TV & Media.

[fickle]

First of all, click this to get a scary look at exactly how much photos are tampered with before they're put on the covers of magazines. It's an animated gif, I don't recognize the woman in the photo but gods, they've changed her a ton.

Secondly, being at home without Internet has resulted in me watching more TV along with my sewing projects, and I've yet again managed to get myself hooked on stuff that hardly anyone else watches!

1. Help! I'm A Teenage Outlaw!

This airs at 11:30PM on Nick and features a twelve-year-old who found out that his mother was a highwaywoman before she dies, and now needs to carry on the family tradition. It's set in 1643, and his sidekicks are Lady Devereux (a name I've always loved) disguised as a fellow peasant called Deedee and Moses, a ten-year-old inventing genius. Deedee is actually the smartest of the lot, and although there's only one season of this show, it's funny and easy enough to follow. Kinda like Big Wolf on Campus, except cuter.

2. Boston Legal

I've only seen one ep of this show but in that one ep, there were two heterosexual men that have sleepovers, a kickass African female lawyer, an old kickass woman lawyer that's the boss of an incompetent African laywer and white lawyer, and a female judge. Talk about diversity and a good way to yank in Fans of Color (FoC).

3. Monk

Okay, this I got into last night, because of Numa. She sat down and watched two and a half eps with me, and the best way to get me into a show, any show at all, is to watch it with me. If you can explain it to me and be there to chat to, then I'm more likely to pay atttention to the show. In this case, it was funny enough that I think it's worth watching some more of. I know that someone else on my flist also mentioned it to me once, but I can't think whom, unfortunately.

The mention of Fans of Color made me think about the music I liked -- I've attended three concerts in Boston so far (Flogging Molly, Placebo and Placebo again) and both times, I was the only South Asian there. Not just the only South Asian girl, but the only South Asian, full stop. Sum 41 has a South Asian guy on drums, I think, and Damage has a Sri Lankan lead singer but apart from that, the music scene that I'm aware of seems to be split mostly between white and black, with J-Pop and J-Rock also starting to creep in. I mean, punk is angry lower middle class or upper-middle-class-pretending-to-be-lower, punk rock and pop punk are mostly the same. Hip-hop, rap and R'n'B tend to be black-dominated, and I have no idea about hardcore but from what I've seen from what Savior's shown me, that's white-dominated.

Good thing I ID myself more by my gender than by my race, huh?

Oh, and I found out what AS/S stands for. *dies*

Comments

[abrandnewboom.livejournal.com]

XD I CANNOT BELIEVE YOU HAVEN'T SEEN BOSTON LEGAL BEFORE???!!!
James Spader! COME ON, WOMAN! GET WITH THE PROGRAM!

Also, lol, AS/S shipping. XDDD *crackvids*

[fickle-goddess.livejournal.com]

It seems a little sexist, though, from the Wikiquotes!

And yeeeessssssssssss, I just saw the crackvid. And rofled. But I swear, I figured out what AS/S meant before that!

[abrandnewboom.livejournal.com]

It fully revolves around total mysogynist asshats, but Spader does it so well and wittily that I don't really care. (And omg Shirley, I love her~~~)

XD Good work.

[fickle-goddess.livejournal.com]

I heart Spader's soapboxing. But it doesn't excuse misogyny, damnit! (And which one is Shirley?)

Yup! It only took me ages because I didn't seriously think about the kids as being characters. XD

[fairly-grimm.livejournal.com]

Ha. Reality-to-final-product model morphs are always fun. And by fun I mean a deeply disturbing statement about our times.

Monk's fun. I think I posted about it once rambling about how some episodes of it bring out my own OCD so hardcore I have to mute and physically cringe/look away, but I could be lying. Still fun, though. Not something I usually watch, but more than I would watch something like. Boston Legal.

Re: PoC in the music scene, yeah, hardcore is hugely male- and white-dominated. Similar distribution to punk and emo bands. Which is a shame for sheer lack of diversity of thought. I could rattle off a couple metalcore and screamo bands have black singers (most famous probably being Howard Jones from Killswitch Engage, but there's the dude from Sevendust, etc.), and there's a couple who have Asian guys on bass or guitar (veering into power metal, probably Herman Li from Dragonforce is the Big Name Asian), rarely Hispanics pop up (can't think of one in genre atm but I'm sure there is, so have Claudio Sanchez from Coheed as a prog rock example? Atreyu's got a Hispanic bassist, but no one knows who he is.) It's like chicks in the same genre, you see people who are not white-and-male so infrequently it becomes "Oh the band that has a chick drummer/black singer/etc."

Now I go see why I have like 43589437593759843 comments from you in my inbox.

[fickle-goddess.livejournal.com]

Dove's ad is pretty cool. And YouTube has some fantastic vids to show what people can do with Photshop.

Monk, might start watching depending on how much of it is online. Any chance I'd like Oz, besides sociopathic gay staring? I looked through Wikiquote on Boston Legal and the main chars seem a little sexist for my taste.

Re: PoC in the muic scene, I was thinking specifically of the lack of South Asian people since black people at least dominate in rap and R'n'B and power ballads or whatnot -- grab any random person and they should be able to name at least five big name black people in the music scene. You can't do the same for Asian, unless you include Gackt and Mana and whatever, and even then, I doubt the average person would know who they are.

