The Wee Democracy

They say familiarity breeds contempt.

I suppose that's true. after all, i'm friends with all my former college roommates, but towards the end of all three years, i was glad to be rid of them. the last two not so much, but the first one....oh lordy. we'd butt heads. but that's all beside the point.

i'm talking now more about the arts. simon and garfunkel i know. and it's getting to the point where if i hear them on the radio or wherever, i'll usually skip over it deliberately and promptly. they have no backbone, no balls. i've said before that i prefer the rolling stones to the beatles for the same reason. good as the beatles are, i totally would rather listen to the stones than the beatles any day, simply for the reason that mick jagger has bigger balls than lennon. but this too, is beside the point.

getting more toward the point, i'll move on to television. i used to watch will and grace. now, however, i can't stand it, and i get the feeling i'm becoming more and more the majority than the squeaking don quixote trying to fight the power of the networks!! bastard networks... the reason i don't like the show is for one thing, its intensely smug. everyone on the show is astutely aware that they're being funny, or telling jokes, and it's irritatingly unnatural. not only that, but can jack please go one fucking minute without alluding to, or, more accurately, outright demanding that everyone notice he's gay and think its sooooooooo funny?? can he, goddammit? or can will and his stupid friend grace go 30 fucking seconds without making some lame ass gay pun?? who ever said puns were funny? no one! cause they're not!!

ok, i've stepped off the pedestal now. but even will and grace is not inspiring my ire this morning. no, it's something far more sinister at work today. you remember how i said i love to watch those dating shows? well, in the last week, i've fallen more and more out of their enchanting tacky spell.

take for instance: the bachelor. these poor girls so love that lame-ass foo. and he's here having to choose between them on national television, and the longer the show goes on, the longer the girls stay in the house with bachelor bob, the more and more they grow attached to him, the higher their hopes spring, and the greater the fall and the heartache that happens when they get cut. they showed the girl who he didn't pick in the last episode, and she was just crying, talking about how she was just heartbroken. i felt so bad for her. and i can't imagine being bob and being happy choosing the one i chose, knowing that some chick out there was totally crying. i couldn't concentrate.

or look at average joe. here are some guys probably ain't done too well with the ladies in their lives (though i suspect that adam character has done alright), and they get to vie for the attention of one seriously fine lady. so they narrow it down to three, and these fellas you KNOW have got their hopes set seriously, almost dangerously high, and what do the producers of the show do? they bring in three pretty boys to take the place of the three joes that just got cut!! it's bullshit! these fellas have been losing out to pretty boys their entire lives and now the network just think (and i imagine they laugh like beavis and butthead) hehe, lets bring in some himbos to steal this chick away!! it is NOT fair, and it IS....just cruel.

but the worst thing, the absolutely worstest ugliest thing i've seen on tv was last night. i've told you all, america, that i watch elimidate, but have grown increasingly critical of it in the recent past. but last night was the final straw. i saw a girl walk out on the date, not once but twice after getting into it with this other ho. (and no i'm not being derogatory towards women, this chick was a total tramp) anyways. anyways, the first time she walked out, the dude went at got her, and kept her for the final round. then in the final round her and trampy girl seriously got into it - hot tub water was splashed - and she walked out again. the dude, as predictable as some dudes can be, got out and chased her and she made him decide, then and there like, between the two of them.

dumbass, that he is, says "i dont know" and she said that that was all she needed to know. she walked out. all of this is bad, but i've seen it before. the final straw, the real bitch of the entire matter was that he went back to the hot tub and canoodled with the tramp, like that was what he wanted the whole time. not that he deserved the other chick, or, hell, even wanted her. but it was just ugly. plain and simple. he was a total asshole, and the girl he ended up with was a complete slut. and i was disgusted by the fact that he almost seemed to want her back just to watch them fight over him. that is unacceptable. so i think i'm off dating shows.

except blind date. it still rocks.




feeling: nervous
thinking of: the GRE next week - wednesday before thanksgiving? what the hell was i thinking??
song of the day: orange sky - alexi murdoch
quote of the day: guys, next time you see a girl in a bar, just go up to her and be like, "hey, are you gonna walk to your car alone later? - dane cook