Added on Mon 14 Jan 2008
Television Rules the Nation
Were you expecting to see this post last Friday? No? Then fine, but just the same it goes to show that I’m not going to be posting one of these things up every day of the week, just as many days of the week as I can without getting upset.
I’ve only got a few moments before this song stops playing. Hmmm, to be honest, at this stage this song is not gelling well with where my mind is at right now. But don’t worry, it was at the time I did the picture! Right now though, it’s a Daft Punk song that is not really catching me with it’s hypnotic beats. It’s probably even slightly annoying right now.
Ahh the big gritty bass kicks in and saves it to some extent… yet again. (Maybe it’s the gloss spray I’ve just used messin with my head giving me a headache?)
I’ve found this remixed version Television Rules The Nation (Roccanova Remix) Not much of remix really (Sorry Roccanova whoever you are?) much like the original, a bit faster, bigger beat with a couple extra bits.
Lyrics - “Television rules the nation” Over and over. In some ways that’s good for me, lets my mind wonder to imagine as freely as possible the images that go with this. But all I could get stuck in my head was the view of back-of-heads and back of seats. I was thinking of all the people that sit invisibly in the suburbs watching TV. Again one of these things, if it were done in the open… I mean if we had glass walls, and drove around the suburbs at night, it might be a bit disturbing to look into soo many homes and see sooo many people siting stationary looking at their lovely looking TV’s. I imagine someone from another time would wonder if we all turn into zombies at night. I guess people reading books look like zombies as well, maybe they would wonder when they started making books so large?
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So I put all those people into the same picture. I didn’t really try to catch the scale of my thoughts, ie. millions of us sitting there (wasting time), I’ve got just a handful instead. Then I stuck the TV at the top, I didn’t make it pretty since it’s better if an ugly TV rules the nation. As I write this and look at the figure at the bottom, I realise that some extra thoughts were going through my mind when I actually did the picture. The figure there as the human in need of help, but only we’re all looking the other way, looking at the TV and they get no help. Sort of an obvious concept, but don’t you wonder, while we’re so busy watching TV, what aren’t we seeing right behind us that we ought to be doing instead? So she’s there at the bottom representing that, the more needy things that are going unnoticed. (If you do in fact suspect you have a dying person behind your couch… please don’t hesitate in doing something about it!!)
As usual it’s on eBay for a dollar! Here… and now it’s not. Didn’t sell either! A bit of a trend here. So if you want it, $20 and it’s yours… just send me a message or whatever.