TV Talk

I'm all award showed out tonight. I watched the British ones on BBC America. It was interesting.
I thought Ricky Gervais was funny as usual. But it was your typical award show. 

Then I watched the Grammy's which always has potential IMO. I remember when Huey Lewis and
the News opened the show and basically brought down the house. I think that was the same year 
that Amy Grant performed her Angels Watching Over Me song. Neither of these people are my 
favorites but there is something about seeing someone when they are 'ON'. Was it last year when
Melissa Etheridge came out with her bald head after chemo and absolutely stopped the show. 
That performance goes in the record books. (don't know which record book but if there is one, she
should be in it).  There are more, I know. Tonight? Not so much. Maybe it was just me and my tastes but I wasn't moved by much. I was glad to see Dixie Chicks get the awards but was it because they really were the best album or was this politics? Politics that I believe in, btw. I think what happened to them and the threats they had to endure was beyond believable. So I don't know.  

The thing about award shows for me is that they always remind me that I'm not doing what I always dreamed about. I dreamed about all sorts of things and I'm not doing any of them. I used to act in high school and college. I'm not doing that. I write but I'm not creating what I want to create. So watching those shows are either good for me or just depressing.  Of course, I'm writing this. I probably wouldn't have if I hadn't watched it tonight.