All work and no play make Ellie something, something....

[ebonlock]

So I have discovered a simple truth, I actually do watch more television with a TiVo than without. I mean I had it record a show on Clara Bow and another on Louise Brooks last night just because I could. On the plus side I did get to see Meerkat Manor at long last and I have to say just one thing, Sean Astin will you please just STFU? Seriously, zip it. All I want to do is watch meerkats being their adorable little selves, I don't need a constant stream of narration. The best nature shows (psst, Animal Planet, please see anything produced for PBS, they know how it's done) don't have a narrator chattering away or trying to make everything very dramatic. They don't need to, the footage itself is dramatic enough. I don't need:

"Will Flower kill the other pups?"
"Uh-oh, I think she's going down there to kill them!"
"Oh no, where are the pups?"
"Oh, wait, there they are, I guess she didn't kill them after all."

Jesus, it's like sitting in a theater with one of those Chatty Cathy types right behind you describing every single event to everyone in hearing range. Maybe I'll just watch it on mute from now on.

Aside from that I did actually manage to get some stuff done last night, though I was delighted to come home to find my dishes done and the recycling taken out. I believe a certain blue-haired fairy is to be thanked for that :) I ended up running a load of laundry, vacuuming and generally tidying up before collapsing for a little computer time. I'm seriously considering getting an iPod adapter/charger for my car, but as I've no cassette system I'll have to get one of the radio tuner ones. Has anyone purchased one in the past? And can you recommend a particular brand if so?

Also made a point of getting to bed on time, which is really helping today. Yay sleep!

Comments

[technocowboy.livejournal.com]

Sean Astin will you please just STFU?

Darling? It's a nature show. It's his JOB to talk. And would you say that if it was Elijah talking? ;-)

[ebonlock.livejournal.com]

I know it's a nature show, believe me, but you don't have to talk constantly in one of those to effect the drama of what's happening. Nature is inherently dramatic, and again, the producers are trying to make this like a reality show cast with animals. They actually advertise it like a soap opera cast with little furry, incredibly cute but fucked up people. Just let the animals be animals for crying out loud.

And yeah, I'd bitch even if it were Elijah, though I'd probably be less inclined to mute it ;)