Things I want to talk about
Aug. 4th, 2006 04:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
charliesmumI watched "Life on Mars" from "On Demand" the other day. It's a new series on BBC America about this guy who finds himself in 1973 after a road accident. It's really quite good. The whole 'time travel' thing is handled really well, there's plenty of evidence that it is in his mind, yet at the same time it's extremely real.
It's an interesting premise because, thanks to the leaps and bounds technology's made in the last 20 years even, 1973 is practically prehistoric as far as life goes, and now he finds himself having to be a cop without mobile phones and computers and fancy forensic thingies. One of my favorite moments is you see his iPod (playing David Bowie's Life on Mars) before the accident, and when he's in '73, his car has an 8 track tape. Funny.
It's one of those things that make you ponder what modern day devices could you not live without? I'd be lost without my cell phone, that's for sure. And give up my iPod? I dunno.
And in other useless bits of conversation, so far three actresses have come forward to say they've seen Tom Cruise's baby. Doesn't that strike you as weird? I mean, I know there was all that 'gosh no one's seen the baby, maybe it's not real' silliness, but that's all it was, silliness. I think it's fine if they don't want to expose the child to the media circus that is their life, and I'm pretty sure even Tom Cruise couldn't fake a baby. But now they have three people gushing about the baby, and I swear it smacks of protesting too much. All three of them are all 'oh, she's the most wonderful, perfect baby I've ever seen.' If they're so worried about it, just release a photo and have done with it.
And finally, a slightly darker topic. Awhile back, on of my lj friends posted something about how violence against males seems to be played for laughs in our entertainment media, and questioned why. Yesterday on the Barsky show, they did a very similar thing.
Some actor was assaulted by some woman outside a bar in Hawaii, for no apparent reason. This prompted Barsky to have men call in if they'd ever been hit by a woman.
Lots of people called.
And these weren't 'oh she smacked me in the face' stories. These were horrible. One guy jokingly told this woman her bum was getting bigger and she broke his nose and his ribs and he was hospitalized for a week. Another guy got hit on the head with a beer bottle. Yet another guy wound up having to have a tracheotomy and an operation.
And, while Barsky, who is really a cool guy, wasn't demeaning these guys or being callous about it, and did express sympathy, it was still all played for laughs, and I couldn't help but wonder at it. I mean, if women called in with the exact same stories, it wouldn't be a bit funny.
I was very tempted to send an email pointing this out to them, but I didn't get around to it yesterday, and it just seemed too late today. What do you think? Should I write in and point out this weird anomaly in human nature?
And finally, on a lighter note, Charlie was watching the Phillies last night, and cheered like mad when Chase Utley got a hit, and today he insisted on wearing his Chase Utley shirt. I just thought that was cute.
It's an interesting premise because, thanks to the leaps and bounds technology's made in the last 20 years even, 1973 is practically prehistoric as far as life goes, and now he finds himself having to be a cop without mobile phones and computers and fancy forensic thingies. One of my favorite moments is you see his iPod (playing David Bowie's Life on Mars) before the accident, and when he's in '73, his car has an 8 track tape. Funny.
It's one of those things that make you ponder what modern day devices could you not live without? I'd be lost without my cell phone, that's for sure. And give up my iPod? I dunno.
And in other useless bits of conversation, so far three actresses have come forward to say they've seen Tom Cruise's baby. Doesn't that strike you as weird? I mean, I know there was all that 'gosh no one's seen the baby, maybe it's not real' silliness, but that's all it was, silliness. I think it's fine if they don't want to expose the child to the media circus that is their life, and I'm pretty sure even Tom Cruise couldn't fake a baby. But now they have three people gushing about the baby, and I swear it smacks of protesting too much. All three of them are all 'oh, she's the most wonderful, perfect baby I've ever seen.' If they're so worried about it, just release a photo and have done with it.
And finally, a slightly darker topic. Awhile back, on of my lj friends posted something about how violence against males seems to be played for laughs in our entertainment media, and questioned why. Yesterday on the Barsky show, they did a very similar thing.
Some actor was assaulted by some woman outside a bar in Hawaii, for no apparent reason. This prompted Barsky to have men call in if they'd ever been hit by a woman.
Lots of people called.
And these weren't 'oh she smacked me in the face' stories. These were horrible. One guy jokingly told this woman her bum was getting bigger and she broke his nose and his ribs and he was hospitalized for a week. Another guy got hit on the head with a beer bottle. Yet another guy wound up having to have a tracheotomy and an operation.
And, while Barsky, who is really a cool guy, wasn't demeaning these guys or being callous about it, and did express sympathy, it was still all played for laughs, and I couldn't help but wonder at it. I mean, if women called in with the exact same stories, it wouldn't be a bit funny.
I was very tempted to send an email pointing this out to them, but I didn't get around to it yesterday, and it just seemed too late today. What do you think? Should I write in and point out this weird anomaly in human nature?
And finally, on a lighter note, Charlie was watching the Phillies last night, and cheered like mad when Chase Utley got a hit, and today he insisted on wearing his Chase Utley shirt. I just thought that was cute.
