Nothing to Say and Saying It Loudly

On second thought, was Kirk Cameron really ever that high to being with? Is it low to espose the benefits of finding jesus? People have done far less noble things. But, then let’s not get into a discussion of religion here.

Kirk definitely is up there on my top ten list of minor celebrities.

I watched Adaptation (IMDb, official) the other night. And I really enjoyed it - despite Meryl Streep’s histronics (greatest living acress, I think not). The plot of the movie is the movie itself, and all that. I thought, mistakenly, that I was being so clever in liking things self-aware and self-referential: 24 Hour Party People, Beavis & Butthead, WB teen dramas, etc. Mind you, I am not talking about Reba here.

Then a couple of nights ago, I was reading one of my increasingly large stack of New York Times Magazine back issues - the ones I never got around to reading while I was in Florida. This one from November or some time in the past when I didn’t apparently have much time. I find this article about things “Meta.” And this bothers me. Here I was, all sneaky, and then to find out that, not only am I not alone, but there is apparently a whole movement (or whatever it’s called) of people doing and liking the same thing. And there is a term for it - a term I don’t necessarily want to be associated with.

So much for that.

I transgressed my no Hugh Grant movie policy and watched About a Boy tonight. It came at the suggstion of someone whose taste in film I value. Though Hugh G. only seems capable of playing one role, he seems to have perfected it. Besides, the Blockbuster here only has movies either that I have seen already or which have Pauly Shore.

I was cringing most of the way through - like Meet the Parents but not quite as bad and for different reasons.

I think I saw Kirk Cameron on one of the numerous christian channels this afternoon - not the Catholic channel, but I think the one where they wear a lot of makeup and big hair - Tammy Faye style, but not with T. F. herself. Not sure what’s she’s up to these days. You can sheck it out for yourself.

Kirk was espousing the benefits of finding jesus. Or something like that.

Several questions come to mind:

1. Why I am watching religious television?
2. How is it that I can distinguish one religious channel from another?
3. Why am I able to identify Kirk Cameron?
4. Has he sunk so low?

As a corollary - is that better, worse, or at all different from the has-been, now-minor celebrities that try to hang on by appearing in any of the other contrived television venues. You know who you are: Emmanuel Lewis, MC Hammer, Corey Feldman, Arsenio Hall, Chaka Kahn, Barry Williams, Todd Bridges, Vanilla Ice.

On a related note, but in a totally separate incident, I saw that there was a Growing Pains TV movie whilst browsing IMDB (IMDb - to be more accurate). That’s just what the world needs. Don’t ask me how I came across that one - perhaps I was searching for Alan Thicke information at the time.

What are the odds of two Growing Pains encounters in one day?

Then again, maybe it wasn’t Kirk after all.

How to get past the past? Can it be done?

For me the answer seems to be, over and over again, “Umm, no. You can’t.”

I am thinking that there is a whole lot that goes into remodeling a house. Or building one for that matter - but I have less immediate (which is to say no) first hand experience with that. Who thinks about what kind of sink you have? That would be the person who has choose a sink or an undercounter light set. So many from which to choose.

So many lists. Running lists trying to keep track of my life, things to remember or things not to forget. The trick then is to remember that those lists exist. And then to read them. Need lists for my lists.

“You have to take a bath, or your get nowhere.”

My own little piece of the void.

So my parents have all these channels with their cable, and you know that all I watch is Fox Sports World (your home for European football and rugby). But, with all the channels, I think I am most disappointed by the sheer lack of anything good to watch. I mean, there isn’t really anything to watch on cable, much less “normal” television, so should I really expect that suddenly there should be a cornucopia just because there are all these channels. They say hundreds, but that’s not really true as many are ppv and otherwise. Sure, the potential is there for hundreds.

But the disappointment is still there. They (parents) get some channels for free that they probably aren’t supposed to get. Nothing illegal, just a mistake or something like that. And for those channels, you’d think, “Hey, free movies” (as they are movie channels). But not so fast.

Do I really want to watch Summer Catch? Does anyone? Did anyone?

Didn’t think so.