varying degrees of light

It seems you have to wait until 2 00 AM for vh1 to play something worth a damn. I have yet to see a Girls Gone Wild ad, I'm talking about music videos. The National's Apartment Story just ended. Now is something from the Foo Fighters' new album... that I'm sorry to say, I'm not too excited about. I haven't been a fan of the Foo since The Colour and the Shape. I don't really pay too much attention to their music - it seems a bit abysmal and their videos are always supposed to be funny, and I've yet to experience an inside chuckle. You know, they aren't a horrible band. It's not suck-ass of a song. They are definitely working the same... same sound, I guess. Which is the last thing you want a band to do, unless you want to hate/forget about them.

Music videos are fascinating though. I wish we could do some action.

We're making some progress on our documentary. My former high school is all open to us filming, which is good but a bit sketchy for several reasons. The public high school, which is located a mere twenty second walk from here, has expressed some concern - we are in discussion with the superintendent. That, in itself, should mean progress.
Shouldn't it?

There's a wii commercial on. It's a good ad - the music and the action is well chosen. And the two asian guys at the end are there. I honestly don't see the big deal. A few friends were playing at a post-wedding party over Christmas break and it was entertaining to watch boxing (to watch the players, not the screen) but I don't see how-

Snoop Dogg, Sensual Seduction video. Hm.

-you could pay $300 or so, if you can find one, to play virtual... tennis, boxing, etc. The ad indicated that it brought children, females and old farts to joy. I had heard rumor that the Wii is very popular in nursing homes because of exercise or whatever... It reminds me of when DDR/Pump was really popular. Popular among asians I mean, not among Dutch college kids in NW Iowa ('cause that was three weeks ago!). People would get excited because it was a fun game that counted as a workout. I don't imagine many senior citizens got in the action but it got old after a while, didn't it? Same with Guitar Hero. "Oh man, this song is even trickier!" After a while, even your favorite song won't bring you back to virtual (dancing, guitaring, boxing, tennis'ing, bowling... bowling is hardly fun as it is).

What does sensual seduction mean? Is there... is it a significant phrase?

Kate Nash, Foundations. Who is gir- oh she has an accent... nice touch.
Oh, she's singing about a boy and she has playful, innocent/angry teenage girl melodies. "My fingertips are holding on to the cracks in our foundation."

Disclaimer: I am... so fed up, to an aggressive comic level (I do still genuinely laugh about it), by females angry over insignificant stuff. Esp. when they are angry because of reasons that they have to be angry about because they are females. As in, they can't help but be angry, and they know that, because they are built that way, as girls. I'm not making every frustration invalid. Do you hear me, swarms of females loyally reading every word of this blog? We read a monologue in class tonight, basically about how the writer (a girl) was frustrated because her-

Silverchair, Straight Lines

-boyfriend forgot to do something she asked. The entire monologue was bitching about that, and how she wants to hate him but is in love with him, so resorts to being passive aggressive about it, ON PURPOSE.
I know, I know. I would give in to it and apologize in many situations. But it makes me so angry. I'll try and post the monologue on here with her permission. It might be a struggle, but we'll see what happens. I think it's pretty well written - it made me so angry during class, so at least it worked.

A good friend(s) of mine really, really likes this band. I don't get it. They're doing some very simple and effective lighting things in the video - a lot of music videos lately have been trying to achieve this antiquated, somewhat choppy, buzzed feel. I applaud both those that achieve said feel well and boldly and those that embrace the amazing video technology available today.

Annnd an ad(?) for black history month. "Love is... the answer to every problem of the world today." Vague, simplistic, incorrect even. And that's all I'm going to say about that, before I get too many angry comments.

These are some of my happiest times - watching music videos late at night. Though I have to wake up and complete assignments before three grueling classes in the morning, I'm happy here, in my robe. In short, I'm awake. And half an hour earlier, I was very much not.

Luvs (the diaper company) is using a Beatles song in their ad. "All you need is Luvs." Fuck. Yes, that merits a fuck. And if you're upset about a single word expression of anger, you probably shouldn't be reading this blog anyway.

Sorry, I just get confused about what bothers people sometime.

"They said shit more than three times in the film!"

Lady, what about the fifty-seven times that she snorts cocaine?

Matt Nathanson, Car Crash

Oh gawsh. I'm saying it. I'm saying it. You need a lot - A LOT - more than guitar, guitar, bass, drums to be a new band. I'm sick of it. Honestly, I am. And that may be an open to accuse me of... whatever. I respect a lot of people that still love the guitar, drum, bass combo but I'm honestly getting sick of that sound or, at least, the same formula in which said instruments are being played together.

"I'm wide awake and so... (smile) alive. I want to feel a car crash, I want to feel the bomb drop, the earth drop, 'till I'm satisfied."

I missed a line in there, somewhere, and I'm okay with it.

Damn, they usually play some stuff that I don't constantly criticize/bitch about this late at night.

One good one and I'll hit the hay.

See: The Other Boleyn Girl

Do you want to hear my thoughts on Black Cinema? 'Cause it's probably going to come off-

The hell is this Buckcherry band? Gawsh, this makes me angry too. Mute!

-as extremely offensive. I'll try to explain myself and digress to the fact that I probably don't get it because of the simple fact that I'm NOT black. If that's so, if I don't understand it because I'm asian/white, then... okay. There we are. (No, I understand the vocab. and the phrases. I just don't think, for example, that Cedric the Entertainer should be speaking, that Tyler Perry is worth a damn and that Ice Cube hasn't done anything worthwhile since Friday.)

Can I just say that I'm fine that these bands, these sucky bands ie. Buckcheryy exist? I'd just like to hear someone defend them, explain why they are worth the time on air, the video production, the album production, otherwise. Seriously. I'm more than willing to learn/be proved wrong.

Chili Peppers, By the Way.

This song is in my Chili Peppers top 5.
It's good to hear a bass guitar again. Flea is the shit.
I would say things about the video, but that would require me to explain at least a little bit of what happened IN the video... and, also, more typing. In short, I bitch a small amount, but I liked it. I laughed at the end too.