween specials (giant donought man) -

I wrote all the networks & told them I was specifically getting rid of my cable because I refused to pay to be told lies. I would not tolerate such an insult to my intelligence. Then, I got rid of cable. I don't have any television access whatsoever. And, the benefits went far beyond my boycott. My daughter reads - I take more walks, no more evenings getting engulfed in some stupid show that eats up hours of my life.

End the abuse. Get rid of tv TODAY.

And The Simpsons.

Bryant
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you can buy season sets on DVD!

Dr Who, Eureka, Heroes, Battlestar Galactica....

throw away your paper

go to the country

build you a home

plant a little garden

eat a lot of peaches

try and find jesus on your own

If it is yours, you should publish it. It is poetry.

Spanish Pipedream (Blow Up Your TV)

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


Blow up your TV 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



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 TV 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

I love that sooooo much. Printed it right out.

real old John Prine

which is my first experience of non network TV other than the cable my parents had. I had a corneal transplant and I still have a great deal of difficulty reading. The tube is tuned to old movies most of the time, with forays into the science and history shows, plus I'm still a PBS snob.

The channels I never use are the cable "news" and sports.

I have enjoyed all the old movies greatly and it's filled the boredom gap that poor eyesight left me with.

However, I stopped watching network news on 11/3/2004. I can't imagine letting the even worse cable variety onto my set. Life is too short to spend having lies and tabloid pap eat any of it up.

Unfortunately Fox is always on the TV at the laundromat I go to, and I am ever-freshly-horrified at what those people are trying to pass off for "news" these days.

The BBC is my home page and they actually tell you what's going on in the world. NPR is okay most of the time and truthout and Asia Times fill in the gaps.

How much does cable cost now? If it's $40 a month, that's six-movies-out-at-a-time from Netflix, and "Carnivale" or the British version of "The Office" are great to watch. Of course I've never actually watched Fear Factor, but am just making a wild guess that Jon Finch as Macbeth is better entertainment.....

n/t

of all time, it would toggle back and forth between "Chinatown" and "Macbeth," depending on wind direction, what I'd had for lunch, etc.

(Occasionally the answer might be "The Big Lebowski," or "Bladerunner," or "The Seventh Seal," but those are second tier)

I couldn't watch "Repulsion" -- a friend brought it over, and as soon as I saw the corpse of the rabbit in the baking pan I knew I was not going to be able to finish watching that film, and hung out in the kitchen watching the goldfish or something.

I was dreadfully disappointed in the casting in "Tess" -- Kinski was horrid as Tess, I thought. The accent alone made her an impossible actress to play Tess, imnsho. (And I love Hardy -- the man wrote screenplays, essentially, before cinema existed).

And I felt "Ninth Gate" didn't end -- it just stopped. Like they ran out of film stock and everybody went home.

So no, I guess I'm not a Polanski fan -- but yes my two favorite flix are Polanski films. Odd, what.

I vividly remember the reviews at the time "Macbeth" came out -- reviewers complained that the film was "bloody" -- well, it was "Macbeth" ferpetesake. Brilliant film, imo.

I would like to be able to see a morphed production of a younger Judy Dench (as filmed with Ian McKellan as Macbeth, too young & spindly).

and an older Jon Finch. The Dream Team. *sigh*

"Macbeth" since then -- a Brit TV version with Nicol Williamson. I'd like to compare the two.

I could always watch "Chinatown." I'm a native Californio -- born in the north, currently living in the south, and it's like the state's creation saga, essentially.

And in no way is anything on TV reality.

It is TV. It may appear to be reality but it really isn't.

Take sports for example. One may think that a sporting event is reality. WRONG.

Compare the experience of being AT a sporting versus watching it on television.

Now compare reading various accounts of a news item from different sources to watching a 10 second report on CNN.

TV is false. It lies to perpetuate the false consumer culture it created.

ON YOUR TV!


:rofl:

And, now, I can get them through Netflix, any damn time I want :)

I know, Amazing! :)

Free tv is the best, IMHO. I keep it off about 80% of the time; something about having the same information as the masses bombarding my brain bugs me.