Have you been seeing the commercials with the old lady sitting there, telling you how by law, all TV broadcasts will be exclusively in digital by February 17, 2009? If your TV is hooked up to cable, then "it will work just fine. But if you get TV through an antenna on an analog set, it won't work after February 2009." There's something seriously fucked up to me about all of that.
So my entire life, TV has been broadcast through the airwaves. Even though I've probably had cable since I was 5, maybe it was still comforting to me that there was radiowaves flying around my head shooting along a TV signal. When I was a kid, the only rooms in my house with cable were my mom and dad's and the den. I had a little black and white tv with these rad antennas on top that I would have to vigorously shake into position to catch the Arsenio Hall show or Married... With Children.
Perhaps those radio waves are the only thing keeping us from leaping into a homacidal state. Perhaps they're the only thing keeping us out of the sanitarium. Either way, technology advances and leaves everything else behind. I don't think I have any analog options in my current house, come to think of it. But I'm going to do my best to find one. And On 2/17/09 (which is a tuesday, by the way) I'm going to be sitting in front of a tv waiting for it to fall silent and see the picture snap into white noise for the last time.
