Too Much Life
I was listening to This American Life--an excellent hourlong piece on the housing crisis--in my car. When I got home, I turned on the TV and there was Ira Glass again, on Showtime.
There's no rule that say you can't have a radio show and a TV show, but now that I've been catching both, I'd have to say if it's too much work, Ira, quit TV.
posted by LAGuy @ 12:11 AM
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Have never seen the Showtime TAL (Cable bill is high enough without getting Showtime too) but I have seen Ira a lot on talk shows recently and am a relatively recent fan of the radio show and have been listening to old shows from the archive in the last year. (They are 67 cents a piece at Audible.com and believe there are some free ones on the show's website)
Its always shocking, to me at least, to see the visual appearance of a voice I have grown used to (Also feel this way about meeting someone I have only spoken with on the phone) and this only applies to living speaking pictures (like TV) rather than still photos for some reason. I guess my point is that I liked the show when it was a disembodied voice but now that I have seen the "media personality" behind it, its less enjoyable- not because Ira Glass performed badly on the talk shows but somehow he now seems more limited and defined.
(There's some analogy here too on how this phenomena applies to how acolytes view Obama as his positions and personality flush out but I have to get back to work)
Ira Glass is one of those people who looks exactly like he sounds.
I might add This American Life, while being a fine show, seems intentionally to put on as many non-radio-friendly voices to narrate their segments as possible.
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