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Everything is nifty in the land of Brooke.
Time has a way of healing things. Its like some sort of magical herb or pill.
So what have I got to rant about now? I shall inform you,if you'll follow me to the next line..
REALITY TELEVISION!
I dont watch television. I tried,and I hated it. Its a horrible experience and I ended up walking away shaky and sweaty and needed to lie down for a minute. What is wrong with our idea of entertainment these days?! How did we go from watching the comedic shenanigans of a military base in M*A*S*H, to watching half naked lesbians roll around in a mud pit,fighting for the affections of someone?
Since when did watching people lose weight, cook meals, find love, win money, try out for musicals and spend 3 months inside the one house become prime time television that simply cant be missed?
I would really like to know where the morbid fascination for these shows starts,and where it will end. Its like some sort of bad taste program vomit that just keeps coming, and its got large chunks of indecent exposure, cat fights, invasion of privacy and foul mouthed bogans.
The main offender for these types of shows is MTV.
MTV is like the boss of what goes on in the reality tv world.
Its the large fat woman with a horrible hairy mole,bad breath and deathly sweat stains who seems to be in charge, was at the top of her game in her youth and has just gone bad with age and resorted to bad,flaky make up and sour smelling perfume to cover up the horrible mess she's become.
MTV stands for Music TeleVision.
But if you turn it on nowadays,you'll find music has been asked to move away because its blocking the view of the tacky, yet popular, reality tv shows. Some of these shows include a show where a bisexual woman brings 10 boys and 1o lesbians into her giant mansion and gets them to compete for her affection,and somewhere in this mix she's supposedly meant to find her true love..
now,call me old fashioned, but I dont believe love is discovered through a series of games and eliminations broadcast world wide while the love-looker fannies about the place in heels, shorts so short and tops so low that it looks like a sausage has burst on either end.
But hey. If it sells, then it really doesn't matter what happens,does it?
And then theres all these dance and singing shows. I think its great that we broadcast the talent of our nation, but really,the most interesting part of those shows is watching the hilariously bad auditions done by people convinced they're top notch singers/dancers with a shot at making the big time and impressing the judges so much that their ties fly and up and they're sent straight though to Sydney.Most of these people are just bogans who've been on the smoke a bit to much, or people who've spent to much time at home in the lounge room watching video clips and making their own 90's boy band routine to the songs.
The newest show to jump on the bandwagon is masterchef.
Didn't we all grasp that after all those Jamie Oliver shows got cancelled, ready steady cook and Hueys cooking adventures all got moved to being shown at 11 am when no ones home to watch them,and the only reason that Gordon Ramsey was still on TV was because he swears heaps, that cooking shows just DONT have the same tv show quality that other programs do? I cant remember a time when the perfectly grilled steak or a finely diced cinnamon stick was edge of your seat enough to be broadcast into peoples homes every night at 7.
crazy.
In all, TV is going crazy. You've only got to look at the programs your kids watch to understand why they're all so hard to relate to, dress and speak like an gangster, start drinking so young, know far to many swear words and wear clothes that are so revealing they look like they were made for some sort of sexual practical joke.
So here, in my old fashioned personal taste, is a list of my favourite television programs. Shows that range from classic, to off beat and silly :D I own most of these on DVD as they dont get shown on television anymore unfortunately.
1. The mighty boosh
2. The Brady Bunch
3. The IT Crowd
4. The Office
5. The Lucy Show/I love Lucy
6. Antiques Roadshow
:D thats all for now. My rant is over, and I hope you all enjoyed, I shall be back as soon as I feel I have something of interest to talk about :P
too ra blog readers!
Brookus
2 comments:
1. Your new hair is very nice.
2. Alas you can't say the same of me; my new hair is no hair at all.
3. Television does indeed suck. It's the glass teat.
4. Old television was indeed cool, back when it was not very good. But since then, the better it's got the more awful it has become.
5. It's the same with movies, music and (as you regularly demonstrate) clothes. Classic beats contemporary every time.
6. I can't think of a number six, so here instead is a link to some lovely old classic photographs (called Lith Prints) ... you might have to copy & paste:
http://under-the-amber-moon.my-expressions.com/galleries/8583_1399210773/61650
That's all. Bye.
MTV RULES AND YOU KNOW IT.
*slaps with dirty rag and runs off*
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