NaDruWriNi 2018: Lighting the Lights

Honest to Murgatroyd the reason I can't watch The Walking Dead even though everybody tells me how great the show is, is because of weird anachronisms like people driving. It's nine seasons in people. The gas has all gone off. Ravens have eaten all the walkers. They should be well int the rebuilding part of the story. Childbirth and appendicitis are the big nasties now.

Of course since I've never actually watched the show I might be talking out my ass here.

This isn't to criticise TWD, but more to say that my taste in television is often dictated by what I can ignore. I can watch a show A and there can be a metric assload of scenes where the writers just kind of handwave over logic and for some reason I'll be ok with that. But then for some reason I try to watch show B and my brain will fixate on something minor and say THAT'S NOT RIGHT and I just can't get past it. Another example, the show Outlander. Everybody identifies the main character as English from her accent, but in 1700 English people didn't sound like that. It shouldn't matter, but for some reason my brain fixes on it and it completely kills my suspension of disbelief.

Oddly, I'm more tolerant of bad writing when I'm reading it rather than watching it. As you have probably gathered if you've ever read any of the reviews I've posted, I can talk about how terrible a book is and still admit I finished it.

On teh other tentacle is writers who infodump all over you and explain every little thing. I can't think of any examples of that in TV right now - I guess lens flares are just more interesting in a visual medium - but I have read so many writers who do that. Ever read any Arthur Hailey or James Michener? They spend years researching their books. And you can tell.

Unlike me, who is going to spend years using research to put off writing my book, and then never actually use any of it. (This is only mostly a joke.)

I htink we're out of vodka.

NaDruWriNi 2018: The Cast of Characters

When I asked what I should write about, elusis responded, "How you got into the punk/goth scene."

It was a case of mistaken identity mostly.

When I was a teenager my sister and her friends were into bands like the Sex Pistols, the Clash, the Ramones, Teenage Head. I liked the Pistols OK and I thought the Clash and the Ramones were fine but I didn't really get why so many people thought they were the bst bands ever. (And I've never liked Teenage Head)

So you know, I thought punk music obviously wasn't my jam.

Then I heard The Demics and went, "Oh.".

And then I heard the Stooges and the Deadboys and went, "OH!"

Fast forward a few years when I was in University. It's in a small town outsdie of Toronto and there are a small cluster of weirdos at school and I get to know a few of them. There are also a number of weirdos who live in town who are not associated with the Unversity at all, and I get to know some of them when I shack up with one of them. Around that time we start seeing this group of younger kids around town who dress all in black and have very big(tm) hair and somebody tells me eh calls them "Curepunks" because apparently this is a Cure thing. And I think the Cure are OK, but not all that and a bag of chips so whatever floats their boat and I forget about it.

And then one day I walk inot class and I'm wearing my Carl McCoy hat with the conchos and my black duster coat and my pointy boots with the skull buckles all up the side nad one of my friends squints and me and says, "So... you're a goth then."

And that's the day I found out all about that.

So basically I'm just oblivious and keep tripping into these things while looking completely in the other direction.

man, the 70s had a lot to answer for

I was trying to give D a hard time and only succeeded in giving myself a Tony Orlando and Dawn earworm.