hahaist011's Diaryland Diary ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- all for eu hey eu, maybe the reason why we cannot remember everything we've ever said about the fucking sopranos is that we didn't ever get it. it's definitely related to the american beauty/psycho, garden state shit, but also a little different. are you saying that people (and i mean that in the generalized way not in the "people" = one specific a-hole) like uggs in the same way--and maybe for the same reason--they like The Sopranos? i am asking because it seems possible. uggs = footwear that are, by name, supposed to be ugly and lame, right? never fear, though, if you wear real uggs everyone will know you paid a fortune. and if you wear knock-offs, everyone will know that you get the joke, too? so maybe The Sopranos is supposed to be an ugly and lame show. ugly as in crappy, cheesy, embarrassing-ish (like any night-time soap opera) and lame because it is so derivative, rip-offy. (i mean, my god, our whole lives have been lived in this world saturated by godfather-crap.) so, then, you wear uggs and watch the show because it means you are hip to some kinda really excellent joke. as in: it's so hilarious to have a character named big pussy! hahahaha! kinda like people think they get smart comedy if they laugh when the american office guy tells a middle-aged chubbier lady that she's not supposed to be on the office's cheerleading squad. (this reminds me a lot of how my ninth and tenth graders somehow have to laugh when a character in a story says 'bastard.') so then: if you're scared people will think your shoes are ugly, buy uggs. if you're scared people won't think you watch Smart Television Programs, then bring out The Sopranos...? maybe what sucks about it is that people who think they're too good for like Law and Order: Horrific Sex Crimes, but really really really wanna watch that show have too easy a time finding something Smart that satisfies them? like, if you wanna watch sex crimes on the tv (or anything else nasty), you should be forced to watch it in the same way everyone else does. with the same grimy feeling everyone else gets. none of this, "i thought i was indulging my prurient interests, but it turns out i am on the Cutting Edge of what is smart and cool." maybe that's it? we were impressed by Angel for a number of reasons, but we thought the most impressive thing was that--in a drama tagged "Honors Student by Day, Hollywood Hooker by Night"--that the violence was sad and scary, that the real-seeming gore made clear that there was no glamor here--not in being a pretty teenage girl, not in being a prostitute, not in stalking prostitutes, not even in bringing a murderer to justice. no glamor! just sad sad sad! oh, i am getting confused. i think i was talking about something else. as far as people thinking they're on the cutting edge because they watch a show that "television critics" (who are those people?) thought was brilliant in eight years ago...yeah, that's always the problem. nobody thought they were cool for watching m*a*s*h or cheers or friends or whatev in its 15th year. they just thought "i dig it" or "watching this makes me a normal person." here, i think, we get into the brett easton ellis thing and the american beauty thing, right? the "what? are you fuckin stupid?" stuff. ok, remember those commercials for Cinnaburst gum from the mid to late '90s. it was something about how certain particularly stodgy adults just couldn't handle Cinnaburst. like it would incinerate the math teacher's eyes or demolish aunt edna's dentures or something like that. so what if you knew somebody who bought Cinnaburst gum because of its countercultural associations? ok, that person would probably be special needs, so you wouldn't make fun of him...but if it were someone who was normally decent-smart? yeah so, i think The Sopranos is exactly the same thing as Cinnaburst gum. that is, people who think they're cool for digging it probably believe that they have a G-IEP, but they really just have a plain old IEP. ha. there's also this: Less Than Zero is actually a very cool movie based on a brett easton ellis novel. american psycho and the rules of attraction are really fucking stupid movies. (and it is no coincidence, i do not think, that the two that completely blow are very true to the novels, right?) so why is less than zero actually cool (and why do i give permission to myself to think i'm kinda cool for thinking about it)? no doubt: some combination of some up-and-coming costume designer, the magic of spader, the too cute to be countercultural downey junior, the soundtrack. it's cool because it's like a normal fuckin movie with some really weird aspects. and those weird aspects are the type that make you wonder if normal stuff (like My Best Friend's Wedding) is weirder than Weird Stuff like jon waters. you think, wait there had to be somebody doing this shit on purpose. like, "jason priestley clearly thinks these lines are dramatic and that he's delivering them in a conversational manner, but dude somebody there had to be laughing hysterically." this is the "what is reality?" that actually matters, i think. because listen, what if _no one_ on the set of 90210 thought, "oh my god, i am going to pee my pants when priestly does the 'andrea. stop. look at yourself! you're having a panic attack' bit"? then what? i wish i wrote long letters to you instead of really long diary entries all for you. anyway, i'll keep going for a second. in conclusion, maybe you should just tell her that she'll never be cool? that she hasn't even done her tv homework? you can't watch hbo without knowing about mr. show, and honestly, it's really embarrassing when someone loves reno 911 so much but knows the characters' names instead of the actors' names. like, dude did you never watch The State? now this is just me being an asshole, but if i'm an asshole...then she's just a fucking wastoid. that shit with Big Love (which of course i remembered) is so typical of both sides of her. the side that can never ever be cool. and the side that wants to hurt people. especially you. wow. have i mentioned recently that i think i actually *hate* her? 2:36 a.m. - 2007-04-12 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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