Is anyone else creeped out that they're going to assemble the footage of Michael Jackson's rehearsals into a feature film? I mean really, they guy isn't even cold yet and the vultures have swooped.
God, how can i be "Beg-A-Thon" time on KERA again? Is it me or is this becoming and every 6 weeks thing? Every 9 weeks? It might be interesting if they're run something like an Austin City Limits day and let you Tivo that! Or a lot of American Experience... but they keep running Suzi Orman and bald doctor Wayne Dyer. And Doo Wop Experience - the Last of the Dying Breed where one of the real guys who's left alive from the Platters comes up with "The Platters Mk. 12" and one of the original Coasters comes up with "Charlie Corbin's Coasters." And 60's Folk Reunion - oooh Roger McGuin and the "Eve of Destruction" guy and Peter or Paul or Mary - but even those guys are so sick of each other they're not playing together anymore! It's just fucking pathetic the way they pander to Baby Boomers - sure they're the generation with any money left, but Jeez Louise!
But it gets the same treatment on VH1 Classic! Oohh Woodstock! Again! How many times have I seen Alvin Lee and Ten Years After doing I'm Going Home..."by Helicopter?" More times than I even care to even think about! How come no one ever shows a letterbox, full screen of Woodstock or Monterrey Pop of Last Days of the Fillmore or anything cool? I should take that back - with VH1 Classic it's either Baby Boomer crap OR it's That Fucking Metal Show! [Followed by 5 hours of Metal Mania! See more Ratt, Poison, Warrant, Enuff Z'Nuff, Motley Crue, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest et al than you ever thought you could stand again!] I kind of dug That Metal Show when it started - doing a short half hour show once a week and having some guys come on and talk about then and now and shit... cool! But they're taken it and run it into the fucking ground! I shit you not, it seems like every third time I flip past, it's That Metal Show! GOD TELEVISION SUCKS ASS!
I somehow get by with the Military Channel, the History Channel, BIO [sometimes] - but all the channels that used to have shows - TNT, Bravo - oh God, don't get me started on Bravo and "Real Housewives of Anywhere" or "Fashion Nazi TV" or whatever - I can't stand that shit! - E! and their never ending lineup of pseudo celebrity shows - there are just nights when I have to turn off the TV because I just think my brain IS turning to mush!
*Sigh* I just feel so cut off here sometimes. All you guys are sleeping and having real lives between 5 O'clock to 11 and on Saturday and Sunday and I'm just stuck on the night shift and missing everything!
