So remember a few weeks ago, I was all pissed off and angsty about the relatively sudden ubiquity of really quality entertainment (television and cinema), such that I was experiencing significant anxiety about all the amazing television and movies that I was not watching. And that was just dealing with Netflix. Well. Now there’s Amazon Prime. And that more than doubled the list of things I have to watch. More than doubled: got a whole other list. Shit! And Amazon also gives you a free eBook each month to read, plus a goddamn audio book (which, by the way, I don’t particularly like audio books, but how can you turn down a “free” one?). Add to this that every goddamn week, both Netflix and Amazon add about 30 more shows each, at least one-third of which I want to watch. What used to be the time I watched something before bed is now spent just adding stuff to each of these insipid lists. And let’s not forget the actual old-school made out of trees books that are stacked up waiting to be read. AND I’m supposed to be writing about 7 books of my own!
If I took the next 7 years and did nothing but watch TV, I’m not sure that I would catch up. Certainly not with these hyper-productive bastards churning out a new 10-episode series every single day. I’ve started asking people who ask me whether or not I’ve seen some TV show or movie just how they do it. How do you people manage to watch all this shit? And I’ve not been able to get any kind of reasonable answer out of anyone. They’re too busy watching TV. Gah.
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