Tay Tay's Clever

[Pixie Dust]

Le_Regard wrote:
I have no words for this.  I keep staring at it like maybe I'll have something to say about it.  I feel very strongly that as a CULTURAL OBJECT this deserves some kind of commentary, for or against it, but I just have nothing to say.



Daddy has a special diet, a big appetite, and lots of love to go around for his ladies.

[Pixie Dust]

Le_Regard wrote:
I can handle listening to Rihanna, but something about Nicki Minaj just sounds like "I'm not high enough on cough syrup for this".

Nicki has the drug scene covered. She actually does mention Night Quil in this video

[Le_Regard]

Pixie Dust wrote:
Nicki has the drug scene covered.  She actually does mention Night Quil in this video

Lol I noticed that last night.

This song here, is literally and specifically ABOUT getting high on cough syrup.  There are no greater forces being evoked here, except for maybe 4 lines suggesting that maybe sex is better when you're high on cough syrup.

[Le_Regard]

"I'mma keep goin' like a poet
Drank that **** like Moet
Work on that dick, no surgery
Ban that **** like a break in
**** so good I ain't comin out, I'ma stay in"

This that lifestyle on that purple
This that lifestyle on that purple, purple..."

This is definitely at some kind of crossroads between comedy and tragedy.

[Le_Regard]

I don't know how we got here, but this is the best I've got under the circumstances.

[Pixie Dust]

I wish I was an A lister so I can hang out with people who obviously know about and are successful in the industry. Imagine all the special treatment they get. Ugh. It's so unfair. I just want, like, my 15 minutes of fame. That's it. I'm not asking for much. I just want to be heard, my message to be broadcasted worldwide. I bet I could change the world if I just had an opportunity to be heard. Oh the impact I could have, the friends I could make, the toys, oh! The toys. What a glorious life I could lead. If only.

I can't keep talking about these celebrities who barely put effort into their craft and still come out ahead. I put in all this hardwork and only my handful of friends hear me. What an unfair circumstance.

[Pixie Dust]

Maybe if I whine and complain louder then people will feel pity on me and be my friend. They at least need to listen and care. Because I'm right! I've always been right! And these people are wrong so they are obligated to give a damn about my feeeeeeelings.

[Le_Regard]

Pixie Dust wrote:I wish I was an A lister so I can hang out with people who obviously know about and are successful in the industry. Imagine all the special treatment they get. Ugh. It's so unfair. I just want, like, my 15 minutes of fame. That's it. I'm not asking for much. I just want to be heard, my message to be broadcasted worldwide. I bet I could change the world if I just had an opportunity to be heard. Oh the impact I could have, the friends I could make, the toys, oh! The toys. What a glorious life I could lead. If only.

I can't keep talking about these celebrities who barely put effort into their craft and still come out ahead. I put in all this hardwork and only my handful of friends hear me. What an unfair circumstance.If it makes you feel any better, I'm sure the secret is every A list celebrity has an Army of personal assistants and PR and marketing types to take care of their reputation for them and make sure they're seen at the right parties and not seen at the wrong ones.

[Le_Regard]

It might be really interesting for you to look into how they train kpop stars, and how much they have to sacrifice, and how many still just don't make the final cut.

[Le_Regard]

Korea has one of the highest suicide rates and maybe the highest youth suicide rate in the world by the way.

[Le_Regard]

And..  I don't know.  Maybe if they encouraged whining a little more over there and got out from under the Confucian Ideal they wouldn't have quite so many high school students jumping off buildings before they even make it to final exam day.

Final exam day is a national holiday by the way. People try to avoid going out. The entire country of South Korea tries to keep it's voice down so their students can focus on the test.

[Le_Regard]

I read in a book once that the old, the powerful, the wealthy, they spend their time fearing death, particularly a violent death. But the young, and especially the poor, spend their time chasing erotic love.

[Pixie Dust]

I'm sorry. I can't hear you over my popcorn chewing.

[Pixie Dust]

You know, that's another thing. These celebrities could spend more time doing humanitarian work. I know all about the issues of the world, the problems, that I'm so totally informed on everything that I know how the world should be ran. I know all about the birds, the bees, the human species, that I'm totally not an ignorant and opinionated narcissist.

Hold on now, I feel another rant coming on...if I push hard enough I think I can push it out.

[Le_Regard]

Pixie Dust wrote:
You know, that's another thing.  These celebrities could spend more time doing humanitarian work.  I know all about the issues of the world, the problems, that I'm so totally informed on everything that I know how the world should be ran.  I know all about the birds, the bees, the human species, that I'm totally not an ignorant and opinionated narcissist.

Hold on now, I feel another rant coming on...if I push hard enough I think I can push it out.

I think most people would agree that humanitarian work is important.  I think the point of contention usually is over whose job it is.

I think in the US right now you can see a movement away from people thinking that civil rights and human rights are somehow the government's job and maybe people who pay taxes deserve a minimum wage and sometimes even food assistance, if not actually free health insurance.

Even the people leading this seem quite split on whether the right answer is Churches or the Free Market that IS supposed to handle this, though.

[Le_Regard]

[Le_Regard]

Personally the more I think about it the more obvious it looks like the world is rotten to the core and we should just kill 'em all and let God sort it out.  But not on my best days.

I used this song in a suicide intervention class I gave once:

[Le_Regard]

Keeping this all tied down to Taylor Swift specifically is getting nearly impossibly hard, but I'm going to give it one last try:

[Le_Regard]

[Le_Regard]

Ok this is IT.  There is nothing more Taylor Swift on the entire internet than this.

[Le_Regard]

She went to elementary school in Pottstown, PA.

The moral of the story is when your dad is a stockbroker and your whole family has nothing better to do than move to Nashville for YOUR childhood dream of being a country music singer, then America is the best country in the world because ANYONE with talent and a big idea can achieve their dreams.

Is she even a "country music singer" now?  I really don't know.  Is she living her dreams, or just living everyone else's?  I really don't know.

[Pixie Dust]

*yawns*

Go on, I'm listening. Even if you're being super repetitive and boring.

[Le_Regard]

Then again, this is TWO Taylor Swift songs AT THE SAME TIME, and I have to admit I hadn't thought of that.

Emptiness is Form, Form is Emptiness.

[Le_Regard]

Pixie Dust wrote:
It's important to remember that you will be treated as the character you present to me.  Bring me love and sunshine, and I'll play a reciprocating role.  Bring me an **** and I'll treat him/her as such.  Just because we're reading the Bible together doesn't mean I won't hit you over the head with it.  

I don't often give advice but I suggest a better interface if you want anything significant.

I think I have a popcorn maker around here somewhere.  Probably at the back of a cabinet or something, I might really have to go looking for it...  so not tonight.  I should probably move on to getting some real work done for a while.

[Pixie Dust]

This is certainly less stimulating than expected.