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Fickle ([personal profile] fickle) wrote2007-07-23 12:17 pm

TV & Media.

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*

[identity profile] fickle-goddess.livejournal.com 2007-07-23 03:52 pm (UTC)(link)
(OMG at the 'raped, tortured, had all his limbs broken' bit, mostly). It seemed weird to me when I was reading the summary of the show, but I thought that it had to be explained at SOME POINT. And we're still at Season 3 of House, right? I got my mother to watch an ep with me the other day and she liked it, though it was a repeat on my grounds. And there's a fantastic 'I feel pretty' music video on YouTube for Wilson and Chase that makesme crack up and yes, good plan, you can be my safety-screener for Oz when we start watching it.

She is definitely stupid, which is sad. And hey, I LOVED Elvis. I still have his entire discography. And multiple CDs! Lilo made me empathize with her SO MUCH because of her love for Elvis!

*runs out the door to eye doctor now*

[identity profile] fairly-grimm.livejournal.com 2007-07-23 03:57 pm (UTC)(link)
(That was cringe-worthy. Happens the first episode so quick your head spins. The limb-breaking, second season, but Beecher's whole career in Oz is an epic disaster.) And yes! I think. I don't know. Did anyone keep track? We should find out at some point. Like before the fourth season starts.

[identity profile] fickle-goddess.livejournal.com 2007-07-24 07:42 am (UTC)(link)
(Let's not ignore the part where he ends up in love with a sociopath that kills himself. I think that has to be included in the category of 'epic disaster'. But oh man, okay, I'll bear that in mind.) Hm. I think that we just sort of kept track as we went along, because we were usually watching laaaate at night. I can check which titles seem familiar today at work -- if people in my dorm are still doing group watchings of House as it airs, I could probably take my laptop down with me and chat with you even while watching the fourth season (yay for wireless!) unless it airs during my evening class.

[identity profile] fairly-grimm.livejournal.com 2007-07-24 08:12 am (UTC)(link)
(Comparatively being locked into a co-dependent relationship with a sociopathic serial killer who kills people as make-up gifts isn't all that bad. Keeping in mind that in his first 48 hours in Oz he gets a swatiska burnt into his ass. I think what happens to Beecher's kid is the ultimate in epic disasters, though, if you skim past the limb-crunching scene.) Yes. I have nothing coherent to add. House. Four in the morning.

[identity profile] fickle-goddess.livejournal.com 2007-07-24 08:21 am (UTC)(link)
(...Ohmygod, SWASTIKA? If Oz is meant to stop people from drunk driving, they sound like they're going to succeed. I mean, this is making me glad that I don't drive at all! And, uh, eye staring on top of everything else sounds like it could be the killer straw.) Okay, checked it on Wiki. Last ep we watched was Lines In The Sand, aka episode three of season three. Still plenty to go through.

[identity profile] fairly-grimm.livejournal.com 2007-07-24 08:44 am (UTC)(link)
(Swastika! It's the first episode. Image search pulled up only one (http://www.durfee.net/oz/images/beecher/beecher2a.jpg) picture of it, stunningly. But yes, Oz is the single greatest Don't Drink And Drive campaign on the face of the earth. "If you drink, you'll be raped, mutilated, tortured, branded by crazy Nazis, your marriage will fall apart because of your new ass swastika, you'll be stalked by sociopaths, all your limbs will be shattered on multiple occasions, your now ex!wife will commit suicide in front of your small children, you'll be shot and shanked more times than you can count, you'll spend months pretending to be Ophelia, your facial hair will be the worst on the show hands down, your boyfriend will chuck himself off a balcony with the expressed purpose of making sure you have to live with it the rest of your life, and Aryans will viciously murder your family in the night." </first couple seasons>) We should start watching it again sometime.