kill my television

I never got to literally smash a tv, but I can safely say that I can’t recall the last time I watched an actual tv show. Movies, once in a while, and I do indulge in the Simpsons here and there (on dvd, commercial free). I’m only human.

The standard format for tv now… (there will be a test)

• Pre-Crap in every commercial for the show.
• Re-Crap former episodes for the first 10 minutes of the show.
• Original content for approximately 1/3 the alotted timeslot.
• Pre-Crap before each commercial break.
• Commercial advertising for approximately 1/3 of the alotted timeslot.
• Re-Crap after each commercial break.
• Pre-Crap upcoming episodes.

Don’t get me started on the NEWS…

SAVE YOUR BRAIN!!! THEY CALL IT “PROGRAMMING” FOR A REASON!!!

...and the roommate and I have decided that we do NOT want cable. The TV will be used for DVDs from Netflix. If I really have the need to watch something, I’m sure I can see it On Demand when I housesit for my parents, or at my coworker’s house down the street when I’m over there.

One step closer to checking this one off, finally. Been a long time coming.

The only thing stopping me from doing this right now is the fact that I don’t want to make a big mess in the yard =/ I could lay down a tarp I guess, but that kind of ruins the fun, don’t you think?

With a hammer. No, a baseball bat.

When I moved away from home, one thing I DID NOT take with me was my TV. I knew I wasted too much time in front of it, and I wanted to experience my cross-country move to the fullest.

It has been 6 or 7 years since then, and I only miss watching that rare special now and then. I still watch it at friends’ houses when I visit if it is on, but you cannot believe how liberating it is to not live my life based on that season’s schedule. If you haven’t done it, I heartily encourage you to kill your television!

I do miss it sometimes just to sit and veg out but honestly the crap on it just upsets me…like is this really the fall of civilization? I have a friend tivoing The Office. I go to the gym and walk on the treadmill to check out stuff sometimes. Netflixs is awesome. We read a lot more! All and all not bad really.

otherwise, not so much.

I forgot that, with no roof arial, the cable box was our only source of actually receiving telly. Annoyingly enough, last night was the first night in ages that I wanted to see something – my friend’s mum was an extra on The Friday Night Project – but I’m too elated by the no-telly freedom to be all that bothered. Whoo!

Yay. One down. Today, a colleague informed me that if I wanted to listen to the White Stripes podcast I missed the previous day, I just had to press red on my digital TV remote. I was able to truthfully answer him that we don’t have digital, don’t watch telly, and that shortly wouldn’t have it at all. His puzzled face was a picture, and another colleague said, “My God! What do you do? I couldn’t live without a telly. It’s all I do of an evening. If I didn’t have a telly, I’d have to talk to my partner.”

I think that says it all.

_{What she said is, of course, not true. My own partner is right next to me. We are in companiable silence, and he is on his own computer.}