T.V.

I love this photo.  You think something scary is about to happen.  Somehow ghosts and evil spirits announce themselves by interrupting the show you're watching with a static-y screen.  Then the unsuspecting couch potato lumbers over to the set and hits it a couple of times ... then all Hell breaks loose.  It's a great formula because the background noise of the t.v. somehow lulls us into a feeling of safety.  If you are alone and a little scared, you are going to have the t.v. on even if you're in the next room.  Because everyone knows ' what you don't hear can't hurt you'.  The t.v. is most people's first babysitter, so I guess there is a subconscious attachment and feeling of safety when it's on.
Having said all that, some of my favorite shows are very disturbing.

I'm obsessed with Breaking Bad.  I know I'm not alone.  Check this 'fan art' out:

The glamorous world of chemistry has caught all of our attention!  Really the living nightmare that is the making, buying, selling and smoking of crystal meth is what has caught our attention.  And the backdrop of New Mexico.  And Jesse.  Everyone knows at least one lovable dumb ass and Jesse is the best!

Jesse and Walter cookin in the desert!

You can find some pretty scary stuff on Adult Swim in the wee hours.  This picture of classic old school Adult Swim looks harmless, but it wasn't I can assure you.

Many episodes of Aqua Teen Hunger Force were very hard to endure.  But, like Tim and Eric Awesome show Great Job or Tom Goes to the Mayor, you can't turn away.  The dark and terrible truth must be witnessed.  It is indeed the world around us.

Carl is an awful human being, but a great Halloween costume!

Some other scary late night animated shows : Children's Hospital (actually live action) , Metalacolypse, Xavier Renegade Angel, Venture Bros... some might seem innocently funny.  Just poking fun at American life, but...

I promise you, this is some scary shit!
One of the best animated shows of all time - of all time - is/was Invader Zim.  Just scary enough.

He did some serious damage

One of the best characters ever!!!

More incredible nail art!

Sometimes a really, really good show comes along, has a few really good seasons, then disappears.  Like Terminator: the Sarah Connor Chronicles.  That was a great show.  It even had Shirley Manson as a terminator.

I hate when awesome shows are cancelled.  It's obvious that all the intelligent people are hooked on dark and scary t.v. because it's a dark and scary world and regular t.v. is way, way too frightening.  Those 'talent' shows and reality shows, and table talk shows with completely insane housewives telling us what is right... or the evilest of all - the news !
No, I will watch these thought provoking dark comedies and dramas rather than the very slow and painful suicide of regular t.v.

Remember Rome on HBO?  I think it was a little ahead of it's time.  I think now they would have made it a series with 5 or 6 seasons.  It would have been great!  That's another crazy thing we all do is buy the dvd of the entire season and watch it like it's our job.  "Just one more episode".  Those famous words uttered at 2am... I did that with Lost, Battle Star Gallactica and now Breaking Bad.  I wish it was my job!  I would be President, Chairman and CEO .

Their job was watching bad sci fi 

I guess now that I have finished this post I will go watch some t.v.

Eyeglasses

I lost my favorite glasses of all time!!!  I can't believe it happened.  I have had them for years and years and it's very out of character for me to lose something important like that.  I guess I'm alowed to beat myself up since I'm not wearing glasses...

Now, I have to go through the painful and tedious process of finding new ones that come close to being as awesome as my old, classic, amazing ones.  Glasses are so personal and so important.  The eyes are the "window to the soul" and glasses are the window frame.  Once I start thinking like this all kinds of references pop into my head.  Firstly, the movie ( based on the novel) The Great Gatsby.

I remember reading the book in high school and the teacher getting all excited about the symbolism of Dr T.J. Eckleburg.  "The eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg are blue and gigantic - their retinas are one yard high.  They look out of no face but, instead, from a pair of enormous yellow spectacles which pass over a nonexistent nose."  This is a quote from Nick Caraway, the central figure of the story.  The final analysis is that these are the eyes of God looking down on a careless world. 

Henry Bemis

Another grave and dramatic glasses reference is the Twilight Zone episode with Burgess Meredith when he wants nothing more than to curl up with a good book and when he finally gets his post apocalyptic chance to be alone with all the library books, he breaks his only pair of glasses.  The closing narration is cool - "the best laid plans of mice and men... and Henry Bemis... the small man in the glasses who wanted nothing but time.  Henry Bemis, now just a part of a smashed landscape, just a piece of the rubble, just a fragment of what man has deeded to himself.  Mr. Henry Bemis...in the Twilight Zone."

I think when most people are asked to muse upon the subject of eyeglasses they might not get quite so deep.  They very likely will come up with some of these references:

Revenge of the Nerds

Erkel

Nerds almost have to wear glasses.  You can't be a tv or movie nerd without glasses.  There was a saying "Men don't make passes at girls who wear glasses".  I guess women who wore glasses in that era didn't have a chance of dating.  Or something.  Those days are gone!

Shirley Manson

This Oliver Peoples ad campaign from a couple of years ago begs to argue that "old" saying. 

This Chantal catalogue photo certainly wants to dispel the myth that glasses-wearing bookworms are a bore.  (the pose and the outfit are hilariously playful!)

Even so, I miss my old glasses!  I have always thought that I am not methodical enough to wear contacts.  It just seems like one more thing to add to my to do list - put in contacts... take out contacts... clean contacts... ugh.  I hate it already.

I just have to accept that the old baby blues are going to have new window frames.  I have been fumbling around like Henry Bemis for a few days and it is not pleasant.  The windows to my soul are a little hazy and that can't be good.

So I guess new window frames, new outlook, new books to read... I would have to say, it's all good!