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[29 Aug 2006|05:21pm] |
so far i have one good class this semester, and one class that i haven't been to you. of the rest, one is interesting, but i wouldn't really consider it "good" and the other two are not good.
allen ginsberg is pretty awesome. i have just discovered this. with a little help from my friends.
i actually did my reading for tomorrow (from Fundamental Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences...oh man)...how incredible is that? i know by the second or third week i will have given up on keeping up with readings. actually, for once in my life it really helps not having a life...or cable TV.
this is all, i just felt like updating.
"i'm nearsighted and psychopathic anyway."
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[31 Jul 2006|02:18pm] |
This is insanely random, but there's this comic taped to the wall of the bathroom at Record and Tape that always makes me giggle, so I wanted to share it. The title is "How Girls Get Even." This is my favorite part of it.
"My Little Pony Head Left on Pillow."
You probably have to have seen The Godfather (or at least The Godthumb) to find this funny.
The bottom left section (which you can hardly see) goes as follows: One girl says "You told her what?!" The other girl replies "It's not tattling if it's to a doctor!" and the caption says "Tattling To The School Shrink." Hehe.
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[18 Jul 2006|12:34pm] |
There's this really dorky teen-ish show that I love called Degrassi (anyone else ever watch it?!). I have to say, no matter how cheesy it is, there are some things that I really appreciate about it. The kind of things that you will NOT find in an American-made TV show (Degrassi is Canadian, by the way). The kids look like normal kids...braces, zits, frizzy hair, all of it (even on the "popular" kids). Plus, they actually look the age they're supposed to be.
Don't get me wrong, I still like shows like the OC where the juniors in high school are played by 25 year olds and the only "kids" you'll ever see with braces are the "losers," but it's nice to see that not every show is like that.
Anyways, it's basically one of those shows where each episode covers a different issue kids may face...but unlike all the other lame-o shows of this type, Degrassi...well basically it shows different ways kids can handle these issues, instead of just showing the good Christian way of handling them. Does that make sense?
For example, in an episode where a girl gets pregnant (at age 14), it shows everything she goes through trying to decide what to do. Although she is pressured by everyone to do something different (raise the baby herself, give him/her up for adoption, have an abortion, etc) she ends up having an abortion. As one of the characters suggests, next time she should "ask questions first, get naked later" and this seems to be the moral of the episode. Of course, the only American TV station that airs Degrassi decided that it would not air this particular episode (the only full episode they refused, although they edited parts of other episodes that they deemed "inappropriate").
Uhm...I don't know if I really had a point here. I just like that show and I like that it doesn't try to teach a specific set of morals. I hope that by the time I have kids, there are at least a few American made TV shows like this...or at least American networks that will play shows like this. I would much rather have future generations learn that it's okay if your morals differ from other people's morals, and that most kids weigh more than 90 pounds and don't have "perfect" hair, skin, and boobs. Who are the TV networks to tell us what "perfect" is anyways?!
Oh, but I did want to share a little scene from an episode I was watching last night...actually, the episode that really made me realize how different this show is from most shows...
(A conversation between a few girls in the locker room after gymnastics practice)
"Fifty bucks to anyone who can give me a tampon RIGHT NOW!"
"What happened?!"
"I can't believe no one noticed! I just did a front walk-over that belongs in a horror movie!"
Seriously, when was the last time you heard something like that on an American made TV show?!
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