Since I am in SF at Gabe's house, there is a gigantic television and tons of cable stations to watch. (The fact that there still isn't much to watch belies that entire cable TV thing, but that's another story for another day.) One of the stations is called something like "All Movie Trailers" which is what it is. Movie trailers, over and over, on and on. Comedies, dramas, tragedies, (much like Shakespeare), horror movies, Jesus movies, stupid movies, (unlike Shakespeare,) sports movies, tear-jerk movies, chick flicks, Disney movies, everything including movies that I think no one would ever want to see but I am often wrong in thinking that. Movies about fake zombies? Aren't we over that genre by now? Guess not.
Movie trailers are fun to watch for about 30 minutes. And on this TV station, there is no break, it's just one after another. In 30 minutes you might have seen 25 movie trailers and thus the ones you saw in the first ten minutes have been totally erased from your brain. The only ones you remember are the ones that have so much blood in the first ten seconds of the trailer that you have to avert your eyes and try to fast-forward through them. Even then you don't remember the name of the frigging movie, you just know that you will NEVER see that movie, no matter what it's called and no matter how great the critics and your friends think it is when it is released, which could be a year from now. First impressions, and all that.
But still, I like movie trailers. I have learned, in the past 30 minutes, that there is a movie coming out about the "Coast Guard's Most Daring Rescue" and about Jesus helping a kid who was dying from a disease no one could recognize or cure until he fell out of a tree and hit his head (seriously) and was then cured and that you can learn to ski jump if you really try, even if you have no money and no talent and how someone who is an idiot can save a person's life if they are in a car at the same time another car drives by and someone is choking. Well, gosh, how cool is all that?
And as I scroll through channels on this TV I see channels that are focused on "Cash, Coins and Pocket Watches" (who knew?) and Jesus channels and a channel called "Idiots" but I didn't investigate that one. Shopping, sheets, shutterbugs, there are TV channels devoted to those and every other thing you can think of. Of course, most of you out there already know this. I am in awe of the possibilities. In AWE! Seriously. Gotta love TV. America does and as an American, so do I.
I guess.
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