a few random xanga musings

some more musings:
my hair has grown to a length at which brushing it actually makes a difference. i realized this the other day after i brushed my hair and discovered it looked a hell of a lot better. feeling rather ambivalent about this extra getting-ready step in my life, but not planning on chopping off much hair again, to my mother's boundless joy. she's really into the short-hair-makes-you-look-like-a-man school of thought.

people are so fascinated by wealth. i guess it all fits into the whole "wanting what you can't have" bit, but that just sucks. with new television shows centering upon rich, spoiled girls who have never had to work a day in their lives (and probably never will if they don't want to), it makes me wonder why we're so fascinated by excessively privileged people. for the ones born into wealth, it's not as if they did anything at all to earn their "higher" station in life; it was merely a lucky turn of the reproductive wheel for them. we admire people who work their way up to success, but we don't slobber for random gossip tidbits about them (maybe that's because they're sort of old by then too). and a reality show about two horribly poor girls living on the streets? forget about it. critics would say it's "gritty" and "realistic" but nielsen wouldn't even turn its pretty inflated head.

i figure watching rich girl shows either makes people envious and dissatisfied with their own lives, or they feel better about themselves and superior to the spoiled princesses becaues they're not as hopelessly hapless. the sad part is that there is absolutely no need for the hapless princesses to be competent adults - what do they have riding on their individual successes? not too much. why not just let yourself be indulged?

and royalty. so many people are obsessed with royalty. how many romance novels are about hugely muscular, aristocratic heroes? (good luck finding many of those, by the way.) why were that many people affected by the death of princess di? this whole "blue blood" thing really doesn't make sense if you no longer believe in the divine right anymore. they're just people with extra titles to their names. their blood consists of the same percentage of red blood cells, plasma, and hemoglobin as yours does. and although you can possibly become frightfully rich, you can never really become royal - no matter how many times you imagine prince william meeting you, falling instantly in love, getting down on his knee, and asking you to marry him. ;)

yet we are still intrigued. that aristocracy was a scandalous lot though. like a great big dirty soap opera, complete with incest, homosexuality, and mental illness... www.royalty.nu is a great waste of time. :)

aptly random:


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"Two Points for Honesty" -Guster

if that's all you will be
you'll be a waste of time
you've dreamed a thousand dreams
none seem to stick in your mind
two points for honesty
it must make you sad to know that
nobody cares at all

i want to be where i've never been before
i want to be there and then i'd understand
know i'm right and do it right
could i get to be like that?
how to know what i don't know?
nothing more to gain

will i get better or stay the same?
i find i always move too slowly
can't lift a finger
can't change my mind
i never knew till someone told me that

if that's all you will be
you'll be a waste of time
you've dreamed a thousand dreams
none seem to stick in your mind
two points for honesty
it must make you sad to know that
nobody cares at all

and all the people who've seen it all before
and all the people who already understand
know they're right and done it right
could i get to be like that?
i don't know and i don't know
it's harder everyday

can't lift a finger
can't hurt a fly
i find i always move too slowly
one thing's for certain
i'm insecure
i never knew till someone told me that

if that's all you will be
you'll be a waste of time
you've dreamed a thousand dreams
none seem to stick in your mind
two points for honesty
it must make you sad to know that
nobody cares at all
nobody cares at all
they never cared at all