Talking until my back hurts too much ...

[quietprofanity]

Hey, Alejandro! How about an icon of Kona-chan pondering, "Twincest is wrong, eh?" with Kagami and Tsukasa? Y/N? (I'm not into the pairing at all, but it would be something she would think, I believe.)

I've now watched all of the "official" Marx Brothers movies. A Night in Casablanca was significantly better than The Big Store/Go West!/At the Circus blah. Mostly because the "meet cutes" were rarely in it and only the evil chick got to sing. Still, it was hard to look at Harpo with the age lines along his eyes (he also seemed to use a lot more props and move around a lot less) and the veins in Chico's hands. Which is weird because I KNOW they got old. I've seen the clip of Groucho performing "Lydia, The Tattooed Lady" in his twilight years, but thinking of Harpo old is just strange ...

I don't think I'm going to seek out any of the "non-canon" Marx Brothers movies ... well, maybe Love Happy.

Also, to clear my "DVDs to watch" list, I watched The Osbournes Season 2 1/2 ... and, to my disappointment, still enjoyed it. I'd like to think my taste matured but ... eh, no.

I have a theory that MTV and VH1 have somehow managed to make the television equivalent of marijuana (sans the hallucinations) and have injected it into all of their TV shows for the past decade or so. The Osbournes, The I Love the ... shows, The Most Awesomely ... shows, Celebrity Fit Club. They're not harmful, they're only emotionally addicting but God DAMN if they don't make you okay with being bored.

On a similar subject, I want to take the time out to say, when I ponder the state of gender relations in the media, no industry makes me more depressed than the music industry. Which is weird, because it's not like female singers/performers haven't always been visible and that the other media industries don't do egregiously sexist things.

But sheesh, the music industry practically wears its objectification of women like a motherfucking BADGE. And I'm not attacking sexiness, either. I don't think anything early Madonna did was objectification. Playing up the male gaze ... okay, sure. To an extent, I don't mind it if the performer wants to act like they're seducing the audience.

BUT I do have a problem with, well, girls in thongs dancing around while a rapper sings sexist lyrics. Or an uptight woman suddenly undergoing a personality change and ripping her clothes off because she hears a metal song. Or two women randomly licking each others kisses in that "OMG! We're lesbians! That makes us cool, right?" way where it really doesn't seem like they're even enjoying themselves. Or a woman being seduced by a monkey so the ANGRY YOUNG ARTISTS (TM) can mollify the audience into believing that women are bitches. Or a woman who seemed to be in a socially-conscious band deciding it would be really cool if she set off on her own and sung nonsense.

Yeah, I'm over-generalizing like shit, but the whole thing wants to make me throw out my TV for good. It's such a, "HA-HA-HA! WE SEE YOU'RE WATCHING SILLY, SILLY FEMINIST AND WE DON'T GIVE A SHIT BECAUSE YOU CAN BE REPLACED BY A MILLION GIRLS WHO'LL HUMILIATE THEMSELVES ON ONE OF OUR DATING SHOWS! FUCK YOU! HA-HA-HA-HA-HA!"

And to finish up ... that's why you can't have a rocketship.

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Okay, that reference was too obscure.

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I don't know how else to end this post.

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Here, have some mash-ups.

The Ghost that Feeds (NIN meets Ghostbusters ... I don't understand the Journey thing, don't bother to watch the video)
Trekkie and Kate Monster from Avenue Q sing Wicked's "Popular"
Baby vs. Alec Baldwin (I wouldn't bet on the Baldwin)

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"They should just call it the BONER NETWORK...!"

[47nite.livejournal.com]

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(funnily enough, this shot is right after Konata's first 'Marimite moment')

Yeah, not feelin' the Kagami×Tsukasa at all. But then I'm always open to pairings that aren't heaped on me with a dumptruck. ^~

Also, bonus points for making them fraternal twins instead of anything like this abomination.

Re: "They should just call it the BONER NETWORK...!"

[quietprofanity.livejournal.com]

Hee-hee. Thanks, I knew I could count on you. (I have to buy extra icons for this account.)

And oh, my ... I would have LOVED to have been a fly on the wall for that pitch.

Suit 1: "Hey, let's do a harem with 30 girls!"
Suit 2: "30 girls? I can't be expected to come up with 30 unique character designs!"
Suit 1: "Oh ... um, how about we make them all twins, then?"
Suit 2: "BRILLIANT!"

[47nite.livejournal.com]

Y'know, Ken Akamatsu's Negima! is a harem with 30 girls. ^^; (the vast majority of the fans really just focus on Setsuna×Konoka, the series' resident shoujo-ai pairing, but that's kind of an inevitability given the premise…)

[quietprofanity.livejournal.com]

Darn my hope of reasonable exaggeration. Oh well, I guess I have seen a bit of Mahurabo, which seems to suggest the harem for EL LEADO SIR WUSSY is the whole Hogwarts-like school.

(Don't ask me to describe the situation, it's too painful ...)

[imayb1.livejournal.com]

I think Joan Jett is (was?) an exception, but... yeah. Most of the male/female mix groups don't fall into that, either.

[quietprofanity.livejournal.com]

I agree – there are lots of exceptions. They are really hard to find these days, though. :-( And when I do see it, the whole "NOT FOR YOU!" attitude makes it emotionally draining.