NO TV Week
Posted by I am NOT Tyler ... on Apr 17, 2007 · Member since Mar 2007 · 23 posts
The week of April 23-29th is international NO TV week. how are you planing to celebrate the optional week free of the idiot box. i plan to unplug my TV and the one at work. i will hide the remotes and put a sign on the TV at work. pick up a paper every day(i all ready do) and read more then i all ready do.i will miss waking up to my night job and having the daily show and the Colbert report as my "morning" shows. small price to pay
Cheers
I got rid of my cable several years ago and my life is much improved since then.
:)
I already don't watch TV. In the spirit of No TV Week, I may severely limit my time online, as I'm now up to about an hour a day. What will I do with the time? Very likely, I will interact with my cat. I sometimes feel I'm neglecting him which is unfair. The other thing will be some spring cleaning, during which I will be listening to audiobooks which is my major weakness.
I haven't had cable at home since the 80's - until a couple of months ago, because our hotels and other accomodations have cable already provided. I wondered if I was missing something - now, I am sure that I am not (except on a very rare occasion). I am expecially disappointed in the cooking channel - most of the recipes demonstrated go something like this (or at least, that's how it sounds to me ;)):
Take 3 pounds of cream cheese, and whip with 2 pounds butter and 5 pounds of sugar. Pour this mixture over your slab of bacon and deep fry. Top with crumbled ground beef and use as a dip for fried chips.
I am generally delighted to be cable free (tho the history channel can be good once in a while).
I think TV in general doesn't offer much in the way of entertainment- I much prefer the internet!
However, for news and such, I do like having access to regular TV in conjunction with other sources- especially if there is some compelling news event- and I also like the occasional PBS show. I wouldn't want to swear off those things for a week - I think some stuff on TV is quite beneficial.
lol, this will be more for merrick since i let him watch a little bit while im cooking or doing something else that has me in another room.
I already don't watch TV. In the spirit of No TV Week, I may severely limit my time online, as I'm now up to about an hour a day. What will I do with the time? Very likely, I will interact with my cat. I sometimes feel I'm neglecting him which is unfair. The other thing will be some spring cleaning, during which I will be listening to audiobooks which is my major weakness.
I don't watch TV at all and like it that way (I don't own one and refuse to get one).
But your idea is a good one. While I spend some of my online time for school-related projects, I spend a lot of time online just "browsing." Which I have to say is not much better than flipping though channels on a TV, so I will do the same and limit my online "junk" time during No TV Week
I am expecially disappointed in the cooking channel - most of the recipes demonstrated go something like this (or at least, that's how it sounds to me ;)):
Take 3 pounds of cream cheese, and whip with 2 pounds butter and 5 pounds of sugar. Pour this mixture over your slab of bacon and deep fry. Top with crumbled ground beef and use as a dip for fried chips.
Oh you made me laugh! And you've got it about right...I remember back in the 80's when my mother was still speaking to me, she used to send me videos of "The Frugal Gourmet"...now THERE's a misnomer if ever there was one! No wonder he had to be frugal if he was spending that much on fancy trips around the world to eat in the most expensive restaurants! ;D ;D
I too find that it's all about being selective...those hundreds of satellite channels have to be filled up with Something, and it's usually pretty bad. I've noticed that TV is actually Worse at the weekend, when more viewers would feasibly be home and available to watch; instead of showing special programming, the modern logic seems to be "They'll take what we give them."
we used to watch so much tv, but now we are down to only 1 hour per day for the kids before bed (a kid show Bolibompa, which all swedish children watch every day!), and then we don't watch any tv until after the kids are in bed.
we had cable once as a free 2-month preview. we discovered the only stuff we watched was on the regular major networks, so we got rid of the cable before we had to pay each month. it just wasn't worth it! the downside was that there was absolutely NOTHING on those networks on the weekend. oh, well, i guess that got us out of the house more often!
will i participate in no tv week? no comment.
fiona
We've never had cable and ever since the remote broke 2 years ago our mindless surfing has all but ended. Now there is nothing I want to watch on TV so it pretty much stays turned off. We get a movie once or twice a week to watch and that's about all we use the TV for.
Now the internet, that's another story...I agree with others...for no TV week I will try to cut down drastically on internet time which has gotten pretty bad, no thanks to Vegweb!
