tales of a (former) pop culture junkie
perhaps former is a bit extreme, but being honest - being on the edge of pop culture is in my past.
i was reminded of this just last week when james van der beek (dawson) guest stared on franklin & bash. omg, i loved dawson's creek. i didn't just watch the show - i lived it. my moods were marginally decided by especially moving plot lines. i was obsessed. i watched vhs taped episodes over and over during the week waiting for the next one. they were living, breathing characters to me. in 2003 i spent way too much money on a poster for the final season premier alluding "tonight, the longing is over" and i spent years rallying for dawson and joey to get together. it didn't happen and it's only now that i really understand. ironic, yes? the intended audience for the show didn't have enough life experience to understand the underlying premise.
tv shows aren't like that for me anymore. since then i've picked up watching a lot of shows, but none of them effect me like shows used to. i watch them and they're over! this is obviously part of growing up. i just hadn't realized it happened to me until a surprisingly dawson-like "actual dawson" character appeared. it's like seeing an old friend after you've both changed for the better. i felt the distance between the years.
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since i've taken up reading at lunch during work (it's too hot to do anything else) i've been rereading all of chuck klosterman's books. he is, hands down, my favorite author. also, he's my favorite person from north dakota. anyway, he has a new book coming out in october and in preparation i've read the two i bought but never got around to reading (downtown owl and fargo rock city) in the last few months. now i am rereading killing yourself to live: 85% of a true story and will progress to vi and eating the dinosaur in the next few months.
he writes the way i think. well, where we may be on the same thought wavelength - he has the writing gift. i do not. i think this post, especially, proves that. i am stumbling to get the words out but they get caught in the filters of my brain. i may think about the idiosyncrasies of pop culture and ruminate and make good (to me) points, expressing them or writing them down is not something i can do. especially not well.
for his book promo he is coming here. he is going to do a reading *eek!* and a book signing *omg!* i am so hoping i find the guts to go. as i've written several times, i find meeting famous people very scary and i usually avoid it.
in the same way i am more scared of success than failure.
i was reminded of this just last week when james van der beek (dawson) guest stared on franklin & bash. omg, i loved dawson's creek. i didn't just watch the show - i lived it. my moods were marginally decided by especially moving plot lines. i was obsessed. i watched vhs taped episodes over and over during the week waiting for the next one. they were living, breathing characters to me. in 2003 i spent way too much money on a poster for the final season premier alluding "tonight, the longing is over" and i spent years rallying for dawson and joey to get together. it didn't happen and it's only now that i really understand. ironic, yes? the intended audience for the show didn't have enough life experience to understand the underlying premise.
tv shows aren't like that for me anymore. since then i've picked up watching a lot of shows, but none of them effect me like shows used to. i watch them and they're over! this is obviously part of growing up. i just hadn't realized it happened to me until a surprisingly dawson-like "actual dawson" character appeared. it's like seeing an old friend after you've both changed for the better. i felt the distance between the years.
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since i've taken up reading at lunch during work (it's too hot to do anything else) i've been rereading all of chuck klosterman's books. he is, hands down, my favorite author. also, he's my favorite person from north dakota. anyway, he has a new book coming out in october and in preparation i've read the two i bought but never got around to reading (downtown owl and fargo rock city) in the last few months. now i am rereading killing yourself to live: 85% of a true story and will progress to vi and eating the dinosaur in the next few months.
he writes the way i think. well, where we may be on the same thought wavelength - he has the writing gift. i do not. i think this post, especially, proves that. i am stumbling to get the words out but they get caught in the filters of my brain. i may think about the idiosyncrasies of pop culture and ruminate and make good (to me) points, expressing them or writing them down is not something i can do. especially not well.
for his book promo he is coming here. he is going to do a reading *eek!* and a book signing *omg!* i am so hoping i find the guts to go. as i've written several times, i find meeting famous people very scary and i usually avoid it.
in the same way i am more scared of success than failure.