random seinfeld

randomly, the last seinfeld appeared on the tv tonight in the first half hour of the nightly seinfeld hour and instead of silence after the last scene, the tv jumped right into another seinfeld episode from somewhere in the middle of the long running series...

random series episodes are so appropriate for what might have been the most random show on tv, though laugh-in, monty python, benny hill, and others have been pretty random, thing is, none of those tried to present themselves as sit-coms, meaning actual stories about characters talking about random life stuff week after week...

friends was not as random, there were threads running through the stories developing the characters, changing relationships, developments, learning, growth... cheers had story lines and character development all through the series... even M*A*S*H was rich with continuing story lines in spite of being the same scene over and over... wait, maybe the original i love lucy was close... and they all got serious, had endearing qualities, even brought a tear to the eye (or more)... but characters who remained the same from start to end, no character development and minimal connections between episodes, characters you could not take seriously because of their ridiculous randomness and yet, they compelled you to watch just to see what next randomness would get them excited over nothing... just loads of randomness and nothing and more, the drama of random nothingness... word after word after word saying nothing...

but to go to jail for it?...

what do we expect?

with a theme song that includes you can always sleep through work tomorrow (which he co-wrote and even sings himself) the brilliance of craig ferguson's manipulation of nocturnal and closet rebel america with cute puppetry and clever irony and sophmoric fart jokes and best-friend secret winks, double-entendre smirks, intimate collective conversations with the audience, mocking sensuality, and are you serious? mugging at the camera all the while slipping subtrifuge in the way of intelligent incites disguised as irreverent sarcasm and comedy (which includes his nightly it's a great day for america everybody, naturally) and the sense of belonging and agreeing in his coyly pleading i know, we agree to be mocked as he mocks himself and forget how late it is...

or maybe i'm his only viewer?

ave

audio-visual entertainment... that may be the subject or theme or reason and purpose for this blog... a list and some reactions to the media i choose to watch, the music, movies, tv, and books i read... not necessarily any sort of formal or structured reviews, but simply a place for me to list and record some of my impressions of the creative (and not so creative) product of other minds...

we shall see how interested i remain in doing this as time goes by :)

Defined

(CURRENTLY ON TOP) the shows i try to find time to watch regularly cuz i enjoy them enough to want to watch them regularly, as if this one needed explaining... i don't get to watch anything regularly and seldom to i feel compelled to try, but i know what i like...

(IF I CAN FIND TIME) used to be SORTA WATCHING and are the shows i enjoy watching or my roommate enjoys (asterisks) so it's on if we're home (maybe one of these days i'll separate this list into two or three lists cuz that's what this is about, after all, making lists)... i've not scheduled myself to be home to watch a specific tv show in years, but these are as close as i am at the moment to wanting to and if i shared life with someone who also wanted to, we might make a date to watch these and others...

IF THEY RETURN are shows that are gone as in no new episodes, but if they returned they'd be on the list above so they rate a bit higher than the shows on the lists below this one... the main difference between this list and the lists above is that these are mostly reruns while the ones above are still in production, i think...

CONSIDERING (NOT WATCHED) are shows i might enjoy based on genre, theme, word-of-mouth, or whatever, but i have not found myself in front of a tv when they were on...

RERUNS (WHEN THERE"S TIME) are the shows i will choose over other shows if i am in the mood to watch, or at least listen to and glance up at, tv (most of the time i turn the tv when i am home alone and in the mood for more than music, mostly just to have some audio-visual stimulus in the space while reading something online or writing or cooking, eating, cleaning, playing, or some other activity and now and then something attracts my attention to watch a show...

RERUNS (OCCASIONALLY) are the shows i will choose to watch before the RE-RANS but after the list of RERUNS above this list, partially cuz there are so many shows and therefore, so many lists (or something like that)... I'll usually pay less attention to these than the ones above, more than the ones below, and so on...

RE-RANS are the shows i will chose after the RERUNS primarily because i've seen most of them more than once, but in some cases cuz i simply like the shows lsted in RERUNS better... and once again, I'll usually pay less attention to these than those above, etcetera...

HAVE WATCHED are the shows i have watched at one time or another in this life, however given the choice, i would probably choose one of the shows on the RERUNS lists or RE-RANS list over these, or maybe they are just old shows i've seen in reruns so much over the years that i've seen enough for the moment (until memory fades further into the dim light of forgetfulness as it so conveniently does when i want to watch something i love but don't want to remember it all so i can enjoy it's magical experience all over again, thought that usually happens with movies much more than tv and i may digress, aye?), though some are not that special, or something like that... no really, i absolutely loved some of these shows the first time around and still do if i find them (and someday maybe i'll divide them up and maybe even make a all-time favorites list from a gazillion to one if anybody is ever really that interested to share that experience)...