Elizabeth
I have to admit I mostly use the TV for watching DVDs. I have a collection of favourites...I don't have one favourite film, I have different favourites for different moods...my top 5 films are the ones I have memorized and quote from freely (in conversation). The second time I watched "Moonstruck", for example, I realised I had internalized the script. We've decided that my epitaph is going to be, "You may quote me." ;D
I have to admit I mostly use the TV for watching DVDs. I have a collection of favourites...I don't have one favourite film, I have different favourites for different moods...my top 5 films are the ones I have memorized and quote from freely (in conversation). The second time I watched "Moonstruck", for example, I realised I had internalized the script. We've decided that my epitaph is going to be, "You may quote me." ;D
What are your top 5 films?
In no particular order:
Moonstruck
Vanya on 42nd Street
Baghdad Cafe
Mediterraneo
Babette's Feast (recently being crowded out by Al Pacino's Merchant of Venice)
I grew up without a TV and I found so many other ways to entertain myself...
My dad would always call it "The Idiot Box" - I always thought that was funny! :D
Now I just watch foreign movies...
this should turn into the "what is your top 5 films" thread. hard topic for me, but mine is (in no order):
wizard of oz
12 angry men
the bicycle thief
breathless
pink flamingos
as for TV, my roommate and i have a DVR and i record some shows and watch them when i get home from work. no more than an hour usually, as i prefer to watch whatever's at my house from netflix. then i curl up in my bed with a book and read until i'm ready to sleep.
this should turn into the "what is your top 5 films" thread
Okay! :) (But I'm going to cheat because I categorize movies in my head a bit differently and because, for me, all other movies pale in comparison to Chariots of Fire)
1. Chariots of Fire: no other movie comes remotely close
2. Films from Childhood: Harold & Maude; Little Darlings; High Road to China; Monty Python & the Holy Grail
3. Documentaries: Life in the Undergrowth; Blue Vinyl; Born Into Brothels; Dark Days
4. Foreign: Burnt By the Sun; Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring; Central Station, The Red Shoes
5. War films from the '70s & '80s: The Deer Hunter; The Big Red One; Apocalypse Now; Dersu Uzala; Full Metal Jacket
In a cheeky honor of NO TV WEEK, here's my TV list. It's much easier:
1. M*A*S*H
2. Northern Exposure
Humboldthoney, i feel the same way about The Wizard of Oz that you do about Chariots of Fire, but i must confess I've never seen CoF. :-[
central station is a great movie, though! too bad it came out in a year that it had to go up against Life is Beautiful in the foreign film categories of every film award ceremony ever.
central station is a great movie, though! too bad it came out in a year that it had to go up against Life is Beautiful in the foreign film categories of every film award ceremony ever.
Yeah. I didn't want to see it for a long time, but a movie fanatic friend of mine forced it on me - it's good to have friends looking out for me or I would have missed it.
My problem with TWOO were the flying monkeys. I have the same emotional reaction to them as if they were Jurassic mosquitoes.
central station is a great movie, though! too bad it came out in a year that it had to go up against Life is Beautiful in the foreign film categories of every film award ceremony ever.
Yeah. I didn't want to see it for a long time, but a movie fanatic friend of mine forced it on me - it's good to have friends looking out for me or I would have missed it.
My problem with TWOO were the flying monkeys. I have the same emotional reaction to them as if they were Jurassic mosquitoes.
Maybe today's kids with all the violent computer games etc. are different, but I never thought TWOO was properly classified as a "family" picture. Those monkeys and the witch offering to burn the Scarecrow always used to scare the daylights out of me! I have to say though, I read the original book just lately and the movie is better. Considering what they had to work with in those days, the makeup and special effects are really something.
i agree with yabbitgirl, thus further proving that it is THE best film ever made. ;D
NO TV WEEK is now here i did hide the remotes at work and have unplugged my TV actually killed the cable now that is warmer out side. I can know spend time outside its about time winter was way to long. but seeing how this got hijacked from no TV to fav movies ;D
i figure no need to rock the boat. here are my top 5 ( no real order)
Lord of the rings trilogy counts as one movie in my mind (books are better)
Fight Club (book is ten times better end is perfect)
The corporation (this 2.5 hour long doc is brilliant again the book is better not by much)
Battle Angel (the books are graphic novels yes they are better)
last but not least the original Star Wars trilogy
Fav TV show
the Simsons nuff said
Twitch City - could possibly be the greatest Canadian TV show ever it is a show about a guy who all he dose is watch TV
Any Cirque Du Soleil series
I could see TWOO being scary for kids, but Return to Oz is the one that scared the crap out of me! The wheelers were terrifying!!