What I watched as a teenager was MTV Base, every music award show, and all the other music channels I could flick between.
More recently, he has flicked between off-beat comedies (like I Heart Huckabees and Barney's Version) to more mainstream affairs (Meet The Fockers, Kung Fu Panda).
And as three sets of eyes flicked between their mother, and me I could almost see the cartoon bubbles above their beautiful heads... ..Thank Heavens Dad picked Mom".
As he drove, Mr. Cooper's eyes flicked between road and rearview mirror.
The episode flicked between the jurors arguing and the other characters – including Helen in her cell with her baby – and her parents waiting anxiously for the decision.
In another building, Dr. Karen O'Mara flicked between eight computer screens, peering at intensive care patients miles away, ready to alert a doctor if they looked in distress.
He watched Sky TV and flicked between channels, but they all showed the same haunting photograph of his father: bald, dying, proud – a ghost staring defiantly into the camera.
I suppose by flicking between our modern clothes and traditional dress, we were making a point about how its OK to have multiple or hybrid cultural identities in an Australian world that so often wants to make identity narrow or rigid. .
The morning after, I turned on the TV in Los Angeles and, while reading analysis of the dresses in the New York Times, the LA Times and the British press, I was able to flick between – no exaggeration – five TV programmes debating the merits of the dresses.
We've all had those eureka moments while flicking between channels: "I've GOT it!
