I refuse to stop watching television.
I will not be told what to do.
I still read books.
I read every day, I write every day, and I also watch TV every day.
I watch Six Feet Under. (The last line of the last episode: “There’s one thing I forgot to tell you about Petrarch. He started the Renaissance” was … so damn good.)
I watch Animal Planet. I love Animal Planet. (Last night, I saw a thing on a tiger family. Gorgeous animals, love them.)
I watch my cousin Mike’s show “Yes Dear” on CBS, every Monday night.
I watched “The Bachelor” last night. (That poor girl who didn’t get a rose and was weeping to the camera: “I have nothing left. I gave everything I had to this experience and I have nothing left.” Woah, girl. Get a grip.)
I watched the HBO documentary on Crank (and had nightmares the following night – woke up with all of my sheets kicked off the bed. I must have been thrashing about like a lunatic).
I watch the news every night, switching back and forth between channels.
Occasionally I check MTV or VH1 to see if there is anything having to do with Eminem being shown.
I watched a little bit of “Affliction” on IFC. Nick Nolte is staggering … Jesus. But the movie is almost unwatchable, it’s so painful.
I will be watching ER tonight.
All is right with the world.
Here’s a quote from TV Turnoff Week page: “MTV saw our simple, quarter-minute clip and gave us a flat out ‘No.’ How’s that for free speech from a station with attitude?”
MTV said No to the ad. That is MTV practicing IT’S first amendment rights. When will these boneheads get that free speech goes both ways?
