(...did I say "wallet?" What I really meant was "and me without any MONEY")
The Hollywood Wax Museum is unloading wax figures of pre-1990s actors, celebrities and pop culture icons at auction on May1st. Why? I don't know but as far as I'm concerned they're parting with their best stuff. Who do they have that they are keeping? A bunch of cookie cutter, nose-jobbed nobodies from 'The Hills' or the 'O.C.' or whatever-the-blazes passes for television these days? Holy Mike Douglas, 'Party of Five' isn't television, 'All in the Family' is television and Archie and Edith are on the auction block too. Disgraceful. Is nothing sacred?
T.V. was good when you could still pull it out of the air with an antenna. Cable arrived and it's been a pork barrel ever since. Reality shows are just the latest pox and the producers and advertisers love them because they don't have to pay assloads of money to have actors tape a weekly sitcom: Thank-you, cast of 'Seinfeld' and 'Friends' for tag-teaming and totally murdering television as we knew it. You greedy fucks. I won't say "I hope you're happy" because I know you are, rolling around on your beds in all that dough.
I got rid of my cable in 2007. I decided I wasn't paying $90 a month anymore to the Rogers Cable monopoly for quality programming on HBO and Showtime 2% of the time and Lowest Common Denominator on every other channel 98% of the rest. I was also sick of the constant bogus of being billed one month in advance for T.V. I haven't even watched yet because I paid a bill late back in 1999. Did I jones for T.V? I sure did, and it was probably worse than heroine withdrawal. Nobody ever said suffering for your principles was easy...
I miss the boobtube every now and again, but I feel liberated nonetheless because I know at the end, or the beginning, afternoons, evenings or wee hours of any given day, there's still. nothing. on.
I am a TV addict. But, in my defense, there's a whole lot of Learning, History, Travel and Biography Channels on in my house. I will admit to a very low-brow obsession with a few Vh1 "reality" shows, just because it's fascinating to watch the kind of people who would go on "Rock of Love" or "For the Love of Ray J"!
ReplyDeleteThat being said, I am STUNNED that they're getting rid of CLASSIC wax figures! The couple times I've gone to a wax museum it's been the classics I was interested in seeing, not the newbies.
TLC used to be good, I love the History Channel etc. but I just found that the cost was becoming prohibitive given the few channels I watched (the ones you mention are "premium" channels here)and the lack of choice in cable providers is just wrong.
ReplyDeleteI did look into satellite but my building won't allow the installation of dishes, so...there you have it. There's still no choice of product and that's what bothers me.
Baho, I hear from those that have it that satellite is much the same as cable - 150 channels and nothing on.
ReplyDeleteI almost never watch TV. I even watched Obama's speech tonight online. My son, on the other hand, adores his TV. I won't pay for cable. I have cable internet, and by getting the minimum cable TV, I save $4 a month on my internet. OK, that makes no sense. What I'm saying is, the cable internet was $57 a month, and cable internet plus basic cable is $54. Anyway, I will only pay for the basic basic because to up the service just to get things like Discovery and The History Channel would put it up over $100 a month. Lucky for him, when the installer was here, he turned on full cable and said they might or might not come by and put the filters on, and Mike is hoping they never do.
Still makes no sense. I am no mathematician.
ReplyDeleteCable is a racket Syko, a pure-dee RACKET.
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