well gol dang

After re-watching the premier of Kitchen Confidential last night, I've concluded something: I like TV. TV is kind of "my thing." I'm not like a true TV geek or whatever, though I am a little; but right now, I'm into television. I like the medium, I like the shows I watch and I get to watch a lot of likable shows every week... The price to your brain is high in terms of admitting advertising poisons into your subconscious, but right now there's some pretty amazing quality TV out there that you simply don't have to pay for! That kinda kicks ass.

I mean, for a moment fuck all that stuff about "the opiate of the masses" and how it pollutes my brain. I KNOW all that stuff. I'm just sayin', I actually think I can comment critically on television, and have something relevant to say about it, and maybe help others make sense of it. You know, in much the same way some of my friends are good at talking about movies or have a public passion for the movies (petsnakereggie comes to mind with his fine work at cinemaphilia).

I'm not good at talking about movies! I can talk a good line of bullshit about movies, but really my interest in movies and my awareness of movies as an important media only dates back to 1994*. Whereas I've been watching TV since the early 1970s. Shoot, I remember watching tv in black and white. I recognize people from commercials (I drive mrs_lovett nuts with this one!) and I make connections between shows and themes n' shit.

I don't know what I'll actually DO about this, but I'm probably going to be a lot less apologetic about watching TV (watch out!). Oh, and Tivo. I want to buy a Tivo.

(mrs_lovett I'm too susceptible about cable right now, what with the methocarbamol and all, please don't take advantage of me!)

opinions?

mac-friends:

PowerBook 12" 1.5Ghz, superdrive, 768MB ram, 100GB drive

vs.

iBook 14" 1.42Ghz, superdrive, 1GB ram, 100GB drive


Compare and contrast your impressions if you have any. These are similarly priced.

I LOVED my 12 inch iBook, back in the day, precisely because of its compactness. So I'm not necessarily desperate to buy bigger screen (I'm also debating making the jump to the 15" powerbook, but that's a function of my cash flow more than anything), on the other hand, perhaps that extra screen space is so great it more than compensates for the .08Ghz speed difference. Or maybe there's something I've overlooked entirely.

Anyway, yeah. That's what I'm thinking about these days and I welcome input.