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azurelunatic) wrote2004-02-29 03:33 pm
azurelunatic) wrote2004-02-29 03:33 pm
A note on pop culture
I don't watch award shows, neither the Oscars nor the Academy Awards. I can barely tell which show is which. I am vaguely certain that one of them or the other is the Golden Globe, but fuck me if I know which.
Since I grew up sans TV, much of pop culture looks vaguely alike and vaguely boring. I can't tell any of the members of Boyband Du Jour apart, and I think that Britney Spears is pretty hot wearing that snake in that one thing, or at least she would be if she spelled better. I only know her name because it has been talked about so many times that I can't help but remember it. That Idiot Shawn was aghast that I did not know who Sean Connery was. (He asked me something about him, and I answered, "Who's that?" He asked me if I knew who Sean Connery was. I said no. I was technically lying -- I was vaguely sure that he was some famous actor or other.)
Since I grew up sans TV, much of pop culture looks vaguely alike and vaguely boring. I can't tell any of the members of Boyband Du Jour apart, and I think that Britney Spears is pretty hot wearing that snake in that one thing, or at least she would be if she spelled better. I only know her name because it has been talked about so many times that I can't help but remember it. That Idiot Shawn was aghast that I did not know who Sean Connery was. (He asked me something about him, and I answered, "Who's that?" He asked me if I knew who Sean Connery was. I said no. I was technically lying -- I was vaguely sure that he was some famous actor or other.)
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the "Oscar" is the statue given at the Academy Awards.
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*grin*
i am over by the other end of the spectrum. my brother and i snuck out of bed to watch MTV go on the air. pop culture nostaligia shows make me all happy and tingly, and i scare myself when it comes up in trivia contexts.
but.. i knew i was getting old when i started refering to *all* of the music that had come out in the pervious year as "that song" because i couldn't tell the difference beyond the gender of the 'artist' from one to another.. and when the only movies i was aware of in-theatre/on video status of were animated and often from Disney.
heh.
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