Metal girl/woman stereotypes

Ever seen that show That Metal Show? If you haven't cause you don't like metal or even if you do but haven't gotten around to it, you're not really missing much. They show the same metal dudes from the same metal bands all the time. Unless they one day interview the members of Ghoul, Kylesa, Municipal Waste, or Venom, or whoever, then maybe I'll watch willingly. But this isn't what bothered me about the show, it was the fact that they found the most stereotypical Sunset Blvd metal girl you could imagine to do some segment (what the segment was, I can't really recall cause I wasn't paying attention). They just had her for show, didn't ask for her opinion on anything, just treating her like eye-candy for all the burly metal bros.
Who am I to judge this woman, maybe she really does like really good metal and not just.....Motley Crue. I just didn't like that she wasn't more involved in the show. She was just brought in and out.
As a person who goes to metal shows quite often, I can tell you that girls who love metal come in all shapes, colors, hair colors, backgrounds. Some dress one way, others dress another way, but we are not just one cookie cutter way: think of every woman in the mid to late 80s hair metal scene, that's who they want to portray as "metal women" but really, it's just a fucking stereotype.

Another showing of The Devil's Rejects again, IFC?

There's a channel called Chill or Chiller or something along those lines, and they strictly only show scary or suspenseful programming and movies. Usually it's hours-long marathons of Buffy the Vampire Slayer (yay!) or really crappy direct-to-DVD or tv movies. That's all well and good. I'm glad there's a channel for everything now. So, why is it that anytime I change the channel to IFC, the movie Hostel, The Devil's Rejects, or some other horror movie is on? Why aren't there any independent movies on? Why are they showing reruns of Malcolm in the Middle (a good show, but still, it was on Fox for like 10 years)? Why can't they show reruns of The Henry Rollins Show like they used to?  Isn't that the entire point of IFC, to show independent movies and shows?
Just show me reruns of your original programming and all the other good stuff you used to show! That's all I ask of you.

But don't stop showing reruns of Freaks and Geeks because...that show is the shit.

Life of a night owl

More and more I find myself watching TV alone late at night because Bearded Man goes to work early in the morning, so he's usually out by 10:30 on most nights, what else am I supposed to do? I've tried going to sleep when he does but it does not work for me!
As I've mentioned before, I really really love watching TV.  Especially when it includes shows that gives me an inside look of people looking for and/or buying a house, people buying fixer-upper homes and remodeling them (I'm so jealous of people on this show because I want a fixer-upper, but that's another post for another time), and shows about remodeling bathrooms, kitchens, and back yards. I change the channel when it's a show about remodeling a basement, houses in California rarely have basements, so I really don't care for those episodes.
HGTV must be keeping track of what shows I watch the most because they give me hours-long marathon of House Hunters, Property Brothers, and Bath/Yard Crashers that I crave for this time of night.

People are looking for a house to buy, they're shown 3 houses, and then they choose which one they liked best or had the best price. My only reservation with this show is when they have this childless couple or a couple with only one child and they want like a 4 fucking bedroom home. Why do you need so many rooms for a family of three? Oh, you want more children? Oh, you want your child to have a separate room for their toys? Blah blah blah, first world problems. Either way, I can't stop watching. I like looking at houses, except for track homes. Those suck ass.

They're twins! One is a real estate agent who shows you your dream home but then tells you can't afford it. But don't worry, he's going to show you what you can afford, a fixer-upper home. Usually the buyer is a whiner who just wants a move-in ready home, doesn't want to deal with renovations, and other shit "too much to do, so little time." That's when real estate agent guy brings in his twin brother who's a contractor and shows the whiney buyer that buying a fixer-upper home isn't such a bad thing. It gives the buyer the opportunity to fix their house the way they want to, given if they budget correctly. All the homes turn out to be wonderful and so much better than the model dream homes they wanted in the first place. I'm so jealous of them. I would like a fixer-upper of my own one day. Baby steps. In about five years, I'll be calling you, Property Brothers!

First of all, I cannot stand the hosts of these shows, they're annoying. If one of them came up to me while I was shopping at Home Depot or Lowe's, I'd say no to their offer of fixing up my bathroom or yard in two days as well, just like half of the people they scout at the beginning of the show. Other than that, I really like the outcome of the renovations at the end. It's just a shame you'd have to spend two days with those annoying hosts.

Ooooh, House Hunters International is on! Yay!

No, no, no

Where Dad (and his side of the family) is from:

Where Mom (and her side of the family) is from:

I was reminded by some stupid commercial on NBC about how this month was Hispanic Heritage Month, and I quickly rolled my eyes because, to me, any heritage month is a stupid idea. Why do we need a month? Don't we already celebrate our heritage every single day of the year just by being who we are? I'm Mexican-American (yeah, I know, Sarver isn't a very "Mexican" last name. That's because it is not.), every single day of my life I know that I'm Mexican-American. I don't need a month to remind me about how important Celia Cruz is. She isn't important to me because I'm not Cuban-American. If it was Paquita la del Barrio, then it'd be a different story. That's the thing with these heritage months. They just lump everyone into one big group, when in reality, we're not just one big group. We're different groups who all just happen to speak Spanish, but even then, the way we speak Spanish differs from one another. Maybe a lot of people will disagree with me, however I stand by what I say, I don't want to be lumped into one group, I don't want a special month. I have twelve months where I get to celebrate my heritage. So take that, stupid commercial on NBC!

The Object of my Obsession and (maybe) Embarrassment

Hello all to my very first post! Whether you like this or hate it, it really doesn't matter to me. I just don't want to be so bored anymore while I watch TV. Anyway, speaking of watching TV, I love watching TV, and I especially love watching reruns. As we all get older, we try to choose our shows wisely lest we want to be judged harshly by our peers. There are certain shows that you mention and everyone seems to be okay with it, and then you mention watching another show and people are up in arms about how shitty that show is. You can never win. Not even with TV.
Which brings me to this, I've become obsessed with watching How I Met Your Mother. It all started when I didn't have cable and it was on three different channels. And now that I have cable, all I watch is this show.

 It's Alyson Hannigan, Jason Segel, and Neil Patrick Harris! They were all in shows I loved before and now they're all in this show, so how could I say no? Yes, at times it can be a very cheesy and when the fuck is that main character going to reveal who the goddamn mom is? Don't you wish you could share a cab with them? Well, no you can't, because they took up all the seats in that cab and they're such a tight-knit group of friends.  No outsiders allowed. As much I weirdly like this show, I wouldn't want to be friends with these people, except for maybe Alyson Hannigan, Jason Segel, and Neil Patrick Harris. They seem like people that I'd like to be friends with, the other two could just tag along when we all go out drinking. 
I wish there was a How I Met Your Mother marathon today. I guess I could just watch this Snapped marathon instead while I wait for the laundry to dry.