If I do watch TV in the evening and that happends sometimes, more than some of you would like to know about me. If I do; I watch the news, on the local channels and also sometimes on the foreign channels. I want to know everything that are going on, but sometimes I look at it while I'm thinking about something else. I tend to be a person that shifts in and out of my own inner world. Very often I have no idea what has been going on.
I look at the talkshows, the once I find a little more serious than Ricky Lake. It's usually the news talkshows. The once where they have a lot of serious men in ties and angry modern women talking about politics. I would look at all the cooking programs, if I feel like looking at TV. I would because cooking programs are homely and sweet, just like me (!) I also look at documentaries, all kinds that is, but they have to be real documentaries (serious and conventional, just like me!).
There are a few TV series I would watch if I'm in the mood for that. Generally I dont really like TV series, so it have to be something specific for me to watch it. I like "Seinfield" and "X-Files", but that's the only TV series I manage to watch nowadays. If they would send science fiction or horror series like "Star Trek" or "Tales From The Crypt" more often I would probably watch TV a lot more.
No matter what, I am a social person, no matter what anyone would think and I'm not so strict either. I dont mind watching things like "Do You Want To Be A Millonaire" or the "European Music Awards" with my parents or someone else. It's not that these things are great (for me), but it's a social thing. It's something you can watch without having been watching it before. It's something you can talk about while watching it.
I dont like soap opera series, reality shows or sports. I dont think sports is an unhealthy thing and the soaps are a matter of taste. The reality shows is a disease that the TV have obtained (just like the mobile telephone disease that people have obtained; it's the popularity cultures diseases, that spread more than AIDS). I've seen little clips of them in the commercials and I think it's sick. It's just a stupid thing. I mean; If they want to make programs with real people, then they can make documentaries in my opinion. I mean those shows are just like those trashy magazines you find at the dentists waiting rooms. Useless information. Things you wouldn't want to know about your neighbour. Things you dont need to know about your neighbour. Garbage.
However, If I would make a reality show, it would take place on Mars. I would pick an old hippie (on LSD), a nun (and Jesus), a pagan (with intellect), a model (one of those famous once that they call super, whatever that means), an Anton Lavey Satanist (just to have one from the alterative popularity culture), a sami (for the love of real and good culture), a native American (to make the normal American feel grey), a guy in wheelchair (for anti-fascistic reasons), Martha Stewart and Oprah (because I like Oprah and Martha is her friend. Besides Mars needs decoration), the pope (for the love of antiques) and the ghost of Bob Marley (not because I like him). They would all have to live on Mars for a year. They would be allowed to bring with them one thing. If they were smart they would of course bring seeds or an animal. Otherwise they would maybe eventually have to eat eatch other to stay alive (although sooner or later they would probably have to do that anyway). We on earth would have a special TV channel were we could watch them twenty four hours a day. The channel would be called; MSSFMTDRLABWC (which is short for: MANY SMALL STEPS FOR MAN THAT DOESN'T REALLY LEAD ANYWHERE BUT WHO CARES)
If someone would actually survive, they would become king or queen on Mars and because of that they wouldn't be allowed to leave of course. They could however take a small vacation now and then to visit earth. No real people would live on Mars. Eventually all the celebrities would live there. They would have to. It would be the modern cool and acceptable thing for them to do and they would be paid big money just live there. Most of the politicians would also live there, the people would demand it, generally so we could monitor what they were doing in the privacy of their own home. Their votes would surely rise if they acted like Martha Stewart do on TV, when she shows her homemade looking decorations to the people. If Martha Stewart were the one to win my reality show, she would have to be Martha Stewart all the time, even in her bed. All presidents, prime ministers, male taxi drivers and everyone else that wanted to make small steps for man that wouldn't really lead anywhere, would also be living on Mars.
because I'm the smart ass in this universe
and I would not live on Mars.