Insomnia
More frequently than is okay, I get some sort of anxiety related insomnia. I'm in the middle of a lovely episode and am writing this on about five hours of sleep (the fucking binge drinking sure as hell doesn't help...see the most recent few posts).
Anyway, I was lying awake, flipping through channel after channel and at 6 in the morning, came to rest on a PBS show called "Sit to Fit" or something similar. Its purpose was to get the elderly to exercise gently and in a seated position. This show was definitely filmed in the early 1980s- the instructor had the classic teased hair and high-waisted short shorts and excessive makeup. The camera would be on her for a couple of minutes, showing her exercising and then every once in awhile it would cut to three elderly people dressed in their regular street clothes, exercising along.
This sounds pretty funny, and it would have been funny had I not come to the realization that the elderly people were probably dead by now. Watching dead senior citizens exercise at 6 in the morning. No fucking way. I'll stick to MtvU from now on, thank you very much.
Anyway, I was lying awake, flipping through channel after channel and at 6 in the morning, came to rest on a PBS show called "Sit to Fit" or something similar. Its purpose was to get the elderly to exercise gently and in a seated position. This show was definitely filmed in the early 1980s- the instructor had the classic teased hair and high-waisted short shorts and excessive makeup. The camera would be on her for a couple of minutes, showing her exercising and then every once in awhile it would cut to three elderly people dressed in their regular street clothes, exercising along.
This sounds pretty funny, and it would have been funny had I not come to the realization that the elderly people were probably dead by now. Watching dead senior citizens exercise at 6 in the morning. No fucking way. I'll stick to MtvU from now on, thank you very much.
posted by immigrantsun | 2:01 PM
2 Comments:
I saw a latenight show on PBS called TV411, it too was depressing- life advice for (developmentally challenged?) adults. I guess the intentions are good...but it just seemed like regular TV with a lobotomy.
yep. early, early morning tv is balls.
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