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

[fairly-grimm.livejournal.com]

Yeah, Monk's not huge for detective skillz as much as it's for "how can he catch the bad guy with no evidence and a million crippling phobias! lawlz!"

(Bah. Who cares. It's all determined by a herd instinct to imitate whatever class of society's on top at the moment, in this moment people who can afford to starve themselves, bizarre concept that is, and tan compulsively. If you're happy and healthy, I don't see why anyone should care, or why being any particular not-obviously-sickly weight should make anyone categorically worthless/unattractive. "Worry about your own complexes, world, not trying to foster them in other people.")

Asian suit! Like the woman suit in Silence of the Lambs. Kawaii!

I still want to know what genetic groups share that trait. All I've come up with is it closely resembles certain Korean people, which does track with the fact that ma mère is/was periodically mistaken for Korean, but there's got to be some specific peoples that have that going on, especially since afaik I have no Korean blood whatsoever. Why does the world and by world I mean wikipedia not know.

[fickle-goddess.livejournal.com]

Of the two eps we finished watching, Numa guessed how it was done in one and I guessed the other.

(Well, I'm tan! Yay! XD Naturally tan probably doesn't count, though, and Asian build means that your weight settles on your butt and not usually anywhere else. I think that as long as I can fight and move and walk fourteen kilometers without being in pain, I'm okay. And I think that I look kickass, which isn't necessarily the same as pretty, but it works for me.)

Yeah! Like that! Slanty eyes and all! Desu desu ~~~

I thought that it was also Native American? Or have you dropped that for a dead lead?

Annnnd I need to leave office now to go to an eye appointment, so catch you tomorrow. *hugs* Take care, Saviorling. Screen Oz for floppy-safety for me.

[fairly-grimm.livejournal.com]

I know I've seen pictures of at least one tribe that did have that exact eye configuration, but I couldn't relocate them or remember the name, so I can't track whether they're one I have any connection to or not, so it dead-ended. Theoretically yes, it's a Native American trait, but we knew that, so it's not progress. I mean, theoretically I have six million Korean ancestors I know nothing about, I wouldn't know.

Don't let them gouge your eyes out, it'd make screening too easy.

[fickle-goddess.livejournal.com]

Six million Korean ancestors, all telling you to straighten up and stop being a disgrace to the family? I think that I'd pass on that, thanks. *considers your eyes again* Are you sure you never had an accident with a roll of duct tape?

HAH. I hit myself in the left eye with my mascara brush this morning. It was over an hour ago, it STILL hurts, and it keeps tearing up.

Clearly, mascara and eyeballs don't mix. Ow.

[fairly-grimm.livejournal.com]

Is that what Koreans do? I want to know what my whole genetic dealy's excuse is.

WHY ARE YOU AWAKE AND ONLINE RIGHT NOW. WHY AM I.

[fickle-goddess.livejournal.com]

It is. Asian families in general always tell you to straighten up and stop being a disgrace to the family. UNLESS YOU'RE A DOCTOR.

And I'm awake and online because it's 10:24 in the morning for me, meaning that I'm at work and I'm online because chatting with you is CLEARLY what they had in mind as 'work' when they hired me. But I have no idea why you're awake and online except that you're just as crazy as I am since I would probably also be awake and online at 4 in the morning were I back in America. As opposed to being in Austria. And at work. Supposedly.

[fairly-grimm.livejournal.com]

I don't know how I'd classify my family. There's a constant pressure, but it's a pressure for the sake of pressure since you've already demonstrated you're an abject failure. EVEN IF YOU'RE A DOCTOR.

This is a sickening hour.

[fickle-goddess.livejournal.com]

Oh, that too. In Asian families, putting pressure on someone and constantly urging them to do better is a sign of love. EXCEPT FOR DOCTORS. Because doctors are at the top of the pecking hierachy. If that's how you spell it. Why am I an editor again?

Indeed. Would watching House make it less sickening? Or would going to sleep just mean you throw up in your mouth?

[fairly-grimm.livejournal.com]

...I don't know, I couldn't process any of that.

[fickle-goddess.livejournal.com]

On a totally different note, there's a procedure for eyes called tightlining (http://www.emakemeup.com/en2/flowerreport/view_review.php?sid=1cc421c71c6a68898e364ab5a&reviewid=6999&vr=1). And they sell eyelid tape to make single eyelids look like Caucasian ones.

[fairly-grimm.livejournal.com]

...I don't get it, are they putting stuff on the inside of their eyelids?

[fickle-goddess.livejournal.com]

I'm not entirely sure either. And when I tried doing it, it just looked seriously smudged and weird.