Chick singers, though, they're a little easier in general. I know that I tend to pause on any vid that looks punk rockish with a female singer (like Paramore), but I also did watch an Atreyu vid on Scuzz the other day -- the title was something about a girl? Maybe in black? *not sure*

It's because I've had not enough time online lately, so my inbox got clogged and I have this thing where I always want my inbox to have under 25 messages in it. I don't mind if it's 25 exactly but I don't want to have to click a Next or Previous; one page, and that's it. So today at work, I've been mostly answering comments and deleting comments and sorting comments into folders so that the niggling feeling of my inbox being too full will go away.

Also, I ♥ you. Comments are a byproduct of ♥.

[fairly-grimm.livejournal.com]

! You're alive!

I like the Dove ad.

OZ IS AMAZING EVERYONE SHOULD LOVE OZ. But it really comes down to your threshhold for gratuitous violence, male nudity, and shit like people being crucified or drinking piss. And really desperately unattractive facial hair. And Nazis. I like the idea of microcosm shows, I don't know if it's an acquired taste.

I think there's some Aussie noise band who has a South Asian drummer, but I don't remember the name and they haven't put out even an EP yet afaik, so they might not actually exist. But yeah, if I tried to make a list of Asian musicians in popular genres, I'd be stuck at like "Herman Li, Vienna Teng, That Dude from That Band, Meg & Dia, That Dude From That Other Band, That Guy Who Used To Have Pink Hair From What's It's Face," and it would be thoroughly depressing on all counts and still not include any South Asians.

Chick singers are easier, especially if you go into pop, pop punk, etc., but it's still enough in genres like hardcore that you just don't see it done/the primary mode of expression is "blah blah blah straight white guy from a middle class background wailing about That Girl and how broke up he is about her because she's such a bitch so now he's going to kill things" or something equally stupid. Paramore grates on me, but I did actually buy my tickets for two weekends from now, so I could theoretically see them twice. I think they're mainstage.

...Shit, I used to know these things. Atreyu, chick, video. I had to wrack my brain for this. That's "Her Portrait in Black", maybe? Did it have cheesy clips from the second Underworld? I used to make fun of it for being so pop but it sounds so much better in retrospect now I've heard the new single. It's sad.

*goes to attack rest of the comments*

[fairly-grimm.livejournal.com]

...So wikipedia informs me I totally lied about Atreyu. The kid's called Travis Miguel and he's the extraneous guitarist, not the bassist. And trawling around for other useless info, there's a couple no-name Aussie -core bands with one member a piece from the Middle East. Relevant only because judging by the bands that actually made it, the Australian scene is composed entirely of funny looking sunburnt blonde kids. </useless comment amendment>

[fickle-goddess.livejournal.com]

Ah-HAH! Apart from Wiki, you are the perfect person to ask about the Dead Heads or whatever the garage band was called where all the fans called themselves Deadheads or whatnot. XD

And huh. Okay, well, at least they have some Middle Eastern members. Though I still can't think of anyone except whatever the guy from Sum 41 is and the guy from Damage.

[alexshido.livejournal.com]

So.... what does it stand for? *Peers.*

[ryuutchi.livejournal.com]

Albus Severus/Scorpius

[ryuutchi.livejournal.com]

XD I'm the only person in all of HP fandom to ship Hugo/Scorpius instead. I mean, if AS/S is the new Harry/Draco, then I have to ship Hugo/Scorpius, because my submarine ship is Ron/Draco.

[fickle-goddess.livejournal.com]

I am not shipping any of the kiddies. XD They're kids and the opening of the doors to MARY SUEDOM with everyone interpreting the kids however they choose.

I'd rather go into the past for my shipping preferences. ^_~ The far, far past!

[ryuutchi.livejournal.com]

Slytherin/Gryffindor OTP?

XD Nah, I totally understand that. It was more of a "everyone's shipping Albus and Scorpius, but why? I wanna ship something else." It's my natural contrariness showing through.

[a-white-rain.livejournal.com]

I AM PROUD TO SAY I WROTE ONE OF THE FIRST AS/S FICS ON THE INTERNETS.

[fickle-goddess.livejournal.com]

AND I WROTE ONE OF THE FIRST G/D FICS ON THE INTERNETS SO WE ARE BOTH COOL!

[a-white-rain.livejournal.com]

G/D WAS CANON

[nevita.livejournal.com]

Uh, hardly anyone watches?

xD I watch both Boston Legal and Monk.
A lot of people watch Monk.

[nevita.livejournal.com]

Flipped through comments also.
Main characters on BL are quite sexist. XD Just warning you.

[fickle-goddess.livejournal.com]

Day-um. *pouts* But I love the soapboxing from Alan!

[fickle-goddess.livejournal.com]

Yay! *pounce* It's not something that I hear many people talking about, though, seeing as I'd never heard of Boston Legal before and Monk, I'd only heard of from one person. But whee for a show in common now!

[nevita.livejournal.com]

That's very impressive. Everyone I've mentioned Monk to knew what it was XD;

Boston Legal, though, I made icons for a while back. :O

XD; But yes! Whee~ I only. Watch like three shows that aren't on Disney regularly: Boston Legal, Monk, and Psych.

[xinda.livejournal.com]

I've heard of how often images are shopped on mags, but wow. Thatwas... unnecessary. I actually get if zits/pimples are edited out or maybe "baggy eyes" from sleep deprivation... or what have you, but really. Isn't that kind of... lying?

[fickle-goddess.livejournal.com]

It's SCARY. YouTube has some even worse ones, though. ♥

[xinda.livejournal.com]

I'd like to see what would be done to me, out of morbidish curiousity. @_@ Eeples ♥