Sometimes I hesitate writing about my ideas because I don’t feel they actually hold any weight. If I’m right about this, then my characters wouldn’t be anything but crooked extensions of what I believe.
I got my hair cut today. Nothing special, but a trip to the barber is always exciting.
Because two hundred pages of French history is enough to drive me insane, I’ve taken a break from Les Mis, and made some dents in other books.
I listen to a lot of talk radio. I’ve tried to find NPR, but I feel like it’s an exclusive club that I wasn’t invited to. One of the new hosts on 96.9 Boston, wtkk.com for people who aren’t in the area, was discussing what the expectations of reality television is doing to the way we perceive all media. Up until about a year ago, I found reality television more annoying than anything, but more recently I’m seeing some darker sides to it. On one hand, I can see that reality television is an outlet where people can more easily associate themselves with what they’re watching. However, after looking closer at what’s going on in the background, we see that these shows are actually heavily scripted. The script is geared toward what the audience is expecting to see: hyper-exaggerated dramatic tension. Now, if we view reality television with the understanding that the show correctly represents real social archetypes in society, then we are vulnerable to having or expectation for ourselves and others warped. If it were more widely accepted that these shows are actually fictitious, the attachment would lose its magic.
Stage Fright 