The Mithigan Daily - michigandaily.com Monday, November 16, 2009 - 7A The Mithigan Daily - michigandaily.com Monday, November16, 2009 - YA BLOCK * From Page 5A bine everyone's desire to play along with same kick-ass tech. Could there honetly be anything more enjoyable than playing along with a full episode of "Tie Price is Right?" To bid on every show to play every pricing game, to spin that lovely illuminated wheel - oh,'twould be rapturous. And to play "Lingo" and "Chain Reaction" against those nincompoops they disguise as contestants, even just on my com- pute screen where only I would know, woud be the greatest vindication against GSN I could ever imagine. 'The LiveScience.com article alsocites data from Nielsen Media Research - for which I made my feel- ingsquite clear a fortnight past - that many people are also interacting with other viewers online while watching shows. This is called an "interactive experience," though taking a shot of your favorite mind-number every time "Family Guy" pulls a cut-away gag or referencesa previous episode seems more interactive to me. But there are plenty of TV shows using the Internet as well. ESPN's "SportsNation" uses online polling to the point of irritancy. Maybe someday live online polling could actually guide the course of a television show as it airs. Multiple end- ings are often filmed for movies and TV shows alike - why not make a veritable vote-your-own-adventure show? Sure, it would be extremely time-consuming to shoot, and a lotof footage would be wasted, but it would also be, without question, the bestthing to ever happen to my TV screen. Ever. The best thing, that is, before we combine these two kinds of interactiv- ity. The pinnacle of television and the ideal future of new media (a vague term to which this column should also supposedly pertain) would be partici- pating visibly via avatar in a television broadcast ina way that can actually change an outcome. Sure, racing in NASCAR would be fun and gratify- ing. And voting the outcome of a TV show could be incredibly intriguing, both seeing the show unfold and see- ing how America tends to vote when it comes to potential moral dilemmas. But the ultimate enterprise would be to combine the two, watching a character you control yourself going through one of many possible live- action stories written by some of the best TV writers in the business. Some people would argue this has already been done. Video games follow generally this formula. Obvi- ously, some distinctions between the two exist, and more would have to be made. In the new-media utopia of interactive TV, you aren't able to "lose." Also, there are no save points or going back and trying again in interactive TV - if you fuck up your character's life, you have to deal with it, because there's no rewind or load button on interactive live TV. It essentially becomes "Second Life," but with well-written plot twists, pretty celebrities and a half-hour time slot to stop you from pissing away your life. So that's probably way too ambi- tious for right now, but hey, why not put it out there? For now, let's start kicking "Law & Order" cast members in the crotch and throwing tomatoes at the little tykes of "Secret Life of the American Teenager." It may not be able to alter world just yet, but dear lord would it be satisfying. Block's next column is a write-your- own-adventure. To write it, e-mail him atjamblock@umich.edu. GET LOUD From Page 5A performance footage, shredding through a ren- dition of "Blue Veins" that makes his fingers bleed profusely over his guitar's body. Now, we could get into nitpicky, personal things with "Loud." We can admit that it's annoying when a picturesque shot of Times Square, accompanied by a voice-over from The Edge gushing over how his first visit to New York City was "like the movies," is fol- lowed almost immedi- ately by grungy footage of Detroit as White makes a lot of ambiguous, may- or-may-not-be-dismissive statements about his old life there. Detroit made White who he is today, and the city's influenced so many other rock musicians over the years that its subdued appearance in this film is an insult, especially when compared to the elegant treatments that London and Dublin are given. Yes, White's made it very clear in other inter- views that he still admires Detroit. But whether he just didn't want to talk about his hometown here or the film- makers had already decided they were going to paint Detroit as a music waste- land, there's almost none of that admiration on display in the movie. But ultimately, of course, where they came from only supplements the music that they play. And "It Might Get Loud" is unquestion- ably about the music, from the opening credits that fetishize every possible aspect of the guitar to the end credits that scroll over the guys' dirty, gut- tural cover of The Band's "The Weight." Come for 90 minutes of pure unfil- tered guitar bliss, and leave chanting, "Long live rock." PIRATE From Page 5A silent midnight DJ who, at the baf- flement of everyone else, attracts scores and scores of women without uttering a word. It's the interaction of these kalei- doscopic personalities that gives "Pirate Radio" its engrossing driving force. From the harmless jokes they play on each other to the betrayals that threaten to tear them apart, the crew's experiences aboard the Radio Rock are bittersweet, memorable and ultimately triumphant. 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