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Been working through the Get Back documentary with my dad a sequential day at a time so very much in an anything beatles-adjacent mood.
This was beautiful 
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All this martian talk and being in the festive mood, seemed like a good choice.
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I miss this show 
And yes, all strange objects in space come from Russia.
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4 episodes in to the second season of fallout. I love the weekly release schedule this time but also I dont want to wait another week after that last episode 
Anyone else watching along? Did you make it through season 1 @Polyphemus ?
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Yes. I enjoyed it - but it was free. Iām not going to pay to see part 2.
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Neither have I 
Yaaargh
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Well, to some extent I have moral objections to the peg leg and parrot thing - but mostly Iām very wary of giving a Russian crime syndicate unfettered access to my home network.
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Good thing my sister is paying for netflix and amazon and still lives at home 
Cos housing/cost of living crisis 
Everyone in Russia is TERRIFIED of her so they wonāt mess with us either.
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Good old TV when times were simpler. I remember lightning striking the box outside and giving us free HBO. I was finally able to watch Fraggle Rock. But then my mom found out and called the cable company and the fun endedā¦
I felt Fraggle Rock was my reward for surviving. The lightning hit a tree behind my dadās shop, got into the electrical box outside his shop, travelled under my bedroom where it busted a water line and made my hair stand up like I was in one of those weird science museum Tesla experiences, then travelled to the TV and gave us HBO.
Best experience of my life.
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When I was small, up to around six years old, we couldnāt afford a TV - we had a Philips valve (tube) radio. My aunt had a TV, and we would go round to her house to watch it. There was only one channel - BBC - and that only broadcast for around six hours on weekday evenings. Saturdays there was sport broadcast from mid-day, then entertainment in the evening, but on Sundays there was nothing during the daytime (shops were closed, too). Even on Sunday evening, a lot of the content was religious.
Because there was only one channel being broadcast, cheaper British TV sets were only designed to receive one channel - tuning was very limited. A second, commercial, channel (ITV) began broadcasting aroung 1956 - but lots of people couldnāt watch it, because their TV sets couldnāt tune to the new channel. Those people had to buy a box of electronics called a āband 3 converterā, which sat alongside the TV, and allowed them to watch ITV.
Even with the new channel, there was still no daytime TV or Sunday broadcasting. That didnāt really change until the 1970s.
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One of the best tv shows ever made ever ever and unceremoniously cut short by a network going into liquidation, has finally shown off its movie to the world.
I cannot wait. Ive been waiting for the smallest glimpse since it started doing the festival circuit and now its finally within reach.
I have definitely spent many postās on here promoting Matt Johnsons other films too. All good. All fun silly times. (The dirties, operation avalanche , Blackberry)
Edit: @Polyphemus we posted at the same time.
As is apparent by my post, i would not have had the patience to wait for tv and its one channel to come back on.
Then again, I did survive on three channels that showed sweet feck all outside of imported childrens programming from Australia.
Girl from tomorrows music intro was PEAK tv theme tune, still find myself humming it when doing the dishes.
We would marvel at MTV when we visited my cousins (we didnt get it in our home until maybe 1995-96)
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I remember watching cartoons as a pre schooler and into 1 st grade. We had a color set.
Then we moved and the family grew and we lived outside the city limits. I donāt remember having a TV at all.
Then we moved again, back into town and the TV set was black and white.
Then I got an Atari and Q-Bert. And then we had a color set again, after some begging.
To get TV channels we had to get a little tan round thing that attached to the back of the TV and the cable from the TV company attached to that.
Now I have large flat screen (but not smart) TV and I am outside the city limits again and using satellite thru a box that can connect to the internet.
Most people have a smart TV and it isnāt really a TV at all but an expensive computer monitor without a keyboard.
I have, so far, resisted that change.
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Smart tvs are annoying and their gui is still slow and unresponsive at the best of times, they also seem to die quicker. A lot quicker.
Youre not missing much.
I have had the same hdtv for 15 years and still going strong.
My sister and dad have gone through 5 smart tvs in that same period, and the current one is on its way out with a blue tint across the whole screen (not due to white balance being set to cool or anything like that).
They also insist they bracket them to the wall because fashion, and im certain the cheap plastic framing of the tv and weight of the monitor is whats also killing them. But no. They must have the tv looking like it does in a magazine display, on the wall it goes. And of course none of the brackets have been universal so, more holes for the wall and more plastering by the son who does not want this 
sorry, that unzipped a lot of begrudgery ive been holding in.
Oh and my dad got a new one for his bedroom for his birthday and it has a home screen thatās just rotating advertisements and the āchange sourceā is on a page you have to scroll past ads to get to. Smart TVs are just a mess and a new avenue for marketers to overstep consumer rights protections cos the old regulations didnt account for this.
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It feels good to let it all out. I have several people who call me about their smart TVs. Roku TVs are the worst. Last maybe a year. And these older folks are constantly subscribing to things without knowing it and then think their card info has been stolen. I have to go sort it all out. 
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Ive been watching a show with my Dad called The Chair Company thats about a guy trying to reach a company to report a manufacturing fault in their chairs.
In his attempt to get actual contact details for the company that doesnt seem to actually exist or have any customer care connected to anyone who actually works for the company, he ends up going down a conspiratorial rabbit hole and that maybe the companies a front for drug smuggling. it felt incredibly cathartic. I think weve all been there in the modern age (the struggle to make a complaint to an actual company, not the latter part)
Very funny, do reccomend.
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Iāve had a Samsung smart TV for about 3 years now - but Iāve never signed up for a Samsung account. It recieves broadcast channels (over air) fine, and I can side-load subscription services (BBC i-Player, ITV X, Netflix, All 4, etc.
It means Samsung and their evil minions donāt have access to my bank details - so they canāt subscribe me to anything.
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This reminds me of the 96 year old woman I worked for who got junk mail like most people do. She would call each one and say, āNo. I do not wish to order. I wish to inform you that I am not, nor will I ever be, interested in your products. I wish for you to stop sending the advertisements to me and thereby save me the headache of throwing it in the trash and save you the price of postage and the paper.ā
I would have to leave the room and laugh. Could likely write a pretty good show just about the things this woman did. She was something else.
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Went to see The Bone Temple on Wednesday.
It was brilliant, I loved it, highly reccomend. Ralph Fiennes was brilliant as always.
Going to a concert tonight for Joe Hisaishi music playing his Studio Ghibli hits. I also highly reccomend all thos films.
Hope everyone has a wonderful Saturday 
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