{"id":3764,"date":"2010-09-18T22:05:03","date_gmt":"2010-09-18T21:05:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=3764"},"modified":"2010-09-18T22:05:03","modified_gmt":"2010-09-18T21:05:03","slug":"listening-and-watching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=3764","title":{"rendered":"Listening and watching"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>A little bit cross-media, but bear with me&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Over at the podcast, we get a lot of email from artists who have been channelled towards us by various PR agencies.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a pattern. In a very short space of time&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>we&#8217;ll get a MySpace friend request. A couple of minutes later&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>we&#8217;ll get a &#8216;&#8230; is now following you on Twitter&#8217; notification. Soon afterwards&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>we&#8217;ll get an email with the subject &#8216;Hi! Hope you enjoy my music&#8217;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I love enthusiasm in people. And I love artists who have self-belief. Talented musicians who are enthusiastic self-believers are totally gorgeous.<\/p>\n<p>We always write back and say we&#8217;ll definitely give their work a listen, but when we add that, unfortunately, our &#8216;waiting to be played&#8217; list is almost a year long, you can practically hear their disappointment without even picking up the phone.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>We find ourselves watching less television these days. Actually, what I mean is that, on a decreasing curve, we&#8217;re watching fewer mainstream television programmes.<\/p>\n<p>Is it me\/us, or are BBC1, BBC2, ITV1, C4, C5 &#8211; the mainstream broadcasters (we don&#8217;t have Sky for obvious reasons) &#8211; putting out schedules that, really, are not even worth the effort of watching?<\/p>\n<p>We don&#8217;t watch huge amounts of television, but to compensate for the shortfall in mainstream viewing, we&#8217;ve been stepping up the amount of films and the number of &#8216;on-demand&#8217; TV shows.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, we&#8217;ve discovered and crammed our way through the first series of Flash Forward &#8211; only to become bitterly disappointed that the show was cancelled before they made a second season!<\/p>\n<p>The same kind of thing happened to Studio 60 On The Sunset Strip &#8211; cancelled from beneath our viewing feet.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re currently watching The Mentalist. It&#8217;s not as good as either Flash Forward or Studio 60, but it is still better than a hell of a lot of the dire output that the mainstream are offering.<\/p>\n<p>So my question is.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s worth watching &#8211; in your eyes?<\/p>\n<p>Please bear in mind our &#8216;no Murdoch&#8217; situation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A little bit cross-media, but bear with me&#8230; Over at the podcast, we get a lot of email from artists who have been channelled towards<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff","two-columns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3764\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}