Remember how I said a lot of television, music, etc. aren't important; we tend to overemphasize? I might just retract that to a certain extent. When I was in bed trying to fall asleep last night, I got to thinking about being over at my uncle James' house. I remembered one Christmas several years ago when my cousin Jeremy got a Sega Saturn. After the usual gathering at Papa's house for Christmas breakfast I went home with them. We had such an incredible time. We played Virtua Fighter 2 for hours and hours. I remember how we said Wolf reminded us of our uncle David. I remember how much fun it was to fight each other in the game and have tournaments and such. I went back over there countless times so we could all be together and play video games and do so many other things. Then it hit me. Trivial things aren't as trivial in circumstances such as that. Oh sure, some shows are still just as insanely stupid and should be disposed of as soon as possible. But, when things like a good game or movie help to kickstart the creation of memories/relationships between family members or friends, they don't seem as petty.

Note: American Idol, The Bachelor/Bachelorette, MTV, Temptation Island, Blind Date, The 5th Wheel, Boy Meets Boy, Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, Cupid, Paradise Hotel, Meet My Folks, Married By America, For Love or Money, the entire E! network, elimiDATE, Dismissed, Taildaters, The Real World, Newlyweds, Rich Girls, and all "romantic comedies" are still mindless, idiotic tripe in my opinion.