Monday, August 23, 2004

Cries of the Many

I sometimes find it hard to understand popular culture. Fashion, trends, styles... most of them are lost on me. I tend to ignore things like Big Brother, because the producers have stopped trying to get people who are genuinely interesting and just get people who argue, have sex and generally aren't very pleasant characters anyway. At least, that's what I've understood of it. I don't suppose I've ever been one for many mainstream popular things except films, but they tend to have a slightly different audience to TV shows and are made for different reasons. And people go and watch them for different reasons- to oogle stars (Aragorn's much more attractive than Legolas, by the way ^_~), to see things blow up or to brainless/intellectual in any amounts. I never saw xXx, because personally I don't like Vin Diesel and I think the film looks pretty sh*te anyway. But thousands of people go to see films that really aren't very good, and things that could be really decent are missing out as a result. It's a shame. I'm sure there'd be a better market for more decent stuff if people actually paid attention to it. *coughs* Another thing that puzzles me is how some MyO sites are so popular even though there are no comments and all they ever post up is quizzes...*coughs* And that's another thing that gets me- clothes fashion. Some are so damned impractical it's unbelieveable. I remember seeing a girl wearing these really baggy jeans in the rain and the bottoms were completely wrecked. They'd soaked up so much water and they were ripped to shreds, pretty much. I know goth/grunge/whatever yout to call it fashion tends to build itself on rips and tears (and they do look pretty cool in the right places), but it wouldn't strike me as being very comfortable to wear in the rain, or in heavy heat. Obviously you'd have other clothes for that, but they just don't look right on me. I think more form-fitting trousers are much nicer, even if they are a little baggy. Six-foot wide tubes of denim don't do anything for me, heh. They do even less for the idiot guys who wear them with the crotch around their knees. No, I'm serious. They actually wear them lower than the height they should (and in most cases, legally) be held at. And the worst thing is, it's the people who should do it least who do it most (i.e. really hairy/flabby/ugly people. My English Language class was rife with those). HEY, LOOK AT ME! I'll never wear a T-Shirt with a slogan on it with one exception, and that is the Red Dwarf one I have that says 'Smeg Head' one one side, and 'Better Smeg Than Dead' on the other. That's cool ^_^. And others are cool/funny too, but I don't like the ones in the shops here. They're all references to sex and/or sexist jokes (e.g. usually something about 'Giving Head'). The designers' excuse might be 'It's taking the piss out of people who say those things', but as far as I'm concerned if you wear that T-Shirt, you're still advertising the fact that you're an idiot. Alright, so they're not all about sex. But the rest of the designs are crap anyway. I will probably wear something with rips in at at some point, but I wouldn't buy anything unless I thought it was really good. You can buy a pair of jeans ripped at the knee for about... 30-40 quid somewhere. But elsewhere you can buy a brand new, ripless pair of jeans for £20. If you really wanted a hole, why not do it yourself for half the price? They're only charging you 20 pounds extra because one of their workers took three seconds to slash the knee. Ones with the 'rip' sewn on (on an additional piece of fabric) are nicer, and they don't let the elements in so much. I don't know. I'm probably talking to the wrong people, heh ^_^; I know ripped and baggy jeans are fashionable. And on the right people they look really cool. Otherwise it makes you look like you've something to hide, heh. Celebrity SOS People's obsessions with celebrity is plastered everywhere, too. It means less to be famous than it did say, 30-40 years ago because it's become so much easier to do so. Congratulations to those stars who remain out of the public eye, heh. But some people won't leave them alone. I've had enough of hearing about Britney Spears' marriages or J-Lo's buttocks. What's stupid is that it can take priority over news that will affect people in far greater ways; say the doings of a Government/murderer/natural disaster. It's not as if knowing how many people the members of Busted have slept with will help you actually really know them any better, or enrich your life any more. But... I guess there's always something people want to build themselves to. They need some sort of place to aim for else there'd be no direction or motivation of anything. It just frustrates me that if I want to become a film actor, I'm going to have to put up with all this as well, heh. One Last Thing... My Guestbook entries have been disappearing o_o; Anyone else noticed this?

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