I’ve heard Clinton referenced as the “party president,” and a few people have said to me that Bush has taken more vacations than any other President, but the media has ushered in a new trend by essentially worshipping the ground Obama walks on.
I’m fairly certain that any other president that came after Bush was going to be idolized, but I never predicted that things would go to the extent and lengths which they have been taken.
A cataclysmic train of events have taken place since before the election and they cannot be stopped even after the inauguration has taken place.
Aside from the fact that Barack is a normal human being with basically one of the most important job titles in our American history, he is also one of the most publicized in terms of private life.
Entertainment Weekly recently released a special issue with Barack Obama on the front cover and said that he is “changing pop culture forever,” and that he is the first “presidential rock star.”
The six page article featured the most publicized celebrity endorsements that a president has ever had; big names such as Jennifer Aniston, Matt Damon, and Oprah Winfrey were mentioned. The article also features his appearance in a Spider-man comic book, his favorite cartoons, and his favorite celebrities. Not to mention, his daughters and wife have become fashion “first trendsetters.”
Not all is fun, flowers, and worship; E News television show “The Soup” often takes real clips and montages them for a comedic effect, which is just what they did around 11:30 a.m., Tuesday morning.
The feature for the first five minutes was Barack Obama. The Soup poked fun at the media for quoting a seven-year-old Caucasian female when she said “this is my chance to have a black president.” The Soup also re-ran a clip from the Today Show that showed newborns in Kenya being named Michelle and Barack in honor of Obama and his wife (criticizing the Kenyans for their worship), and they even went so far as to inappropriately clash a woman’s words when she said it’s cute that they’re (They President and his wife) showing “affection” by “cuddling” and “fisting.”
Personally, I feel that the media are making too much out of the inauguration and out of Obama in general. I understand that he is the first African American president, but if you ask the average person what his policies are they won’t be able to tell you.
The AOL website recently posted a link to an article that mentioned something other than Obama’s inauguration and personal lifestyle; Obama's first official interview with the Arab community was given. Writer of the article, Paul Schemm, mentioned that Obama wants to “repair relations with the Muslim world."
Congratulations, we officially defeated segregation because we actually have an African American family living in the white house when about forty years ago racial segregation kept white, black, and Mongoloid people from using the same bathroom, but I’d be more concerned with the job Obama will do.
I’m not bashing him.
I voted for him.
I just feel that we should be more concerned with his policies than the tan he’s getting at the beach, or his favorite cartoon characters.
Interesting quotes about Obama from the Media:
“Two billion people worldwide have seen footage of Obama putting his hand on a Bible.” –Entertainment weekly
“Barackaliscious!” – E News “The Soup”
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Sunday, January 18, 2009
Lifestyles of The Rich and The Famous
I was sitting on my boyfriends’ couch when he showed me an article out of Entertainment Weekly on Heath Ledger. The sub-headline read, “A year after his death, his closest friends finally open up about his fear of fame, life as a father, and brilliant career.” The article goes on to mention the start of Heath’s career at age 18 in the movie 10 Things I Hate About You, moves on to mention the rest of the films he’s starred in over a lifetime, and ends with his half-finished role in Parnassus and his untimely death.
The article also mentions Heath’s disdain for parties in Hollywood and his lack of interest in interviews to the point where he would sometimes partake in “playing soldiers with [Pecoroni’s son] for hours just to get away from [the Hollywood lifestyle].”
If you’re wondering where I’m going with this blog, it is simply this; we as Americans partake in idolizing celebrities and often know more about them then we do about our founding fathers, prior presidents, or even about the people who have helped cure diseases that once plagued our society. This troubles me greatly.
It’s tragic to me that if you question someone with who played the lead roles on Titanic, they’ll probably say, “Jack was played by Lianardo DiCaprio, and Rose by Kate Winslet.” If you ask them who the Father of Science of Microbiology was, the same man that contributed to solving cases of “rabies, anthrax, chicken cholera, and silkworm diseases, and contributed to the development of the first vaccines” they’ll stare at you like you’re insane.
Don’t get me wrong, I enjoy watching a good movie or two and maybe even referencing actors to prior roles they have performed in, but I don’t go so overboard as to revolve my life around them. For example, Jim Carrey definitely did a great job in movies like Ace Ventura: Pet Dective, Me, Myself, and Irene, and even in Liar Liar but, when he tried his hand at a more serious role in the movie entitled The Number 23, almost every person I questioned about his performance stated that he should just stick to comedy roles. No one I questioned about his performance went more into depth about his lifestyle, which I was thankful for. We should be able to reference actors or celebrities and not idolize them or make a big scene, like people have done with Britney Spears or Vanessa Hudgens.
