What do you watch or listen to while you paint?

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**Dragonchef**

Just a random thought. What music do you listen to or what show do you watch?

For me its Bolt Thrower for music i feel it embodies my marines the most. Hard aggressive and a soul grinding grove.
For TV: i really just throw on the tube and watch what is on. either that or FoodTV

So share with us.

**FITZZ**

I usauly dont watch TV when I'm painting,if I do I watch the History chanel or Saving Private Ryan,somthing along those lines.
As for music, most of the time it's stuff like this..

or this...

**malfred**

Audio books and DVD commentary.

However, I haven't painted anything in 2010. Too busy with events and overtime at work (which
means overtime spent at home)

**Albatross**

Usually The Jeremy Kyle Show, as I do most of my painting during the day, when I'm not at Uni.

**Shadowbrand**

I listen to Black Metal when I paint.

Usually Burzum or something melodic like old school Dimmu Borgir or Immortal.

**Wolf**

I'm a confessed Blues'a'holic

I listen to people like Eric Clapton.
BB King
J.J Cale
Cream

List goes on and on.

**Anshal**

Shadowbrand wrote:I listen to Black Metal when I paint.

Usually Burzum or something melodic like old school Dimmu Borgir or Immortal.

Same but cut out Burzum and Immortal and replace them with Red Harvest or Enslaved

**SeanMoscow**

I'm listening audio books. Very-very different - from Steven King to Irwin Shaw or Dickens.

Because if I read a book I fall asleep in five minutes.

**IvanTih**

I love to listen to some hard rock,neo-classical metal,heavy metal,rock and some other sub-genres of rock music.

**Khornholio**

I used to listen to a lot of various Metal CDs while painting, but recently I've had the laptop out and watch a lot of documentaries on Google video. Jordan Maxwell, WWII documentaries, American Civil War. Sometimes I'll stumble across an old TV show like Ripley's believe it or not or something and watch a bunch of that. Arthur C. Clarke gets into the rotation too. The documentary about fractals he did was totally awesome.

**Quintinus**

Lots of "Emerson Lake and Palmer"

Or whatever the gods of Shuffle have decided for my iPod.

**Hawkins**

malfred wrote:Audio books and DVD commentary.

However, I haven't painted anything in 2010. Too busy with events and overtime at work (which
means overtime spent at home)

Bout the same. but ive managed to get about 30 models finished so far.

**IG_urban**

I have a huge movie collection that I pick from...but since I dont really WATCH while I paint, I like to rewatch Saving Private Ryan, Black Hawk Down, We Were Soldiers, Band of Brothers...etc...

I also have the complete 30 Rock, The Office ( both UK and US), Nip/Tuck...and a few other complete series so I cycle through those.....

hate watching television...commercials....I love me my food network, history, discovery, and Nat Geo....

directv pwns commercials...

if I listen to music its jazz.

**Asrodrig**

I love listening to Warhammer-related podcasts when I'm painting. That or a semi-relevant movie, like LOTR or Inglorious Bastiges.

**Corvus**

music for me is straight up Iron Maiden, maybe some Dream Theater or Apocalyptica.

I also sometimes watch South Park while I work

**mattyrm**

I cant watch things while i paint or i get distracted and screw the models up! But i listen to music i like, too many to name but at the moment my 2gb mp3 player has on it (keeping it old school!) The Decemberists, Housemartins, Bluetones, Travis, Bob Dylan, JC, greenday, jamairoquai and bit of madness. If im near my computer i also stick on some creationist lectures or fox news videos i download off youtube, the stuff is comedy genius and i genuinelly laugh out loud at some of the stuff Kent Hovind and his friends are willing to believe in in order to not contradict the bible in any form. I watched one the other day and the guy said dinosaurs went onto the ark like everything else, but we killed them all afterwards, that gaks like Monty Python :-)

**J.Black**

I'll have some sports commentary on if possible otherwise i'll throw a few random episodes of Buffy into the vlc player and sort of half watch it when i'm washing my brush between colours.

**Dragonchef**

Recently i have put together a WH40K play list to listen to. Amon Amarth, Otep, Maiden, Children of Bodom, Arch Enemy. Black Label Society. and that is just to name a few

**Chibi Bodge-Battle**

I usually try to watch the end of my brush when painting

Listen to Radio 3 which I'm guessing is is fairly rare on Dakka

**VikingScott**

Dragoncheif has got a near perfect list going on.
That for me + Metallica, Ensiferum and 36 Crazyfists (you've either love them or never heard of them)

**Clthomps**

I watch Big Trouble in Little China, or the Blues Brothers.

**Monster Rain**

I like to have some sports on the TV, usually.

Baseball is perfect, since it doesn't require constant attention. For music, I just put my entire collection on shuffle and let that play. My wife's music is in there too, so it's a pretty wacky mix.

**paulguise**

I usually listen to NPR podcasts; news, how stuff works, stuff you missed in history class, wait wait dont tell me.

It gets my news fix and provides solitude time for my painting and modeling.