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Dec 2 08 4:00 PM
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"Ohm-Pah, Ohm-Pah, Doob-Tah-Dee-Dee. What do you get from a glut of TV? A pain in the neck, and an IQ of 3." -- sung by the elfin helpers of Willie Wonka in the movie Charlie And The Chocolate Factory.
"As you become able to pull back out of the immersion in the TV set, you can widen your perceptual environment to again include the room you are in. Your feelings and personal awareness are rekindled. With self-awareness emerging you can perceive the quality of sensory deadness television induces, the one-dimensionality of its narrowed information field, and arrive at an awareness of boredom. This leads to channel switching at first and eventually turning off the set." -- Jerry Mander, author of Four Arguments For the Elimination Of Television .....to be continued
Your feelings and personal awareness are rekindled. With self-awareness emerging you can perceive the quality of sensory deadness television induces, the one-dimensionality of its narrowed information field, and arrive at an awareness of boredom.
This leads to channel switching at first and eventually turning off the set."
-- Jerry Mander, author of Four Arguments For the Elimination Of Television .....to be continued
I bought a bourgeois house in the Hollywood hills With a truckload of hundred thousand dollar bills tottoMan came by to hook up my cable TV We settled in for the night my baby and me We switched 'round and 'round 'til half-past dawn There was fifty-seven channels and nothin' on
Well now home entertainment was my baby's wish So I hopped into town for a satellite dish I tied it to the top of my Japanese car I came home and I pointed it out into the stars A message came back from the great beyond There's fifty-seven channels and nothin' on
Well we might'a made some friends with some billionaires We might'a got all nice and friendly If we'd made it upstairs All I got was a note that said "Bye-bye John Our love is fifty-seven channels and nothin' on"
So I bought a .44 magnum it was solid steel cast And in the blessed name of Elvis well I just let it blast 'Til my TV lay in pieces there at my feet And they busted me for disturbin' the almighty peace Judge said "What you got in your defense son?" "Fifty-seven channels and nothin' on" I can see by your eyes friend you're just about gone Fifty-seven channels and nothin' on... Fifty-seven channels and nothin'
I bought a bourgeois house in the Hollywood hills With a truckload of hundred thousand dollar bills Man came by to hook up my cable TV We settled in for the night my baby and me We switched 'round and 'round 'til half-past dawn There was fifty-seven channels and nothin' on
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