Comments | dslartoo: LJ Idol, Topic Ten: "Slights Real and Imagined"

dslartoo

LJ Idol, Topic Ten: "Slights Real and Imagined"

Jan 13, 2012 09:28

My girlfriend discovered the TV series "Glee" not too long ago, and as a longtime lover of musicals in all their forms, has been...well, gleefully devouring it. A couple of episodes every day. She loves the music, loves the characters, loves the intrigue and the drama and all the other things that have made the show popular. She even got my mother ( Read more... )

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baxaphobia January 13 2012, 15:46:26 UTC

I will confess to liking Glee. But you do have a point.

I can relate to the story you told about the person who committed suicide. There was a girl in elementary school who tormented me terribly. And later she got leukemia. everyone was all over her, feeling badly, blah blah blah. She was one of the "popular" kids and me not so much. After causing so much pain I couldn't, and still can't say nice glowing things about her upon her eventual death. There was a niggling part of me who thinks she got what she deserved. Terrible, maybe. But natural IMO.

dslartoo January 13 2012, 16:00:00 UTC

Oh, he didn't commit suicide. It was an accident, not deliberate. He was driving too damn fast on a road, missed a curve, went off the road and hit a tree. The girl who'd been riding with him (who was badly hurt but not killed) told me later that he wasn't paying attention and she'd been begging him to slow down.

I'd better fix that up in a hurry if you got the impression that he'd killed himself. Thanks for the comments!

cheers,
Phil

baxaphobia January 13 2012, 18:49:42 UTC

oops! Sorry about that! I might have just spaced! hahaha.

imafarmgirl January 13 2012, 16:13:34 UTC

Well said. That stuff just sticks with you as I am about to write in my entry. Grin.

dslartoo January 19 2012, 15:53:12 UTC

Yeah, I had a feeling there would be a fair number of entries on the bullying theme, but I tried to make this one interesting, at least. :)

Thanks for dropping by!

cheers,
Phil

marstokyo January 13 2012, 16:55:02 UTC

I hear you, and I would have said the same thing to that reporter. Harsh I know. But schools are filled with popular phonies that go on being popular phonies their whole lives.

dslartoo January 19 2012, 15:54:05 UTC

And that's its own punishment of sorts -- to stay the same kind of ignorant phony bastard for their entire lives without changing or growing at all. Sad, really.

Thanks for chiming in!

cheers,
Phil

basric January 14 2012, 02:10:25 UTC

I watch Glee with my daughter--I admit I do not have the ear she has when it comes to music. When she says--they've auto-tuned her so much she sounds like a machine or they have to auto-tune Finn because he doesn't have a voice. But many of these kids are Broadway babies and the producers need to leave there voices alone.

Well written. I agree 100%.

dslartoo January 19 2012, 15:56:57 UTC

See, that's the thing that REALLY annoys me -- that many of the kids are kids who've got musical training already. They don't need the damn pitch correction.

I've read a few places that Finn does need it because he has no "real" voice. Okay, fine, tune him ONLY, and stop doing it so blatantly -- just correct it SLIGHTLY. Sheesh.

Glad you enjoyed this!

cheers,
Phil

similiesslip January 14 2012, 22:45:32 UTC

Death does not cancel out the life lived ( ... )

dslartoo January 19 2012, 15:57:59 UTC

"Death doesn't cancel the life lived" -- and that's exactly why I refused to lionize the kid that tormented me. If that makes me a grudge-holder, so be it. I think I had damn good reason for holding said grudge.

I'm glad you liked this entry and thanks for dropping by.

cheers,
Phil