Movie Magic

After bonding with an obsolete, dust-laden processor, I was not really introduced to much in the ways of hi-tech gadgets from kindergarten to about 4^th grade.  An only child in a single parent home, I became incredibly attached to our cable television set and VCR.  Movies on HBO, renting movies at Blockbuster, going to the movie theater was the coolest thing in the world, and that was more than enough for me.

There is a negative stigma that seems to have always followed TV; critics (who have always been synonymous to elitists in my brain) claim that cable television inhibits creativity, poisons the mind, some will even argue that television is directly responsible for elevated crime rates.  To those elitists, I have to go ahead and share the sentiments of Cher from the movie Clueless:

 

“Until mankind is peaceful enough not have violence on the news…there’s no point in taking it out of shows that need it for entertainment value.”

I encountered a great deal of creative inspiration from things I observed on television.  The following video captures the anticipation I still feel when I sit down to watch a movie: 

 

HBO Home Box Office

HBO Intro