Had a pretty lousy day off. Was supposed to go out with a friend and didn't hear from her at all. Nor in response to two messages, a text and an email. My iPhone took a header too. Twice. Wouldn't accept the back-ups I had either so I pretty much had to rebuild the environment from scratch. It was damn hot today too so I ended up holed up in my apartment. I did manage to get the laundry done though. I also read an article on People Who Live Without television. For the most part the article was nothing I wouldn't expect, mainly that people on the far left and the far right pretty much give up TV for the same reasons. No, what through me for a loop was the percentage of people in this country that don't watch TV. It's one to two percent. It's true that I don't really consider myself mainstream but I had no idea I was that out there. I haven't had cable since I moved to the city three years ago. I have a TV but it's hooked up to a computer that I watch movies and a few TV shows through Netflix. One percent! I thought for sure it was going to be at least five. I feel so out there.
Thursday, September 4, 2008
Monday, June 4, 2007
Almost Makes Me Miss Having Cable TV
This is a ten minute preview of the upcoming Star Wars episode of Family Guy.
Friday, May 25, 2007
"Watch Like a Pirate" Day
I had just been kidding around when I signed off with the "watch like a pirate" comment, but right before the movie started at the AMC Van Ness the entire row in front of me filled up with young people in full pirate regalia.
It was a fun movie. Better than Spiderman and much better than the second one. More sailing this time and not so much messing around with fruits.
They run ads all during the breaks which I actually don't mind. I hate waiting in a movie theater staring at a blank screen or those horrible slides for dental school. The thing I noticed was that you could do a little marketing research just by listening to how loud the crowd was during each ad. If they were making a lot of noise they weren't paying any attention. If my premise is correct then I wouldn't want to be in network television. The audience tuned out all of the tv ads. They paid more attention to General Electric telling the world how environmentally conscious they are. Of course a subject like that required (and got) superior production values.
Bottom line on Pirates of the Caribbean is a solid thumbs up. It was worth the $8.50 matinée price and I probably would have gone $10.50 and not felt too bad about it.
