Watch television? I'd rather read a seed catalogue ...

[reactiv8]

I don't need to be pished to enjoy that sort of thing, dear Jam~es...

Me neither ...

[lazarus corporation]

Or both - even at the same time, n'est-ce pas?

Synesthesia?!? ... Shall we change your name?!?

I saw a good TV programme on synaesthesia - BBC Horizon, with Dr Jamie Ward narrating parts (Jamie's one of our authors, and he's publishing a book with us on synaesthesia next year).

I'm now gutted to know that everything I learnt about synaesthesia on that TV programme is propaganda, purely because it was on TV. *sigh*

[reactiv8]

I sure as hell would rather read a seed catalogue than the Telegraph!

Looked up the article... there's not really much you can say against it, television is pretty much wall to wall s**t. I am sitting now with the usual mid-morning succession of programmes about people buying houses on, that sort of thing really f**king drives me mad. So much of the television schedule seems to consist of people doing the most mundane things... if you want to watch people argue, scratch their arses and talk about having bought their new house, just sit on a park bench for a while and you'll get it for free.

I'm glad other people evidently feel like this! - I was getting worried for a moment that the visual opium (TV) had at last taken over! Keep that old grey matter churning folks! - We don't all want a 'safe' Job/Life that the media & the government tries to sell us!

Watching Clouds is Great! - Mind Expanding and FREE!

(if you look carefully you can even see the suckers strapped in to their expensive cargo shuttles flying above - destroying the planet for the rest of us!)

[weebleswobble]

I love my TV-switch off and stare at forests or bull frogs etc - that be your choice

[boudicca]

Or both - even at the same time, n'est-ce pas?

Synesthesia?!? ... Shall we change your name?!?

I saw a good TV programme on synaesthesia - BBC Horizon, with Dr Jamie Ward narrating parts (Jamie's one of our authors, and he's publishing a book with us on synaesthesia next year).

I'm now gutted to know that everything I learnt about synaesthesia on that TV programme is propaganda, purely because it was on TV. *sigh*

I have a mild form of synaesthesia... as do a lot of others I believe. In its more extreme forms it sounds pretty wacky though. I heard of someone who, in his childhood, when his parents took him to classical concerts, thought they put the lights down "so you could see the colours".

[lazarus corporation]

Synesthesia?!? ... Shall we change your name?!?

I saw a good TV programme on synaesthesia - BBC Horizon, with Dr Jamie Ward narrating parts (Jamie's one of our authors, and he's publishing a book with us on synaesthesia next year).

I'm now gutted to know that everything I learnt about synaesthesia on that TV programme is propaganda, purely because it was on TV. *sigh*

I have a mild form of synaesthesia... as do a lot of others I believe. In its more extreme forms it sounds pretty wacky though. I heard of someone who, in his childhood, when his parents took him to classical concerts, thought they put the lights down "so you could see the colours".

Mild forms are very common. From the blurb for the book "Everyone will be closely acquainted with at least 6 or 7 people who have synaesthesia but you may not yet know who they are because, until very recently, it was largely hidden and unknown."

It's a really interesting disorder. Jamie Ward's one of the world's leading experts on synaesthesia and his forthcoming book "The Frog Who Croaked Blue" (out May/June 2008 and available at all good bookshops!) sounds really good.

[Dark]

It's a really interesting disorder. Jamie Ward's one of the world's leading experts on synaesthesia and his forthcoming book "The Frog Who Croaked Blue" (out May/June 2008 and available at all good bookshops!) sounds really good.

It probably looks, tastes and smells very good too.

[lazarus corporation]

It's a really interesting disorder. Jamie Ward's one of the world's leading experts on synaesthesia and his forthcoming book "The Frog Who Croaked Blue" (out May/June 2008 and available at all good bookshops!) sounds really good.

It probably looks, tastes and smells very good too.

It tastes red and smells of A minor. That's a good combination.

[boudicca]

disorder

OI!

Really though, in its mild forms, it tends to be more of a creative advantage than anything else... doesn't interfere with any aspect of my life in any way. I just understand why Monday is blue

[lazarus corporation]

disorder

OI!

How about "neurological phenomenon" then?

[reactiv8]

I saw a good TV programme on synaesthesia - BBC Horizon, with Dr Jamie Ward narrating parts (Jamie's one of our authors, and he's publishing a book with us on synaesthesia next year).

I'm now gutted to know that everything I learnt about synaesthesia on that TV programme is propaganda, purely because it was on TV. *sigh*

I have a mild form of synaesthesia... as do a lot of others I believe. In its more extreme forms it sounds pretty wacky though. I heard of someone who, in his childhood, when his parents took him to classical concerts, thought they put the lights down "so you could see the colours".

Mild forms are very common. From the blurb for the book "Everyone will be closely acquainted with at least 6 or 7 people who have synaesthesia but you may not yet know who they are because, until very recently, it was largely hidden and unknown."

It's a really interesting disorder. Jamie Ward's one of the world's leading experts on synaesthesia and his forthcoming book "The Frog Who Croaked Blue" (out May/June 2008 and available at all good bookshops!) sounds really good.

Disorder? - I always thought it meant they were good 'shrooms! (or 'cid)

[boudicca]

Any kind of phenomenon... sums me up perfectly

[James Blast]

I love my TV-switch off and stare at forests or bull frogs etc - that be your choice

Revr'nd

it's a big world people, try and accommodate others tastes, yeah?

[6FeetOver]

Or both - even at the same time, n'est-ce pas?

Synesthesia?!? ... Shall we change your name?!?

I wish, man - that'd be friggin' cool!

[6FeetOver]

I just understand why Monday is blue

...as is Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 8 In C Minor, Op. 13 'Pathetique'. Kind of a dark, cozy blue-grey, actually.

[Dark]

disorder

OI!

I'm not sure I'd called Disorder "Oi!", but they were pretty good hardcore punk.

[6FeetOver]

HA!

[reactiv8]

I love my TV-switch off and stare at forests or bull frogs etc - that be your choice

OK, I sometimes 'glance' at TV too, but I tend to switch it and the SKY+ box on first! ... wouldn't go as far as to say I love it though! ...

Doesn't anyone else 'watch' it via their 'pooters? - I bet ya do?!?

[6FeetOver]

...only a few silly YouTube vids, here and there. I can't be arsed. Though, in all fairness I *did* catch some telly whilst over there (at my aunt & uncle's - they seem to have the telly on all the time for one thing or another), and the couple of drama shows I watched were pretty good - well-acted, etc. Unfortunately, I can't remember wtf they were called!

[reactiv8]

I sure as hell would rather read a seed catalogue than the Telegraph!

Looked up the article... there's not really much you can say against it, television is pretty much wall to wall s**t. I am sitting now with the usual mid-morning succession of programmes about people buying houses on, that sort of thing really f**king drives me mad. So much of the television schedule seems to consist of people doing the most mundane things... if you want to watch people argue, scratch their arses and talk about having bought their new house, just sit on a park bench for a while and you'll get it for free.

Hmm yeah, I try to read as many papers as possible to get some sort of balanced view ... This article caught my eye because I like Tom Hodgkinson & I thought it would be of interest ...

[eotunun]

And i can't tell you the number of hours i've spent this summer lying down on my back in the forest staring at the clouds.

That sounds incredibly lovely, actually...

For someone who has learnt how to fly gliders, that's a demanding and thrilling pursuit.

And a most luverley one.

[6FeetOver]

And i can't tell you the number of hours i've spent this summer lying down on my back in the forest staring at the clouds.

That sounds incredibly lovely, actually...

...and, I just realized, reminds me of a VNV lyric...