My old big TV from 94 is still running strong. I ordered a digital converter coupon from the government, but I must say it’s tempting to just go out and buy a new flat screen tv. Speaking of old tvs, I’m sad to say that tv repair shop Adams TV in the Fremont neighborhood is closing its doors. I’ve never been a customer, but I enjoy reading the cartoons on the windows of this shop. I’m sad to see it go.
There’s nothing left to say, he continued, pushing past drifts of gutted cases, dusty repair manuals, cardboard boxes, circuit boards and coiled, tangled nests of electrical wire that once were the central nervous systems for televisions.
“We live in a throwaway society,” said the 60-year-old repairman and soon-to-be former owner of Adams TV in Fremont. “It got to where I just couldn’t fight that anymore.”
Here’s a scene from one of my all time favorite movies Trust by Hal Hartley. You should click; it’s funny in a deadpan sort of way. Plus, it’s not until the very end of the clip that you get the tv line.
Thanks. I had almost forgotten how much I love me some hal hartley
See, I was on the fence after the first Hal Hartley movie I watched (Henry Fool), but it did occasionally have brilliant lines: “I learn so much from these magazines, Mr. Deng, and I refuse to discriminate between modes of knowing.”