Showing posts with label TV. Show all posts
Showing posts with label TV. Show all posts

6.13.2009

Television vs. TV...........TV vs. Books

Television vs. TV. What's the difference anyway? I wish I could give you some intellectual fancy answer, but guess what....there is no difference!! Ha, you probably already knew that. I just needed a better way to start my post than the norm.

So June 11 was the famous (or infamous if you don't have a new tv like me) switching of the analog to digital formats. Oh wait....I didn't even have a tv that worked before. Or rather Lisi didn't. Her short fat stubby little thing would starting blinking out after being on for a while. Kind of reminding you to blink yourself while you watch tv. Have you ever watched someone watching tv? It's quite entertaining, but also quite sad. Anyway, this blinking out got to be very annoying very fast. So, I basically never watched tv. I haven't really missed it, except for those long days when you come home and don't really want to do a-n-y-t-h-i-n-g. I think you know what I'm talking about.

So neither Lisi nor I will be purchasing a new tv in the near future. One of these days we'll head "Back to the Future" but for now it's Back to the Stone Age. Plus, who doesn't like reading a good book?? If you don't, you're missing out.

As Ray Bradbury once said, "You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them." And that is essentially what television is doing to us, or rather we are doing to ourselves.......destroying our own culture.

2.04.2009

Super Bowl Commercials

Ok so for some reason, I've always really liked watching commercials....sometimes even more than the tv program itself. I like to see what the companies come up with I guess and how creative they can be. I like the funny ones, obviously! These usually end up being beer commercials however, desafortunadamente (my favorite Spanish word to say - just throwin' it out there!)

I really enjoyed my marketing class at BYU that I took for my business minor for this reason. Didn't want to be late to that class! So the Super Bowl ads really disappointed me this year. I mean, come on?! Is this really all you can come up with? Some ads I see and just think, what on earth were you thinking?! Anyway, this is my favorite of the bunch. I guess cause I think of "ANGRY EYES!!" from Toy Story. Pretty much it's the only one that even elicited a small laugh from me......