Comments on: Twisty In TV Land, Chapter Two http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/03/16/twisty-in-tv-land-chapter-two/ Mon, 01 Dec 2008 18:03:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: sybil http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/03/16/twisty-in-tv-land-chapter-two/#comment-15603 sybil Mon, 27 Mar 2006 09:16:45 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/03/16/twisty-in-tv-land-chapter-two/#comment-15603 i was raised on tv. It dominated the home, conversation happened during the commercials, the noise was non-stop (competing with the omnipresent sports on radio). Watched it on and off later. I'm so relieved to have disconnected a few years back. I still know way more than I wish about what's going on, but minus the in-your-face sound and sight of that particular bastion of patriarchal power. I never did tolerate commercial telly, but the news readers of even npr matter-of-factly delivering the litany of latest outrages is impossible to stomach. I read novels and blogs and listen to public radio. Blogs work for me because there is enough irony, scorn and parody to cushion the blows a bit, to make me feel at least I'm among friends in these dark days. i was raised on tv. It dominated the home, conversation happened during the commercials, the noise was non-stop (competing with the omnipresent sports on radio). Watched it on and off later. I’m so relieved to have disconnected a few years back. I still know way more than I wish about what’s going on, but minus the in-your-face sound and sight of that particular bastion of patriarchal power. I never did tolerate commercial telly, but the news readers of even npr matter-of-factly delivering the litany of latest outrages is impossible to stomach. I read novels and blogs and listen to public radio. Blogs work for me because there is enough irony, scorn and parody to cushion the blows a bit, to make me feel at least I’m among friends in these dark days.

]]> By: TP http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/03/16/twisty-in-tv-land-chapter-two/#comment-14990 TP Mon, 20 Mar 2006 02:22:33 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/03/16/twisty-in-tv-land-chapter-two/#comment-14990 Sunya cracks me up with her over-the-top hyperbole about everything. My sense of humor is a lot like that! Somebody must tell dear Mandos he can download his Battlestar Galactica from iTunes for 2 bucks a show. Even if it makes Sunya run screaming from the room in limitless horror! You can even subscribe to an entire month of the Daily Show and the even more subversive Colbert Report for $10 a month each. I did it so I wouldn't have to miss the damn show any more. But the music everywhere in the world, constantly, yeah, Sunya, they should all turn that shit off and listen to the air moving, or even better, the birds singing. Sunya cracks me up with her over-the-top hyperbole about everything. My sense of humor is a lot like that!

Somebody must tell dear Mandos he can download his Battlestar Galactica from iTunes for 2 bucks a show. Even if it makes Sunya run screaming from the room in limitless horror!

You can even subscribe to an entire month of the Daily Show and the even more subversive Colbert Report for $10 a month each. I did it so I wouldn’t have to miss the damn show any more.

But the music everywhere in the world, constantly, yeah, Sunya, they should all turn that shit off and listen to the air moving, or even better, the birds singing.

]]> By: Monitoring the transmissions http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/03/16/twisty-in-tv-land-chapter-two/#comment-14967 Monitoring the transmissions Sun, 19 Mar 2006 20:50:48 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/03/16/twisty-in-tv-land-chapter-two/#comment-14967 [...] It is for these reasons (and BBC America) that I have decided to get satellite TV and start watching some of the shit that’s out there, so I can ruin your favorite shows for you with authority.  I’m researching options right now, crunching my limited budget, and trying to find a formula that factors the cost of this venture against the likelihood that I’ll have any time to watch stuff at all.  I’m close to making a choice and ordering something. In the meantime, Twisty’s continuing her reviews, and giving a fabulous explanation for why this must be done: I’m sayin’, TV is the dominant culture’s self-image, instruction manual, and church all rolled into one. I must monitor their transmissions! If I don’t, a curious sensation of peace and contentment washes over me, and I start blaming the wrong things, like the weather, or my mother. [...] […] It is for these reasons (and BBC America) that I have decided to get satellite TV and start watching some of the shit that’s out there, so I can ruin your favorite shows for you with authority.  I’m researching options right now, crunching my limited budget, and trying to find a formula that factors the cost of this venture against the likelihood that I’ll have any time to watch stuff at all.  I’m close to making a choice and ordering something. In the meantime, Twisty’s continuing her reviews, and giving a fabulous explanation for why this must be done: I’m sayin’, TV is the dominant culture’s self-image, instruction manual, and church all rolled into one. I must monitor their transmissions! If I don’t, a curious sensation of peace and contentment washes over me, and I start blaming the wrong things, like the weather, or my mother. […]

