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15 March 2007

Pop Maven Update

Love pop culture.

 

Here's what I'm grooving to lately:

 

  • Snow Patrol's Chasing Cars ... "Let's waste time Chasing cars Around our heads // I need your grace To remind me To find my own // If I lay here, If I just lay here, Would you lie with me and just forget the world?"  
  • Daniel Powter's Bad Day ... Just this: "Where is the passion when you need it the most ... "
  • The Gin Blossoms' Hey Jealousy: "The past is gone but something might be found, To take its place... If you don't expect too much from me, You might not be let down. Cause all I really want is to be with you." Also Allison Road. OK, and Found Out About You.
  • Rihanna's SOS  ... My kind of dance music. [video starts with brief ad]. And Will Smith's Switch.
  • Gnarls Barkley's Crazy ... "Ha ha ha, bless your soul, You really think you're in control!  Well, I think you're crazy... I think you're crazy... I think you're crazy...Just like me."
  • Pink's U + Ur Hand: "I'm not here for your entertainment, You don't really want to mess with me tonight."
  • The Killers' Mr Brightside: "I just can't look, it's killing me, And taking control ... Jealousy, turning saints into the sea."
  • The Perishers' Pills (with Sarah McLachlan): "One may think we're doing fine, But if I had to lay it on the line, We're losing ground with every passing day We're not ok. But that's one thing I would never, One thing I would never, that's one thing I would never say to you."

 

And watching on TV:

 

  • ESPN's Pardon the Interruption, a couple of nights per week. Love Mike, like Tony. But now that it's mostly basketball, I watch a lot less than during baseball and football seasons. Also catch Around the Horn from time to time.
 
  • NASCAR races on the weekends -- the season has begun! Wouldn't say I'm a NASCAR fan -- I don't know much or care much about the competitors -- bu I like to watch the cars go round and round.

  • Golf on the weekends
 
  • HGTV's House Hunters once or twice a week. Usually the re-run at 7:30.
 

 

Bad stuff that happens:
  • Tons -- maybe literally -- of perfectly good clothes are thrown out. Hopefully, they're actually given away, but because the clothes are stuffed and thrown into a metal trash can, I'm not confident that they are donating these clothes so others can reuse them.

  • Women who look perfectly fine are told they're lacking somehow because they're not wearing trendy clothes or clothes that are feminine enough. As a good friend taught me long ago, whatever a woman does is feminine, because she's female. Period. Pointy-toed shoes and flouncy skirts are optional.
 
  • No woman is told not to wear makeup; all are made up with cosmetics to some extent. For whose benefit is this?
 

The good stuff is that sometimes women learn how to dress their particular bodies, how to emphasise what they like, how to live with their bodies so that every trip to buy clothes doesn't end in tears and self-recrimination -- and that can be empowering.

 

The show featuring Seattle gal Rita Marshall (Mitchell?), 34, was an example of the good stuff and some of the bad. She looked perfectly fine before they transformed her; she was beautiful and somewhat androgynous in clothing, shoewear, hairstyle, and minimal makeup.( Her newlywed husband apparently nominated her because he was "eager to draw out her feminine side." Hello! She's a woman -- she's all feminine!) She didn't need a makeover, IMO, but she in the process of being made over, she seemed to learn a lot about how to fit clothes to her body, which increased her pleasure in finding clothes and in wearing them. And they didn't do anything too elaborate to her hair or face, nothing that required much everyday maintenance, whew. 

 

 

And watching on DVD:

 



Into online:

 


  • The Morning News headlines (3 times each weekday)
  • CNN Internatonal Edition
  • Cryptic Crosswords (premium NYT service)
  • Godblogs like open source theology, Velveteen Rabbi, Preaching Peace, Coming to the Quiet, scott... diagonally parked in a parallel universe, James Alison, Bending the Rule, Priestcraft, Experimental Theology, Young Anabaptist Radicals, Ekklesia blogs, Ktismatics. (All links available here under 'Faith')
  • whatever James Alison offers (in English, that is)

 

Reading

 

  • Books and articles: The usual crime novels, either the latest series titles or re-reads. James Alison. Re-reading Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby for bookgroup. Not much else offline. 
  • Magazines and newspapers: Only two offline: The Economist and Living Etc.  A Wall St. Journal when I can find one lying around the coffee shop.

 

 

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