Monday, June 11, 2007

The Decline of western Civilization Part III, Paris Hilton.

After evading Law enforcement officials across the state of California wanted criminal celébutante and fashionista Paris Hilton is back behind bars.
I go out of my way to avoid celebrity gossip, the coke fiends, the break up dramas, the adoptive parents of entire third world tribes, all seem to be a very slightly more sophisticated version of the endless chatter of a high school clique.
But there is something about Paris Hilton that really gets to me. I’m not talking about gets to me like raindrops on roses or whiskers on kittens. It’s more that fingernails on blackboards or vinegar on cold-sores sort of a feeling, she really is that bad. But what is it about Paris Hilton that annoys me so much ?
I certainly hope that its not just some sort of jealousy conversion reaction, whereby I slag her off but actually want her or want to be her. I think I can safely say that I don’t find Ms Hilton physically attractive and I am comfortable enough in my own skin don’t want hers.
I didn’t really expect that Hilton was going to behave in an exemplary fashion in lockup. Even just shutting up and keeping her head down would be too much for her, let alone showing some sort of individual initiative by getting a gang together and through a cunning ruse tunneling out from the exercise yard from a disguised wooden horse. But even with my very low expectations I was disgusted by her feeble and half-arsed escape attempt.
Getting out on a medical is a time honored tradition of the penitentiary. Witness the infamous Australian thug and some-what author Mark "Chopper" Read. He sliced off his own ears just to get a transfer to better accommodation, a place with more afternoon sun, where he wouldn’t get stabbed so much. ( Recent research has revealed that there is a claim that the ear cutting incident was just to win a bet, still tough though)
But Paris just cried for 2 days then got her own psychiatrist to write the Sheriff a note, it’s just pathetic, no way to get you bragging rights in the weights room.
However there is an up side, now with a bit of luck she will do the full 45 days.

But to para-phrase my old master Obi wan Kenobi

"Who is the greater fool ?, the fool or the fool who writes about her in his Blog ?"

Friday, June 1, 2007

The Gilmore Girls


Gilmore Girls TV Review

What is it that draws me back time and time again to the charmingly quaint New England town of Stars Hollow Connecticut ?
Is it thirty something yummy Mommy with a rack, Loreli Gilmore played out with a strange manic style by Lauren Graham or is it the disarming cute Rory Gilmore played in a rather understated fashion by the petite Alexis Bledel ?
It could even be some of the minor characters Lane Kim (Keiko Agena) the repressed Korean girl who yearns to be a punk rocker or Kirk (Sean Gunn) the small town's lovable but bizarre jack of all trades, I would actual rate him higher than Luke Danes ( Scott Patterson) as an enjoyable character to watch. But it is first and foremost a chick show which means excessivly elabrate romantic entangelments.
Luke is the macho love interest of the MILF Lorelai, working class Luke is hairy, manly and runs a small humble but clean and honest diner in town.
The other love interest is the Rory’s father Christopher Hayden (David Sutcliffe) he is cute, some what sissy but seriously rich. He inherited a pile of money from somebody and does some sort of finance thing.
I was some what disturbed when I discovered during my research for this article that the whole thing was conceived with help from the Family friendly programming forum the F.F.P.F. which is part of the Association of National advertisers or A.N.A. The representative body of marketers in the USA all of which smells like fascist state propaganda . Creating the programs according to their own code can eliminate the thereat of advertisers boycotts and who the hell actually writes the agenda for these quasi judicial bodies anyway ?.
The main tensions in the life of Loerlai are her strained relationship with her parent especially her mother Emily Gilmore (Kelly Bishop) as the third of the "Gilmore Girls" their mother represents all of the old school Protestant family values that the precocious and rather slutty Lorelai rebels from. She left her palatial family home after becoming pregnant and chose the road of a single mother over that of a Ivy leaguer ( Seven Sister ).
Up to the point where solo Mummy arrives back on the door step of her old school mother to beg for the serious dosh required to get her own daughter Delightful Rory the Harvard education she so desparately wants. And so the power of capitalism brings the family together.
The keys to the gates of power in the New Republic (east coast ) are the degrees and diploma of the educational institutions and the contacts they represent. These gates are guarded by those of the exact same class whose interests the serve just like the A.N.A & the F.F.P.F.

It is now cancelled cut, over and done with final episode aired in the States may 15th it now belongs to history