1.28.2005
erik the blogger
My friend Erik Abderhalden has started his own blog. Erik has great taste in music, and I occasionally get some of my links from his website. Also, I stole a power strip that belonged to him which we now use for the band. We refer to it as 'Abderhalden.' At shows, there's always someone searching frantically and yelling, "WHERE'S ABDERHALDEN?"
Oh, and here are some of the funnier excerpts from my super-dumbed-down objectification of women essay:
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The second ad is in the style of the old pin-up girls. A woman sits on a classic muscle car, leaning forward with her shirt unbuttoned. Her hands are on her knees, and what’s that between her legs? It’s another amplifier. This ad is saying that girls should just sit around next to muscle cars in skimpy clothes all the time. Women should not do that, though, because it is demeaning. This idea of women hanging around cars in skimpy clothes is not a realistic portrayal; they have no reason to do so. This ad creates the unrealistic expectation that women should just go around dressing up and striking poses with cars and amps.
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The third advertisement features the lower half of a girl clad in skintight blue jeans and a shiny blue guitar. The advertisers didn’t even show her whole body, and they certainly didn’t show the part of her that does the thinking: Her head.
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In this ad, they used only part of the woman, treating her like an object that can be taken apart. Women can not really be taken apart, or else they don’t live anymore.
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There are girls who strive to be just like the women they see in ads, but they don’t realize that they can’t actually attain that beauty without unhealthy dieting, probably some drugs, and some guy with photoshop erasing all of their pores. Girls should not go their whole lives chasing some perfect ideal of beauty. Beauty is temporary, but knowledge is less temporary, and that’s what really matters.
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Sometimes I crack myself up.
-Dave
PS. I just had the awesomest classical guitar jamming session evar. I need to finish memorizing this one song, and then maybe I'll make a video to post up here.
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Oh, and here are some of the funnier excerpts from my super-dumbed-down objectification of women essay:
....................................................
The second ad is in the style of the old pin-up girls. A woman sits on a classic muscle car, leaning forward with her shirt unbuttoned. Her hands are on her knees, and what’s that between her legs? It’s another amplifier. This ad is saying that girls should just sit around next to muscle cars in skimpy clothes all the time. Women should not do that, though, because it is demeaning. This idea of women hanging around cars in skimpy clothes is not a realistic portrayal; they have no reason to do so. This ad creates the unrealistic expectation that women should just go around dressing up and striking poses with cars and amps.
---
The third advertisement features the lower half of a girl clad in skintight blue jeans and a shiny blue guitar. The advertisers didn’t even show her whole body, and they certainly didn’t show the part of her that does the thinking: Her head.
---
In this ad, they used only part of the woman, treating her like an object that can be taken apart. Women can not really be taken apart, or else they don’t live anymore.
---
There are girls who strive to be just like the women they see in ads, but they don’t realize that they can’t actually attain that beauty without unhealthy dieting, probably some drugs, and some guy with photoshop erasing all of their pores. Girls should not go their whole lives chasing some perfect ideal of beauty. Beauty is temporary, but knowledge is less temporary, and that’s what really matters.
....................................................
Sometimes I crack myself up.
-Dave
PS. I just had the awesomest classical guitar jamming session evar. I need to finish memorizing this one song, and then maybe I'll make a video to post up here.
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links:
- New Beck Video: Hell Yes - Beck's new album comes out March 29 (via)
- Interview with Seth MacFarlane of Family Guy (via Erik)
- Tossing a cheerleader through a basketball hoop - I don't know what to say... I don't think it's real... (via)
- This is what it looks like when you drive your submarine full speed into an undersea mountain (via)
- How to kick ass with a walking stick - A guide from 1901. I didn't actually read it, but the little diagrams would make for incredible cover art (via)
