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[Aug. 30th, 2008 | 02:51 am] |
Sometimes we beg for clean slates and fresh starts, but really, do we need that many new takes? THAT many stabs and tries at the same thing? What if we're reasonably content with our routines, how ever mundane or repetitive they are? Is it too much to ask for a little consistency once in awhile? Is it too much to want to hold on to something familiar, to something that belongs and fits so well? Progression and change are never bad things, really, but I feel like they're always marketed as positive things. Since when did standing still for too long get to be so irrational?
OF COURSE, this doesn't apply to the November elections. I need not rant about anything political. I mean, c'mon now. It should be OBVIOUS what should happen on November 4th. If you even need to stop and think about it (or what my opinion is) for a second, then you're stupid. I'm sorry, I had to say it.
It's one thing to fight for good sameness, and it's another thing to fight for bad sameness. Republicans= bad sameness. However, that isn't the only reason why the Obama-Biden ticket is a go-to vote. They are just plain fucking awesome. It sounds groupie-like, but I'd rather gush over my adoration of Obama than launch into a "laundry list" (as critics have said of his acceptance speech) of proof as to his clear qualifications for commander in chief of the U. S. of A. So there you have it. Now go to moveon.org to order some free swag, or barackobama.com to donate/purchase some swag. Better believe I sport a pin.
Also: Fuck SPIN magazine.
When I think about the "real world," aka having to support myself (which I'm both looking forward to and popping ulcers over), I think about how fucked I am. And when I think about how fucked I am, I think about the academic choices I've made. And when I think about those choices, I think about what kind of thought processes I go through in order to make said academic choices. What the fuck was I thinking, when I so fervently believed journalism would be slightly "easy" to use as a career path? Getting paid to write and report? Jesus. I can't stand reading articles about BLOGGERS, and how all this election coverage has been changed by NEW MEDIA. You know why? Because BLOGGERS and NEW MEDIA, aka all you fucktards who record via shitty camera phones and "report" via PDA, are taking over traditional media. Okay, so we can debate this new media vs traditional media thing, just like we can debate endlessly over change vs sameness. But there's no arguing that NEW MEDIA is changing everything I've ever really wanted to excel in, in journalism. Soon, seriously, there will be no competition for me, because my field will be so microscopically small and irrelevant, that I might as well not exist. I will become a dinosaur, an aged medium much like newspapers and magazines are labeled. But why? What the fuck is so aged and archaic about disseminating information via paper (aside from recycling issues)? Why are words on the internet so much better valued and praised over those that appear on glossy (or not) pages on newsstands? Just because it reaches people easier, doesn't mean it's right. Just because it can be spread across countries in a matter of hours, rather than weeks, doesn't mean it has a higher standard or is especially intelligent or well-researched or sophisticated. IF ANYTHING, the two mediums should be seen at equal levels. Yet the print business is descending at quicker and darker rates. I will forever be neck-in-neck races with the kid at the laptop, BLOGGING, from the Warped Tour, or Coachella, or Austin City Limits, or SXSW. Who does real reporting on notepads anymore? Who does magazine layouts and subscriptions anymore? Distribution? Release dates? Newsstand dates? It's all reduced to random mouse clicks, and flashing advertisements, and PDFs, URLs, links, blah, blah, blah. It's gotten so much easier to be your very own WHATEVER- writer, fashionista, reporter, novelist, poet, photographer, videographer, documentarian. But with the easiness also comes a loss of authenticity. Having a laptop and an idea doesn't make you a writer. Nor does having a camera phone and being at the right place and time make you a documentarian.
OR MAYBE...I'm just fucking bitter about YOU, SPIN MAGAZINE.
OR MAYBE...I'm just fucking bitter about EVERYTHING, that's been going on lately. |
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