laguna beach: i just don't get it...
well after spending a ridiculously exorbitant amount of money on cleaning supplies and frozen food items (for both me and the fishes) at kroger this evening, i turned on the TV to TBS...and there was ANOTHER episode of 'Everybody Loves Raymond' on. now, that show is relatively humorous in its own right, but there is only so much i can take of it, so i decided to scan the channels and eventually landed on one of my roommate's (james) favorite channel: MTV. i used to watch a lot of this channel back in the day, but hardly ever do as of late.
what show was on? yeah, laguna beach. now, this show is a bit of a conundrum to me (one may ask, how is this even possible for a show that is on MTV, where one pretty much has to be in a zombie state to even enjoy) because every time i try to watch it (no, it's not THAT many times) i am perplexed as to what the heck it is supposed to be! is it reality? is it scripted? is it farce? or could it be that it just plain sucks?
the show seems too unscripted to be flat out fiction, why? because the stories seem to be as uncreative as they come (not that that doesn't stop NBC sitcoms) and even the ADD kids have got to tire of this stuff at some point. then again, i have a lot of friends who enjoy the OC, which is just a more scripted version of this same drivel...although the OC has Rachel Bilson, so i guess the points would have to go to Fox on that one.
Laguna Beach seems close to reality because they talk like i would imagine human/californian hybrids would speak. they also interrupt each other all the time and the dialogue overlaps, something you won't really see in clean cut scripted fiction. i would guess reality at this point except for the fact that they aren't pseudo-philosophical enough, like they are on the 'real world' where they babble in confession and over drinks about stuff that (seriously) no one talks about in the real world. that, and these people are all cookie-cutter replicas of one another. the guys in the episode i saw tonight seemed kind of funny, but they were golfing, so that made me lose some respect for them. find a real sport. the girls, although all attractive, can hardly be distinguished from one another since they are almost all blond and sound exactly the same ('like' is used in front of every article in their speech; heck they even begin and end sentences with 'like'). there was one brunette girl on there, so she was somewhat distinguishable, but the guy was basically dropping her for one of the blond clones, so i guess she wasn't as important. oh the horror.
i will give it to the show that i like the widescreen format. i like widescreen a lot, in fact, i tore down my older computer monitors (even though i could have had all 3 hooked up like some sort of psycho matrix freak) because none of them were widescreen like this one. i think that's why i like the fish tanks too, its all widescreen. everything. widescreen.
i digress again.
there is also the hi-def color which makes everything look cooler. one thing which i can't decide whether its annoying or not is how they fade in and fade out the characters' names quite frequently. since the people all look the same (and these aren't racist comments towards white people, for those of you who are worried) -see above comments- having the names fade in does help, but at the same time, i really don't care if its kristin or nicole or parminder. so yeah, i think im going to go with it being annoying.
well, i suppose i should get some real, actual work done, but it has been fun sharing my laguna experience with you all. rest assured i will probably try to watch it again (when left with no choice other than that raymond show) in the future and will have more comments to make.
i'm going to track down some good random pics and add them to this later. while i am doing that, i suggest you get online and illegally download 'Pump Up the Jam' by Technotronics...i'm listening to it right now and man am i glad i got this track a couple months ago. awesome. <:><
ok this entry's random pics aren't so random as they are the pics AJ was talking about in her comments. they were taken at the (i believe) baltimore aquarium. i must admit the pics turned out quite well, especially for someone who generally does not like fishes:
the cowfish was AJ's favorite
the 'michigan fish' would be the blue tangs
my favorite...the stonefish. members of this group are the most venomous fishes in the world.
what show was on? yeah, laguna beach. now, this show is a bit of a conundrum to me (one may ask, how is this even possible for a show that is on MTV, where one pretty much has to be in a zombie state to even enjoy) because every time i try to watch it (no, it's not THAT many times) i am perplexed as to what the heck it is supposed to be! is it reality? is it scripted? is it farce? or could it be that it just plain sucks?
the show seems too unscripted to be flat out fiction, why? because the stories seem to be as uncreative as they come (not that that doesn't stop NBC sitcoms) and even the ADD kids have got to tire of this stuff at some point. then again, i have a lot of friends who enjoy the OC, which is just a more scripted version of this same drivel...although the OC has Rachel Bilson, so i guess the points would have to go to Fox on that one.
Laguna Beach seems close to reality because they talk like i would imagine human/californian hybrids would speak. they also interrupt each other all the time and the dialogue overlaps, something you won't really see in clean cut scripted fiction. i would guess reality at this point except for the fact that they aren't pseudo-philosophical enough, like they are on the 'real world' where they babble in confession and over drinks about stuff that (seriously) no one talks about in the real world. that, and these people are all cookie-cutter replicas of one another. the guys in the episode i saw tonight seemed kind of funny, but they were golfing, so that made me lose some respect for them. find a real sport. the girls, although all attractive, can hardly be distinguished from one another since they are almost all blond and sound exactly the same ('like' is used in front of every article in their speech; heck they even begin and end sentences with 'like'). there was one brunette girl on there, so she was somewhat distinguishable, but the guy was basically dropping her for one of the blond clones, so i guess she wasn't as important. oh the horror.
i will give it to the show that i like the widescreen format. i like widescreen a lot, in fact, i tore down my older computer monitors (even though i could have had all 3 hooked up like some sort of psycho matrix freak) because none of them were widescreen like this one. i think that's why i like the fish tanks too, its all widescreen. everything. widescreen.
i digress again.
there is also the hi-def color which makes everything look cooler. one thing which i can't decide whether its annoying or not is how they fade in and fade out the characters' names quite frequently. since the people all look the same (and these aren't racist comments towards white people, for those of you who are worried) -see above comments- having the names fade in does help, but at the same time, i really don't care if its kristin or nicole or parminder. so yeah, i think im going to go with it being annoying.
well, i suppose i should get some real, actual work done, but it has been fun sharing my laguna experience with you all. rest assured i will probably try to watch it again (when left with no choice other than that raymond show) in the future and will have more comments to make.
i'm going to track down some good random pics and add them to this later. while i am doing that, i suggest you get online and illegally download 'Pump Up the Jam' by Technotronics...i'm listening to it right now and man am i glad i got this track a couple months ago. awesome. <:><
ok this entry's random pics aren't so random as they are the pics AJ was talking about in her comments. they were taken at the (i believe) baltimore aquarium. i must admit the pics turned out quite well, especially for someone who generally does not like fishes:
the cowfish was AJ's favorite
the 'michigan fish' would be the blue tangs
my favorite...the stonefish. members of this group are the most venomous fishes in the world.
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