a section of an Andrew Wyeth painting

 

kill your television

Perhaps my comment on married couples sounded harsh, but I didn't intend for it to sound that way. All that I was saying was that being single does seem more prominent when you are around people who are not. The differences between our daily lives almost becomes a barrier in conversation. Obviously most of their activities are as a couple while I do most things by myself.

More often than not I sleep through most of Friday night and yesterday was no exception. I didn't wake up until seven in the evening and it takes a few hours before I am fully awake. True there was still enough time to get to the theater, but like I said I felt like staying home to read my latest issue of The New Yorker with Sunny Day Real Estate playing in the background.

There was short article in The New Yorker that appealed to me. The focus was on an effort to get people to turn off their television for a week and how it always seems to fail. The people behind the movement feel that if people watched less television we would have a better society with less violence in it. However, each time they try to put it into effect some major media event happens at the same time. So rather than having people turn off their televisions even more people are turning them on for one reason or another. This year the week coincided with the high school shooting in Colorado, which certainly has a bit of irony to it.

Most of the time I find television to be less than challenging and I loathe the media more than anything else, because they feed on misery and I don't need to see it. I find television news to be one step away from being tabloid news. The only difference is that these people wear better clothes and have less alien abduction and celebrity stories.

I wish that I could live without owning a television, but then I wouldn't have any way to watch my movies that I love.

 
book: To the Wedding - John Berger
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