tv from all over the world
January 10, 2006honestly i don't know what's wrong me. i think i've been living alone too long now that american television bores me. so tonight i've actually been watching television stations from all over the world. yes...that's right. and i know it's hard to believe, but it's simply amazing how similar their programming is to ours, and even just as terrible.
to begin my journey i joined in on a french news station already in progress. the news anchor was a pretty french woman who barely moved her lips as she spoke. they cut to a "on the scene" report and showed clips of cars on the highway and in traffic. i think the report was about speeders because they showed a lot of traffic cams. yes i know! it's hard to believe france has traffic cams too.
the next station i tuned into was from somewhere in malta. it was a cooking show but there wasn't any sound. the chef was a very tall man wearing one of those tall white chef hats (whatever they're called). it looked they were sauteing soggy vegetables and coins in blood. i could be wrong.
i had wondered what was going on in iraq so when i tuned into my next station, i was pleased to find what seemed to be a newscaster making fun of george bush. no joke! i was relieved to see something different on tv for a change.
at this point i started missing the united states and decided to check out some good ol' american tv, when i stumbled across the all nasa network. fucking creepy shit! my eyes kept staring at this quick changing blurred image of what looked like an alien shadow on the moon. i'm really not sure what the hell i was looking at and it creeped me out so i turned it off.
the next station i found was one being broadcast from hong kong. this was awesome! i watched a whole string of chinese commercials which included an ad for some weird chinese airline, and a "learn english now" audio kit (or at least that's what it looked like because the actor kept saying in a poor english accent, "ammmmerica" and "canaaaada." but the best commercial of all was simply an ad for condoms. although i can't understand a bit of the language, i do know what a box of condoms look like.
next was an old documentary about frank lloyd wright on some puerto rican station. this was in english and boring as fucking hell.
which brings me to the programming i've left running in the background as i type this. it is some really wacky 70's movie from turkey. nothing more to say about this one except there's a lot of creepy piano music, and it sounds like they're having sex a lot. but they're not. i guess people in turkey often breathe really heavily because when i switch back they are just standing around talking to one another. strange.
posted by H. Hopkins @ 9:54 AM
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