elephant in the room

[doc benway]

3 hours ago, BigSkyDiamond said:

 

ah yes, the erudite tomes on the other thread.

curiously there is no thread on how many hours a day a person spends on Netflix and how many shows are on the "my watch list."  There are 72 shows ready for me to watch.  My fun reading is not even reading, my fun reading is pure Netflix.  i love the post above !!!

 

I discovered Korean TV series and... WOW... such wonderful stuff!

A few of my favorites - It's OK To Not Be OK, Crash Landing On You, Vincenzo, All Of Us Are Dead, Bloodhounds and Extraordinary Attorney Woo. I started watching When Life Gives You Tangerines and after crying through the entire first episode I haven't yet managed to continue but I will eventually. Perhaps we need a TV series thread, I'm always open to suggestions. 

 

 

Edited Thursday at 11:37 PM by doc benway

[Mark Foote]

Returning to the OP:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[Nungali]

On 6/27/2025 at 4:19 AM, BigSkyDiamond said:

 

my brother and i are polar opposites in pretty much  everything including this.  He is the kid who growing up when we were in grade school so about age 9 to 11 or so, he would come home from school and sit down to (i kid you not) read the encyclopedia for fun.  The hardcover World Book Encyclopedia (22 volumes), he started with the first volume "A" and read straight through start to finish.  And then when we were in university, what did he do in the summer?  He would read ALL the books that he did not get to or did not finish, from ALL the courses he took that year in college.  Even though the courses were over and done.  Even if the subject matter did not interest him.

 

This always baffled me.  If he started a book, then he finished it.  According to him "that's what you do."  Whereas if i start a book and don't like it i just toss it aside.  He sees this as a moral failing (he sees my entire life as a moral failing but that's another story, like i said we disagree on basically everything). I'm not sure if reading for fun exists in his vocabulary or in his brain.  It has served him well though in his profession, he is an attorney.  It fits his aggressive argumentative caustic persona to a tee, as does his unbending conviction that he is always right.  about everything. and he can prove it.  As an adult i find him quite scary and keep my distance.

 

I see ....... verrrrrrry  interesting  .  

 

 

 

[Nungali]

On 6/27/2025 at 5:11 AM, liminal_luke said:

 

The way I figure, pointing out other people´s alledged moral failings is a moral failing.  (Oops!)

 

I´m grappling with the enjoyment question in my reading right now -- should I try to read difficult books that maybe I don´t enjoy so much because they´ll stretch my mind or be somehow virtuous?  Or should I take the life-is-short approach and just read what makes me happy?  Curiously, I was a very literary teen.  In high school I read Moby Dick and The Brothers Karamazov and lots of Steinbeck -- for fun -- but now I mostly read crime thrillers.  There´s a popular thread on the forum dedicated to the books "on our bookshelf" and it´s chock full of erudite tomes on spiritual topics and great literature, not a Jack Reacher novel in sight.  Surely I´m not the only Bum who enjoys reading about street brawling tough guys?  

 

 

 

Well, I like 'Marv ' .... 

 

 

 

[Nungali]

On 6/27/2025 at 5:11 AM, Cobie said:

 

I have the same. 

 

 

 

Ahhh  ,  now it all comes together    

[Nungali]

On 6/27/2025 at 8:53 AM, Apech said:

 

OMG!  I thought I was talking to highbrow people

 

 

 

 

 It all comes out in the wash . 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited Saturday at 12:32 AM by Nungali

[BigSkyDiamond]

 

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[BigSkyDiamond]

On 6/26/2025 at 4:36 PM, doc benway said:

 

I discovered Korean TV series and... WOW... such wonderful stuff!

A few of my favorites - It's OK To Not Be OK, Crash Landing On You, Vincenzo, All Of Us Are Dead, Bloodhounds and Extraordinary Attorney Woo. I started watching When Life Gives You Tangerines and after crying through the entire first episode I haven't yet managed to continue but I will eventually. Perhaps we need a TV series thread, I'm always open to suggestions. 

 

Korean:  Misaeng Incomplete Life; My Mister; Misty; The Match

not Korean:  Dept. Q, Queen's Gambit

Japanese: Quartet (one of my all time favorite ever shows across the board) (made in 2017)

 

[-ꦥꦏ꧀ ꦱꦠꦿꦶꦪꦺꦴ-]

Squid Game season 3 is out now

 

That is all

[Vajra Fist]

On 27/06/2025 at 12:36 AM, doc benway said:

 

I discovered Korean TV series and... WOW... such wonderful stuff!

A few of my favorites - It's OK To Not Be OK, Crash Landing On You, Vincenzo, All Of Us Are Dead, Bloodhounds and Extraordinary Attorney Woo. I started watching When Life Gives You Tangerines and after crying through the entire first episode I haven't yet managed to continue but I will eventually. Perhaps we need a TV series thread, I'm always open to suggestions. 

 

 

 

Thanks for the recommendations! We really enjoyed Death's Game

[old3bob]

 

Star Trek, "Strange New Worlds" is taking for ever for a new season to be released!  Btw a past episode had the whole crew come under a singing spell for communication, it was quite unique and entertaining.

 

Edited Saturday at 04:18 PM by old3bob

[Nungali]

 

 

 

 

[doc benway]

4 hours ago, Nungali said:

 

 

 

 

 

Just saw them live a few months ago doing this song on the Beat tour, sans Fripp but the performance was great! Line up was Adrian Belew, Tony Levin, Steve Vai and Danny Carey.

[Nungali]

You lucky duck !  

 

All this talk of watching lame TV shows .  And  you all are supposed to be spiritual types and meditators ??? 

 

HA !  what a joke ! It's about time   I    .....  wait !

 

What is the time ? 

 

Yikes ! .... I be back in half an hour ......