Stop me. Before I watch again.

Posted by Dan January 9th, 2008 at 01:40pm In American Idol

You guys, I’m thinking about watching the next season of American Idol. I know, I know… this is a giant step back.

This is what I got when I Google Imaged “shame.”
I’m just afraid of the chasm that will be left/has been left in our programming thanks to the strike. I don’t want to entertain you with stardust memories of the time when 30 Rock wasn’t in reruns.

It reminds me of that scene in High Fidelity when Dick is preciously spinning a Belle and Sebastian CD in the record store. And Rob thinks it’s trite and stupid, but he’s also fine with it because he “just wants something he can ignore.”

I kind of feel like that — at least I’ll have some voice in the pop culture dialogue. Rather than just reliving stardust memories of how awesome it was when Kelly told Ryan she was pregnant on The Office (and then they cut away to her shaking her head impishly). So, at least I’ll have some sort of escapist life.

I know AI is going to be awful. Even though I hear the contestants can use instruments this year, I have no hope for the future. There was that show trying to find the great American band last year, and it ended up being a collection of backyard jug players without a sense of kitsch.

Sigh.