Humm maybe I'm gettting old, they tell me it happens, the worlds changing I know that as much as the next guy and to a certain extent I embrace it, but only were appropriate, christ listen to me I sound nore like my old man then he does!
Like I was saying change is inevitable however I wasn't expecting it were I found it, my music.
Ok i'll start from the beginging anybody from around were I live will be familier with RIO's for those of you who arn't from around my way it goth, heavy metal type club, or at least that was the case when I origanally started going there, but it has been steadaly declining over the years now to what it was tonight which was basicly a load of 16 year olds dancing to chart music while pretending to be "goth rockers" or "punks" hell these chaps don't remember punk! aw hell I;m wasting my time 'I was quite jovalie drunk by the time I arrived there but upon arrival it was a sobbering experiance.
Oh i'm probly being harsh and most ikely I've made a hash of my point but i'm not posting unless its a meaningfull thing to me in the future so expect long drawn out crap like this.

Ooo and i'm drunkish so sorry about any bad spelling or continuality

Reality Television




This whole reality television phenomenon is really very sad in my opinion. I mean, it used to be that you watched television for the same reason you read books or watched movies: to escape. when life was getting to be too much to handle, you turned on the box, and switched off your brain kicked back and watched Tiswas or Knight Rider or whatever. You sat yourself in front of the idiot box, and escaped to leave behind all the rubbish that is everyday life for a little while at least. Now, however, you can't change the channel without landing on a "reality program" The Mole. Big Brother. Survivor. Tempting Slut Whore Island, or whatever it's called. everywhere you go, someone is touting a new reality show. all of a sudden, televisions are no longer escapist vehicles. Instead of escaping into fiction, people are now escaping into ...


.....reality, or stuff being touted as reallity but I won't go into that here.


Personally I can think of nothing that speaks more of the decline of the human race at the moment, maybe with the exception of politics.


It's one thing to kick back and chill out and escape into Terrorhawks they rock thay do extreame naughts and crosses, or Airwolf, that had a nifty blacksupersonic, rader-evading chopper futurocopter. But now, now to escape your boring, humdrum life you watch someone else's boring, humdrum life, how sad is that?


I guess i just like my fiction to be just that -- fictitious. and to see the wave of Reality Programming getting bigger and bigger, i can't help but wonder what that will mean for the future of television. hell, for the future of entertainment, period. shades of Survivor: The Movie come to mind.


Well that was actually a nice trip down memory lane wasn't it.