Music or News to start the morning ?

On the weekdays, I often wake up to my mom watching the FOX news. I overhear what the weather will be like for the week, how the economy continues to plummet, how there will be traffic this morning because of a car accident, how another high school has been shut down, how there was a protest in San Francisco or a gang
shooting in Oakland the other day..

Bottom line, I regularly wake up to negativity and it is not a pleasant way to start my day. I tend to be cranky and light-headed from my lack of sleep, and I want to be uplifted into a mellow mood before going to school; not informed with negative news.



When I am not in a rush (mostly on Wednesdays) I turn the television on either VH1 channel 44 for "Jump Start" or MTV channel 43 for "AMTV: 10 on Top Countdown".



 

Jump Start airs on channel 44 from 6-9a.m. AMTV: 10 on Top Countdown shows from 7-8a.m on weekdays.

Basically, these two shows air music videos. Jump Start presents upcoming bands and snappy music videos that are becoming popular. They play anything from Rap to Hip-Hop, to Indie to Pop, etc. AMTV, on the other hand, shows the top 10 music videos of the day.

Conversely, it is also important to know the recent events and news that are happening in the world.

If you had the time to watch television in the morning, which would you prefer to watch? The news or music?



Vote now and get your favorite music video on the top!
http://www.vh1.com/shows/series/top_20_countdown/index.jhtml

Black Friday Television Deals

Every year, Black Friday comes along after Thanksgiving day and blowouts on electronics cause pandemonium outside of numerous stores. News stations are filled with footage of great gatherings of eager bargain hunters impatiently waiting for stores to open as early as 3a.m. As fellow shoppers prepare for the holiday season, massive sales on Black Friday attracts countless customers.

Along with many other items put on sale, television is among one of the most targeted bargains on Black Friday. Some sales go up to as high as 70% off. Good bargains can be found in websites such as:  http://www.blackfriday2011.com/subscribe/b1?tid=1111&s=gs|home-gen|bf2011-kwbftxt-b1&gclid=COTY1tzqrawCFUcaQgodKlVmGg

Last year, my uncle bought a 56 inch plasma Sony television and got the second one free. Some deals are mind blowing that the stores are practically giving them away. It gets one to wonder what the motives of these retailers are, when profits seem not to be met.

Regardless, these deals only come once a year and televisions are expensive material items, so get them while they are served before another beats you to it.

Check these links out for great deals:

http://www.blackfriday.info/category/television-black-friday-deals.html

http://bfads.net/

http://dealnews.com/c159/Electronics/TVs/s669/Frys/

Analyze: TV Entertainment

So my journalism teacher assigned my class the blog assignment for the week : Pick your strongest post and your weakest post and analyze your writing. What is working? What isn't working? What do you want to improve in the next six weeks? What steps will you take to make that happen?

In my opinion, my weakest post has got to be my most recent one, New Fall 2011 Shows, and my strongest: New Girl.

Why did I choose these as my weakest and strongest?

To be honest, it took me fifteen minutes at the most to write and post New Fall 2011 Shows. I did not double-check for errors like I should have, and I was not able to give as much input and opinion into my post as I had wanted. I did the basics and did a quick summary of some, not all, of the shows I listed.

Unlike New Fall 2011 Shows, I actually spent a good hour contemplating on what style and how I was going to write New Girl. I actually watched the first two episodes and did background research before I began typing.

In the next six weeks, I would like to improve in managing my schedule so that I will have an adequate amount of time to write and brainstorm what will be on my blog posts. My schedule for the weekdays are usually jam-packed, so I will most likely be taking some time from the weekends to do my blog posts.

New Fall 2011 Shows

This Fall 2011, there are several new television shows rising to the screen. A few are:

Grimm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kh3rFsv_WSE

Charlie's Angel's
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2P_jP76qqI
The popular Charlies' Angels are back! A car thief, a corrupted cop and a car thief fight crime and work for the mysterious Charlie Townshend in this captivating new series.


The X Factor
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m02_jXdwXLs
The X Factor is a television talent show franchise that originated from the United Kingdom. It is a singing competition held in various countries and is produced my executive producer Simon Cowell from American Idol.

Last Man Standing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjbY6E65Np8
Tim Allen from Home Improvement, returns to ABC on Tuesdays at 8pm.

Terra Nova
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6aNEIZwPFc
Terra Nova is an American science fiction drama television series about going back in time because of lack of resources, poor air quality, and overpopulation. The setting first begins in the year 2149 and is quickly brought back to the dinosaur age (815 million years back), by the use of a massive ring-shaped structure creating a rift in space-time, and allowing time travel to happen. My mom loves this show and I would recommend it to sci-fi fanatics.

I have not yet seen all of them, but from what I have heard, they are all really great shows--except for Last Man Standing. Due to a busy schedule, I could not write as much as I had hoped to on this post. Sorry! Stay tuned for more.

New Generation of Cartoons ?

As I came home one evening and unlocked the door to my house, I hear kissing noises coming from the living room. Bewildered, I walked into the living room only to discover my ten-year-old brother watching the new Total Drama Island, a recent cartoon series on Cartoon Network. On the television screen, one can see two cartoon characters "making out". This cartoon is supposedly a "reality TV show", which makes no sense since cartoons are the exact opposite of reality.

I thought to myself, what ever happened to the good old cartoons?

Nowadays, every time I come home in the evening, I find my little brother watching cartoons like "Adventure Time with Finn and Jake", "Flapjack", "The Regular Show", and many other pointless Cartoon Network shows with no good story plot. From time to time, I'd join my brother and watch for awhile as I eat my dinner.

