TV in CC playing 10CC

It used to be that I only ever saw closed captioning in bars. It would be Hockey Night in Canada and the Leafs would undoubtedly be blowing another two goal lead. So I'd drink some more and try to read the scores of the other games flashing at the bottom of the screen. But I'd be having trouble catching all the scores because the words of Harry Neale kept getting in the way in the form of horizontal black blocks spreading across the screen. I would think: 'reading's for chumps'. I was biased though because I probably had about six or seven articles and a couple of books to read that week. So it followed. Obviously I had not yet discovered the real purpose of closed captioning: to ROCK.
It started while I was working up in Canada's Arctic. After a long day of work sucking, there's not much I liked doing more than plugging in my electric and playing loud punk songs way too loud in the little rooms I was too loud in. Loud. Then I'd probably watch TV. One day I got put in a house with another Northern worker who kept complaining about the last guy he lived with; how he'd watch Seinfeld DVDs with the sound off and play his guitar at the same time. What bothered my co-worker wasn't the guitar playing per se, but rather that the guy sucked, and he did this all the time. So I started doing the same. Nah, I actually waited until that co-worker was shipped off somewhere else.
I'd watch hockey games cause you don't really need sound except for Coach's Corner. It wasn't long before I'd turned on the closed captioning and was watching other things while playing my sweet Charvel. I recommend everybody try it. Some shows are better than others in close captioning accompanied by a trans-like blues riff you've been playing for 90 minutes. Most notably: CSI:Miami (Horatio is even more hilarious when you imagine his voice), Seinfeld is good for this(it helps if you've seen them all ten thousand times), and Sue Thomas FBI (I love the little music notes, also the irony). Of course there is a major drawback. Commercials generally don't have closed captioning. Luckily I watch enough TV while not playing the guitar to have seen most of the commercials elsewhere. Doesn't that last sentence sum it up though? Life is divided into time spent playing the guitar, and time spent not playing. Oh yeah, mowing the lawn and doing dishes too.