]]> By: hedonistic http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/03/16/twisty-in-tv-land-chapter-two/#comment-14959 hedonistic Sun, 19 Mar 2006 18:54:52 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/03/16/twisty-in-tv-land-chapter-two/#comment-14959 http://www.legendsofjazz.net/television/LatinJazz OK, not Brazilian pop, but how about Brazilian jazz? I was wallowing in it last night (Dave Valentin live at a little jazz club in Philly) . . . http://www.legendsofjazz.net/television/LatinJazz OK, not Brazilian pop, but how about Brazilian jazz? I was wallowing in it last night (Dave Valentin live at a little jazz club in Philly) . . .

]]> By: Jezebella http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/03/16/twisty-in-tv-land-chapter-two/#comment-14957 Jezebella Sun, 19 Mar 2006 18:28:09 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/03/16/twisty-in-tv-land-chapter-two/#comment-14957 Sunya, it is time to stage a revolution in your workplace. If you can't stuff your ears with better music (via iPod, Cowan, Walkman, or any other device)... then no one should be allowed to force their music into your ears. Seriously, it sounds like your head is going to explode otherwise. I turn into fucking autism-girl when horrible noises are all around me. I can't deal with malls at xmas, walmart, or any other place where a thousand noises cross over and amplify each other; mix in some flourescent lighting and it is my idea of hell. don't even get me started on children in the workplace.... Sunya, it is time to stage a revolution in your workplace. If you can’t stuff your ears with better music (via iPod, Cowan, Walkman, or any other device)… then no one should be allowed to force their music into your ears. Seriously, it sounds like your head is going to explode otherwise.

I turn into fucking autism-girl when horrible noises are all around me. I can’t deal with malls at xmas, walmart, or any other place where a thousand noises cross over and amplify each other; mix in some flourescent lighting and it is my idea of hell. don’t even get me started on children in the workplace….

]]> By: Chris Clarke http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/03/16/twisty-in-tv-land-chapter-two/#comment-14953 Chris Clarke Sun, 19 Mar 2006 17:19:00 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/03/16/twisty-in-tv-land-chapter-two/#comment-14953 <em>BRAZILIAN POP!???!?! OH MY GOD TWISTY</em> Zé sera, sera. BRAZILIAN POP!???!?! OH MY GOD TWISTY

Zé sera, sera.

]]> By: Sunya Harjis http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/03/16/twisty-in-tv-land-chapter-two/#comment-14951 Sunya Harjis Sun, 19 Mar 2006 17:05:19 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/03/16/twisty-in-tv-land-chapter-two/#comment-14951 BRAZILIAN POP!???!?! OH MY GOD TWISTY CAN WE TALK ABOUT CHICO BUARQUE DE HOLLANDA NOW AND HIS FABULOUS AND WORRYING WORK WITH ENNIO MORRICONE?!?!?? AT LAST, CAN I WAX RHAPSODIC ABOUT OS AFRO SAMBAS DE BADEN E VINCIUS?!?!?!??!?!?! So anyway, iPods. iPods are for suckers though. I can't vouch for anything that so stridently pushes any kind of Coolness line, especially with the whole iTunes-invisible-hand-of-the-market-now-OWNS-YOUR-FUCKING-HARD-DRIVE. I have a little Cowan iAudio player, but <i>I can't listen to it at work.</i> Because I need to be able, the reasoning goes, to hear everyone shouting at me to save the world and fix all their mistakes. I know I know iPods play video but the Cowan player offers: replaceable, readily available battery (45 hours playback on one AA); .ogg support, your open-source mp3 ass-kicker, which used to be the thing which made iRiver cool before it sold out to The Man; drag-and-drop works-with-Windows-AND-LINUX USB drive file structure - no special software, no DRM, no bullshit. You exchange video playback for a healthy dose of <i>freedom</i>. iTunes is also for suckers for all the same reasons. iTunes is Buying The Line. I can't comprehend people who actually use iTunes: let me get this straight, you're going to pay the same amount of money for an album... but you're not getting the case, liner notes, or <i>CD QUALITY?</i> Not to mention <i>ABSOLUTE CONTROL OVER YOUR SHIT?</i> Sunya throws down with the iTunes of the immoral and merciless: Soulseek. BRAZILIAN POP!???!?! OH MY GOD TWISTY CAN WE TALK ABOUT CHICO BUARQUE DE HOLLANDA NOW AND HIS FABULOUS AND WORRYING WORK WITH ENNIO MORRICONE?!?!?? AT LAST, CAN I WAX RHAPSODIC ABOUT OS AFRO SAMBAS DE BADEN E VINCIUS?!?!?!??!?!?!

