wear me like a locket around your throat

01. on my way home from starbucks/the store just now, i was driving on a little street near my house and i hit a red light. however, by the time i was actually sitting at the intersection, the sun was shining brightly RIGHT next to the light, and no matter how i tried to shade my eyes and hold up a hand, i seriously couldn't tell if the light was red or green. and there's not enough traffic to be all "oh, the cars coming that way are stopped", and it's a one-way street so i couldn't just wait for people coming toward me to go. so i just waited until i figured it was probably green, took a deep breath, and went for it. NOT FUN. D:

02. is kyle peek a father?!?! O.O

03. i have some thinky thoughts about, of all things, seinfeld. well, not so much the show itself, but like...okay. scott loves seinfeld. he thinks it's hilarious, and i realize he is not alone there. i don't necessarily find it un-funny, i guess. i mean, i usually see the jokes coming a mile away, but there are funny moments, and i get a kick out of the concept that it's a show about nothing, and their treatment of the minutiae of daily life can sometimes be quite clever.

however, i've never been able to really enjoy the show, because i find all the characters to be kind of douchebaggy. like, they're all eccentric and whatever, and that's fine, but they're all so inherently selfish and self-involved that it bothers me. and, i mean, i have a long history of loving the "bad" characters on tv shows, from logan echolls to alex karev to chuck bass (with plenty of other stops in-between) but they almost always have an underlying humanity that i think the seinfeld cast does not.

scott thinks i'm ridiculous, and that you don't have to be able to empathize with characters in order to enjoy a show, but i disagree, i think because i rarely watch (or read) things for the plot. 9 times out of 10, i watch the shows i watch for the characters, and i read the books i read for the prose. not to say i don't appreciate a good plot twist or a cliffhanger or just a well-crafted story, but that's rarely my main concern.

now, i know comedy is a different beast than stuff like gossip girl or whatever the hell else i watch, but i think most comedies have characters that are, well, likable, and with whom people can identify, whether it's jim halpert or liz lemon or ted mosby or whatever. scrubs was on the the other day, and scott said he thinks the characters on seinfeld are more likable than the characters on seinfeld. which, i disagree, but i can vaguely understand why he might say that. i mean, JD is not necessarily a great guy. he can be mean, and selfish, and generally kind of weak. but again, there's humanity there, i think. and dr. cox, for all his rage and bluster, has a good heart underneath. (mind you, i haven't actually watched scrubs in a couple of years, so i'm basing this off the first 3 or 4 seasons.)

all of that ^^^ to say, i suppose: what makes a character someone you can relate to/empathize with/enjoy? do you need characters like that to enjoy a TV show? do you agree with me that the characters on seinfeld are unlikable assholes, or have i got it all wrong?

04. david fucking cook having a gigglefit! everyone who cares probably saw this already but you can watch it again. ♥


ETA 05. also, this.

XD *icons*

item 1 is because it's an issue that comes up in my life every now and again, and while i have a definite answer that seems obvious to me, i've noticed that not everyone agrees. item 2 is because over my past couple of years on twop, between blake and carly and now david, i've seen what seems like a disproportionate number of people who are somewhat vehemently anti-tattoo. item 3 is the same general concept. i'm just curious, because i always find myself going "holy fuck, is everyone on this board, like, 60 years old?" and then i wonder if i'm just the weird one.

also, for question 1, since i phrased it stupidly - would you choose to wait outside somewhere where you have a pretty okay chance of meeting them OR would you choose to go see them perform in a place/situation where you are highly unlikely to meet them?

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i am officially a fan of the disco, bbs! i'm way too excited and i'm even using one of their crappy wallpapers for no reason whatsoever, since it doesn't even have the boys on it. O.O

THE NORTHERN DOWNPOUR SENDS ITS LOVE, THO! XD \o/ ♥

(i had a minor dilemma with choosing my username. i was like, "uh, ok, use lj name," but then i looked and "tracy" was available and i was like "oooh, i could be all ~old school", like those crazy people whose email addresses are theiractualname@aol.com or whatever? and then when people get uppity i could be all BITCH DON'T QUESTION, I'VE BEEN HERE SO LONG MY USERNAME IS MY REAL NAME, but then i felt kind of boring being just "tracy," so i'm still expatiates. uh, if there's some kind of friend thing over there, be my friend!)

also, are they on kimmel tonight or tomorrow night?

also also, the cab has a *~surprise~* coming on myspace tonight at midnight!

i cannot stop listening to this song. do you ever listen to a song and you see, like, a scene it would play over in a movie? i can't be the only one who does this. this song makes me picture a movie, and it's dark and glossy and sexy, and everyone's young and beautiful and probably too thin; it's like the oc dropped into sin city, maybe. and there's this urgency because everything's about to happen and some girl is putting on knee-high boots and somewhere else a boy is picking up his guitar and leaving without looking back and our anti-hero, he's lighting a cigarette and watching a window, waiting for a light to go out.

or maybe i'm crazy. whatever, it's still a good song.

empires - keep the mood

i'll spare you most of my stream-of-consciousness political mental meanderings and just say that i was thinking in the car today about, y'know "be the change you wish to see in the world" and how no one has ever "achieved the impossible" because they knew it was possible, which is half the battle, blah blah blah there's rhetoric even in my own head. and i rarely have my ipod on shuffle because as i said the other day, i don't know what half the shit on there even is, but i did today and this song came on, and it's always touched me and some of it just seemed so appropriate, because altho he's speaking about racial relations, i feel like it applies to more than that, just the need for unity and peace and basic human understanding, red states versus blue states, the u.s. versus the world, etc. so.

i got love for my brother but we can never go nowhere
unless we share with each other
we gotta start makin' changes
learn to see me as a brother instead of 2 distant strangers
and that's how it's supposed to be
how can the devil take a brother if he's close to me?
i'd love to go back to when we played as kids
but things changed, and that's the way it is.

...

we gotta make a change--
it's time for us as a people to start makin' some changes.
let's change the way we eat, let's change the way we live
and let's change the way we treat each other.
you see, the old way wasn't working so it's on us to do
what we gotta do...to survive.

and still i see no changes, can't a brother get a little peace?
it's war on the streets & the war in the middle east...

-tupac shakur

dislaimer: i apologize if this applies to/offends anyone reading. if you're on my flist, i love you, and if this does apply/upset you...well, i'll get over it, and hopefully you will, too.

ANYWAY.

this chick who posts on twop all the time in the blake thread AND on the SYTYCD board (who has always driven me completely insane; she's a real piece of work) responded to a comment someone had made about how "this is the country who voted for bush...twice" by replying that she was proud to have voted for him twice.

01. well, color me not surprised.
02. that is NOT OK by me. honestly, if you want to be a republican, ok. if you voted for bush once, fine. even if you voted for him twice. i mean, i question your judgement, but it's your right to vote for that douche. i make my choices, you can make yours.

but honestly? if you voted for him twice, and you're PROUD about that? still? if by this point, you aren't, at least a little, saying "oops"? if you are really fully ok having voted, twice, for that man?

well, in that case i really don't know what the fuck to do with you. except scoff in your general direction.