somethin' gotta give, parents or the kids, it won't be the kids.

[intertribal]

Holla.  Day after Thanksgiving, I'm back at school after spending the holiday with Kim's family in Queens.  We saw Twilight.  Twilight was pretty special.  It was like a TV movie with really bad make-up and acting.  In addition to, of course, being a vampire movie that completely lacked in scares (except the bad relationship kind) - but I've already written about how much it bothers me when vampires or whatever are romanticized (here they're virtually invulnerable) and humans are depicted as being stupid and weak and only attractive because they're so fragile.  Also, I don't think I was previously aware of how classist Twilight is.  Get this: she gets to choose between a) the vampire, who drives a fancy sports car, lives in a glass mansion, listens to classical music, whose vampire!father is a doctor, and is obviously very white, and b) the werewolf, who doesn't seem to have his own car but whose disabled father drives an old pick-up, lives on a reservation, and is Native American.  Guess who she chooses.  By the last book she has her own sports car.  And is a vampire.  WHAT IS THIS. 

This song has been my obsession lately. I heard it at the end of an AMV and it's like... been the last twenty songs I've listened to.

"Children of the Korn" - Korn (feat. Ice Cube)

Pretty crazy, right?  But for one, I associate it with Nebraska, and for two... I don't know.  I'm really into Korn right now?  It's so strange, because I first became aware of them in middle school, but only as a favorite band of a certain guy someone on my friends' list was into... he got so uncool later, dating the head cheerleader and all.  I always thought Korn was too "heavy metal" for me.  

Actually, the other thing is that Ilium is turning into a very anti-elders manifesto.  Ironically my own parents were amazing parents.

Comments

[intertribal.livejournal.com]

No.

[royinpink.livejournal.com]

but he is a werewolf, with shabby clothes.

[intertribal.livejournal.com]

The werewolf is not selected.

Yeah, I like Lupin, actually. But if Twilight teaches you anything, it's how wonderful Harry Potter is in comparison. And I'm not exactly an HP fan.

[royinpink.livejournal.com]

the class thing just reminded me of Lupin...

Lupin and Sirius = my favorite characters. if the books were more about them, i would like them so much better...

[intertribal.livejournal.com]

Are you a Lupin/Sirius shipper?

I always said my favorite character was Hedwig. And of course she gratuitously dies. :(

[royinpink.livejournal.com]

no

really? when?

[intertribal.livejournal.com]

last book.

[royinpink.livejournal.com]

never read it...

stopped buying them after sirius died, but i did borrow the 6th from abbey.

[intertribal.livejournal.com]

I never read it either - I used to borrow them from my uncle, but didn't bother with the seventh. I just read the wikipedia summary.

[royinpink.livejournal.com]

lol