SURPRISING STUFF
Christmas is in the air.
As usual, at this time of year, Christmas music starts its attempt, supported by radio stations that pay nothing for songs that are mostly open source, to turn us into being bored with the holiday’s attitudes. It’s just after Thanksgiving, but already the stations available on radios around the Geneva Lake area have decided to go one hundred percent Christmas oriented and played. There are one hundred and eighty thousand original songs dedicated to Christmas. Amazingly, the top twenty singers or performers of these works are all dead except for Connie Francis who’s 97. Unfortunately, most of the songs that will rotate time after time until Christmas day on our radios will only be those that achieved true star status over the others. By the way, songs by Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra are far and away the most played across the nation.
It isn’t you or your eyesight when you are watching T.V. shows or modern movies.
Stop worrying about macular degeneration or something like that. No, there’s nothing wrong with the contrast or brightness of your television either. Hollywood, Bollywood, Scandinavian Noir, and the Chinese producers are all using the same cost saving tricks to keep expenses down. By limiting the light to damn near unseeable levels the movie and television producers can get cheap on set quality and construction, makeup for the actors, and paying for expensive lighting. They do this by cutting light levels down to an absolute minimum, making it appear that half or more of a production is done in nighttime scenes, or inside basements and caves.
It’s not you. It’s awful but there is little that can be done about such productions except turn them off. If you can’t quite seem to understand the dialogue either, without captions, then again, it’s not about you. Sound production is one of the highest expenses, after paying actors, in the business. They are saving money with cheap and inadequate sound experts and equipment instead of the quality stuff used by quality productions, like the blockbusters.
Person of the Week
The wonder of Kathy, forever server at the Pub, and beloved by everyone.
