I have this curse which I have turned into a gift...

[WCGreen]

The gift of knowledge and awareness.

You see every day I have to do these breathing treatments in order to clear out my lungs. I do four sets spaced out throughout the day, Each one taking 20 minutes.

At first it was boring because part of the treatment means wearing a vest that is filled with air and then vibrates so as to loosen up the gook in my lungs to ultimately stop me from drowning. I know, I know, TMI.

But, I discovered a wonderful time to make it pleasant and fruitful.

We have full on set cable with all the movie channels and most of the regular cable. I think we have over 350 channels.

At first I would watch junk but after awhile that proved boring and as monotonous as the sitting there with no distraction. So what I did was added th digital copy feature to our cable box and each week I scour the offerings on all channels and usually find four or five things that will get me too the next weeks fair.

In the last three year I have seen almost every Shakespeare play, for good or bad, every great movie from the earliest days of cinema to the latest blockbuster as well as informative and other dramatic shows.

Of course I watch crap, I have a fondness for super hero shows so I record all of them. But my life has been made more satisfying with my LED 40" window on the world.

[Hissyspit]

1. Very good idea to become an expert on the history of movies

I watch MGM HD, Cinemoi, Sundance Channel, and, of course TCM.

[edgineered]

2. Do you mean to say that the classics and early hits

were more devoted to providing solutions to problems, answers to situations and exhibited sensible lifestyles, or that b/w tv is a thing for you?

[WCGreen]

4. There are a lot of good movies and shows on that are more current...

But there are also a ton of great things from the early days of TV and cinema that a lot of people over look.

[edgineered]

6. No need to convince me, I keep 'em sorted by decade. nt

[Warpy]

3. I've been turning more to DVDs when I'm low on spoons

I don't have the premium channels and sometimes, there is just nothing on, 200+ channels of intelligence insulting, brain cell destroying, Honey Boo Boo nothing. I've got a lot of the old BBC series from Costco and those are wonderful to veg out to.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

5. It's a very intelligent move, to do what you have done...

Most folks would just sit through the boredom and watch any old thing, without examining it. Without making any use of it...

"The unexamined life is not worth living." So said Socrates, and he was as right about it then, as you are now.

K&R

[WCGreen]

7. I'm watching this movie call Looking for Richard...

It's Al Pacino and a whole lot of other New York based actors who are putting together Richard 111. They talk about the play, what makes it so different from the other Historic works is the way he structures it.

It's a great way to get in behind the mind of Will and see what he was getting at.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

8. I did see that, some time ago...

It struck me as weird, but I see what you and Will are getting at.