Money and Me - A Love/Hate Story

in_need_of_direction

Corrie, eastenders, holby (love jac), casualty, currently invasion of job snatchers and masterchef. Otherwise, property and food !!!!!!. Can't do music documentaries as they are normally hosted by people who have nothing to add to the subject matter but talk anyway. I get irritated by listening to the views of hangers on instead of getting to the true subject matter.

Magsnoodle

Hiya,

I adore Criminal Minds, gogglebox and big bang theory... What an odd combo... Hope the weekend goes well

TTFN xxx

Busymumofthreeplusdog

None now, but I used never to miss a corrie episode! Also used to love neighbours, 30 something.greys anatomy, sex in the city, I get miffed when they change the a main character afraid it's lots of property programmes, you know the type 'build your own Eco house in 10 days for £50...... Ot re runs of Friends.

I do love Grimm, kind of detective programme based on Grimm fairy tales.

Currently watching 'despicable me 2' with DS2, love the minions!!

Busymumofthreeplusdog

Oh and teenage daughter introduced me to Big Bang & how I met your Mother recently, both very funny!

mothernerd

Just lost a massive post - googled to find the title of a film I was talking about and didn't realise I had lost the page. Sad now - will be back -you have been warned.

Magsnoodle

Busymumofthreeplusdog wrote: »

Oh and teenage daughter introduced me to Big Bang & how I met your Mother recently, both very funny!

Teenage daughter brought us to Big Bang too - not to how I met your mother yet but maybe I should give that a go too. How times have changed... There is no way my parents would have allowed us to choose the tv programmes at home....

Busymumofthreeplusdog

Magsnoodle wrote: »

Teenage daughter brought us to Big Bang too - not to how I met your mother yet but maybe I should give that a go too. How times have changed... There is no way my parents would have allowed us to choose the tv programmes at home....

So very true Magsnoodle!!

skintygerlinky

Evening Divas xxxxxxx


Cheers for replies!!


INOD - completely hear you. I just seem to get mega annoyed these days when music programmes are just stuffed full of 'talking heads' being wry and ironic. Er, this programme isn't about you, sunshine!! Step aside and can we hear the music please?! Also 99.99999% of the time the pundits are middle aged men, so we only ever hear one perspective and are expected to take it as gospel. Raaaargh! So, right, we now need to hear this at this point in the proceedings http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drGx7JkFSp4


magsnoodle - yes yes Gogglebox!! Who are your faves?? I love sandi and Sandra, also the posh couple who are always slaughtered!


busymum3+dog - 30something!!! Used to LOVE IT!! Would LOVE to watch some re-runs of that!


mothernerd - oh no, so sorry about your lost post grrrrr!! How annoying! See if you can post again when you get your mojo back to do so!!


magsnoodle again - sooooooo true re: generational differences re: telly!! I remember being little and bracing myself every week to ask my dad if we could watch Charlies Angels...the odd week I could but mostly it was 'No!! Im watching the news!!'


Hmmmph!

skintygerlinky

So, how has today been.......


Rather nice to be honest! Nice afternoon at friends house, few bits at the post office then home to cook and potter in the kitchen.


Hmmm. Friend talking about her in-laws. Lots of issues, many people not talking to each other, everyone choosing sides. Her take on it is that the whole thing is that its just exhausting and a load of drama about nothing, really.


Families are very complicated...or at least they can be.


Low spends today. Hoping to get tighter grip on spending this month, back in control. Slipped into feeling bit out of control re: spending last month. Let's see xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

mothernerd

Right I'm back, had a wonderful chilled afternoon getting massively sidetracked.

Tv broke a while back and wasn't bothered once I remembered how to play cds in the laptop (disc drive on old computer died years ago0.

On Mother's Day DS2 came and we ate Indian takeaway on my bed (was still struggling to get downstairs at that point) and watched episodes of HIGNFY and 8 out of 10 cats. Having being mostly on the bed for 6 weeks now have started to watch stuff on the laptop in addition to reading, sewing, sorting paperwork.

DS3 showed me where to look and I have worked through series 8, 9 and 10 of Grey's Anatomy. Been watching Field of Crimson and Shetland (detective one). Added Holby for the last 3 weeks as Shetland was only 2 parts.

This week I have done the first series of The Hour (saw the second series but now gone back to the beginning). Have also just found 30 something (knew it must be somewhere as a character in a book was watching re-runs on HBO - have looked for it on dvd previously) and also re-watched 'Peter's Friends' - not a great film but fun and lots of good moments in it.

Love all the BBC4 Friday music stuff especially guitar heroes and songwriters circle - this kicked off the detour. Knew I was going to start today's music with DR Feelgood's 'Roxette' (was tapping the rhythm out with my foot on the taps and shower hose when I finally coaxed some hot water out of the boiler) but was reminded of the sublime Janis Ian http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypn9oKaO-3E and have spent all afternoon surfing Loudon Wainwright III, Richard Thompson, Suzanne Vega and Fran Healy (that boy is so mis-named, Fran Healy should be a 17st rugby player and he is so not).

We had a series of awful tvs when the boys were young and often had to rely on videos. The first set we had on VHS was Red Dwarf as DS3 was too young to stay up late enough to watch it on a school night so got it as a reward. Later I bought them stuff I remembered which was under a fiver - Blackadder, Drop the Dead Donkey< Fry and Laurie and of course RD again.(all pre-Dave). DS3 is so pleased he knows Steven Moffat from Coupling as well as Dr Who (told him so as well but can't remember if this was on-line or at one of the conventions he goes to).

They went off to university and converted all their friends and yes in return I love Big Bang, not thrilled with How I Met...and I believe a lot of people found the ending a let down. My eldest is old enough that the teen programmes start with Friends and Dawson's and we have also been through One Tree Hill and all love the films of Kevin Smith and the Coen Brothers.

I am in the NSK challenge and this month's theme is the Hunger Games. One poster said she couldn't read the word tribute without thinking about the Tenacious D song (oh no I'm going to be playing Dave Grohl all night). My sons were early TD fans but were put out when I said it was Jack Black - I had to stand over them while they looked it up and then were even more put out when I said he was one of the secret service operatives in the van listening to Will Smith and Gene Hackman in 'Enemy of the State'. Move forward a few years and DS3 and I are coming out of the cinema having just watched 'School of Rock'. DS3 says (of music pouring out of speakers) "Mummy is this Clapton?", "No dear it's Hendrix". He was still a foot shorter than me then, it's the other way round now.

So any more recommendations for things to watch. Keep trying to think of things people have raved about over the years. We have the Wire (think I saw 1/2 an episode when it started), The Sopranos (1 and 1/2 series). DS2 wants me to try Game of Thrones. Might try Mad Men and Boardwalk Empire came up this afternoon (Loudon Wainwright II singing 'Carrickfergus' in it/or theme tune?). DS3 is currently working through West Wing from the beginning (he loves that Cuddy from House plays a hooker). May also go back through This Life and Queer As Folk (had both on dvd but sold during earlier belt tightening).