Thursday, March 22, 2007
Anti-This-American-Life
I've been hearing on NPR that one of those shows I really dislike on that radio, This American Life, will become a TV show. Now I'm seeing in my entertainment gossip online news that the show has begun airing on one of the TV stations. The TAL episodes that I've heard on the radio all are formulaic, a bit quirky, always a bit or plenty sad, always leading to some little epiphany. They never ever manage to do anything for me, perhaps because they're so emotionally manipulative. Yet it seems I am one of the few people with a distaste for Ira Glass, TAL, and pretty much all the people on it. If anyone is reading this post, what are your thoughts?
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As a former guest of the show I agree with Sne's dislike of this (so-called) american life. The producers are all a bunch of sell out psuedo-punks and they did nothing but waste my freaking time. I recorded everything I did for a month and because I was getting into arguments with anyone they said my material was useless. "Don't you wanna talk about the problems your having with your mother?" the producer said at one point. "I don't have a problem with my mom though." I responded a bit confused. "Of course you do, everyone does." she insisted. After that she refused to air my hallarious day to day interactions with the world. Well I woul of one a fucking radio emmy if they aired that shit! That was real dog!
sneza, nice post. my friends tried to turn me onto this american life. and it served as a real nice sound machine for helping me sleep. very sentimental. haha.
Now I feel less isolated in my antiTALism. The three of us is already an antiTAList cell.
Actually I kind of enjoy listening to it just so I can yell at the radio incessantly, and much more loudly when the epiphanies reveal themselves, thereby making my neighbors think I'm a complete wacko -- or more so of a wacko than they'd originally thought. I keep my window open all the time, so I "broadcast" my thoughts very loud and clear.
Why are you listening to NPR at all? You don't have a car, you don't even know how to drive and from what I remember you're not lazy to change your music when it becomes boring...
Why do you speak as if we traveled in the same dimension? Besides, Frog, radio isn't so antiquated that it's only listened to while driving through the the mean city streets of the Bay Area...
Heh, heh: the art of (mis)communicating via blog comments. Love it.
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