I grew up in a house that had the TV on 24-7 so pop-culture television was a huge part of my life but I turned my TV off in 1997 and never really turned it on again.
All seasons of Northern Exposure are on Amazon Prime right now so the wife and I are having some guilty pleasures by re-living that show but, just like every other show from the past that I try to watch again, there is so much that I just feel vicariously embarrassed about.
I really don't give a damn about TV, movies, video games, or sports and people I know say "then what do you do with your time?" and I say "draw a circle. Then, put a dot anywhere you want in that circle. The dot is pop-culture - TV, movies, video games, sports, entertainment magazines, celebrity social media posts, hit-music, fashionable clothes, the latest cell phone, and billboards on the freeway...
The rest of the circle is everything else.
Independent music, books, social gatherings, home cooking, gardening, raising chickens, sewing, preventative car maintenance, exercise, playing a musical instrument, writing your memoirs, calling somebody you haven't spoken to in a while, studying human health, studying history, studying religion, spending time with your pets, cleaning out the junk drawer, listening to somebody else talk about something they think is important, watching YouTube videos about things that have always been in our lives but we never really think about like the history of bricks, what do the different grades of leather mean?, what is a star bolt on old buildings for?, how were aqueducts built?...
We live in a big beautiful world but the vast majority of people are fixated on the tiny black dot.
Oh, and > "He sang like a woman and she sang like man." I'm stealing that and calling it my own.
I grew up in a house that had the TV on 24-7 so pop-culture television was a huge part of my life but I turned my TV off in 1997 and never really turned it on again.
All seasons of Northern Exposure are on Amazon Prime right now so the wife and I are having some guilty pleasures by re-living that show but, just like every other show from the past that I try to watch again, there is so much that I just feel vicariously embarrassed about.
I really don't give a damn about TV, movies, video games, or sports and people I know say "then what do you do with your time?" and I say "draw a circle. Then, put a dot anywhere you want in that circle. The dot is pop-culture - TV, movies, video games, sports, entertainment magazines, celebrity social media posts, hit-music, fashionable clothes, the latest cell phone, and billboards on the freeway...
The rest of the circle is everything else.
Independent music, books, social gatherings, home cooking, gardening, raising chickens, sewing, preventative car maintenance, exercise, playing a musical instrument, writing your memoirs, calling somebody you haven't spoken to in a while, studying human health, studying history, studying religion, spending time with your pets, cleaning out the junk drawer, listening to somebody else talk about something they think is important, watching YouTube videos about things that have always been in our lives but we never really think about like the history of bricks, what do the different grades of leather mean?, what is a star bolt on old buildings for?, how were aqueducts built?...
We live in a big beautiful world but the vast majority of people are fixated on the tiny black dot.
Oh, and > "He sang like a woman and she sang like man." I'm stealing that and calling it my own.