So anyway, iPods.

iPods are for suckers though. I can’t vouch for anything that so stridently pushes any kind of Coolness line, especially with the whole iTunes-invisible-hand-of-the-market-now-OWNS-YOUR-FUCKING-HARD-DRIVE. I have a little Cowan iAudio player, but I can’t listen to it at work. Because I need to be able, the reasoning goes, to hear everyone shouting at me to save the world and fix all their mistakes. I know I know iPods play video but the Cowan player offers: replaceable, readily available battery (45 hours playback on one AA); .ogg support, your open-source mp3 ass-kicker, which used to be the thing which made iRiver cool before it sold out to The Man; drag-and-drop works-with-Windows-AND-LINUX USB drive file structure - no special software, no DRM, no bullshit.

You exchange video playback for a healthy dose of freedom.

iTunes is also for suckers for all the same reasons. iTunes is Buying The Line. I can’t comprehend people who actually use iTunes: let me get this straight, you’re going to pay the same amount of money for an album… but you’re not getting the case, liner notes, or CD QUALITY? Not to mention ABSOLUTE CONTROL OVER YOUR SHIT? Sunya throws down with the iTunes of the immoral and merciless: Soulseek.

]]> By: Twisty http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/03/16/twisty-in-tv-land-chapter-two/#comment-14947 Twisty Sun, 19 Mar 2006 15:35:46 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/03/16/twisty-in-tv-land-chapter-two/#comment-14947 I second this iPod scheme, Sunya. Some would argue that the iPod is a tool of The Man, but I just got a new one on which I can watch Battlestar Gallactica. Before that I could listen to podcasts of radio shows that don't suck, and, of course, my considerable library of 60's brazilian pop. It's a pretty cool thingy. I second this iPod scheme, Sunya. Some would argue that the iPod is a tool of The Man, but I just got a new one on which I can watch Battlestar Gallactica. Before that I could listen to podcasts of radio shows that don’t suck, and, of course, my considerable library of 60’s brazilian pop. It’s a pretty cool thingy.

]]> By: Mandos http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/03/16/twisty-in-tv-land-chapter-two/#comment-14946 Mandos Sun, 19 Mar 2006 15:33:01 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/03/16/twisty-in-tv-land-chapter-two/#comment-14946 I don't listen to the radio! And I don't have TV! And I don't have a car! I've hit the trifecta! I don’t listen to the radio! And I don’t have TV! And I don’t have a car! I’ve hit the trifecta!

]]> By: Jezebella http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/03/16/twisty-in-tv-land-chapter-two/#comment-14937 Jezebella Sun, 19 Mar 2006 04:49:27 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/03/16/twisty-in-tv-land-chapter-two/#comment-14937 Sunya, sweetness: You need an iPod. You need to keep those buds stuffed in your ears 24/7. I ain't got one, but then, I don't have to listen to the radio at work. I, too, would be homicidal if forced to listen to commercial radio all day long. And, have you BEEN to alabama? You may want to reconsider your sacrifice. Sunya, sweetness:

You need an iPod. You need to keep those buds stuffed in your ears 24/7.

I ain’t got one, but then, I don’t have to listen to the radio at work. I, too, would be homicidal if forced to listen to commercial radio all day long.

And, have you BEEN to alabama? You may want to reconsider your sacrifice.

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