Luigi bitterly envies Mario
I dreamed I was flying last night. A few steps then boom!... airborne. I felt so free and unstressed and happy. When I awoke, I was drooling from the mouth which has nothing to do with anything i guess.
In other news, the MTV show Real World is now officially changing its name to "Seven mostly attractive, random strangers have shallow, impersonal sex facilitated solely by large quantities of alcohol and secluded physical accessibility." The term "hook-up" takes on a life of its own with these people - it honestly takes the place of conjunctions in their sentences. For example "Hey Mr. Stereotyped character, could you pass the salt and pepper?" becomes "Hey Mr. Stereotyped character, could you pass the salt -hook-up- pepper." Yes, even the condiments have sex in that house and they dont really know why.
1. Alcohol -
Every explanation that begins with "well, we were just drunk...blah blah.. it didnt mean anything... cough" deserves an Oscar, assuming they gave Oscars to reckless, herpetic (I used this word cuz its just so awesome) 20 somethings whose idea of "broadening their horizons" is a threesome in a jacuzi. Alcohol is not an excuse. It merely gives these people.. any person.. the impetus to do what they were thinking about doing anyways by eliminating the logical inhibitions and filters which keep society balanced, functioning, and morally presentable. Please feel free to disagree but you're wrong if you do. Its one of the side effects of ingesting a decision altering depressant so cheers! But navid, surely social drinking is not harmful!!! I'm not your liver so I cant make that call, but a large percentage of the MTV crop of humanity take drinking to a point of disinhibition and emotional/physical stupidity. Makes for interesting tv though and ultimately thats what matters.
2. Physical accessibility -
I firmly believe that a completely alcohol free environment would still result in the random "hook-ups" witnessed so deliciously on the show, but with less volume. Now we think to ourselves, "navid, you just said that alcohol led to the condiment sex". I sure did, but like Robert Frost said in a poem about something -- that is the road more travelled. In essence, placing 7 relatively attractive people, who essentialy have no knowledge about each others pasts, in a house for 5 months, with shamefully simple jobs to tend to, will get bored and hook-up because of the simple fact that the person is right there. They are with each other, day in and day out, with no particular goals or distractions except for the occasional emotional outburst. Any one of us would succumb to this sort of pressure unless we were honestly looking for something more from the experience.
Sadly, I cant help but laugh at the folks who come into the show with existing relationships. What is that goodbye like for the couple? "Hey babe, I know we've been dating for over 2 years and I love you dearly. This is something i need to do for myself. I promise to be faithful. Oh, I almost forgot... Here's a handgrenade... just pull the pin and toss it in your pants whenever you think of me."
Hey, isn't all this for ratings though? I mean, they are on tv right? Yup, they sure are and so things need to be spicy. Now give yourself two minutes to mull over why this show is so appealing to the 20 something demographic of this society. If you watch this show and react in any way, then you've probably witnessed some aspect of their behavior in your own peer groups and can identify readily with the heady mix of beauty, lust, deceit, alcohol, anger, betrayal, emotional pain, and physical attraction. If you deny this, you're wrong. Stop kidding yourself.
The next episode is gonna be so good. Cheers!
(if i've pissed off alcoholics, lovers of platonic relationships with the opposite sex, or handgrenade enthusiasts with my incisive social commentary, then i implore these people to take comfort in the fact that my words are neither incisive nor particularly informative. in fact, i wanted to talk about my drool inducing dream but got sidetracked by the word herpetic and the concept of condiment sex. Tasty)
In other news, the MTV show Real World is now officially changing its name to "Seven mostly attractive, random strangers have shallow, impersonal sex facilitated solely by large quantities of alcohol and secluded physical accessibility." The term "hook-up" takes on a life of its own with these people - it honestly takes the place of conjunctions in their sentences. For example "Hey Mr. Stereotyped character, could you pass the salt and pepper?" becomes "Hey Mr. Stereotyped character, could you pass the salt -hook-up- pepper." Yes, even the condiments have sex in that house and they dont really know why.
1. Alcohol -
Every explanation that begins with "well, we were just drunk...blah blah.. it didnt mean anything... cough" deserves an Oscar, assuming they gave Oscars to reckless, herpetic (I used this word cuz its just so awesome) 20 somethings whose idea of "broadening their horizons" is a threesome in a jacuzi. Alcohol is not an excuse. It merely gives these people.. any person.. the impetus to do what they were thinking about doing anyways by eliminating the logical inhibitions and filters which keep society balanced, functioning, and morally presentable. Please feel free to disagree but you're wrong if you do. Its one of the side effects of ingesting a decision altering depressant so cheers! But navid, surely social drinking is not harmful!!! I'm not your liver so I cant make that call, but a large percentage of the MTV crop of humanity take drinking to a point of disinhibition and emotional/physical stupidity. Makes for interesting tv though and ultimately thats what matters.
2. Physical accessibility -
I firmly believe that a completely alcohol free environment would still result in the random "hook-ups" witnessed so deliciously on the show, but with less volume. Now we think to ourselves, "navid, you just said that alcohol led to the condiment sex". I sure did, but like Robert Frost said in a poem about something -- that is the road more travelled. In essence, placing 7 relatively attractive people, who essentialy have no knowledge about each others pasts, in a house for 5 months, with shamefully simple jobs to tend to, will get bored and hook-up because of the simple fact that the person is right there. They are with each other, day in and day out, with no particular goals or distractions except for the occasional emotional outburst. Any one of us would succumb to this sort of pressure unless we were honestly looking for something more from the experience.
Sadly, I cant help but laugh at the folks who come into the show with existing relationships. What is that goodbye like for the couple? "Hey babe, I know we've been dating for over 2 years and I love you dearly. This is something i need to do for myself. I promise to be faithful. Oh, I almost forgot... Here's a handgrenade... just pull the pin and toss it in your pants whenever you think of me."
Hey, isn't all this for ratings though? I mean, they are on tv right? Yup, they sure are and so things need to be spicy. Now give yourself two minutes to mull over why this show is so appealing to the 20 something demographic of this society. If you watch this show and react in any way, then you've probably witnessed some aspect of their behavior in your own peer groups and can identify readily with the heady mix of beauty, lust, deceit, alcohol, anger, betrayal, emotional pain, and physical attraction. If you deny this, you're wrong. Stop kidding yourself.
The next episode is gonna be so good. Cheers!
(if i've pissed off alcoholics, lovers of platonic relationships with the opposite sex, or handgrenade enthusiasts with my incisive social commentary, then i implore these people to take comfort in the fact that my words are neither incisive nor particularly informative. in fact, i wanted to talk about my drool inducing dream but got sidetracked by the word herpetic and the concept of condiment sex. Tasty)