Kyle Thomas

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I am what I watch on TV

Okay maybe this is a bad thing, but I don’t follow shows, I wait until they are all done and watch them in bulk by season. Watching TV is my mind numbing way of turning off my brain. I actually normally watch TV while baking or while I write blog posts, like right now.

When I watch these shows, in bulk, I tend to absorb them and associate them into my everyday life. Let me give you two examples.

Bakering bad

Mad Men

Well this is an easy one. They ran an advertising agency in the 60’s and 70’s and I work at a marketing agency here in Yellowknife. Despite it being based in the past and, well, a tv show, there were similarities. When I was working on a projects scenes from the show sometimes pop into my head. Things like how to work with clients, manage things, pitch ideas, etc. Now I’m not saying that I use it as a guidebook, but sometime it helps to think about things in a different way. 

Breaking Bad

It took me a long time to get into Breaking Bad, but now I’m hooked. When I started watching the show I was in full force at the Yellowknife Farmers’ Market. I was making the only locally made bread, producing about 100 loaves a week, and I was damn good at it. There was excitement, thrill, long nights and stress to meet quotas. I was known to many as the bread guy. All of which you could say about Walter White and his blue meth. Weird I know, but when I find myself in the kitchen weighing out different measurements that when combined make an unbelievable product.

Dexter

Well I just started Season 8. It has been a while since I watch Season 7 so I don’t recall how I associated this secret serial killer with myself… so we’ll have to see where this goes.

What TV show do you associate with your life?

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Dexter is in my head

My brother will laugh at me by saying this, but I’m comparing myself to Dexter. You know the serial killer who works for the Miami PD. The one that’s a fictional character who is on TV. I know I am crazy.

I have been watching the seasons. I have finished season one and season two, and I’m just waiting for season three. I love the way the show goes, with Dexter talking to himself in his head. And this is where I start comparing myself.

I to talk to myself in my head, as I’m sure many of us do. Sometimes I’m the only one around to talk to, and that’s not saying I’m lonely. Sometimes the greatest listeners is yourself.  I guess Dexter calls himself different and unusual, which he is. I’m not, I’m average. What makes me compare myself to Dexter is actually not talking myself. It is actually talking to you.

I have been told many times that when I write I write as if I’m saying it. I write as if I’m actually talking to you, telling you a story, picturing you in my head as I type the words on the page. I don’t know I started doing it, it was just very conversational. So what brought on this comparison of Dexter, will that would be Dragon Dictate.

As I just mentioned, my writing is a lot like my speech, but I never actually spoke the words I wrote out loud. Now I am, I’m saying my blog posts allowed. I’m looking at a blank document, thinking about what I’m going to say, and then saying it. This also explains why so many of my blog posts, have a lot of grammatical errors, and misused words.
Dexter Morganphoto © 2009 Guilhermo O Martines Junior Martines | more info (via: Wylio)
This addition of Dragon Dictate has allowed me to say whatever I want without having to over think it. When I actually type out what I’m going to say, I over think it. I over analyze and forget to just say what I want to say. Now I can.

“It was a very nice day outside.”

See what I just did there, I said whatever I wanted to in the program just translated my speech to text. The word bliss comes to mind. Although I’m fairly certain my roommate now thinks I’m crazy, but as I said above that is common knowledge.