PJ’s Blog

When I consider the amount of time I formerly spent in front of the TV, I’m amazed to read me say this, but I’m happy without my TV!

I’m happy without sitcoms, I’m happy without crappy reality shows, I’m happy without re-runs, without soaps, without local news… I do spend quite a lot of time in front of my computer, in fact it’s my main window to the world, where I get my news, my contact with my friends overseas, That’s where I put my photos, my thoughts, my writing, but all of this is a little more active for my brain than sitting in front of the TV, watching girls in bikini eat bugs… (fear Factor, anyone??)

I’ve been in Belgium for more than a year (almost one and a half, in fact…), and we’ve never had a TV in that time, and don’t plan on getting one… We watch movies on the ‘puter, but movies we tend to pick for their non-brain-devouring characteristics, so the brain-dead factor is less of an issue…

No TV allows me to work more efficiently on more projects at the same time, I’m learning new stuff everyday from the web and from life that no episode of Survivor or Desperate housewives could ever teach me…

In short, I’m glad I don’t have a TV anymore, and I’m glad my kids won’t either, at least for the next few years…

I have a friend here, that I love and cherish, and that is the catalyst of my vices, here in Belgium…

I’m not particularly a heavy drinker, but when that friend is around, we just top each other’s drinks until we are well advanced…

I’m not a particularly kinky guy, although I’m not especially vanilla either, but that friend is putting strange ideas into my mind, thoughts of leather and rope…

To that friend tonight, I raise my glass of fine single malt, saying:
-Here’s to our vices, and to the slipery slope we so enjoy!

I’m old, i guess, everytime I discover new music that I like, new styles, new groups, new songs, they stick around for a while but then I go back to my old favorites, my little comfortable piece of metal-head turf: Metallica and Iron Maiden…

I know, I know, they are not hardcore, they are not trash, they just happen to be the groups through which I discovered metal, and I just keep going back to them over and over again. I’m discovering new music all the time, music that I enjoy and like, Gorillaz, Rammstein, System of a down, but Metallica and Maiden just always creep up to the top of my playlist…

I’m getting too old for new stuff, so I just stick to the familiar territory, I guess… :p