Today I had a profound experience - I was on a (free) teleconference with Neil Strauss aka Style. He fielded questions (field reports) from the audience. To answer your question in advance: we were muted unless selected in queue to answer a question.
My question did not make it to the front of the line in the 2 hour teleconference.
This was to be my question…
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I have a friend who keeps me up on all of the greatest shows on television, and gets me into new ones. The only problem is that I’m usually at least a season behind him. He’s usually pretty good at not giving things away for me, but it’s hard to keep track, and sometimes he slips. So for this segment of the blog, I’ll name a show and the season that I’m currently watching. If you are also watching this season, or haven’t started watching it yet, click on the “extended entry”, and you will learn information that you are not yet supposed to know, and that will quite possibly make you wish you hadn’t looked. You have been warned. (Note: not all of these are courtesy of Chris, and may come to extend to film as well, but I’m naming this segment in his honor).
Installment One: 24, Season One
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I need to see this thing on stage! It’s just so constantly wrought with subtext.
My favorite is this conversation between Nora and her husband’s best friend:
Nora: Oh you know very well that I always have time for you.
Rank: Thank you. I shall make use of as much as I can.
Nora: What do you mean by that? As much of it as you can?
Rank: Well, does that alarm you?
Nora: It was just such a strange way of putting it. Is anything likely to happen?
Rank: Nothing but what I have long been prepared for…
It just keeps going, and you’re just thinking “What do they each think they’re talking about?”
At any rate, Nora is so love starved that she seems to (whether subconciously or not) revel in the sexual tension she creates with her “innocent prattle”. I mean, it was even driving me crazy!
I’m not sure if I’m more mature now, but I liked this a lot better than when I read “The Awakening” in high school. I mean, perhaps Nora will find that she’s just as lost as Edna was once she leaves home, and maybe she’ll end up in the “icy black water”, the “unfathomable depths” herself, but she’s so much more self-aware than her Creole counterpart, that I have higher hopes for her in the end.
It’s charming the way Dina uses “because” backwards.
E.g. “This good because I eating it” or “Yeah, is a good movie because I watching it.”
Or perhaps she just embraces Heidegger’s Uncertainty Principle and understands that by interacting with an object she affects change upon it.
Yeah, that’s probably it.
This is confusing and dangerous. But very interesting. The stuff about anchoring is really strange.
Funny story:
In college, there were these socially-maladjusted guys who started a little pseudo-frat in our dorm, one of the explicit purposes of which was to annoy myself and my best friend, Lee. (Two of the guys in this group went on the following year to infamous careers as arsonists…yeah, seriously, they were crazy.) Once they asked us if we would make-out if they gave us $10. I explained to them that if we were attracted to each other, we would make-out without being paid, and that, conversely, since we were not lesbians, we didn’t want to make-out, even for a cool ten-spot. “So, like, are you guys going to make out or not?”
But one of my favorite comments I ever recieved from one of these guys (Willy was his name), was that (and here I’m paraphrasing a bit, and I kick myself every day for not having a tape recorder with me and on at that moment) “I was not attractive enough to talk as much as I did”.
In other words, I could be opinionated and boisterious if they could just tune me out and look at my hotness. But since I did not have the appropriate level of conventionally-good-looks, I should know better than to pipe up.
This from a man who is probably still a virgin at this very moment.
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Along with my delia’s sweater (which, btw, looks totally adooorable on!) there was an advertisement insert. Unfortunately, I couldn’t find it online, nor do I have a scanner, but it’s disturbingly in keeping with other Herbal Essences sexual-inuendo advertising. There’s a hot girl with great hair on it, and the tagline reads “With hair this great, you’ll have anything but a silent night.” Uh-huh. That was in my delia’s box, people. The same company that asks you when you’ll be graduating from high school as part of its checkout procedure.
Just a heads up, parents. Delia’s is encouraging teenage sex in the guise of hygiene. And promoting Christianity. It’s more insidious than “Hot Cinnamon Sunset”.
