One of my favorite songs is television man by the band The Talking Heads. The song is about a man who watches television with a passion. The man says he looks and dreams at for the first time when he watches TV. He is inside of the TV and outside the TV at the same time. To him everything is real and he asks himself if he likes the way he feels.
Into his living room through his television the world comes crashing in. He confesses that television is responsible for who he is. The man says that others like to put down the TV. Others knock TV he says.
But he assures us that he and the television are merely good friends. He walks in a beautiful garden where everyone would like to say hello but it does not matter what people say they are waiting for the TV to come and take them away. The television man watches everything on his good friend the TV. The television has everything he needs and that is how the story ends.
This is an old song given it was from the'80's. When I first heard it I related it to my TV habits. I thought back then I was watching too much TV. Now more than 20 years later I realize I am still watching too much television. The song reminded me again to take a look at how much I live for TV.
I even tell myself, in denial of course, that my TV and I our only good friends. But I spend more time with TV than I care to admit. I even think the TV is real sometimes. And that is what special movie effects are all about, right?
And our thinking that TV is real does not stop with the films we watch. We believe what the news commentators tell us is real. We all have our favorite news channels and we grow to believe all they tell us about the world is real. We even think of people on the news or the rest of television are our friends.
But we cannot. And even though we live next to real people we do not bother talking to them. We are too busy watching television. The end of the song has the television man saying he has everything he needs. These are sobering words even today. - 29967
Into his living room through his television the world comes crashing in. He confesses that television is responsible for who he is. The man says that others like to put down the TV. Others knock TV he says.
But he assures us that he and the television are merely good friends. He walks in a beautiful garden where everyone would like to say hello but it does not matter what people say they are waiting for the TV to come and take them away. The television man watches everything on his good friend the TV. The television has everything he needs and that is how the story ends.
This is an old song given it was from the'80's. When I first heard it I related it to my TV habits. I thought back then I was watching too much TV. Now more than 20 years later I realize I am still watching too much television. The song reminded me again to take a look at how much I live for TV.
I even tell myself, in denial of course, that my TV and I our only good friends. But I spend more time with TV than I care to admit. I even think the TV is real sometimes. And that is what special movie effects are all about, right?
And our thinking that TV is real does not stop with the films we watch. We believe what the news commentators tell us is real. We all have our favorite news channels and we grow to believe all they tell us about the world is real. We even think of people on the news or the rest of television are our friends.
But we cannot. And even though we live next to real people we do not bother talking to them. We are too busy watching television. The end of the song has the television man saying he has everything he needs. These are sobering words even today. - 29967
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