bad TV / L'Uomo Vogue / hoochie woman / roadtrip warning

( tee-vee )

Carl & Pete & L'Uomo Vogue: My obsession with boy models who look like greasy little drug addicts is slightly out of control. In my pursuit of more images of pretend manwhores, I purchased a shrink-wrapped Italian men's Vogue which does have many pictures of Carl and a few of Pete from the Libertines/Babyshambles. However, this issue is annoyingly free of images of actual models, since it's apparently a music issue. Well, fuck. Hey, L'Uomo Vogue, pictures of grotty guitar players are what music magazines are for! I buy men's fashion rags for the seething undercurrent of homoerotica, oiled abs, and sullen pouting, not music news. Flipping through the glossy pages, the greasy little drug addict look is prevalent, of course, but the musicians don't carry it off as well as the by-the-hour boys. Anyway, msdaccxx? You have this yet? You want it? Or maybe scans of the relevant bits?

Tori Amos: It would be wrong to say, "The new Tori album rawks!!!!" because, well, it's Tori Amos and she obviously doesn't...but I'm enjoying it very much. After a couple of play-throughs, it's oddly familiar and very reminiscent of the last one despite not sounding much like it at all. I suppose one would call that consistency. As she is someone who did a great deal of experimentation early on in her career, I suppose being consistent isn't a terrible thing. I'm very excited to see her in Atlanta - with rhiannonhero as my date. Or maybe I'm her date.

roadtrip: straight down to Highway 10, drive as far west as possible, head up the coast on the 101, take 90 east and at some point break north into Canada, eventually pass through Toronto, go back down south through NYC and drive down the coast to...Asheville? Maybe further? and then turn homeward. That's what I want to do later this year. This is just me preparing you for the eventual post where I try to wheedle you into letting me sleep on your couch.

bad TV / L'Uomo Vogue / hoochie woman / roadtrip warning

( tee-vee )

Carl & Pete & L'Uomo Vogue: My obsession with boy models who look like greasy little drug addicts is slightly out of control. In my pursuit of more images of pretend manwhores, I purchased a shrink-wrapped Italian men's Vogue which does have many pictures of Carl and a few of Pete from the Libertines/Babyshambles. However, this issue is annoyingly free of images of actual models, since it's apparently a music issue. Well, fuck. Hey, L'Uomo Vogue, pictures of grotty guitar players are what music magazines are for! I buy men's fashion rags for the seething undercurrent of homoerotica, oiled abs, and sullen pouting, not music news. Flipping through the glossy pages, the greasy little drug addict look is prevalent, of course, but the musicians don't carry it off as well as the by-the-hour boys. Anyway, msdaccxx? You have this yet? You want it? Or maybe scans of the relevant bits?

Tori Amos: It would be wrong to say, "The new Tori album rawks!!!!" because, well, it's Tori Amos and she obviously doesn't...but I'm enjoying it very much. After a couple of play-throughs, it's oddly familiar and very reminiscent of the last one despite not sounding much like it at all. I suppose one would call that consistency. As she is someone who did a great deal of experimentation early on in her career, I suppose being consistent isn't a terrible thing. I'm very excited to see her in Atlanta - with rhiannonhero as my date. Or maybe I'm her date.

roadtrip: straight down to Highway 10, drive as far west as possible, head up the coast on the 101, take 90 east and at some point break north into Canada, eventually pass through Toronto, go back down south through NYC and drive down the coast to...Asheville? Maybe further? and then turn homeward. That's what I want to do later this year. This is just me preparing you for the eventual post where I try to wheedle you into letting me sleep on your couch.

moral ambiguity and heroism and torture / dressed for a change

There's a discussion taking place in chain_lightning's journal about the acceptance of the use of torture by "good guys" on TV. Apparently, torture as a legitimate method for getting one's way or obtaining information has been increasingly prevalent on network shows, specifically justified as an anti-terror or "for the good of the world" action. I don't watch any of the programs that others cited except for Battlestar Galactica, but even though it's not an example of an overt "saving the world" situation, I was surprised that the torture sequence on Lost wasn't mentioned. I had found it to be complex and interesting (and unnerving), so I did a brief recap of the scene with some discussion in her comments.

I'm copying my text here because I want to keep track of it. However, I would like to continue the conversation, either here or in chain_lightning's space. If you watch 24, especially, you probably want to go over there.

( torture isn't so bad )

On the one hand, I do like "heroes" becoming morally ambiguous. It makes them more interesting, more relatable, and more human. On the other, if the normalization of torture as a motif in popular entertainment either deliberately or inadvertently numbs an audience/the populace to extreme and inhumane tactics in the real world, that's not so much of the good. I don't know how much weight I'm willing to give a TV drama about a mysterious island in terms of shaping This Great Country's moral fiber or worldview, and in this instance I'm definitely more interested in the scene than I am ready to rail against its brief appearance on my TV screen.

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Enough torture talk for the moment. I'm going on a walk with the dog and taking my camera. It's a beautiful day, the first one in quite some time. Besides, it's high time for me to change out of my pajamas.

moral ambiguity and heroism and torture / dressed for a change

There's a discussion taking place in chain_lightning's journal about the acceptance of the use of torture by "good guys" on TV. Apparently, torture as a legitimate method for getting one's way or obtaining information has been increasingly prevalent on network shows, specifically justified as an anti-terror or "for the good of the world" action. I don't watch any of the programs that others cited except for Battlestar Galactica, but even though it's not an example of an overt "saving the world" situation, I was surprised that the torture sequence on Lost wasn't mentioned. I had found it to be complex and interesting (and unnerving), so I did a brief recap of the scene with some discussion in her comments.

I'm copying my text here because I want to keep track of it. However, I would like to continue the conversation, either here or in chain_lightning's space. If you watch 24, especially, you probably want to go over there.

( torture isn't so bad )

On the one hand, I do like "heroes" becoming morally ambiguous. It makes them more interesting, more relatable, and more human. On the other, if the normalization of torture as a motif in popular entertainment either deliberately or inadvertently numbs an audience/the populace to extreme and inhumane tactics in the real world, that's not so much of the good. I don't know how much weight I'm willing to give a TV drama about a mysterious island in terms of shaping This Great Country's moral fiber or worldview, and in this instance I'm definitely more interested in the scene than I am ready to rail against its brief appearance on my TV screen.

~~~

Enough torture talk for the moment. I'm going on a walk with the dog and taking my camera. It's a beautiful day, the first one in quite some time. Besides, it's high time for me to change out of my pajamas.

clutter meme

seen @ petronia's journal

List everything that's on your computer desk! I know we all have messy desks, but try to get everything. You can tell a lot about a person from their clutter.

See, I'm curious. Can one, in fact, tell a lot about a person from their clutter?

( desk/computer clutter )

clutter meme

seen @ petronia's journal

List everything that's on your computer desk! I know we all have messy desks, but try to get everything. You can tell a lot about a person from their clutter.

See, I'm curious. Can one, in fact, tell a lot about a person from their clutter?

( desk/computer clutter )