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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] fairly-grimm.livejournal.com 2007-07-24 09:06 am (UTC)(link)
C'mon, it's brilliant. Just conceptually. What word in there finally crossed the line, and is your boss getting a pop-up now that says you're surfing for [insert] homg! I love what random things get blocked.

Hm. Give me a name for it?

[identity profile] fickle-goddess.livejournal.com 2007-07-24 09:11 am (UTC)(link)
I think that it's the total BUILD UP of words. It was 403, if that helps, and the list is 'weighted' according to the page. But I hope that my boss isn't being told about it since I run into those a LOT, especially when trying to research Oz. XD

saviorwatchinghouse. stopthatchase. whocaresaboutmedicine. snarkmorediagnoseless. eyeballneedlesahoy. cuddyisbitchyawesome. foremanlikesblackmarkers. wilsoniscloseted. triagemenow.

[identity profile] fairly-grimm.livejournal.com 2007-07-24 09:15 am (UTC)(link)
So I can talk about Nazis and rape and dismembering small children fine, but it's cumulative, so if I talk about any of those enough, or in combination, I set off alarms? That's pretty fantastic.

Stopthatchase conjures up images of cop cars in silent films, you know racing around the same building twenty times in the process of a Major Chase Scene.

[identity profile] fickle-goddess.livejournal.com 2007-07-24 09:16 am (UTC)(link)
It has to be enough and in combination and without other words that unweight it. Like if you say academic or thesis or dissertation, then I think that it awards negative points to take away from the positive points that weight it towards BAD PAGE, NO CLICKY.

*dies* That's fantastic. It made me snicker. *votes for that one now!*

[identity profile] fairly-grimm.livejournal.com 2007-07-24 09:25 am (UTC)(link)
...Yes, my new gmail's Firstname Lastname is definitely Cumulative Nazi Effect. I like that it counterweights! Think if I add "anti anti anti anti academic j/k j/k anti against" to the bottom of every post it'd forget about the ritual slaughters and so on?

And registered it is. Explain to me what I need to do now.

[identity profile] fickle-goddess.livejournal.com 2007-07-24 09:29 am (UTC)(link)
How appropriate. XD And yeah, it has to counterweigh in case I'm doing actual academic or social research of some sort! j/k wouldn't work, but academic and anti might.

Okay! E-mail me at ficklegoddess as a gmail addy, and I'll set up a chat with you. Easiest that way. XD

[identity profile] fairly-grimm.livejournal.com 2007-07-24 09:37 am (UTC)(link)
Sent. Theoretically. </checks into gmail like once a year>

[identity profile] fickle-goddess.livejournal.com 2007-07-24 09:41 am (UTC)(link)
...Still have yet to receive it. Hm. Do you see a little box on the side saying 'quick contacts' with Damien in it?