Music and TV

[HellsMaster]

After living here for some time now i have noticed few things that rule the British people mind.

 

Music, TV, Sex, Alcohol, Partys.

 

About music and TV, i neither listen to music nor have a TV. I am considered lifeless due to this fact.

 

I am the only one who doesnt feel obliged to listen to music 24/7? To watch mindlessly TV the whole day?

 

Yours Sincerly

 

- HellsMaster

 

 

P.S: I do not listen to music AT ALL. Not one bit.

Edited March 17, 2011 by HellsMaster

[TehBuddha]

Well, I see music as part of culture, so not so much lifeless as culture-less :whistling:

TV, I can understand. Kind of... Heh.

 

Also, spelling note, its "parties", not "partys" :thumbsup:

[Illiad86]

TV urgh! I haven't owned a TV in almost 4 years now. It's pointless...just a bunch of stupid adverts and re-runs of the same old crap over and over again....for $70/month. Even with local digital, it's a bunch of crap, especially during the day. I don't know how anyone owns a TV anymore, you can watch so many things on the Internet. My uncle says the only reason he keeps it is for sports....but you can get a subscription online to watch it too! I doubt it's in HD though. There have been many a times I can't find a single thing to watch on mama in laws DishTV and wind up watching an old re-run of Mythbusters or something...

 

As for music, are you talking about the radio? The radio sucks too :P My boyfriend has to listen to it at work. He says you'll hear the same song every 2 hours or so...and it's normally AC/DC (don't know why this state is obsessed with them, but they play them A LOT). Same old crap, tons of adverts....Radio music sounds all the same these days...I can't tell the difference between 3/4 of the "bands" that are out these days...

 

The Internet rules all ;)

Edited March 17, 2011 by Illiad86

[krimzin]

TV is the way of the past. Two words (or one compound word I guess) Netflix. It's awesome.

Also, those aren't just things British folk like, that's pretty much everyone in general. But I don't really drink, party, and have promiscuous sex. I stick to music and movies. That's kind of a given though when you're going to join the military.

And I don't blame you for not listening to music especially if you're looking at what's new. I would gouge my own eyes out before I would listen to Justin Beiber of my own will, And contemplate it if it wasn't. But to say you don't like any music, any at all, is impossible. You just probably haven't heard what kind of music you like yet.

[Marthos]

I am a music lover, but not of the mainstream so called pop music etc, as for TV my housemates will vegitate their heads in front of the telly for hours watching god knows what twaddle, can't understand what they see in the rubbish they watch.

 

I live 5 mins from the coast and 20 mins from the North York Moors so if I'm not on my PC I'm up the moors or down the beach with the dogs.

[Vindekarr]

Im a TV watcher. but I dont like what most people like.

 

For me, TV is simply a way to catch up on my other interests, such as cars, science, and engineering. One of the few things Australia has which i dont think America does is free digital: here we dont actualy have a single analogue TV channel anymore, they were all mandatorily shut down and converted to running in digital. This HAS bred some good things though, the Sports Channel(One) for example I would consider a great success, as it's coverage and commentary, particularly for motorsport(cough, ANDRA, cough) is typicaly excellent, and blows the other channel's coverage out of the water-the commentators actualy know what they're talking about, most of them being former sportfolk themselves, hell, I actualy remember watching some of their F-1 commentator race, back in the day.

 

As a massive motorsport nut and with no access to proper local motorsport(sallon car racing, and more salloon car racing, bleh! yuck!) the TV is an evil i would consider a neccesity.

 

As for music, I dont like this modern stuff very much. A friend demanded I listen to "Just gonna watch my poker face burn" by Rihanna Perry last week and it was so generic I took the headphones off after thirty seconds. For the most part I like older "good 'ole days" metal, it may be older than I am, but unlike most modern music, it actualy makes you feel something.

 

For fiction stuff, I'd rather read.

[DeadMansFist849]

Don't like pop, hate reality TV and I don't drink like a fish.

 

However, I'm also not straight-edge and wanting to go back in time, and I think being straight-edge makes people very annoying (because they're making a point of what saints they are!)

[CommanderCrazy]

Vindekarr, the Analog channels are staying until late 2012 for me.

Thats not saying I dont have a HD compatible TV, but the only things I really watch are the C31 car shows and the occasional documentary type show on 7mate.

[Vindekarr]

7-mate needs to be renamed, from what I've watched of it, and seen on the Tvguide, 7-Science/7engineering would be more apropriate names.

 

Despite an attempt to yobify it's image, they cant hide the fact that so far it's been a predominantly science channel, which is a good thing IMO, and about time 7 showed something other than low grade American cop shows and sitcoms.

 

The good thing is there's plenty of good carsport mid year, and Speedtv's coverage is usualy excellent(eg LeMans last year ) problem is it's still preseason, so NASCAR is the only thing on offer aside from WRC and everyone knows those cheating creeps at Citeron will win so there's no point watching that! Formula One starts on the 27th in Melbourne(I live there :) ) then MotoGP aswell, it should be a good alround.

 

In F-1, lats year's season was the best and closest I've seen in a looong time, and this year, judging by the notoriously unreliable preseason results looks set to be even better. It's a damn shame Robert Kubica's out of action, he's a driver Im certain will win a WDC one day, but with the Heidfeld/Petrov Renault/Lotus duo and Mercedes teams doing very very strongly pre-season, aswell as the excellent pace of Ferrari and last year's WDC and WCT winners Team Red Bull/Renault.

 

In Motogp it looks a bit less even so far-we're probably going to get a good season's worth, but the Honda seems a bit OP right now, pity we cant simply nerf it, but still, someone's got to set new track records eventualy and Casey Stoner seems to be the man to do it, that Honda has been absolutely flying.

 

It also may mark the begining of universe GP, I dont have any details about events or if it was even approved, but it is something to watch. Last year there was a plan to unite the Endurance races of the world together in a single grand championship to rival Formula One, i dont know if it actualy worked out, but keep your eyes out, ebcause if it does it will be absolutely epic.

 

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[Fatalmasterpiece]

I'm not sure how old you are Hell, but I too did not listen to music at all until I was about 17. Growing up in America before the major internet boom (born in 1985), the only kind of music available to a kid like me with no car and no internet was what was on the radio or available in major stores, all of which I hated. It was when I did get the internet that I discovered underground European music and my take completely took a 180. I started writing music, bought instruments, listened to it all the time... pretty much took over my life.

 

Maybe you just haven't found something that speaks to you yet, or you already have and it's not music. If you think of a person as a crystal... different crystals will vibrate a certain way to certain tones. It could be that you just don't have a right "tone" and music doesn't move you or create powerful emotions like it does in some of us. I know a lot of what I listen to most people would think was utter garbage.

Edited March 18, 2011 by Fatalmasterpiece