So, on my way to dropping Joe off at work this morning, I was listening to 89X (what, it's better than WCSX in the morning!), and I caught an advertisement about the THREE HOUR premier for Heroes.
This is why I'm glad I'm not into t.v. all that much. Three fucking hours, are you kidding me? I don't spend three hours doing anything but working. Three hours sitting on my ass doing nothing but being excited about a fucking t.v. show? Oh, and it's not 3 hours of JUST the show. There's a red-carpet opening.
Listen, I'm ok with the Oscars, the Emmys, the Grammys, and the Tonys having a red carpet. Srsly. A FUCKING T.V. SHOW???
I don't begrudge the actors their jobs...everyone has to make a living. They make millions off of stupid people that have nothing better to do with their vapid lives than follow and base their existence on a stupid show, while I work my ass off in a photo lab, taking shit off the people I work with, who in turn don't do shit and then blame it all on me when it hits the fan. But, I digress. This isn't a work rant.
When did this become ok? When did it become ok to be so into something that is so fantastic (as in full of fantasy) and not real? Maybe it has to do with the fact that our society is based on everything that isn't reality. We're supposed to follow the status quo, given to us by people who've rarely, if ever, had to face a hardship in their lives. We're told to blindly follow our leaders (religious and political), while they fuck us in the ass. In return, we're given reality t.v., remakes of 80's movies that 3 people cared about in the first place, music that's the same fucking song over and over and over again, and celebrities with no reason to be celebrities other than the fact that they part-ay hard.
Fuck society. Tonight, after I get home at 1 a.m. from putting out new releases at work, I'm going to go to bed. But, tomorrow, in lieu of t.v., I'm reading a fucking book. Why? BECAUSE BOOKS FORCE YOU TO USE YOUR IMAGINATION. Listen to some good music that isn't forced down your throat by corporations that only want you to buy more Mountain Dew or whatever the shit is they're perpetuating. For fuck's sake, grab some fucking Cole Porter and dance around your house. Read a book that Oprah DIDN'T reccommend, and wasn't "such a classic". And, for fuck's sake, folks, think for yourself.