The Media Diet is Back, folks, and let me tell you it's a long time coming. Basically I've been having a severe media diet blockage, a clogging of my media artery, some sort of internet-fueled cholesterol caking onto the sides of my eyes, turning my entire sensum sensorum into a plumber's worst nightmare.
But all that is about to change, because the media diet is back, and this time the target is clear: The Internets.* The internets are like crack, like an endless fountain of the human race in all its exciting glory. I feel like my brain is the Hoover Dam, and behind it on one side is the Lake Mead, only Lake Mead is the interent, a limitless expanse of information building up like the Pacific Ocean, all this water sparlking on the surface and underneath, an entire ecosystem teeming with life, and on the other side is a little trickle, a stream, something like the LA River during a drought, something out of a spaghetti western where Clint, raggedy crackling Eastwood is staring down into the little puddle of mud that serves as the muncipal water supply for Deadwood, West Dakota. The two sides of the Hoover Dam couldn't be more telling, and I need someone, some transformer robot or something to come along and crack open that concrete pile. That's what the media diet is going to do, and its going to work this time. Dam it.
*Not to say that there haven't been other dietary factors. A string of television and movies imbibed so long that if all the girls at the Yale Prom were laid end to end, Dorothy Parker wouldn't be a bit surprised. I could list them… No, I couldn't list them: Harry Potter, Transformers, The Bourne Identity, Big Train Season One, Rome Seasons One and Two, Battlestar Galactica Seasons One, Two, and Three, The Wire Seasons One, Two, Three, and Four, C-Span Senate Debates, Plenty of Baseball Games, The Big Lebowski, Modern Times, M, Seven, Jonah Who Will Be 25 Years old in the Year 2000, La Haine, The Woman in the Window, The Asphalt Jungle, Salaam Bombay, Gangs of New York, Hester Street, Sicko, Zodiac, Knocked Up, All That Heaven Allows, Central Station, Union Station, The Brother from Another Planet, City of Hope, City of God, Dasepo Naughty Girls, Far and Away, In America, Metropolis, Berlin: Symphony of a City, Man With a Movie Camera, Rebel Without a Cause, On the Waterfront, Miller's Crossing, The Bicycle Thieves, Play Time, The Fountainhead, My Big Fat Greek Wedding, Blade Runner, The Lives of Others, Pan's Labyrinth, … and this isa mere fraction of the sum total. But believe me, folks, this isn't really the problem.
