June 27, 2005
recoiling from tv.
I've gotten sick of the low grade or trash offerings on free-to-air television and so I watch around 30 minutes a night at most. Suzanne watches around to 90 minutes and she enjoys TV. Watching TV makes Suzanne feel good as it helps her to unwind from work. Watching tv makes me feel bad, or dissatisfied, as I feeel that I could be doing other things that are more fruitful.
And I don't take to the limited range of DVD's in the video shops. So I've gone and joined Homescreen. One of the DVD's I selected was Pete Townshend's
Lifehouse
Most of the songs of the Lifehouse project, which s supposed to follow "Tommy", had surfaced on the Who's excellent Who's Next(1971). that album is considered by many to be the group's best work,
Lifehouse is about being wrapped up in a world of virtual reality and computer technology, but the band found the ideas unworkable.The project was originally intended as an album and a multi million dollar film. Townshend was undeterred and pushed on with the project, which included interactive concert performances at the Young Vic Theatre in London.
The live shows failed to give Townshend the response he had hoped for and the film deal fell through. The project as a whole was shelved.
So I'm curious to see what's on offer.