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( friday night lights 3x04 )
AND BY THE WAY, if you haven't been watching this season, it is really, truly good.
Ha, so, watching this week, I was thinking about cultural stereotypes and ( this got kind of long, so I cut it too! )
THIS IS WHAT I WANT TO KNOW FROM YOU: where do you think your personal mores come from (family, community, city, state, country, class, race, religion, lifestyle, WHATEVER YOU CAN THINK OF) and how it differs (and, almost more importantly, does not differ) from the stereotypes and other cultures as you see them. I wrote an essay on this once, and, uh, it was much more well-worded. SORRY :(
ALSO, if you do watch FNL, I am super curious about how you think it relates back to that.
On that noooooooote, one of the best, most amazing things, I think, about Friday Night Lights is that so specifically set and yet so perfectly, completely relatable even if you know NOTHING about football culture. You cannot say the same thing about our Gossip Girls and our Californications, shiny though they may be. THAT (+ how it relates to personal experience) is the essence of what I'm trying to get at with all these words I can't seem to fit together right. There is something so inexplicably tangible about these people, and that is why, I think, I have shed more tears for Dillon, TX than any other fictional universe. Except maaaaaybe the West Wing.
UGH, I FEEL LIKE IT SOUNDS LIKE I AM SOMEHOW DEMANDING AN ACADEMIC ESSAY FROM YOU. I don't mean that, really! If you don't want to overanalyze your I would really, really love to read dumb personal anecdotes about your town or your nation or your state. Just where you come from, MENTALLY. I eat this kind of thing up (SERIOUSLY, one of the greatest things about livejournal is the differences in experience you can be exposed to), PLEASE, PLEASE INDULGE ME? :D?
Ha, so, unrelated but in fact related, but I'm thinking about adding a sociology minor, or really only test-driving a class to see if I like sociology in academic format? Or something, because I view the world in such sociologically-colored glasses and it seems silly to not think about studying something I so vigilantly pursue in my daily life, if I can get the opportunity? Buuuuuuuut I need to talk to my advisor because I'm a little afraid it'd take me more than four years on top of my (french) major and med school admission requirements. Not that that would be so explicitly terrible, but I'm not sure what it would mean in terms of my scholarship. I also sentimentally want to wait for Vivian, because she's re-entering school in the fall (she's on her six month ~wilderness discovery program~ in Chile right now) and even though she hasn't expicitly decided she's coming to CU (she disliked Macalester, and she misses the mountains -- ha, I DON'T KNOW HOW I ENDED UP WITH THIS CRAZY OUTDOORSY PERSON FOR A BEST FRIEND -- so she's picking between CU and Colorado College. Which is a great school, but IT IS IN COLORADO SPRINGS. Which is the conservative capitol of Colorado. Ohmygoooooodness, I've only ever been down there for skating competitions, but I got the willies every time we passed Focus on the Family. ...SEE? SNOB.) but we sort of decided looking into sociology was something we both needed to do. It would be nice to explore it together. But I also feel funny waiting for something that might not happen. I DON'T KNOW.
IN CONCLUSION, there are these boots in a boutique in Denver that I ABSOLUTELY COVET (grey suede with a slight heel AND THREE ADORABLE SUEDE BUTTONS UP THE EDGES) and I finally (ha, birthdays!) have enough excess cash to go grab them, but I am sick and do not feel like driving myself to Denver. My life: so hard.
ALSO, I am downright CREEPED OUT by the degree to which this and how EXACTLY it resembles a scene I have LIVED THROUGH, this is making me sad, when the hell is Bones coming back?, livejournal should not make ME WILLINGLY SITTING HERE TRYING TO PAY THEM WITH A DEBIT CARD THIS DIFFICULT, AND I AM GOING TO WATCH THE 30 ROCK PREMIERE NOW, and it is going to be awesome.
AND BY THE WAY, if you haven't been watching this season, it is really, truly good.
Ha, so, watching this week, I was thinking about cultural stereotypes and ( this got kind of long, so I cut it too! )
THIS IS WHAT I WANT TO KNOW FROM YOU: where do you think your personal mores come from (family, community, city, state, country, class, race, religion, lifestyle, WHATEVER YOU CAN THINK OF) and how it differs (and, almost more importantly, does not differ) from the stereotypes and other cultures as you see them. I wrote an essay on this once, and, uh, it was much more well-worded. SORRY :(
ALSO, if you do watch FNL, I am super curious about how you think it relates back to that.
On that noooooooote, one of the best, most amazing things, I think, about Friday Night Lights is that so specifically set and yet so perfectly, completely relatable even if you know NOTHING about football culture. You cannot say the same thing about our Gossip Girls and our Californications, shiny though they may be. THAT (+ how it relates to personal experience) is the essence of what I'm trying to get at with all these words I can't seem to fit together right. There is something so inexplicably tangible about these people, and that is why, I think, I have shed more tears for Dillon, TX than any other fictional universe. Except maaaaaybe the West Wing.
UGH, I FEEL LIKE IT SOUNDS LIKE I AM SOMEHOW DEMANDING AN ACADEMIC ESSAY FROM YOU. I don't mean that, really! If you don't want to overanalyze your I would really, really love to read dumb personal anecdotes about your town or your nation or your state. Just where you come from, MENTALLY. I eat this kind of thing up (SERIOUSLY, one of the greatest things about livejournal is the differences in experience you can be exposed to), PLEASE, PLEASE INDULGE ME? :D?
Ha, so, unrelated but in fact related, but I'm thinking about adding a sociology minor, or really only test-driving a class to see if I like sociology in academic format? Or something, because I view the world in such sociologically-colored glasses and it seems silly to not think about studying something I so vigilantly pursue in my daily life, if I can get the opportunity? Buuuuuuuut I need to talk to my advisor because I'm a little afraid it'd take me more than four years on top of my (french) major and med school admission requirements. Not that that would be so explicitly terrible, but I'm not sure what it would mean in terms of my scholarship. I also sentimentally want to wait for Vivian, because she's re-entering school in the fall (she's on her six month ~wilderness discovery program~ in Chile right now) and even though she hasn't expicitly decided she's coming to CU (she disliked Macalester, and she misses the mountains -- ha, I DON'T KNOW HOW I ENDED UP WITH THIS CRAZY OUTDOORSY PERSON FOR A BEST FRIEND -- so she's picking between CU and Colorado College. Which is a great school, but IT IS IN COLORADO SPRINGS. Which is the conservative capitol of Colorado. Ohmygoooooodness, I've only ever been down there for skating competitions, but I got the willies every time we passed Focus on the Family. ...SEE? SNOB.) but we sort of decided looking into sociology was something we both needed to do. It would be nice to explore it together. But I also feel funny waiting for something that might not happen. I DON'T KNOW.
IN CONCLUSION, there are these boots in a boutique in Denver that I ABSOLUTELY COVET (grey suede with a slight heel AND THREE ADORABLE SUEDE BUTTONS UP THE EDGES) and I finally (ha, birthdays!) have enough excess cash to go grab them, but I am sick and do not feel like driving myself to Denver. My life: so hard.
ALSO, I am downright CREEPED OUT by the degree to which this and how EXACTLY it resembles a scene I have LIVED THROUGH, this is making me sad, when the hell is Bones coming back?, livejournal should not make ME WILLINGLY SITTING HERE TRYING TO PAY THEM WITH A DEBIT CARD THIS DIFFICULT, AND I AM GOING TO WATCH THE 30 ROCK PREMIERE NOW, and it is going to be awesome.
