So my parents are coming to visit today...

[prisoner_24601]

... and instead of frantically cleaning my pit of a house like I should be this morning (I like to pretend that I actually have a clean house when company comes over), I turned on PBS instead and Bob Ross was on.

Anyone else a Bob Ross fan? I don't know a damn thing about painting, but every time his show is on I sit hypnotized for the entire show and watch him paint happy little trees and clouds. Apparently, it's genetic, because my three year old son watched the whole thing with me today. As cheesy as Bob Ross is, he makes me want to go out, buy a canvas and paint and try to paint along side him.

According to Wikipedia, there was a Bob Ross video game planned, but it got scrapped. That sucks so bad. I would have bought a console just for that.

<3 you Bob Ross.

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[plutospawn.livejournal.com]

I'm not allowed to like Bob Ross or his happy trees. His work and teachings are based around copying basic schematic elements (happy tree, tiny little house in the distance) without actually observing those things for yourself to see if the happy tree always has the branch on the right side or whatever.

But I'd buy him a beer, because he seems like a laid back dude. There was some other guy running some drawing show, too. Pappy, I think. He was like the batshit hillbilly version of Bob Ross with a talking paintbrush.

[prisoner--24601.livejournal.com]

OMFG HOW DARE YOU RAIN ON MY BOB ROSS PARADE?

/cry

Just kidding. I think it's kind of neat to have an artists perspective on what he does. I do see what you're saying, it is all very repetitious. He paints the same thing in slightly different contexts over and over and over (maybe that's why he's so hypnotic). So I can see how artististicly he's not the best lol.

I kind of think he's the television art equivalent of a bowl of weed and a bunch of cheap McDonald's hamburgers. There's just something about the combination of the words he uses with his super mellow voice and his fro that makes for some strangely hypnotic television.

[kosiah.livejournal.com]

Oh god yeah, we used to watch that hungover. I caught it again recently with Lindell and she looked interested too.

Just tell your parents that the gypsies you let housesit for you while you were called out of town on mysterious business for the Department of State left the place a mess and you haven't had time to clean because the dogs ate the mop.

[prisoner--24601.livejournal.com]

I can see how Bob Ross would be rather soothing to watch during a hangover. I wish I'd been smart enough to try that the last time it happened.

Hahah you know, she really could care less whether or not my house is a total cesspool, because she gets to see her grandson. She's usually so busy playing with him, that I really don't think she even notices. It's really pressure I put on myself as I'm the only one who angsts about it, which is kind of stupid really.

[kitbug.livejournal.com]

We have a running joke in my house.

MOM: WE'RE GOING TO CLEAN THE HOUSE TODAY.

ME: WHO'S COMING OVER?

Because we almost never do anything beyond a weekly vacuuming unless there's company on its way.

[prisoner--24601.livejournal.com]

Oh man, having people over is the best motivator to get off my lazy butt and get things clean. It's good that people come over to visit on occasion or I'd probably be living in a cesspool.

[miakun.livejournal.com]

Bob Ross is amazing, because you'll just be staring at his fro and be mesmerized at whatever he's doing and then BOOM there's a painting out of nowhere. It's frightening.

[prisoner--24601.livejournal.com]

Hahaha, I know. Most of the time I'm not even looking at what he's doing, just staring at him or zoning out to the sound of his mellow voice.

His paintings are like ninjas.