Most of these shows are a let down, due to the fact they are sometimes too melodramatic, the ending is predictable, and they spend half the time trying to be "funny", in a pointless way.


One particular show is "The Regular Show"(apparently they could not even think of a better name), which revolves around the life of a talking raccoon and some type of bird. In one episode, these two cartoon characters get into an argument and decide to resolve the problem with a simple game of rock-paper-scissors. I can honestly say I wasted five minutes of my life watching these two talking cartoon animals play rock-paper-scissors, with intense background music. After 100 times of getting a draw in rock-paper-scissors, for some miraculous reason, it created a whole in the universe and a gigantic monster came out and began to eat everybody and every thing. At the end, the two characters saved the world by overcoming their issues and finishing their game of rock-paper-scissors. This all happened in fifteen minutes..


I remember when I was little, I would wake up to watch The Powerpuff Girls, Tom and Jerry, or Rugrats. Even my parents would watch with me and we would all have a good laugh. Whereas, my parents do not watch cartoons with my little brother.

Although I do miss the old cartoons from my childhood and it pains me to see them fade away, maybe these new cartoons don't necessarily suck. Maybe the cartoon preferences of the children from the 90's and the children of the 21st century are just completely different, and I am growing up.

New Girl

Starting Fall 2011, FOX released a variety of new television series. From a fiction drama "Terra Nova" to a new game show "Take the Money and Run". Among them is the captivating and humorous TV series "New Girl". Rated 7.7 out of 10 by the Internet Movie Data Base, New Girl is full of potential and is quickly becoming one of FOX's top-rated TV shows.

I came across "New Girl" one Tuesday evening while talking on the phone. Needing a bit of privacy, I shut my bedroom door and turned my television on high volume; which coincidentally happens to be on FOX channel 2. After a brief conversation, I told my friend I had to go because homework was piling up and an essay was due the next day..

"Jess!"
"Who's Jess? You're talking to.... (whisper)'Tiger Boobs'. (She removes her long coat)  Bu-bum--bu-bum-bu-bum-bu-bu-bummm. Who's that girl? Whooo's that girrrrrrl!? Hah. It's Jess!"
Jess, with only a pillow covering her body, begins to prance around while singing to her boyfriend. The half-naked man, comes out the bedroom and as Jess turns around she is flabbergasted. Another woman with nothing but a tank top and panties on is in the apartment with her boyfriend.

My first thoughts were: Ouch! Caught red-handed! And why is this so called 'Jess' singing while nude?

Unable to resist, I watched the entire episode.

Like many other sitcoms, the story plot of "New Girl" revolves around good-hearted, yet careless, young singles.

The story begins with Zooey Deschanel from "500 Days of Summer", starring as the quirky Jess Day. In an attempt to surprise her boyfriend, she went home sooner than expected and found her boyfriend fooling around with another woman. Instead of trying to "work things out", she decided to move out.

On Craiglist she found three bachelors looking for a fourth roommate, and goes for an interview. In a vote of 2 to 1, Jess makes the cut and moves in. The men consists of a jock that is socially awkward around women and goes by the name Coach. Nick, the sensitive fellow out of the three. And the average American bachelor, Schmidt, a ladies-man that almost never gets the ladies and is always striving to get to the next level in his career. Together, the men assists Jess in overcoming the depression of a horrible break-up, while in turn, Jess plays a huge impact on each of the men.

Overall, the social awkwardness, catchy theme song, humorous dialogues, and real life situations makes this enthralling TV series worth watching on Tuesday nights at 8pm.

[Although I would not recommend this for young audiences, due to the fact it does contain some filthy humor.]

Catch the first episode here! http://www.fox.com/new-girl/full-episodes/1143584/

Want to see the trailer? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qqojuj1zoU

Any suggestions/requests on what my next blog should be on?

About this blog

Why has she created a blog about television?

What is this page about?

Who is this person?

As you may already know, I am Christine. But who is Christine? Well, I am a junior in high school and I have created this blog mainly because my Journalism teacher has assigned us to. I was born on Christmas Eve, I love the color purple, I enjoy playing sports such as water polo, basketball and snowboarding, when I am hungry I gobble down food as if there is a whole in my stomach, I go to church because my parents want me to, I am part of the school a capella choir (although I am a horrible singer and cannot hit those high notes), I am a staff writer for the school newspaper, I am currently learning how to knit and have failed in trying to learn how to beatbox, and sleep is my enemy; I only get 6 hours of it.

Enough random facts about me. Now that you have a broad idea of who I am.. Where does television fit in my life?

To be honest, I do not watch television on a daily basis. As I have mentioned before, I do not even have the time to sleep a full 8 hours a day. So how can I write about TV shows when I do not spend enough time with my television?

Like a good friend, television is here for me in my time of need (and boredom). We may not spend every waking moment together, but after a long, restless week I can always depend on my reliable friend Mr. Sony. I house him and shelter him, and in return he entertains me and brings joy to my family when asked to. 

One can say that we have a "friends with benefits" relationship. I am able to watch from different televisions and he is able to be watched by others as well. I love my television and regardless my busy schedule, I find time to watch.

Some shows I may be writing about or critiquing in this blog include the following genres: cartoons, dramas, comedies, sports, movies, anime, reality television, music, cooking, news, game shows, etc. 

So hit that follow button and stay tuned for more.