Everyone wants their 15 minutes of fame and fortune, if only for a brief moment in life. I feel that the best way to get there is to be unique and original by creating your own style, idea, or invention that helps the masses or renders them into a mind state of salivation. I just feel that we shouldn’t idolize people to the point that we know more about them then we do our own selves and I don’t know about you, but I’m not going to sit back and be the 40 year old man behind the popcorn counter asking, “Would you like to upgrade that to a larger size,” simply because I wasted my life indulging in the lives of the rich and the famous instead of creating my own fame and fortune.
The article also mentions Heath’s disdain for parties in Hollywood and his lack of interest in interviews to the point where he would sometimes partake in “playing soldiers with [Pecoroni’s son] for hours just to get away from [the Hollywood lifestyle].”
If you’re wondering where I’m going with this blog, it is simply this; we as Americans partake in idolizing celebrities and often know more about them then we do about our founding fathers, prior presidents, or even about the people who have helped cure diseases that once plagued our society. This troubles me greatly.
It’s tragic to me that if you question someone with who played the lead roles on Titanic, they’ll probably say, “Jack was played by Lianardo DiCaprio, and Rose by Kate Winslet.” If you ask them who the Father of Science of Microbiology was, the same man that contributed to solving cases of “rabies, anthrax, chicken cholera, and silkworm diseases, and contributed to the development of the first vaccines” they’ll stare at you like you’re insane.
Don’t get me wrong, I enjoy watching a good movie or two and maybe even referencing actors to prior roles they have performed in, but I don’t go so overboard as to revolve my life around them. For example, Jim Carrey definitely did a great job in movies like Ace Ventura: Pet Dective, Me, Myself, and Irene, and even in Liar Liar but, when he tried his hand at a more serious role in the movie entitled The Number 23, almost every person I questioned about his performance stated that he should just stick to comedy roles. No one I questioned about his performance went more into depth about his lifestyle, which I was thankful for. We should be able to reference actors or celebrities and not idolize them or make a big scene, like people have done with Britney Spears or Vanessa Hudgens.
Everyone wants their 15 minutes of fame and fortune, if only for a brief moment in life. I feel that the best way to get there is to be unique and original by creating your own style, idea, or invention that helps the masses or renders them into a mind state of salivation. I just feel that we shouldn’t idolize people to the point that we know more about them then we do our own selves and I don’t know about you, but I’m not going to sit back and be the 40 year old man behind the popcorn counter asking, “Would you like to upgrade that to a larger size,” simply because I wasted my life indulging in the lives of the rich and the famous instead of creating my own fame and fortune.
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
Californication...No, not the song
Blogging is something I’ve been doing since my freshman year of 2003, but that blog is for pleasure alone. Blogging is something many people have been doing since the mid 90s and a modern television series entitled Californication pokes fun at bloggers and puts into question their choice of diction.
Californication is about an author named Hank Moody who juggles his “drug and sex addictions while raising a daughter and trying to win back the love of his life.” He goes on to blog for Hell-A magazine to make money but protests the idea of blogging from the beginning.
In one scene between the main character (Hank) and another woman this is said:
Woman: "LOL"
Hank [curious and baffled at what he just heard]: "What was that? What did you just say? Just then? LOL...laugh out loud...that's part of your lexacom?...really? LOL."
Woman: "Shouldn't it be part of yours too? [pause]. You are writing for cyberspace."
Hank [sighs and says sarcastically]: "Oh and there goes my boner."
Hank: "Wave bye bye."
Woman: "What is your issue with LOL?"
Hank: "Ah..I don't have an issue unless you count the fact that every time you say it you're contributing to the death of the English language."
Ironically or perhaps not, Californication has it’s own blog.
Well, bloggers? What are your thoughts on this? Will blogging with all of its internet shorthand be the public’s voice to a brighter tomorrow or will blogging inevitably murder any authors’ chances to become part of a list of famous novels such as MacBeth, To Kill A Mockingbird, Frankenstein, Jane Eyre, and Of Mice and Men.
Californication is about an author named Hank Moody who juggles his “drug and sex addictions while raising a daughter and trying to win back the love of his life.” He goes on to blog for Hell-A magazine to make money but protests the idea of blogging from the beginning.
In one scene between the main character (Hank) and another woman this is said:
Woman: "LOL"
Hank [curious and baffled at what he just heard]: "What was that? What did you just say? Just then? LOL...laugh out loud...that's part of your lexacom?...really? LOL."
Woman: "Shouldn't it be part of yours too? [pause]. You are writing for cyberspace."
Hank [sighs and says sarcastically]: "Oh and there goes my boner."
Hank: "Wave bye bye."
Woman: "What is your issue with LOL?"
Hank: "Ah..I don't have an issue unless you count the fact that every time you say it you're contributing to the death of the English language."
Ironically or perhaps not, Californication has it’s own blog.
Well, bloggers? What are your thoughts on this? Will blogging with all of its internet shorthand be the public’s voice to a brighter tomorrow or will blogging inevitably murder any authors’ chances to become part of a list of famous novels such as MacBeth, To Kill A Mockingbird, Frankenstein, Jane Eyre, and Of Mice and Men.
Thursday, January 8, 2009
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