:-), Sorry, I don't have any. If you were in my home country though, I might be able to hook you up....
Ok maybe not. Really, I am not a drug person, especially if you work for customs, the DEA, and/or any Thai police agency that arrests foreigners.
I can get you all kinds of stuff in the homeland though. The land of exported culture, consumerism, and drugs :-).
When I was home, I watched some tv. The time change was kind of rough on me so I found myself up late :-).
Every show I watched, the commercials were all for some kind of percieved illness. Erectile dysfunction, strange itches, depression, and.... sweaty hands. All of them have a wonder cure now, and you are encouraged to ask your doctor about it.
Still need a drug, watch American television.
I'm still trying to figure out exactly what that means for American culture.
One of the shows I caught on a late night jetlag nerve-racker was Nip/Tuck. It's an American show centering on cosmetic surgeons living in Los Angeles.
It's also so much more. The story line itself can be really really strange and nonsensical.
For me, it's not so much about the story as it is about the outrageous, outlandish, and ostentatious visuals. The story about plastic is full of these beautifully strange images and ideas that are so out there.
I really enjoy it. It's the art of it I think that really gets me.
I saw this one episode that had a song from the Chromatics, and it blew my mind. I have always found myself drawn to their music, and there it was on this strangely beautiful episode of Nip/Tuck.
Ever since, I've had the song stuck in my head. In the spirit of my last post, I'd like to share :http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFOxribt3kA.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
This is just boring. I mean who cares what TV programs you've been watching? We all watch TV when we are bored. What have you been doing in Thailand? What happened about the Thai/Chinese guy you met? That's what blogs are about talking about your life, not avoiding talking about your life by talking about some dumb TV show, which is all you've been talking about for the last two months.
ReplyDelete:-))). Is this my first flame ;-) on the blog? Ok, let me say that there are reasons for all actions or perceived inaction on my part. I have only been back in Thailand for a little over a week, and I had alot of thoughts and experiences left over from my trip home that I wanted to write. I still haven't finished them all, but I don't want to overload a sinking boat :-).
ReplyDeleteWhat I'm writing about on the blog, isn't really about a "tv show" as it were, but rather about my experience with American culture, which is usually heavily dosed with entertainment. Actually, it's really more about the music. I like the stuff I don't get here, and my writing is a response to stimuli that I find engaging, whether personal, cultural, or societal.
The blog provides me the opportunity to catalogue that experience as well as talk about my thoughts, feelings, stories, whatever comes to mind. It's helpful for me to write and read my thoughts as my life changes, inserted in to a culture so foreign from my own experience. The blog helps me. It's cathartic.
Some people do write their blogs to share just their experiences or talk about entertainment or politics. And, I'm pretty sure some people write for profit or readership, or a happy feeling that comes from blog readers' encouragement or their tacit following in a writer's exploits.
I don't want to offend anyone, but my writing is not for the benefit of others per se. It's not commercial or selling you ads for sweaty hands, high cholesterol, or erectile dysfunction. It is a diary of sorts that discloses little vignettes of my experience and opinions from this point in my life, so maybe later, any time, I can go back and read how I feel/felt at this point in gay history :-).
Of course, I'm really happy when people find that they can identify or enjoy a particular feeling or thought I might put down on (electronic) paper. That really makes me feel great when someone writes me and says that they feel the same way or have had a similar experience. That really is great :-), but it's not why I write.
Yeah, I'm really not writing for a particular audience or what I think I want you to hear.
If someone likes a particular subject or post about my life, I appreciate it. I don't, though, expect that all people would enjoy my likes or my writing. Most days, I don't enjoy it, but it's interesting to go back and read.
So, after that long winded point, to your comment :-), your suggestion that what I do or am writing about is 'just boring,' doesn't seem constructive to me, and it kind of misses the point of what I'm writing about.
To me, your words actually seem to be designed at angering or upsetting me to turn my attention from writing about a 'dumb' tv show (have I really been writing for two months about that?) to my personal life, which I will do eventually :).
It might also be that you're upset about something else in your life and it's come up here... I'm willing to listen.
If your suggestion though is that you wish I wouldn't focus on abstract things so much, I take your point, and will keep it in mind :-P.
The 'dumb' tv show or 'boring' comment stuff though doesn't really excite me about riding your horse :-).
So in the future, if you do have a suggestion, the best way to make it: come with an open heart and a kind word. I'd like to think I'm a pretty open-minded gay, especially if you have a gift certificate to that gay underwear store.
Wow, you encouraged me to write this morning :-). Thank you for your comment, I appreciate your posting and the opportunity to talk about the blog :-).