Well….watching a documentary on Fleetwood Mac and what do I see? Of course, a Hammond B-3 on stage…so, add another one to the B-3 count….
Category Archives: Misc
Professional fishing leagues?
Well…I know I’ve been quite bored lately and I have been watching way too much tv….but today I may have hit bottom when I actually clicked on a show about professional fishing leagues…yep, there are actually pro fishing leagues that people watch…and that is leagues plural, so there are more than one…how many people actually watch that weird stuff? I didn’t watch much because watching other people fish is about as interesting as watching grass grow…to me….I wonder what the pitch was like to fox sports when the show was being approved? That it is more interesting than baseball? Man, I need to find something to do…..more later….
How much profit?
Well…having been sitting here bored for the past couple of weeks, I’ve watched much more tv than I usually do and a thought struck me as I saw the stupid flashlight commercial for the hundredth time…how much profit is there in a stupid flashlight that you get 2 for 20 bucks? Maybe that question should be how much does it cost to air a commercial that many times? I counted the other day and in just the few hours that I watched, there were over twenty times that the commercial aired…and that doesn’t count the other flashlight that they run over with the military truck…which looks identical to the other one. This whole idea started with the commercials for The Addiction Network…whose commercials appear to be about half of all of them on tv these days and that same thought came to mind…how much profit is there in addiction? And how many people are really addicted to things…it has gotten so bad that they are making fun of themselves in a new commercial….just a few thoughts that I wanted to get down before I forget them….
The great pork roast experiment….
Well….if you have come here before, you know that I can be pretty weird at times….something that I am a little proud of and describe as being 45 degrees off the rest of the world….and today, that weirdness manifested itself in the great pork roast experiment, where I took two identical pork sirloin roasts and prepared one with a marinade that I let it soak in overnight, and the other prepared identically except no marinade…and the results are in…marinating the roast is the way to go…much more flavorful and juicy than the other one…..now, I don’t think I’ve ever known of anyone else using the scientific method of controlling all variables but one to see which recipe tastes best…I know it probably happens but I’d like to think that it is my weirdness that drove the experiment….and to get clear cut results is pretty cool, too….
Doctor Who revisited…
Well…just finished up my roast experiment and am watching the Doctor Who marathon on BBC this morning and I think my opinion is changing somewhat on the question of Peter Capaldi as the Doctor….he is certainly different than the other doctors and much less funny, but his portrayal is growing on me as I revisit the series. There was a line in one of today’s episodes that just struck me as being the definition of caring for someone…”do you think I care so little for you that betraying me would matter?” That was the Doctor to Clara after she attempted to blackmail the Doctor into saving Danny after he was killed by a car walking across the street…another one of Steven Moffat’s great lines that are woven through the series….now I’m going back to watch the rest of them….more later…
Let’s talk some tv…
Well…sitting here with the Dr. Who marathon running in the background and that gave me an idea to talk about tv a little…have been watching some intriguing shows over the past few weeks and thought it would make a good topic…but first, I need to bitch a little about Dr. Who…after watching ones with the earlier Doctors…it just makes me dislike Peter Capaldi in the role even more than I did before…his Doctor is a lifeless caricature of the fun, funny, and nuanced performances turned in by the earlier actors and I think they need to find a reason to find a new Doctor. Just found a new show called the OA on my son’s server the other day and I’m not sure what to make of it yet…it something like stranger things in the way it tells the story but seems a little contrived at times…but, I am going to watch a couple more tonight to see if it improves over time. I have been watching Westworld, too, and I like the show enough to be down to the last two of the first season…which I may watch tonight…and then there is Good Behavior that is growing on me as I watch…good character development and writing and it has kept me interested in every episode so maybe that’s a good one, too….who knows? I do know that my tastes are not for everyone…but, good tv is good tv….
Another one for the B-3 count….
Well….just watched a show on The Mamas and Papas and that bled into one on Blues Traveler who had a Hammond B-3 on stage…so, add another one to the B-3 count…
A funny music day…
Well….it was really an odd day yesterday…didn’t watch any shows but ones on music an AXS tv….the day started with a 2 hour doc on the Allman Brothers….then the farewell concert of Cream was on from 1968…then there was a concert by Eric Clapton from 2007, and the day ended with Joe Walsh on guitar Center sessions….so, I spent the day vegging it out and watching most of the day. Music has become much more important to me as I have been isolating myself from the world and it was cool to learn a bunch of stuff I didn’t know….so, you’ll probably see me writing more about it…
Another one for the B-3 count…
Well…watching a special on Eric Clapton and saw him doing “I Shot the Sheriff”….and in the background, there’s a Hammond B-3…now, I think I may have used him before, but not as a solo…so this counts…add another one to the B-3 count…..
Find the cost of freedom…
Well…yeah, you’d think that this one would be a heavy essay on freedom and the cost to maintain it…nope, it about the song “find the cost of freedom” by CSNY on their live album “Four Way Street”….every time I hear someone play Taps on tv, Find the Cost of Freedom comes into my head…not sure how that association came to be but it happened last night…enough that I had to get my mp-3 player out and listen to the song….still takes my breath away…only two verses that are identical but every time I hear it I get chills…and the rest of the album is not bad, either….