I like roughly 1/4 of the programming, on Bravo.

[wolven7]

The 1/4 that I enjoy is "The West Wing." The rest can go fuck itself.

Why am I discussing my television preferences, you ask? Because there is a new show, on television that, by way of its sensationalistic crappary, makes me want to vomit on certain groups of people, while beating them to death with hammers and cricket bats. "Sports Kids Moms and Dads." An entire show about people living, vicariously, through their children's sports "careers." We are talking about children between teh ages of 7 and 16. Force, taunting, tormenting these children to do well. Literally with-holding love and acceptance, if these children do poorly. In Sports. I can understand and put up with a lot of shit, and i can understand the mechanism by which these people's lives fell down around them, but there are some things that I just won't abide.

And now I learn that there is some show, on MTV, called "I Want a Famous Face," where they don't actually pay for your surgery, but they stand by and chronicle it. I'm reminde d of something i saw, earlier today, on The West Wing. Joey Lucas (Marlee Matlin) tells Josh Lymon (Bradley Whitford), that numbers lie, all the time. That if numbers didn't lie, 73% of the people polled wouldn't say that they were sick of a sex scandal, while the circulation of any newspaper, carrying the story of said scandal, went up.

People say they detest these people... but give them shows and credence... Why?

In more pleasant news, this is Katie West : http://www.avolare.net/photos/self/

And Here: http://www.livejournal.com/users/diosa_en_disfra/

She takes beautiful pictures, with well-arranged subjects and frames...

No, i don't know her personally. I've only heard of her, through other people, one of whose judgements i trust, pretty well, 'cause she's always been pretty honest with me.

I'm tired of this world, so much, recently.

Let's change it.

Comments

[kmn-rdr-caoimhe.livejournal.com]

Over the course of 2 semesters, I've seen maybe 5 episodes of that show, and I've noticed that every aspect of that show asks "are you, the viewer, sure you want to get plastic surgery?"

Except it never actually comes right out and plasters the words across the screen. And it should, since people are stupid.

And only one of these 5 people I saw ever had anything resembling a real reason to get plastic surgery. Because confidence shouldn't cost 20 grand with a chance of almost certain disappointment.

addendum

[kmn-rdr-caoimhe.livejournal.com]

Especially not if you get to be disappointed on national television.

[wolven.livejournal.com]

Exactly.

They Should paste it on the screen. Huge.

Re: addendum

[wolven.livejournal.com]

Exactly.

[brigidreborn.livejournal.com]

Did you happen to catch "Angels in America"? Apparently it was on hbo first but they re-ran it on bravo recently. It was quite an interesting 6-part movie.

[kmn-rdr-caoimhe.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the basic formula boils down to this:

1. Disclaimer - e.g. "We ain't payin' fer this shit, we're just filming it."
2. Meet the patient. The patient is unhappy with their body for whatever reasn. The patient believes plastic surgery will fix the "bad."
   
3. The bulk of the show is spent watcing the patient's sanity being put into question by his or her friends and/or family. Patient remains stalwart.
4. The next largest part of the show is spent learning what can go wrong by an interview with someone who had plastic surgery either not go as they'd hoped, or go completely wrong.
5. And then, the surgery. Quick camera cuts of some of the most gruesome points in the procedure - or at least as gruesome as they can show - set to electro thrash metal…or something, I dunno. Prepare to feel a little weak at the sight of lasagna for the rest of your life.
6. The rest of the show is the recovery, the result, and the overall reaction.

Somewhere in there, they need to, as obviously as possible, ask ttat question. Hell, change the title to "Are You Sure You Want A Famous Face?" even.

The only problem is that I'm pretty sure today's MTV generation misses the the fact that all of this is thrown in their faces as an example, and quite possibly interprets it as a dare.

Not all of them, of course, but certainly the ones you're prone to see in an oval at the bottom corner of the screen on TRL.

[unknownbinaries.livejournal.com]

I'll defend some shows...I like some of the medical and crime dramas. (OK, self-professed ER and Crossing Jordan junkie) But that shit...Projectile vomiting. From every orifice. Preferably ON someone responsible.

And I really just think that people ARE truly sick of this shit, it's just the ones who aren't, the idiots and bad examples, they tend to be the loudest of ANY group.

[wolven.livejournal.com]

mr_hinzelmann lent it to me. Haven't watched it, yet.

[wolven.livejournal.com]

TRL has some sorts of Ovals, now? Whatever.

Hammers. Cricket bats. Vomit.

[wolven.livejournal.com]

I still want cricket bats and hammers. They can make show out of THAT.

[kmn-rdr-caoimhe.livejournal.com]

Ovals, circles, whatever the fuck the people give shoutouts in while the video which everyone supposedly wants to see - but not really, because they don't play the whole thing, and let people give shoutouts while it actually IS playing - is playing.

[wolven.livejournal.com]

H. CB. V.

Of cricket bats

[karishi.livejournal.com]

The prop reminds me of the other show they need to have on TV: Zombies going after meat, on soapy plastic, with ropes around their waists. And don't forget the all-important background music.
It could be a five-season Epic.

Re: Of cricket bats

[wolven.livejournal.com]

That would be perfect. Perhaps without the commentary mixed in, in the song, though...