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apollaHello all!
Am feeling v. bouncy at the moment: got an extension until the end of next week for my second essay which means I'll be able to get home to all my highly relevant books and write it. More importantly, it means I don't have to bash out 4500 words tonight. Which I could do, but I'd rather not.
On current events, news coverage is.... highly repetitive. Like I remember it being in Los Angeles the week I arrived (the week in question being the week beginnng Mon 10th September 2001).![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
smilie117 was right about the kind of blanket news coverage that smothers all the channels
I have to wonder if they're really achieving much by showing the same reports over and over again. Surely they should just put on 'How To Be A Gardener' or 'Changing Rooms' and give people a lift before the news comes back on. Otherwise all they'll achieve is a: they'll really make people very paranoid and worried and/or b: they'll turn people off entirely and they won't hear the important stuff when/if it happens.
As for the Oscars, being a movie person totally in love with the Academy Awards (for all the times they get it wrong) I'm a little concerned, frankly. I could talk about the arrogance of movie stars who think they're so important etc etc., but I'm not sure it's entirely that (Although Liza-babes, a war shouldn't stop your anniversary party. Either lighten up or get a new excuse). I'm sure that a lot of the people who were going to do the Oscars this year will feel terribly guilty about parading around dripping in jewels and partying. Well, there's a simple solution. Like every Oscar ceremony in the Second World War, you do it but you do it with considered style, not extravagance. Because a lot of people love the Oscars. It's a way for America to really properly show off the brilliance of some of its citizens (and occasionally, honour non-Americans too). Cinema is ultimately the art of escapism and we need it more than we have done in a while. There's a reason that box-office receipts were so high in the Depression and the War. People needed to see wonderfully over the top characters like Errol Flynn as Robin Hood, they needed to see wonderfully glamorous women like Joan Crawford, Katharine Hepburn (is she out of hospital yet?), Greer Garson and Ginger Rogers etc etc. As entertainment figures, we need movie stars more than we have since the Second World War. Will Smith has already pulled out, I hope more don't let us down.
Because quite honestly, if we let all the glitter and laughter and fun leave our lives, then the 'other side' (whoever they are exactly) who destroyed those towers have already won.
Sorry, just had to say it. And I heard the rumour that Billy Bob Thornton wants to get married again. Billy, Billy, Billy... know when to stop, OK? One man can only eat so much wedding cake.
And lastly, had to laugh at the television tonight. BBC1: News/Commentary on war. ITV: News. Channel 4: News. BBC2? Why, the Liverpool- Celtic UEFA cup quarter final of course. Good to know that some things don't change.
Well, better start polishing that bloody essay before it's handed in tomorrow...
EDIT: Looking at my friends list, everyone seems to be making avatars out of pictures of themselves. I don't actually have time to do the same, but if you go here you'll get an amusing surprise. The page isn't actually linked from the rest of the site (which hasn't been updated for about a year) so think yerselves lucky when you laff. :)
Am feeling v. bouncy at the moment: got an extension until the end of next week for my second essay which means I'll be able to get home to all my highly relevant books and write it. More importantly, it means I don't have to bash out 4500 words tonight. Which I could do, but I'd rather not.
On current events, news coverage is.... highly repetitive. Like I remember it being in Los Angeles the week I arrived (the week in question being the week beginnng Mon 10th September 2001).
smilie117 was right about the kind of blanket news coverage that smothers all the channelsI have to wonder if they're really achieving much by showing the same reports over and over again. Surely they should just put on 'How To Be A Gardener' or 'Changing Rooms' and give people a lift before the news comes back on. Otherwise all they'll achieve is a: they'll really make people very paranoid and worried and/or b: they'll turn people off entirely and they won't hear the important stuff when/if it happens.
As for the Oscars, being a movie person totally in love with the Academy Awards (for all the times they get it wrong) I'm a little concerned, frankly. I could talk about the arrogance of movie stars who think they're so important etc etc., but I'm not sure it's entirely that (Although Liza-babes, a war shouldn't stop your anniversary party. Either lighten up or get a new excuse). I'm sure that a lot of the people who were going to do the Oscars this year will feel terribly guilty about parading around dripping in jewels and partying. Well, there's a simple solution. Like every Oscar ceremony in the Second World War, you do it but you do it with considered style, not extravagance. Because a lot of people love the Oscars. It's a way for America to really properly show off the brilliance of some of its citizens (and occasionally, honour non-Americans too). Cinema is ultimately the art of escapism and we need it more than we have done in a while. There's a reason that box-office receipts were so high in the Depression and the War. People needed to see wonderfully over the top characters like Errol Flynn as Robin Hood, they needed to see wonderfully glamorous women like Joan Crawford, Katharine Hepburn (is she out of hospital yet?), Greer Garson and Ginger Rogers etc etc. As entertainment figures, we need movie stars more than we have since the Second World War. Will Smith has already pulled out, I hope more don't let us down.
Because quite honestly, if we let all the glitter and laughter and fun leave our lives, then the 'other side' (whoever they are exactly) who destroyed those towers have already won.
Sorry, just had to say it. And I heard the rumour that Billy Bob Thornton wants to get married again. Billy, Billy, Billy... know when to stop, OK? One man can only eat so much wedding cake.
And lastly, had to laugh at the television tonight. BBC1: News/Commentary on war. ITV: News. Channel 4: News. BBC2? Why, the Liverpool- Celtic UEFA cup quarter final of course. Good to know that some things don't change.
Well, better start polishing that bloody essay before it's handed in tomorrow...
EDIT: Looking at my friends list, everyone seems to be making avatars out of pictures of themselves. I don't actually have time to do the same, but if you go here you'll get an amusing surprise. The page isn't actually linked from the rest of the site (which hasn't been updated for about a year) so think yerselves lucky when you laff. :)
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Date: 2003-03-20 16:13 (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-03-22 11:59 (UTC)Glad you liked them. Wasn't sure whether to post the link or not, but I'm nothing if not blindly courageous...
Stay lucky mate,
Clare.