There’s a show on one of those cable channels where people engage in extreme eating, ride roller coasters, show you how Pixie Stix are made, taunt ghosts, and turn their noses up at the very idea of a ceiling fan, that I’ve somehow started watching.
Lots of people say they don’t watch TV, but I really don’t. During the four days I’m working each week, I don’t see any television at all. Not one minute. And on my days off it’s not much more.
We like Friday Night Lights, take semi-advantage of Netflix streaming (which is pretty awesome), and sometimes flip through the aforementioned cable channels, while enjoying a few adult beverages at the end of a day. And that’s about the extent of it.
Yet I’ve gotten hooked on an unlikely show, called Selling New York. Have you seen this? It follows a group of real estate agents around, as they attempt to sell breathtakingly expensive apartments in New York City, or match a client with a breathtakingly expensive apartment. I think I’ve watched every episode, thanks to our always-lurking DVR, and enjoy the hell out of it.
The prices of the properties are insane, and the people live in a world that’s more fantastic than most science fiction movies I’ve seen. Amazing! Many of the clients are eccentric (or just plain crazy), and even though they’re all wildly wealthy, they often act like children. They pout and whine, and hold grudges…
It’s fascinating to me.
I also appreciate the show’s leisurely pace. Most programs seem to be edited by people who want to see how many grand mal seizures they can trigger. But Selling New York is comparatively laid-back, which I like.
I recently asked someone (purposefully vague) if they’ve ever watched the show, and their response surprised me. They said they can’t relate to any of it, and therefore “hate” the program. WTF? What kind of attitude is that?
Heck, I can’t relate to it, either. And that’s part of the reason I like it. Every time I go to New York I wonder what the interiors of those great old buildings look like, and how the millionaire residents live. Is that unusual? Or should I just start hating everything I’ve yet to experience?
Of course, I’ve always regretted not having lived in NYC, so that might have something to do with it, as well. Hopefully someday… before I get so old my pelvis explodes every time the wind blows.
Have you seen Selling New York? Any thoughts on it? If I’m going to watch almost no TV, is this really one of the few shows I should be following? I mean, on account of it being kinda fancy-lad and prissy…
Also, where would you live, if it could be anywhere in the world? New York and London would be near or at the top of my list. What about you? Tell us about it, won’t you?
And I’ll see you guys again tomorrow.
Have a great day!
hot fuzz…I like the Cadanian ‘accent’ you wrote with. Remindes me of the bad ass dude in the movie “Southren Comfort”…one of my all time fave movies.
…and…Actually…Newfie chicks are cute…Alberta chicks are…”big boned”.
ET…I live in central northern New Mexico, 18 miles from the Colorado line. Did 30 years in the Nevada desert in Las Vegas. Now I got mountians and more.
Yeah, yeah…my typing sucks…but I found out Samantha grows more than just parsley.
And…I really like freckles. 🙂
Jeff, I work in property management and that bunker cam has NOTHING on what I’ve seen. It absolutely blows my mind how some people live. I’ve seen fecal matter in places that made me wonder for weeks how it got there and what the circumstances were that made it happen!
Chuck,
I just reread Dead Solid Perfect a couple of months ago. Best book on golf ever. Have you read Limo? I believe it’s my favorite DJ. The “I believe you’re away” line from Semi-Tough still cracks me up.
Dan Jenkins wrote some killer prose. For all time.
jtb
OB12
I watched an episode of Selling NY and I found it soo far from my lifestyle that I find it enjoyable.
Closer to my lifestyle shows that I love:
House Hunters
Holmes on Homes.
God I loves Holmes show.
He is like the computer nerd except he fixes houses.
Seeing them down to the framing is a MUST KNOW
for this new home owner
I do not watch any TV.
And I would love to live in Ireland. No, I am not Irish. No, I don’t like beer (or to even drink any kind of alcohol).
In fact, I have never tasted beer. Or alcohol.
Weird, I know.
Like not watching TV.
jtb, No I hadn’t heard of the club you mentioned the other day. Other than that, yes, I know all of the other Canadians.
TV? anything discovery channel has me hooked. I so want to be a crab fisherman, but i would probably curl up in a corner of the boat and cry. Not good.
I hate pretenciousness I think i tried to watch orange county wives once and almost vomitted.
Where would I want to live? BC and thus I am here (for now).
@dto
yeah – New Mexico has a mystical draw on me and I keep wanting to go back. A friend of mine is a professional photographer who shot many rolls of film at White Sands National Park- which I used to visit regularly (I was stationed at Holloman AFB near Alamogordo) – and I’ve got one of his dune photos hanging on my office wall where I can wistfully stare at it. I loved living there, and it was only an hour and a half to the Mexico border across that little tip of Texas, but nowadays I probably wouldn’t be that keen on partying in Juarez, given their problems with grug gangs, etc…
I meant “drug” gangs. I think the “grug” gangs are now extinct…
I re-read the posts of t.v. shows, and wanted to add the series “Weeds” as a fav. That show was irreverent. Is there another season in the works?
Sorry, but any show called “Holmes on …” just conjures up bad images of 70s porn movies.
Maybe that’s just me?
Now that you guys mention it, I did spend a summer with relatives in Hobbs, NM. I hated it as a teenager but I bet it’s a lot more my style nowadays. Now I’ll have to see where Hobbs is on Google Earth.
Shit the bed Fred. I take a day off to celebrate my birfday and Jeff asked do you know Sam questions.
I don’t watch the show in question (no cable) but I lived in NYC, in Hell’s Kitchen, about 10 years ago. Looking back, I guess I’m glad that I had the experience but I’d much rather be living in the mountains of Fayette County, PA. Yeah, that would require a lottery-win, which ain’t gonna happen.
Son of Sam: How was Roland’s and the Strip Sunday?
My boyfriend has me watching Tosh.0 on Comedy Central. F’n hilarious.
bc Rolands is out of bidness. I was ready for the Oyster and Lobster but no good. Once we found it was closed we didn’t even go dantahn.
SOS: WHAT??? Are you fucking serious?? We were just there not too long ago!! That place was a staple in the Strip for years. Wow. What a shame. Thanks for the info.
SOS: U sure you are talking about Rolands? Just talked to one of the doc’s in our office who just walked by it this weekend and said it was open. Hmmmm….
Well bikerchick the soon to be ex told me they were closed. I just checked for myself and they are indeed OPEN. Now you know why soon to be ex. Idiot.
SOS: oh…my condolence’s…. Onto bigger and better?!
SOS…maybe NOT bigger…just better. If someone doesn’t know if a good eatery and drinkery is still around…lose ’em…..-dave’s rule #6
@ TStorm,
That’s sad about MTV…I remember back in the early 90’s when MTV & VH1 were awesome. Pop Up Video was the best show ever.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwnnSSs0kFA
You’ve just been Rick rubbed!
Not bigger. I’m with you dto But it’s all good. Someone asked me the other day “How you doing?”
I said “If I had a tail it would be wagin” You know fuck it I’m happier when I ain’t catching shit for something I don’t give a damn about.
SOS…I meant bigger and better THINGS…not necessarily bigger WOMEN! But…hey…you never know!
dto: What are #1-5 rules to live by?