6 posts tagged “television”

I love this show, and even more so now because of this advert.

Made of Bricks

Kate Nash

It surprises even me to realize that I have been pretty busy lately, new home, new job, new car, foster dog, new volunteer work...  I have even fit in some crafty goodness.  I painted some chairs and other furniture and made some buttons.  I will post more on that later. 

Friday Night Lights: The Second Season

Anyway.  I was in B&N earlier this week to pick up Season II of Friday Night Lights... thanks Jennifer... and decided I would also pick up a few cd's - I know antiquated form of music - and TV even, but whatever, I needed the new Ashlee Simpson CD. 

Don't hold it against me if you haven't heard it; if you have and you still scoff, well go bug off I didn't ask for your opinion anyway.

10 Skeleton Song

I have this habit of buying CDs of artists I have never heard of (though thanks to my new zune it will cost me less), but on a hunch (read as: I liked the album art nd song titles) I bought a Kate Nash CD.

Frankly I love it.

With the poppy happy tunes and the harsh lyrics, you can be mad at someone and still smile.  So if you are not familiar with her and you like a little sass in your music collection, then go find a way to get it....

I recommend getting yourself a Zune pass... and if you are on Zune... I am quornflour, you can add me to your social and see all of the other crazy stuff I listen to. 

I <3 Television

I will admit it.  I do.  I <3 Television.  I always have.  Growing up we had an 11” black and white TV until I was about 10.  Then we got a 13” color TV and cable. 

I absorbed all I could get.  My father was the artistic director at a television studio.  I loved the production room.  Televisions of every size.  Everything was on.  I was in commercials, but the production was what I loved.  Television consumed me. 

In my first apartment, where I lived alone for the first time, I did not have cable.  I felt inspired to go to the gym to watch the latest shows.  I had bunny ears in precarious positions for the best viewing, even if it was only “Blind Date” that I could get. 

In my life I have been part of social groups based solely on a common following of a television show, from “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” to “My So Called Life” to “Days of Our Lives”. 

I would hide away with my secret obsession for trash reality television.  Shows you avoid telling even your closest friends that you watch like “Big Brother” and “Elimidate”.

Anything that was there was for my consumption.  I would turn off.  Not watch TV for days, weeks even.  But, it would wait for me and welcome me back to its electric arms.

Now I can sit in my office at work and catch up on many of my favorite shows.  I do not have to plan around my show, or figure out how to program my VCR.

It is all at my fingertips – no Ned’s Atomic Dustbin, I won’t kill my Television.

Where do you watch TV?

What are your favorite shows?

Where are your favorite shows?

Another television show I wish they would bring back...

Kids shows just ain't what they used to be.

If you are going to have a television show set in a particular city; at least get your facts right.

Now do not get me wrong, I get a chuckle out of watching 4400 and the whole Lake Rainier and city views of Seattle that I think are views of Vancouver.

That said little details cannot possibly be that hard to duplicate. 

To the creators of Criminal Minds: Seattle Municipal Transit does not exist, it is Seattle Metro (and do not get me started on that); the cop cars are the wrong color a little too blue and Seattle does not have traditional parking meters, you would think that would not have been an overlooked detail given the premise of the episode.

How about when the levels in a beverage change, or a stain changes shape, or something on the table changes location?  Do They think I will not notice?

Am I too critical?

Hollywood should hire me.

Sometimes I just have to say “screw suspension of disbelief.”

As much as I would like to be one of those people who can honestly say “I do not watch that much TV,” I am not.  I often have the television on when I am home.  I like the noise.  I like the random voices.

Until I can figure out a way to read and sew, or have a real person around to have a conversation (SWF ISO…), it will just remain this way.

So I have cable and about 300 DVDs.

Cable makes me watch more television; I figure if I am paying for it, I might as well make it worth my dime.

SoGhetto

I used to have an 11” television.  It was quite suitable for my tiny apartment.  Then I moved.  I taught a woman at work how to recover some dining chairs and she gave me a 34” million pound tube TV.

It is funny how once you have a large television a tiny television seems so very small.

Tonight I had the television on when I noticed the black was not so black; then the whole picture started flashing while the sound remained fine.  At first I was convinced it was the cable; after the windstorms I was out random stations for a few weeks.  I disconnected everything.  The television seemed fine when it was the xbox or the DVD player. 

I called the cable company who was available on my schedule on Saturday.  No prorated bill for not having cable for a week.

After I got off the phone with them (the guy was very nice, even if he did try to have me re troubleshoot everything I already did) the television went black one last time.  I tried one last troubleshooting attempt and brought out the old 11” – and there was the cable.

Now I have to go get a new television.  Tubes are too expensive, thus the price tag.  It is all good though, my 360 will like it better.