video killed the radio star

have you heard that every 1 hour spent watching the tele takes 22 minutes off of your life? yikes.  according to the british journal of sports medicine, that extra hour you spend watching criminal minds (because who can say no to shemar moore?) really is killing you. albeit slowly.

prior to having a cup o’ jo and listening to peter sagal blow my mind (you’ve done it again, wait wait!) i used my feminine wiles (aka threatening to become arguably the most annoying person on the planet until he conceded)  to convince a friend to trek up to harlem with me in search of the royal tenenbaums house.  he was totally game for the adventure and i didn't need to use my powers of coercion (i knew there was a reason we were friends).  we did minimal internet research (seriously, what can't you do with an iphone these days?) and found out that the E stops a mere two or three blocks from the intersection of 144^th and Convent – and it wasn’t much of a hunt at all.  still, it was a beautiful day and completely rewarding to find the house of my dreams.

house of my dreams

i wonder if it still has this wall paper?

wallpaper of my dreams

and now i cannot stop wondering how much of my life wes anderson is personally responsible for taking away i have lost watching wes' beautiful movies.  

man of my dreams 

so lets do some calculations.  If you lose 22 minutes of life for every 60 minutes of tv watched then you lose 0.36666666666667 minutes of life per 1 screen time minute. 

          Royal Tenenbaums - 110 minutes = 40.3667  minutes

          Moonrise Kingdom - 94 minutes = 34.4669 minutes
          The Fantastic Mr. Fox – 87 minutes = 31.9 minutes

          Rushmore – 93 minutes = 34.1 minutes

          The Life Aquatic – 118 minutes = 43.2667 minutes

          The Darjeeling Limited – 91 minutes = 33.3667 minutes

          Bottle Rocket -  91 minutes = 33.3667 minutes 

                                    Total = 250.8338 minutes or 4 hours and 11 minutes 

suddenly putting royal tenenbaums on prior to going to bed for years, seriously YEARS with #1 roomie, seems like a terrible idea.  say we watched it roughly 100x in 4.5 years (seeeerrrrious underestimate I might add…)? that's 4036.67 minutes or 2 days 19 hours and 16 minutes of life gone. poof.  thanks, wes anderson.  if you had made crappier movies I might live longer.

  

that same friend who trekked around manhattan with me said he remembered hearing that, conversely, for every mile spent running or walking you gained 1 minute back.  he's a lawyer, so he's got to be telling the truth, no? either way... i can find no proof of this in reputable sources.  (hey, JAMA - wanna give me moneys to look into this?! seriously, it would be a gooood investment. promise.)