For the record, I am not bowing to commenter pressure, I am merely posting of my own accord.
In a move of sheer inhumanity, my parental units have decided to cancel their subscription to digital cable. From now on I'm going to have to live with the smelly likes of network television. Damn poopy basic cable.
I'm losing several hundered channels, and gone is my ability to time-shift, which is the act of watching shows I missed on networks in other time-zones. From now on I'll only know the news from Winnipeg and Regina that is important enough for Peter Mansbridge to tell me on The National, ie. nothing (unless of course one of 'em burned to the ground. Nah, still nothing.) It's a huge loss to me. Like the loss of an arm, or heroin... uh...
Farewell to thee TBS, and your brothers and sisters The Comedy Channel, Teletoon, CNN, The History Network, Discovery Channel, Much Music and MuchMore Music. I'll try to visit you later. Maybe at the home of some shmuck, I mean friend. Luckily I still have my beloved CBC Newsworld. Twenty-four hour news coverage and documentaries without a distracting ticker... for now.
On a positive note: I've convinced my father to switch his cable an internet services to my name so we can take advantage of my discount on Rogers Highspeed Express. Soon the days of "twice the speed of dial-up" will be replaced with 24-7 online music and movie theft, all for the low-low price of $22.45 a month (that's about 1 cheap sacagawea dollar in the US, in Britain, tuppence, for me Aussies, probably about half the price of a decent DVD).
Every cloud has a silver lining. Especially when that cloud is being addicted to television and then having your access to television severely reduced. But I digress.
I would like to take this chance to say happy birthday to my good friend Tim who turns a ripe old 21 tomorrow. If you'll be in the area, why not show up at the annual Tim 2-4, get pissed drunk from drinking the vodka (and two kinds of rum) out of a watermelon, fall asleep outside, wake up with blue marker on your face, then throw up three times at breakfast the next day?
I hope you know I'm expecting 70 comments this time too.
Keep on Trangling,
Anthony
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oh tony, i vividly remember your crazed tv addiction in university. i'd go into the common room to heat up some water and there you'd be...unshaven and possibly dehydrated, yet your face was awash in the euphoria of tv watching...it was beautiful.
my prayers are with you and your family in this trying time.
Allow me to type comment number two, of what is sure to be no less than 20 from me.
Forgive me for dropping an America colloquialism on you but, I feel you, dog.
I am equally addicted to TV. When I wake up in the morning at 6:00am CST I turn on to the beloved FX Network (home of such great shows as The Shield, 30 Days, Rescue Me, Nip Tuck) to watch the first of back to back epsodes of Buffy (they are in the middle os season 3 currently. Muy Bueno) I watch Adult Swim all the time. I like, but won't openly admit to liking, all of the CSI's. If only for The Who themesongs.
My newest and most dirty secret is Beauty & The Geek. I love watching nerds get their hopes up only to have them dashed. It's fucking hilarious.
Sometimes, when I'm engrossed in a program I will forget to breath and pass out. Then I wake up and I'm all like "shit, I missed the ending."
Sydication is a beautiful thing. Wings and Northern Exposure are fine programs!
I digress.
I shall be answering any questions in the early morning.
This is terrible news. I can empathise, because I don't have any cable up here at all, so I'm stuck with crap free-to-air, and I shit you not one night there was a news story about who owned the Sunshine Coast's Best Teapot.
Nip/Tuck rules.
Checks! Haha!
I lost T.V. about three weeks ago. The only time I've seen her has been those fleeting moments as I walk past and she entertains those sitting inside a shop. We glare at each other knowing what wonderful times we had in the past. Sentimental moments of late night erectile dysfunction commercials and those giddy moments of impulse shopping. Mostly the learning is missed. Oh how T.V. taught me so much from her Public Broadcasting Stations and reruns of Sesame Street. One day I know we will be united but it is not our time. We must grow apart to become one again.
Adria- The best part was I was in a Sociology/Media course at the time and I wrote about my tv addiction in an assignment. I got an A (minus).
Nick- CSI? I dunno if I like you anymore... oh and did you discover my nickname?
Loz- No cable at all? If that happened to me I'd like the old guy in Shawshank Redemption. I'd have to face the world and it would terrify me so much I'd hang myself in the only movie scene to ever bring tears to my eyes (except for the end of The Joy Luck Club, which officially made me a woman.)
Cheyenne- Your comment is like looking at me nex week through a crystal ball.
the joy luck club? i'm an actual woman and I didn't watch that movie. maybe I would have cried if I'd seen it.
