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Is it odd that even though he's mentioned it several times, I still laugh whenever John says that he doesn't watch television on this television podcast?
I once heard a librarian at Fitzroy Library doing the whole smug "I don't have a television" thing, and I wanted to say "You're a librarian! How can you deliberately cut yourself off from one of the major sources of information in the world???"
Our lack of TV appears to be flat-specific-cabling related - we can get a terrible analogue signal, and no digital signal, and we've been too lazy to find out exactly what's wrong... what with all the DVDs of The Wire still to be watched, and Mad Men to be downloaded...
News depresses me with its inbuilt bias towards making people scared, and so much other stuff that's presented as factual is just spin. Most of the stuff on free-to-air is rubbish, and we just can't be bothered with it. Or if it's good, it's on at stupid times, or bounced around, so it's easier to download it. Or loan or buy the DVDs.
At the moment our whole TV watching for the week is Top Gear - that's it for the wife. I might go on to watch some Flashforward.
That's not to say there aren't shows we'd enjoy, but you just forget they are there. The less TV you watch, the less you watch, because you don't get reminded about other programs. I can look at a guide, make a list of things I want to see, and I'll just forget they're on.
Funnily enough, Go! took off the only show of theirs that I occasionally tuned in to see, Dog the Bounty Hunter! Yes, I was their viewer for that one! It was a very guilty pleasure.
Meanwhile I'm watching the 2000 series of the Invisible Man, Now and Again, the first season of Fringe (if I catch up to where it's at on TV, I'll watch it on FTA), Dollhouse (which is crap, but I'm giving it a chance), QI, Sarah Jane Adventures, Supernatural, and I'm listening to missing Doctor Who stories (just finished The Massacre). And I'm planning on buying the US boxset of West Wing, because it has all the extras.
Then there's a tonne of shows I've ended up watching more recently because I listen to your show, though sadly I couldn't find active torrents for The Cult.
Also, why can we no longer use the Facebook Connect thingy? The only option I get is the original-flavour Disqus login.
Perhaps this week's show is like slightly questionable pr0n... you feel a bit strange while it's on but it's still getting the job done and then you feel a bit sick and dirty when you think back on it.
I understand what you mean about the questionable pr0n, and I'm glad that that's a universal experience.
Also, you tagged this post with 'New Zealand Shoes'. Not that I mind.
It has not worked.
Epic fail.
Handi-cams... did you have to use Hi-8 tapes with it? During _my_ media production training, we used Panasonic cameras with VHS tapes! Serious old school.
Can I send you my script?
If you have an edit list together, you could even send over the tapes and I could capture and edit it for you... a bit like Race Around the World.
I just setup a Disqus profile as soon as we implemented the system. I assume you can put a link to the FB profile in yr Disqus profile if that's important to you.
Don't get so hung up on it, I've listened to 100 (maybe 10s) of Boxcutters interviews and never complained, 1 out of however many still isn't a bad batting average.
My post tried (using Jenna speak) to say that although I'm sure your intentions were good, and that you did try to ask the probing questions about why you'd go on the show, you never got the answer, and to be honest, it didn't feel like you pushed, you just let them give the cliched answer, so by the end of it I was completely frustrated as it appeared simply as a paid for commercial (I hope you enjoyed your fruit!) I know it wasn't, I know that's not how you guys work, but the frustration (like, seriously) was overwhelming , or maybe you did cut through but it was too obsequious for me? ;)
Paul Jackson.
Having the two of them in together probably didn't help in our interrogation - if there was something one of them was unsure about being able to talk about, they could sidestep and let it go through to the other, only to have them talk about something else - or Jenna would hit or kick Corin.
I say 'interrogation' facetiously... I find the way we do it is almost the opposite - promoting relaxed conversation to open up rather than standover tactics.
Having said that, obviously my lack of talent in the vocabulary area makes it a minor miracle that I can even tie my shoelaces, let alone talk intelligibly to anyone. Luckily, I usually just have someone tie them in a really tight knot with the shoes loose enough to slip on and off :-)
Maybe, and yes, I understand the relaxed approach (although you don't take that approach personally with poor James ;) hah hah), and yes, that does work really well, and makes the discussion usually so much more organic, and maybe that too is the problem that this interview felt like a harsh clash against that style.
Don't be so hard on yourself, you are my barometer (ala David and Margaret -- I always follow Margaret (except on Aussie films where she is a soft touch!).... I find your questions, viewpoints and reviews normally mirror mine, and as for the wordplay, it's just amusing (plus I learnt a new word from episode 199 - yes, I had to look it up, but I did learn a new word!). Or just get slip ons or velcro shoes ;).
I have at least two base ideas for shows for the competition, the problem is time! Between looking after the baby and other stuff, it's in short supply.
At the moment, if you don't mind them being acted out by Doctor Who action figures, and everyone sounding exactly like me, I may be able to get one of them done.
Do you know if that's worked for them? I mean, has television advertising been as useful as their brochures?