QotD: On "American Idol"
The seventh season of "American Idol" premieres tonight. Will you be watching, or are you over it?
Seven years? It's been on this long? Huh.
A few years ago I was with a friend* in DC where I glommed onto her work trip and was staying in the posh Ritz Carlton downtown. We were waiting to be seated for brunch when she whispered, "That's Constantine in front of us!"
Me: "The Holy Roman Emperor? I thought he was dead."
Friend: "No! The guy from American Idol. You are probably the one person out of 6 million who doesn't know who he is."
I almost made it this far without seeing a minute of the show. But when I was home at Christmas, dear old DadH insisted on watching a RERUN of the show. I was trying to watch a bowl game and he wanted to watch this crap?? Old crap at that? AACK!
I made a huge fuss and got my way, for a few minutes anyway, before he started back up and down the channels finding the most inane stuff ever produced. This, folks, is why I don't have cable. It's a rebellion against my father.
Or it's because I don't have time to watch TV on top of being too cheap to pay for the premium package. Either way works for me.
*I should add that my friend works in the cable industry so not only did her company pay for the room I was staying in, a rep from the Discovery Channel took us to what may have been the best meal of my entire life. Rock on.
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You really don't have cable TV either? I thought I was the only one!!
I have basic because I wanted a cable modem and it came with the package. So the rabbit ears are put away and I can spend my free evenings with not only the regular network stations, but also my choice of two - count 'em TWO - CSPANs and Tempe Channel 11.
Gotta love those rousing city council meetings!
We don't have cable either--and I thought I was the only one, too! My husband says that people think we're Amish or something because we don't have cable (read: pay $60 a month to rot our brains on 100 channels of drivel). His father has even offered to pay for it for us, thinking that we can't afford it. We both laugh. They just don't get it that we don't want it!
And I'm with you on American Idol. Who cares?
*whispers*
I don't even have a dishwasher.
I get harrassed something fierce for my lack of 'machinery' and techno gadgets.
Re: your FIL. It's amazing how many people think premium cable is a necessity, like the electric bill, as opposed to a luxury item you can choose to live without.
When the big change happens with the new digital tvs or whatever, I'll keep mine to watch movies. I won't be buying a new one.
Unless I'm married again and he wants a new TV. Which means I'll never get one of the new TVs. :-P
I still don't think anybody needs a TV bigger than 13 inches.
American Idol embodies everything that is wrong with today's television programming. I want to see Simon Cowell raped in his ear by a gorilla. I hate him.
That would make a great QOTD:
"Which (in)famous person whould you like to see raped in the ear by a gorilla?"
I have cable now because we get it for free with the place we rent. But, I refuse to watch AI (I should note that the acronym still makes me think first of that movie with Jude Law and the kid from Sixth Sense). I don't want to see people pimp themselves out for a chance at 15 minutes of fame and I don't enjoy watching people being mean to each other. Perhaps the final episodes are better because the singing is better, but the commercials for the first episodes make it seem like it's basically Simon denigrating contestant after contestant. No thanks.
Farm girl that I am, whenever I hear 'AI', I immediately think 'artificial insemination'.
Pleasant, no?
Amy--you don't have a dishwasher? I could give up TV, but not my dishwasher... that is the American Dream to me, right there. Seriously.
I got rid of my old dishwasher (that didn't work) during my kitchen remodel a few years ago. I don't dirty up too many dishes, cereal bowls mostly, so I would most likely run out of bowls before I had enough for a full-ish load.
It keeps my cooking decisions simple, too. I try to keep to one-pot meals with minimal prep equipment.
Re: your FIL. It's amazing how many people think premium cable is a necessity, like the electric bill, as opposed to a luxury item you can choose to live without.
Yeah, I know. It's like we're deprived or something. I really seriously do not ever want to get to the point where TV is my life. No way.
LOL. Best celebrity blow-off ever.