Melissa Leo does a No-No

During the 2011 Academy awards this actress accidentally swore at the crowd - she dropped the f-bomb in her acceptance speech, ‘it was just so f****** easy!" Of course the media was immediately in uproar. But who really cares? It’s not like we haven’t heard it before. Sure if it was the 30's and only sailors and criminals swore, but it’s not. Face it - I’ve heard nine year olds say worse things. So she said a little swear word in the heat of the moment - who cares?

The academy awards are a production aimed at congratulating people who already make millions of dollars a year on their movies. They all dress really fancy and we all talk about them for days afterwards. They’re geared towards people who can’t afford to wear such fancy clothes, and those who like movies. But they’re not important, it’s not like entire nations watch it when it’s on, most countries didn’t even have the program run live, so they could easily have edited it out if need be. So why was it pasted all over the headlines? People have written blogs about how offended they are that she would say such a thing. How could people really be so offended about this? I’m more shocked about how the media reacted to her little slip of the tongue than the fact that she actually did it.

V.C. Andrews - ?

Since I was a little kid, probably about eleven or twelve, I have been reading V.C. Andrews books. These books are all very good and I love the way they are written. The characters in her books are mostly young women between the ages of sixteen and twenty five. These women usually go through something traumatic and they end up falling in love with their brother. They are generally richer white women with daddy issues. I think V.C. Andrews was a very disturbed woman. All of the books have very easy to guess plot lines, but they’re a good read when you’re laying on the beach..


People who read the types of books Andrews writes are mostly women who like a good thriller that has a sexy edge. They’re very easy reading and a lot of them have quite a bit of suspense.



My only problem with her books, is that V.C. Andrews A.K.A. Cleo Virgina Andrews has been dead since December 19, 1986. So how is it that she has been writing books every year since then? I am currently reading one of her new releases. I just don’t understand. Her family is making all of the profits from her books still and she isn’t even writing these books. Nobody knows who has been writing these books - the author and writing style, even the plot lines are exactly how Andrews wrote for 15 years before her death. But no credit is ever given to the current author of these books. I don’t think it’s right that someone is using her name for their own fame - they’re probably not even making very much money off of it, because she is gaining all the credit. But that won’t stop this copy cat author from making more books and money off of her legacy. I suppose it doesn’t really matter though - her family has no complaints, they’re still making money. And the author clearly isn’t doing too bad, they’ve been faking it for over 20 years. So as long as everyone is happy it shouldn’t concern me or any other readers, because the books are still good, no loss of quality or frequency has occurred.

CSI and Cavemen.

Media is Constructed.

Well obviously, that's the whole point of media is it not? To escape our own lives temprarily and wish they were more like these clearly fake lives that the stars, even characters on our favourite tv shows. As long as it's not real; that's why we all enjoyed watching CSI over the real crime show, CSI has cool explosions, characters and most important - it isn't real. Taking the scary part - the murder and kidnapping, and putting it away and making it more about solving the crime.

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But then, some people take it too far, they begin to think that it is real, that the world is actually like their favourite TV show. They're crazy. Society has been messing around with people's heads since birth, no wonder so many people in this world are so crazy. The media is completely influencing everything in their lives, from advertisements on the bus, to posters in the bathrooms, to billboards to TV commercials, there's no escaping it - unless you're a caveman. And nobody wants to be a caveman. Gross.

Justin To Kelly, Ugh.

I think test screening is a great idea, gathering a general magority and asking their opinions of the film is an excellent way to guarantee satisfaction for a larger group of people than if just the director likes it - because let's face it, directors are weird, they don't like what i like in a film. But then, knowing that these films go through so much screening then how are there still so many terrible movies? I've seen quite a few movies that were just terrible. Take the movie Justin to Kelly (2003), that movie was so terrible. Just everything about it, from the dancing, to the songs, plot, acting, everything. That was just a bad movie. If I had been part of the audience screening that movie, since I don't think they would have let me say just don't even release it, it's awful, I would have gotten better actors to start, and changed the boring and anti-climactic ending.

Since this computer is using an outdated browser it will not let me embed the trailer from this awful movie, so I will post the link.

From Justin to Kelly (2003)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6kbtsfZjhk

Teenagers and Gaming.

Have you ever heard anyone over the age of 40 say that violent video games aren’t the sole reason for why a lot of teenagers are so violent in real life? They blame entertainment for the world crumbling. What IDIOTS! I’ve been a deep down gamer for as long as I can remember and I don’t think I’m anymore violent than the rest of us. If anything gaming has improved my hand – eye coordination; and in the event of a zombie apocalypse I will definitely be prepared.

Gaming is good for kids; it keeps us all entertained and helps us learn. Some people may take it too far but mostly they’re just dumb for thinking video games are real. That’s like blaming the Saw movies for why you’re a serial killer – it just doesn’t work that way. In the media, video games can go either way, depending where you look; it can be slandered and made out to be completely terrible, or it can be so elevated, it becomes an obsession. Normal people like it right in the middle.

If you’re a parent who thinks that video games are bad for your kids and they’ll NEVER EVER play a video game? What if they need glasses, or are cross – eyed? Scientific studies have proven that most video games will improve your attention span and hand eye coordination. Who doesn’t need a little hand eye coordination boost?

            If anything video games are good for us, and I think I speak for a lot of teenagers like me, we just want you to shut up about them. Please. We like them. You don’t have to play them if you think they’re so terrible, leave my gaming and I alone.

THE MEDIA LIES

Blog response;

Yes, I do believe that media has gone way too far with retouching. They're creating people and food and who knows what else that is completely false - they're creating terrible role models, because as far as I'm concerned Jamie lee Curtis is the only person who feels it's wrong that everyone and everything is photoshopped. She is the only person to take a stand against it- and now everyone knows what really goes on. It's impossible for any celebrity to now say - "well I didn't know they were doing it," they do know, and by not doing anything about it theyre saying that it's ok, that it's fine for little girls to believe that people really look like that - to make them strive for that perfection that isn't humanly possible. Girls will go to any lengths to achieve their goals - no matter how unrealistic. We're stubborn like that , so telling them its ok to want to look like that is wrong. The media is a lie And everyone should know it. I've always known that they couldn't possibly look like that in real life, but I wAs smart. I never watched much TV or read magazines, and I believe that that is why I'm so comfortable in my own body. Learning how they do it, which I've done in the last few weeks, doesn't change anything , it just makes me angrier. The fact that often it's not even that they've changed the picture, it's that they've taken older pictures and newer ones and recreated something that never existed. It's disgusting, there's really no other way to say it. Everything we see in the media is a lie. 

McDonald's Bacon Chicken Snack Wrap Breakfast.

     I was watching TV the other day and as always there was a million commercials playing every 5 minutes. After watching this one all I could think to myself was, ‘my god that was annoying.’ But I realized that they made it sound incredibly appealing to those who like bacon. Although it’s very repetitive, they did get their point across – there is a lot of bacon on this sandwich. And that sounds tasty; apparently.. This advertisement is really annoying and it makes me want to throw a shoe at my TV when they play it 3 times a commercial break, but it got me thinking – this commercial probably got a lot of people to go out and buy their new product. This commercial is geared towards bacon lovers who are too lazy in the morning to make their own breakfast so they go to McDonalds It had an interesting plot and a lot of flashing and banging – definitely eye catching. The Media has realized that if they are really annoying and put a lot of pretty colours it will make people pay attention, which is the ultimate goal in advertising.