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"I'm not a vegetarian but I am gay." I actually snorted soda into my nose. Kinda stings a little...
My gay conservative boyfriend was a philosophy major so his books are probably highfalutin enough for you. But he only eats unsalted almonds.
My house has an east/west axis so it mostly gets light along the north side - the available daylight is as uplifting as an art film - is it okay to watch things called 'films'? (a
And Olive has influenced me enough that all the lightbulbs are those annoying curli-cue ones with the awful blue light...hey, I'm saving the planet, right?)
Olive, I find it unbelievably hilarious that you love both Rothko and Dark Angel. (Dollhouse was a close second, but not heavy enough on the cheese spread for me)
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You drink...soda?
Sorry sorry I said no more, it was a silly rant please forgive me.
Back to the look of the telebox, I wonder if its that woody Danish style interiors are too indebted to tradition to look good? I can't imagine a Rams, Ulm or Aarnio filled or styled room looking bad with a tv in it.
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I find it hilarious that you both drink soda and love MCM! 😉
And you do know that those annoying curli-cue lights are the absolute low end of CFls, right? They have the most mercury and the worst color-rendering. In short they're crap. Besides, any Eco-modernist worth their salt has moved on to LEDs, anyhow. I'm going to be all smug here and tell you that I've got mostly LEDs and a just a few CFLs in my new home and none of them are that crappy blue! (Check out the CFLs made by Osram for IKEA...very nice color rendering in a lovely warm tone.) Although, I must admit that the warm toned dimmable LEDs set me back $50/bulb so we only put in a few of those. At least they'll last for 12-15yrs!
Hey, what can I say, I'm a science nerd and I LOVE SciFi...always have. And Dark Angel was just a geekazoid scifi-fest with hot guys and dolls. You gotta admit, Micheal Weatherly is a tasty bit of crunch. Heck I now watch NCIS just to get another dose. Well, Mark Harmon is pretty easy on the eyes, too, even at the ripe old age of 60! And anyone into women, and maybe some who aren't, go all drooly for Jessica Alba.
And Mark Rothko...I swoon for his use of color. Colorfield paintings on the walls of my John Pawson house, viewed while sitting on my Citterio Charles Sofa done in a deep suiting flanel grey, and being served a perfectly blended martini..... mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm....that's a lovely fantasy!
Buy a very expensive B&O tv
Of course. The BeoVision 10 seems Rothko inspired...
http://www.bang-olufsen.com/beovision10
"Almost an optical illusion"? (Bang & Olufsen's Beovision TV)
Is a larger square in some way more "artistic" than a smaller rectangle? The slimness and thin frame are nice I suppose; but I don't see what's gained by the square.
(And, an aside: the way that grouping of framed art is hung makes my head hurt!)
My television is mostly for...
My television is mostly for gaming purposes. I don't even have cable anymore. We couldn't see paying the high costs of cable when I didn't really watch it all that much. We usually either play games or watch movies. The room set up is oriented to the television but my living room is also set up to incorporate the fish tank so it really limits where we have to place furniture. We don't actually game from the sofa. The flat screen we have right now that is only about 27" flat screen. We do plan on upgrading to a slightly larger TV....probably a 30-something inch. I think a 42" would be a bit overkill. We haven't decided on the TV yet though.
We have ours placed on a danish-modernish teak sideboard from the 60s. I think it was actually made on the east coast of the US. I forget the manufacturer, but it was nicely-made and has tambour doors on each side where we hide the DVD, blueray, and game systems. The middle drawers and the left tambour door are used to hide DVDs and games. We got the unit at really good cost because someone had already cut out a section of the back to use for entertainments systems. We didn't have to cut anything for wires. We had considered at one point putting the TV over the fireplace but I didn't want the TV to be the focus of the room when you walked into it and since the fireplace is directly opposite the entrance into the room, this is exactly what would have happened. So the TV is against one wall and the sofa against the opposite wall. The living room isn't huge so we are a bit pressed for space. That set up just seems best with where the fireplace, door, and windows are located.
I need my TV to shoot people....
I need my TV to shoot people. That way I can let out my work aggression on an alien or monster and not on my co-workers 😉
And I'm a movie-whore so I have to have something to watch them on; hence, the television. And I have to have something to watch my DVDs of the X-Files, Buffy: The Vampire Slayer, Arrested Development, I Love Lucy, and my treasure-trove of Jane Austen adaptations 😀
Heh...
I like your collection, Cloudburst. I love seeing what people relax to, it's always so different for everybody. My sister loves to 'shoot people' to relax too...it would make me a nervous wreak. She got Assasin's Creed for xmas and I must admit I enjoyed watching her learn to manipulate the characters. She ran that poor guy into walls quite a bit it was hilarious...but not relaxing!
In our house we have a dvd trove of:
SpongeBob... I love his optimism
Early James Bond movies...Sean Connery IS Bond
Ren and Stimpy...the most wonderfully weird violence ever committed to animation
Red Dwarf... the BBC series
Sherlock Holmes...the BBC, Jeremy Brett series. Definitive! Brilliant!
Looney Tunes...like 20 dvd's worth! WB cartoons still rock, always will
So what do ther's watch on their carefully considered and placed TV?
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