I hate my life. People call me and ask why I haven't told them about my life lately. I respond, simply, that NOTHING even MARGINALLY interesting has happened to me for longer than I care to remember. Not that I'm one of those crackhead lunatics who has to be abducted by aliens or pursued by secret government Nazi cyborgs to feel complete, mind you, but SOMETHING interesting besides throwing rocks at a hornets nest should be going on.
So that's my excuse for not writing anything for awhile.
Anyway, every once in awhile I watch MTV. That used to stand for Music Television, but since they only show videos really late at night anymore, it's more like Moron Television. They'll fill the airwaves with just about anything they can to avoid having to put on videos. Examples are shows like the Real World (I believe they're up to series 953,227 in Siberia), Road Rules, braindead gameshows, and the absolutely hideous Tom Green Show. Now occasionally they happen upon a gem like Beavis and Butt-Head or Sifel and Ollie, but overall they fill their televising day with absolute drivel.
They have this new show called "Undressed". From what I can gather, it's sort of like a teeny-bopper soap opera about kids (all presumably over 18) screwing with frequency that can be said to be completely unequal to my current score count. Most are supposed to be college kids, I guess. I heven't watched it enough to know for sure.
The storylines I've seen so far include a chick trying to learn how to give her boyfriend a blowjob, a guy pining over some chick, a guy believing that electronics cause impotence, and a dude who wants to lose his virginity on his 18th birthday but his girlfriend won't do it so he enlists the aid of the local whore who does him and then his girlfriend changes her mind and does him and then she finds out and is a bit pissed. Of course they also have their mandatory gay story line, where a guy finds his "pal" is getting off to hetero porn and is understandably upset (considering the gross overrepresentation of homosexuals in all of their shows, you'd think that every third person was queer).
Of course, MTV handles all of these subjects with all of the class and good taste you would expect. For example, they never actually say "blowjob", and all topless scenes are from the back.
I was going somewhere with this...Oh yeah. The thing that bugs me about this Undressed show is that it reminds with with painful detail how far life falls short of the idealized and bubble gum reality they try to push on us. No wonder so many people are depressed. According to TV, they should be happy all the time and if any problems do arise, they should be solved happily in a half hour! The answer to America's problems is turning off the TV once in a while, not Prozac!
As much as I hate to admit it, idealism is like a cockroach. No matter how much you stomp it, it never quite seems to die. Watching that show with its happy little teens fucking like mad and gazing at each other with loving doe eyes pinches me right that part of my brain that occasionally encourages me by pointing out that I had a crappy time in my high school years and will probably never score. I suspect that it's the battered and bloodied shreds of idealism that are still alive in spite of the best efforts of the world. Of course, even my idealistic side is cynical.
Sigh. I hate my life.
