The Truth Files

Stephen Colbert/Daily Show Love. House, Hugh Laurie, Black Adder, BritCom obsessiveness. Eddie Izzard quoting ad naseum. Self loathing. Other people loathing. Anything else I can loathe-fit that in there too. Tales of alcohol and dogs. The occassional night at the bar causing trouble. Mis-treating brain cells...Who needs them? No sex. No drugs-usually. Much rock'n'roll. Just trying to survive in 615. Y'know. The usual.

Saturday, February 25, 2006

I want to lie shipwrecked and comatose

Right so I watched the Eddie Izzard DVD I ordered whilst intoxicated the other evening. I'm saving the CD for when I drive to school on Monday or something. And I was feeling very British after that-like ya do-so I decided to watch one of my old VHS videotapes Now children, you may not remember VHS video tapes but once upon a time they were the most fantastic things, you could record right off the telly and watch the program at yr leisure. No, not like a Tivo because it would be there forever and you had to fast forward thru the commercials at what is comparatively a snail's pace. But you could always have the video- until you taped over it accidentally and you wouldn't even realize it was the video of your child's first birthday until you went to watch an episode of LA Law and the end scene was several small children with cake smeared on their faces. Also they were much better at collected dust than Tivos. A great failure of modern technology if you ask me. The loss of the video recorder is really killing apart of 20th century society that was quite fun--the mystery tape. My parents' basement is a veritable treasure trove of the forgotten television event. Ever wonder what the first Clinton inauguration was like? I have it on 2 LP cassettes-you can watch all of the proceedings from Clinton's swearing in to REM and Natalie Merchant. Ever wonder what sort of television programs I enjoyed watching in 1992? Find out with the exciting 4th box in our collection! Currently I am fast forwarding thru an episode of Nova about snowsports of some sort on a tape that was meticulously labelled with the name and episode number of all of Red Dwarf Series 6. I'm already finished FF thru an episode of Are You Being Served? something I must've taped during a bender because I've never in a sober state enjoyed an episode of that stupid show. Although I did once go as Mr. Humphries for Halloween. Just to be esoteric.
Tomorrow I'm going to pop in the Kids in the Hall tapes. Who knows what glorious wonders might be found on the feet upon feet of fragile tape recorded lo these many years ago off of Comedy Central. Why-there might even be an episode of the Daily Show from back when Kilbourn was the host...or some other fantastic bit of comedic gold that otherwise would have been lost forever.
Now-I simply must further dedicate myself to watching what is supposed to be classic British SciFi Comedy vids.

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