I have a couple of customers where I work that are at the store every single day. There is the creepy guy who wanders around and never buys anything (some claim he is a swinger trolling for conquests, but I am beginning to doubt). There is Chinese Flower Power, a little old man who always buys green tea with exact change. Another of my favorites is the old guy with a mustache who talks just like Willie Nelson, it's got to the point that I actually have conversations with him just to listen to his voice. If only he would break out with Mama Don't Let Your Boys Grow Up to Be Cowboys, that would be worth a thousand hot teas.I imagine that we are all characters on a sitcom. Who is the star? Maybe its an off the wall show and the creepy guy is actually the one everyone is circulating around. It would be a little boring, granted, with so little dialog, but maybe he has a really funny narrator's voice going on the whole thing. Most of us imagine that we are the stars of the shows. It makes sense, we are in our heads all the time, so that must make us the important ones. But maybe our shows are the soon to be canceled ones: the ones who jumped the shark after the 13th or 14th season and now no one cares about the lead character or if he will get laid tonight or maybe even if he died.
Does life cancel us when we are no longer relevant to a viewing population? I think of my own life and how my ratings have gone up and down.
1st to 10th seasons: 10 viewers
10th to 17th: 25 viewers
18th season: (love enters) 26 viewers
19th - 23rd: 60 viewers
24th - 27th: 10 viewers
28th: 35 viewers
29th: 7 - 10 viewers
If I were a tv show I would be canceled. My peak years have passed. Even now, viewers are fading from my life as I become less and less interesting to them.
Will life cancel me? Or will I suffer away on UPN for another 50 seasons?
5 comments:
In my opinion, there's always hope for a new show to come out.
Even after your first one is canceled, you know there will be a new one. Possibly a better one.
Michael C. Hall for example. 6 Feet Under. Never watched it.
Then BAM! Dexter! Brilliant.
Or look at John Stamos...
Full House. Great show..
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point is, sometimes all you need is a good commercial or tv spot to get viewers back on board.
Hell, I'm watching right now. And today's episode was good stuff.
God Damn you Man United!
I get front row seats, love :)
I wrote something on this theme a while back, too- it's interesting how we process our lives, don't you think? People love narrative too much to think in any other way, and I'm willing to bet that goes double for folks like you and me.
(mine's here, by the way- scroll down to the cautionary tale of numero cinco)
Gee, I hope I'm not the creepy guy. Probably not, as I do buy quite a bit more than I should.
Paranoia aside, I prefer to think of myself as the "Norm" (as in "Cheers") of the place. Or the Dr. Johnny Fever. Or at the very least, Les Nessman. But NOT Herb Tarlek. Do you hear that Dan? NOT Herb Tarlek! (Runs away crying like a little girl.)
nope, you aren't that guy. i will point him out one of these days.
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