Margie, You Will Regret Having Written This in T-minus Three...Two...
Thursday, July 27, 2006
One of my guilty pleasures is reality TV. In fact, the act of following a reality show’s entire season is very much like masturbation: you start off a bit slow, begin to like it, keep at it, get more and more excited, get reallyreallyreallyreally excited, get
reallyreallyreallyreallyreally excited,
are on the brink of going nuts,
GO ABSOLUTELY APESHIT XSIVLSJRDMDJWAXJW!!!!!!!!11111, then lie flat on your back, heart pounding, feeling like a total moron. (See? This is why I don’t write erotica.)
Right now, I’m obsessed with
Rockstar: Supernova, though I know full well that I’ll feel really stupid once it’s over. Especially since this is a show where they cut down some of the best rock songs in the universe to two minutes and let some nobodies (half of them really good, half of them unforgivably awful) perform them to the discernment of several has-beens. The thing is, even though I swore to myself that I wouldn’t watch this season, having felt immense post-masturbatory guilt after
Rockstar: INXS, I still let myself get hooked. I have pretty shitty reasons for doing so, but they’re reasons nonetheless.
First, Supernova’s sound is much different from INXS’. Supernova’s harder, which means that they prefer the contestants to sing the grittier songs, the ones I love and those fuddy-duddies from INXS hate. Second, there’s no Filipino among the contestants. I get really annoyed when the whole country goes nuts. Third, this batch of contestants is far more interesting than last year’s. The guys look more drugged up and the girls seem more promiscuous, so yay. Fourth, Supernova’s members are much sleazier than INXS’, who were too old to begin with, so the thought of all the debauchery that will happen if they pick a female lead makes me smile.
My top picks are Storm Large (who looks like Shirley Manson + Debbie Harry and acts like it, woohoo), Lukas Rossi (who looks like a serial killer and acts like it, woohoo) and, of course, Dilana (who is deranged, woohoo). I had a crush on Phil Ritchie, but he was booted out. Zayra has that Bjork appeal, but it seems that her strangeness is rooted more in her being foreign than in her penchant for individuality, so she just comes out annoying. Josh, the Gavin deGraw guy, has to go.
Okay, I will stop now. The deadline for the titi proposal is tomorrow, plus I have a Histo quiz. But as a parting note, I actually don’t care who wins. It’s a karaoke show, only with much better music. You shouldn't care who wins at karaoke.
posted by marguerite @ 11:47 PM
|
