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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*
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*
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xD I watch both Boston Legal and Monk.
A lot of people watch Monk.
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Main characters on BL are quite sexist. XD Just warning you.
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I really don't think it's done in manner that's offensive though? Like you see it for what it is, as far as I'm concerned. :)
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And yeah, but misogyny in general annoys me. It's one of those where if the character's being an idiot, I wince and dislike them. Same thing with homophobia -- it makes me roll my eyes and mutter when it pops up on TV shows. ^^;;;;
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Homophobia is like a common disease but. I'm oblivious. I forget that I'm "different" all of the time. So, it takes me a minute or two to catch up why people are being mean, but once I do, I'm like, "Oh~ They just weren't worth it."
It's like. Forgetting I'm gay. "I'm gay? D: I thought I just liked women." xD
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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 Disneyregularly: Boston Legal, Monk, and Psych.no subject
Oh? YAY! I haven't seen it on apart from that ONE DAY, though, and now I'm being sucked into Cold Case instead. I tried watching ONE ep of Psych, and that scared me half to death. XD It was the one with a suicide in a sorority house, if that helps.
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Well, Boston Legal... I have no idea when/if the new season starts.
For Monk and Psych, though. They're on USA every Friday. Monk's at 9 and Psych's at 10. Obviously EST. .-. Heck if I know how to translate time. XD; But. Monk has a few boxsets out with episodes. x3
And. Psych is great. It's not usually that scary at all. o-o (That one got me, too. XD)
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But House is on all the time. That's nice to know. And I'm also having a little more locating Cold Case, which is my current addiction. XD
Hah! Savior said that episode of Psych wasn't scary at all. Nice to know that it got you too.