So its been a while my faithful reader. Its not from a lack of care, or concern for your entertainment needs. In fact, i've got fantastic... nay a creativity that needs to escape my brain (since its working overtime) and invade yours so without further fanfair, here's the latest and/or greatest.
So the new Arrested Development uhm, development had me thinking about my favorite shows of yore. So begins a TV collection of posts.
So TV and I have had a good relationship over the years, which is not to say it was always accessible. In fact, the France and Japan days were pretty sparse on content from the Etats-Unis. My only TV memories in France are of Nintendo so... that wasn't even worth mentioning. Sorry for wasting your time.
Japan was one step better with riveting international shows like "Danger Bay". MTV Japan was always a good time (its always great to hear a foreign language with random English band names inserted). Luckily Japan had a great video rental store. They not only introduced us to amazing indie movies, ala High Strung (there's some language in there, its one of those old school PG movies. We rented it because it had Jim Carrey on the cover and it was 1995... he was in it for like 4 minutes tops. Its a huge sketch comedy act, uber negative and ironic and over the top, but hilarious). Anyways, point is, my brother Matt introduced us to the X-files at the rental place. We rented the tapes, it was fantastic, I had nightmares and much trouble sleeping. I remember staying up past my bedtime and watching it from around the corner, then totally regretting/loving it. The show is still creepy and alien abduction and subsequent drop off in a dark forest still is one of the scariest notions to this, your humble author (though the giant mutant worm probably isn't as scary as it was back then). I haven't seen the show in many a years but I would love to revisit it again (preferably with a ladyfriend...well i guess i could use that qualifier on everything...so i guess its not really a qualifier then... again with the time wasting, sorry)
We only had a few American channels there, mostly just ran old reruns ala Remington Steel, Family Ties and Macgyver... good times for sure...but i wanted me cartoons :)
Throughout all this, we did spend summers in New York, and had a little bit of TV. 3 channels to be exact. So while my mom ended up watching the Trinity Broadcasting Network preachers, I was more interested in cool shows such as "Unsolved Mysteries"(i always liked anything alien related... and the theme song was fantastic) or local Poughkeepsie news. We also spent a week or so up in Vermont with my Grandma and cousins. This was TV heaven for us. She had cable! So I bonded with my siblings watching MTV, Nickelodeon and the like. Oh Ren and Stimpy... charming creatures really :)
Next post will focus on the move back from Japan to Hopewell Junction circa 1996 when our home officially got cable and never looked back... (well besides this past year when i didn't have cable :)
Later my friends :D
James Elvin Harrington of Poughkeepsie township
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