My brain hurts.
3 completely unrelated ruminations from the last 24 hours:
1.) How sick are you of hearing, "I'm ________, and I approve this message."? Is this a requirement for these ads? I think it's getting a little out of hand. Last night I saw a commercial with Al Franken giving me a heart to heart about his views for America. At the end of his monologue, he says, "I'm Al Franken and I approve this message." That leads me to believe other things that he's said were said without his approval under duress. Isn't his endorsement of his own statement implied?
2.) UPN, or whatever channel 29 is right now, was airing The Rocky Horror Picture Show last night. In addition to wondering if the Riverview Theater still does a live showing of this(I've always wanted to go since seeing a live show in Milwaukee about 10 yrs ago), I wondered how this show made it on the air during primetime hours. Obviously, it's a pretty edgy topic for our American eyes. I was, however, relieved to see that throughout the entire film, they blurred out the midsection on the recreation of the statue of David in one of the rooms in the castle. The statue is in the background quite a bit and I would have been horrified to see an 8 pixel stone penis in the background while I'm trying to watch a touching tale of a young couple stumbling into a castle with a Transylvanian transvestite, a cryogenically-preserved motorbiker and a Frankenstein's monster wearing golden underpants created as a sexual plaything. Thank you, channel 29, for protecting my innocent eyes from the human form as depicted in a classical sculpture. That was close.
3.) I've touched on this before, but recently it was released to the public what these asshats make for each episode of The Hills. Seriously, this is really the end of us as a society, right? Watch the following clip and try to wrap your brain around it. Then, if your head doesn't explode, tell me what is a more haunting thought:
a) Audrina Patridge is actually that mind numbingly dumb and makes $665,000/yr and is looking for a raise.
b) Audrina is acting and the writers actually wrote that in to the script.
I don't really understand how the show works, but I know some stuff is scripted. I assume that's just the major themes(orchestrating breakups and hookups, etc.) and not the actual play by play dialogue. For example, there's no way these two would be talking about the Hadron Collider in a million years so I have to believe the writers made them bring that up. I have no fucking idea why they'd do that, but I believe in my heart the writers were behind that. Regardless, when does the writing end and reality tv take over? I get a god damn chill down my spine thinking that our future leaders, teachers, scientists, and doctors are watching this show and the writers are coming up with ways to dumb it down further.
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