Whoo hoo!!! PaRtY!!!!!!!
I woke up today with the song lyrics "IT'S TIME TO PARTY!!" by Andrew W K.
And everyone is welcome to come over to my house to watch TV. My Dad is far more addidcted to TV then any one of you. He has the Bell Express view Satilette, full cable, a 47" wide screen tv, suround sound and a lazy boy. To drop some more american slang, it's pimped out!!
You didn't see the Joy Luck Club? I think we shall have to revoke your Women's Membership card.
Fire - it's not like you ever had a TV anyway. As soon as you'd get one you'd sell it for booze money. Coincedentally, that the same reason George Washington sold his wooden teeth.
CSI's? Me? No, no. I said, erm, uh, something... shit. Alright, I mostly like Miami. Because David Caruso is an enigma. Sometimes I think he might be the single coolest motherfucker ever, and then - not five seconds later - I will be convinced that he's a hack and should be dragged of stage with one of those oversized canes. I have to keep watching just in case they do.
Also the lady that played Ainsley Hayes on The West Wing is on it and she's hot!
Re: Nickname - Yes I did, Anthony.
David Caruso is so unappealing, I don't even know where to start. Okay, he has no eyebrows. Yuck.
The Uber household never watched CSI until we checked out a rerun. We had fun rooting for David Caruso to be sucked into a boat propeller, or shot on the street, or run over by a car, or chopped into pieces by a helicopter blade... you get the idea. It was fun!
Oh, my god, you poor, poor, poor thing. What are you going to do? If I had no cable...and I had not TiVo...I think I would die.
i like david caruso.
he is cool as shit. plus he's punny and i love that too.
I'm sorry. I respect your opinion, Miss D. But I can't get over the no-eyebrows thing.
p.s, was that course 'media technology and the internet' with the feminazi prof who bashed all the men in the class for being insolent fools every day?
she was rad
Adria- why yes is was. Although I liked her and her ways, plus those boys were genuinely disturbing the class. I mean honestly, the lesbians in the front and I were trying to learn.
David Caruso= a balls-lickingly bad actor.
CSI and its progeny can burn in hell for eternity. It could be interesting with less flash, some actual science and compelling acting, but then it would be Crossing Jordan. Did that show get cancelled? I hear Grey's Anatomy is good although I haven't seen it yet because I've avoided the network television until now.
And I love the magic bullet infomercial. It's one of my favourites. I like how they pretend that anything can be made in 5 seconds. Last time I checked it only took 5 seconds to use a regular blender too. It's fun to ignore the prep, cooking and cleaning time.
tony: touche
Checks - I love Crossing Jordan. The characters are possibly the finest of any show, developmentally-wise. Plus Jill Hennessy is hot!
Also, "balls-lickingly" is the finest adverb ever concieved by mortals.
at the risk of being very unpopular...
csi: the only half decent one was Vegas and really, I don't even watch it anymore.
caruso: appalling. painfully terrible acting. i never watched NYPD Blue because of him.
Crossing Jordan: ick. Jill Hennessy is... well, not attractive.
The directorss of Crossing Jordan did seem to often portray the character played by jill henessy as rude, unshowered and gernerallly a poopface. SOrry about the terible comment I'm making but I'm drunk/
Shes' hot!
24st!
in CSI's defense i have to say the intro music alway created a pavlovian response for a canned old milwaukee's best. The science was the closest any show has come to getting it right with the exception of forensic files which in my mind is far more compelling. Oh and if you dig that kind of shit "The First 48" is a must see.
An alternative to your television dilema anthony might be finding a good peer2peer and downloading a shit ton of DVD's via .avi files.
Nick: And Canadian. Oh, and I doubt I conceived "balls-lickingly" but I will take credit for it unless someone can prove otherwise.
Cheyenne: That's the plan. Although I'm not much of a fan of watching television shows on a computer. It seems odd to me.
i thing it rather strange that someone who works at a video store would miss cable TV -- but i suppose some stuff isn't on DVD yet.
anyhow, i dropped by to say it was a pleasure to have gotten to know you via blogging -- and my blog time has come to an end. i shall try to visit your blog, and others, throughout the summer. however the road ahead of me is cloudy, and, thus, my blogging is suspended immediately.
i think i emailed you already, but in these strange days i cannot say what i have done and what i have merely thought of doing.
again, your blog has grown much since i first discovered it. enjoyed it.
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