This Day in Pop Culture, according to Raybear

[raybear]

1. No one told me there was a new Magnetic Fields album coming out today! Then again, I've stopped reading most music magazines or websites and know nothing about the most current music if it's not a hip-hop/r&b club song.

2. Why am I suddenly intrigued by the Olsen twins? Not in that creepy sexual Maxim's-countdown-to-their-18th-birthday way, but more in that fascination with their marketing empire and their celebrity personalities. I partially blame dommeyourass for watching them on Oprah last week.

3. I think I might use the money in my doggie bank I've been collecting for six months to buy season six of Buffy which comes out in three weeks. I know, I know, I should be saving my pennies (literally and figuratively) for my upcoming period of joblessness, but.....BUFFY.

4. Um, who's going to see Mean Girls? Can I come along?

5. I vote NO on the following propositions:

The Last Samurai
The new D12 album
Copious articles on the ending of "Friends" and "Frasier"
Anything containing the phrase "low carb"

Comments

numbas

[louche.livejournal.com]

2. i started noticing the olsen twins frenzy on the road trip. i was like why in the hell are they on the cover of every magazine?? then i decided that their faces kinda weird me out.

4. i wanna go to see "mean girls"!! did you already go? :( i want to on a tuesday, but could not last night...

5. friends is crap. but i like frazier. i actually read an article in the ny times on the road trip about him and how he's been that character for 20 whole years. i think that playing a character for 20 years is fascinating.

Re: numbas

[louche.livejournal.com]

and another comment on #5:

the "low carb revolution" is one of the most outrageous notions that's happened to this country since the "fat free" everything days of yore. like how everything that already was fat free had to be advertised to death. salsa! fat free! hard candy! fat free! only, maybe this low carb thing is worse.

Re: numbas

[raybear.livejournal.com]

I said the same thing last week! I think my example was candy corn being advertised as "fat free". Um, it's just plain sugar -- it's always been fat free!

I also keep thinking about this Onion sidebar a couple years ago -- the one on the front page that the "top ten" whatever. This one was the top 10 WORST selling lowfat foods in America. It included lots of hilarious and made up things, like fatfree twinkies, lowfat Spam, but the number one worst selling lowft food in America is......fruits and vegetables.

It's funny cause it's true.

more on carbs

[louche.livejournal.com]

reminded me of this lj user who i don't know but whose lj i regularly read because she cracks my shit up. check out this entry.

Re: more on carbs

[raybear.livejournal.com]

HAHAHA! I'm ALL about discrimihating on dreadmocks. If your hair doesn't naturally "lock", than there should be no dread. Period.

Re: more on carbs

[dykestar.livejournal.com]

thank you! because "dreadmocks" is now my new fav. word. so much nicer (and funnier) than my old term of "white-girl-dreads".

PS: I'm adding you, because that might be a record of non-friends-list-person I've left comments to in 2 days. Mean Girls... bringing the world together...

dreadmocks

[raybear.livejournal.com]

Beacuse I don't want to be just another white person misappropiating something, I want to add that "dreadmocks" as a term was first introduced to me via "Ego Trip's Big Book of Racism", which I highly recommend.

Re: dreadmocks

[dykestar.livejournal.com]

ooo... that sounds like a party (in textual form... yes, I consider text a party... who doesn't?). I'm going to have to go pick that up...