Just Cause and Super Cynical, story of my life.

So, my satellite is not working, hooray for dad messing with cables, luckily the internet started working again, otherwise I would be half crazed right now. That or reading, which I should do. Anyways, I am watching The Seventh Seal, which I am going to buy one day. I can have that movie or a season of The X Files on DVD, aren't foreign films awesome, mostly because of how over priced they are at shops?! Damn you Borders, for being the only half way decent DVD shop in this accursed town!
GARG. This summer has sucked, let's leave it at that. And what doesn't help is the fact that my once mildly clear face now has so many zits, in fact, I think this is the most I have ever had. I hate it. Not to mention it does nothing for that lack of confidence thing. HA!
Anyways, I have to do this church thing tomorrow. O joy. I am not atheistic, Buddhist or anything like that. I just don't like Church. Why should I? So many bad memories, and the guilt. Hahahaha. Not to mention, I am politically moderate, so some of the ideas people have are mildly frightening.
Which brings me to another interesting point. Politics. One good example of politics are the headless chickens running around scratching at each other in congress. Yeah, news flash to flaming liberals, not everything is Bush's fault. Sorry to break it to you. Blame your problems on the members in congress. War in Iraq? Bush invading like some fascist, and without following the constitution? Wrong, it's called checks and balances. He got that approved by congress. So, anyone thinking about killing old Bushy, should think twice, and then mail a pipe bomb to congress. ;) Note to anyone reading this, it's called sarcasm, and I do not advocate the violent overthrowing of our government. I swear. Just making fun of people who blame Bush for just about everything. Because he controls everything, because he's the president. Even though the president doesn't have very many powers. Again, founding fathers were pretty smart by putting that ol' checks and balances into effect and all.
Now I am not an expert on anything. I don't claim to be anything but annoyed by our media's blatant bias for the left. Hmm Obama doesn't know how to bowl, amazing!! Anything McCain does is boring news, old news, boring old news. He isn't different enough. People apparently want change, and Obama brings change in almost every way. He's Afican American and young. (Although terrribly inexperienced.) McCain? Just another rich white guy who wants to be president. Except he actually has expirence. Who'd a thunk it?
I am sure if anyone reads this they have half a million counter arguements, flaws to point out etc. And conspiraces. I bet a lot of those will pop up. The point is, a lot of people do not know how our government works. Because really no one bothers to teach it. Which is so sad. It's our own damn country! We should know about it. Sometimes people don't care, they would rather be hand fed news from unreliable sources who put their own spin on things. What i am driving at is the news blames Bush, the people blame Bush. The news says Bush is a failure, people think it. Notice a pattern? The media, like newscasts, shows, etc. are Americas most effective propaganda methods. (Mostly televison, I am surprised people still know how to read).
Moving on to sex in media. Let's be fair here, and I am going to use examples, hopefully they are apt. Now, guess jean ads, some would consider border line porn, I would probably be one of those people. Cologne ads, porn. Things that are made to purposefully arouse some one is porn. (In my opinion, which is basically what porn is, pictures or something of that nature to arouse some one, aka make 'em horny). In movies, sometimes its a grey area. Like in any Blockbuster film, sex is in there to sell the movie by making the watchers get hard, if you catch my drift. Art movies it can go either way, it depends on the subject matter and material. Like Eyes Wide Shut, the sex in that movie, is not to arouse someone, I swear. In fact, the way it is depicted, is almost sickening. To me, it was like it meant nothing to a lot of the characters. Which is scary, and true in life. (For certain people). The nude scenes were shot so well, by (who is now one of my favorite directors) Stanely Kubrick, that it isn't that erotic. At least not to me. It was almost like every relationship in that movie was platonic. Even the sex. Weird huh? My point is that sex isn't always meant to arouse. But I don't think anyone of any age should see this movie. It all depends on how mature they are. If they understand it. Because, to a 12 year old boy, sex is sex and that's all he can think about. If he were to see something where sex is not sexy, he wouldn't get it. Then it would kind of become porn. I am just rambling, basically deciding my own stance on the matter. It depends on the person on whether it can be porn or not. (Sometimes).
Should I talk about violence in media? Why the hell not! I have touched base with plenty of controversial issues already, in one post! Holy crap. That shit is insane. Anyways, all joking aside, violence.. is.. well it is. Now there are varying degrees of violence, kid violence, cartoon violence, implied violence, domestic abuse, bloody violence, gore, bloody gore, guts and gore. (Gore as in blood shed, not Al Gore.. Lord knows they are the same HA! me and my nonsensical wit). The list goes on with the types of violence. And I really don't have much to say about it, except I hate pointless violence, which is probably why I hate so many blockbusters, and 007 Movies. I think movies that show violence in such a way, that lives are expendable, and there are no repercussions to violent acts, then it's far worse then other movies like, The Departed, or Before the Devil Knows You're Dead. Realistic violence can sometimes be the most disturbing, like Atonement, or any Oscar nominated war film. Ther is no blood gushing, no spurts, just pain and death, with blood either pouring, or trickling. That is a wee bit more understandable, and easier to accept then some hero wasting bad guys in an alley or whatever. So basically, cartoon violence, or the kind that does not show how bad it is, is well, unacceptable. It kind of shows kids that hurting people is ok. Now for movies like Kill Bill, ha, that's so over the top, and so brightly coloured, it's almost funny, and amusing to watch. Because you know it can never happen, like blood spraying like a fountain from a severed head, or an arm that has been cut off.
In all, I have discovered, that by rambling about violence in media, that violence is such a broad term, that one can not say anything definitive about it.
I think this is all the ranting I am going to do for one post.