alexist

I've decided I'm way too familiar with '80s culture. No one should know this much about cheesy music and Brat Pack movies.

My knowledge of 1980s US TV is also a little too much. Surely, this is all occupying brain-space that could be used in a more productive manner?

And I just looked at the TV listings and saw that Nick at Nite is showing "Perfect Strangers" and "Head of the Class" (at 4am and 4:30 respectively). Why?!? They weren't worth showing the first time around. Sometimes you re-watch old TV and see that it was actually pretty good--I developed a new appreciation of "Barney Miller", for example, especially once it got into the 3rd series and tightened up, so you never left the squad room. Then again, I'd never really watched it before (it ended when I was 8), I'd just seen the odd re-run. But I doubt time has been kind to those 2 shows...

Netflix' ratings and recommendations are really weird. Now, on Amazon, their recommendations are really cautious. I ordered Red Dwarf, so it recommended another Britcom. I have no idea how Netflix' work! I've rated over 200 films (Netflix is very good this way, simply click on the right number of stars and Javascript [I think] does the rest, no going back and forth. But sometimes, I'll select a movie and it will tell me that it thinks I'll give it, say, 1.7 stars--when it's a film I think I'll really like (and do like in the end). And then it'll give me some totally random movie in my recommendations, or it'll advise me to rent something that's a lot like stuff I hated.

Today it outdid itself. It predicted I would give 4.2 stars to a Bollywood movie. Now, OK, the system couldn't have known I don't like Bollywood (I like some Indian music, but the stuff in Bollywood films is another matter) because I've never rated any. But what in my ratings would make them think I would?! Is it "oh, foreign films, all the same"? I don't think I've even rated anything vaguely Indian-related.

Strange.

If you're actually interested, which you probably aren't. But I like navel-gazing.

Stolen from phil99 :-)

( So I don't clog up your friends page... )