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

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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.

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[royinpink.livejournal.com]

sorry, i started writing before i read your other comment about why you wrote "why do you think this." but yeah, that's pretty lower middle class or working class ish sounding. that's as specific as i'll be about class, haha. it also sounds a lot like my mom's brother's family. they live in north carolina.

yeah, and i think for some reason (probably my own family) i get along best with people who don't solidly fit into one class or another, even if it's just a difference btwn. income and education level. and i don't know how provincial-ness gets included in ideas of socioeconomic class, though it certainly should be... haha, well, the same thing happens in China, i'm pretty sure. my roomie had a hell of a time trying to find sunblock that wouldn't whiten your skin...

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[intertribal.livejournal.com]

yeah, I get along best with those people too.

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[royinpink.livejournal.com]

(because there's the old association of light skin and wealth, plus the stereotypical Han ethnicity, plus various (fucked up) Western influences, plus North-South rivalry, plus weird things like good face shapes, wherever that fits in)

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[intertribal.livejournal.com]

I feel like that old association is freaking everywhere.

even vampire movies.

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[royinpink.livejournal.com]

yeah, probably everywhere there was a class of people who had to work out in the sun, and a class who was too wealthy to have to do that. my suspicion is that this is also how it became beautiful to have long nails, but i dunno.

aren't there vampires who aren't deathly pale? but hey...you know who else is pale? dead people. no oxygenated blood flowing!

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[intertribal.livejournal.com]

that is the irony of vampires, isn't it.

Well, Blade isn't deathly pale. He's my favorite vampire. But he's also the only black vampire. Vampires used to be more corpsey than they are now - Dracula was written by Stoker as decomposing, Nosferatu of course was basically a cadaver. Bela Lugosi started making them pretty, Anne Rice really sealed the deal.

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[royinpink.livejournal.com]

decomposing, mmm. they'd be way scarier that way.