I don’t have cable. I haven’t had it for over a year now and I love my life as a result. I do watch quite a few cable shows, but it is usually cause I download them or stream them from some fly-by-night website. However during this past weekends Hurrical Storm Irene, I went to my buddies Ross, Sal, and Naomi’s place to experience the beast up close. We ate snacks, drank and put our bodies through the ringer all while watching tons of TV.
Which brings me to the point of my post. Last night we watched MTV on a wall sized 1080p projector, so it was super HD. I watched Jersey Shore, The VMA’s, and I Just Want My Pants Back. I haven’t watched MTV in like a good year or so, so watching it was like a P.O.W. eating real food for the first time.
Jersey Shore: Is brain poison that I stopped watching season 2. However, it’s still pretty entertaining. It disgusts me that I even like it.
The VMA’s: on the whole they are pretty terrible and a reminder that I have no idea what the kids are up to these days. Who is Demi Lovato, Victoria Justice, Jessie J, Selena Gomez, Kreashawn, and why are they relevant enough to be on tv? As always tho Beyonce crushed her performance and I’ve never been happier for a pregnancy in my life other than hers. Seeing Tyler The Creator win was also pretty cool considering, his audience consists of dickhead pitchfork writers, angry teens who hate shit that is mainstream, and me.
I Just Want My Pants Back: This was the most offensive show to my sensibilities I have ever seen. The lead lives in a pretty nice one bedder in williamsburg, but only has $100 in his bank account. He gets laid twice in the pilot, still plays the Wii, and wants to go to a Waaves show. I have been called a hipster for quite some time, and the glamourized life they live, but this show is only going to add fuel to the hating hipsters fire. I don’t believe in classifying people as one thing or another (unless they are “bro’s), but this show is going to do a lot of sociocultural harm. It also has ushered “Kevin Williamson Speak” (the writer of Scream and D-Creek) where the subjects of the show speak in an almost completely unrealistic fashion. All this being said, I read Pitchfork almost regularly to get angry, and IJWMPB will fit right into niche for me of Shit I Hate So Bad I Have To Watch.
I would just like to say to MTV, purveyors of their own culture, just play videos again (unless it’s Jersey Shore, The Real World, or The Challenge). It makes everyones life a lot easier.
