Reading week 11

Today was the first day of class in just about 2 weeks we had a lot of catching up so we kinda talked about each reading quickly. The main reading I'd like to talk about is "What Makes a Great Movie." The reading was pretty interesting but I'd like to talk about my feelings on my perfect movie personally I like thrillers and revenge movies my favioret actor is Denzel Washington. Some titles I love are Inside Man, Man on Fire, Deja Vu, Count of Monte Cristo, Carlito's Way, and I'm sure a few others I can't think of off the top of my head. Movies like Count of Monte Cristo are amazing the tactics and intellegence to calculate the revenge of each man that screwed you over just makes me happy if you have any movies like that let me know. Inside Man and Deja Vu were to great thrillers I could not figure out Inside Man for the life of me I was not joking about like a week of trying to figure it all out. My all time favioret Man on Fire great acting great plot great revenge he was not going to die until he got that girl back and then finally gave himself up for her it was an emotional roller coaster. I dont know why I just went on for 10 sentences about my favioret movies but i could watch them over and over and it's worth noting. Another reading we had was "I, Robot" now that was a horrible movie I don't understand why we read it but the author talks about there is to much information to take in however I don't really agree with that statement it's pretty simple maybe if your studying it up and down but for the average person who watches movies it's not like if I get up to get a pop in the middle of it im lost the rest of the movie like Matrix and other movies tend to be. The movie was horrible to me. The final thing I have to say about his comments is I agree with him saying the movies can be almost mind altering any movie that makes you think for a while to me is a great movie however I dont think I, Robot does that.

Mythbusters

This week on Mythbusters they did something a little different. Fans emailed them complaining that some myths they tested earlier in the season were flawed and explained what they could have done to retry and re bust or confirm the myths. First myth they retested was the Sniper myth in which a Vietnamese and an American sniper were trying to take one another out. Supposedly the American shot the Vietnamese through the scope and straight into his eye killing him. When previously tested the myth was presumed busted however complaints that they were using the wrong type of scope that the Vietnamese had and wrong type of firearm the American had. The Mythbusters retry the myth and come to a almost similar conclusion the only bullet that penetrated all the glass and went into the dummies skull was an armor piercing bullet which generally snipers didn't have however they still decided to call it plausible instead of busted. Next myth was if two hammers collided would they explode originally they called it busted fans argued that they can't use new hammers because the myth was from back in the day. One fan a blacksmith sent them old tempered pre-WWII hammers and they used a rig to continuously slam them into one another. The most that happened was a few chips came off of one hammer. It didnt explode like the myth is said however the fragments could be deadly it was busted though. Mythbusters is an amazing show it shows the physics of everyday life and I just love how crazy some myths can be. It's as if the simplest myth they can make fun. It's important to everyday life some of these myths are cost saving when it comes to fuel economy and some are about saftey issues. They are wide ranging yet all intresting.

Vacation

It's about the middle of my vacation and nothing exciting has happened yet. So far I have been hanging out with a few friends at my house usually playing mario kart. Jack has been playing amazing mario kart latley and continues to win however that will not last long. Otherwise I went bowling last night and had a good time then upon leaving my friends car wouldn't start it was pretty funny. I guess the battery was dead so I jumped it and we were good to go. At the bowling alley I ran into an old friend. I haven't seen him since almost a year now it was good to see him and when golf season starts we should be seeing alot more of one another. He didn't like the college he was going to so he came back to OCC for a little while. I recently found out another friend of mine that moved to arizona is coming back for a few days to visit and go to a wedding. I can't wait to see him we've known eachother since the third grade it's gonna be great to see him. It's good to be out of school for a little while it gives me some time to think about what I wanna do for next semester. I think I'm gonna go to OCC and get some credits from there and transfer them to Wayne State. Two major reasons I want to do that is because with all the construction I don't feel like going to the main campus and secondly it's alot more inexpensive to get these b/s credits outta the way over there than at Wayne. So that pretty much my week not to exciting but not very boring so my breaks been good so far.

"Society's Need For A Queer Solution"

The second reading starts out with a person talking to there male friend who is nervous to tell the truth about his homosexuality. He gives them his journal which explains how though he is sexually attracted to males he is still just like everybody else so he became more understanding of his sexual prefrences. The authour expresses her total dumbfoundedness on the subject. She proceeds to say how before that point in her life she was continually praticipating in gay jokes, and generalizations. She asks the question why do we seperate gays from the society. The answer because they aren't part of the mainstream. The essay compares Ellen Degeneres and her coming out and how the show "Friends". Ellen lost alot of ratings after coming out compared to "Friends" because she advocated homosexuallity. "Friends" on the other hand made jokes of two women who were raising a child. Later they talk about Will & Grace and how different a homosexual acts compared to a heterosexual. For example Jack acts like the stereotypical homosexual male. Judith Lorber talks about gender and how it is assigned using genitalia. It differentiates masculine and feminine. The essay compares Will and Nathan one missing the world series the other trying on tight jeans. The essay compares how homosexuality is portrayed and how people tend to react to the way it is being portrayed. Personnally I thought the reading was intresting yet it's arguments weren't strong enough.

"Not that theres anything wrong with that"

The reading first begins about talking about the word queer, It's origins is from an AIDS activist group who began another group called Queer Nation. The word queer once a derogatory word for gays transformed into a term that was less derogatory and more of a name. When Seinfeld debuted in 1989 originally called The Seinfeld Chronicles it did rather poorly but in January of 1991 Seinfeld became widely popular. The reading begins talking about how the show was created and the actors mirror Seinfeld's real friends except in a more exxagerated way. The show targeted urbanity's and baby-boomers who looked forward to the new episode every Wednesday. As the reading describes the show seems to be generally heterosexually aimed. Seinfeld, Elaine, and sometimes George always had a new relationship with the opposite sex. Homosexuality has been illustrated in Seinfeld on three separate episodes they have homosexuality shown. Semiotics comes up in the essay referring to the pink triangle and the beginning of the episodes that were once used during the holocaust to mark the homosexuals for persecution. They describe how the name "Monk's" the restaurant they constantly go to is a brotherhood for men. Then the next few pages have dialect from some episodes about Seinfeld and his use of words or actions that make him very much masculine. Then the essay shows more dialect about how he has gay instances like when a baseball player separates himself from Jerry and Elaine mirrors it to her own personal relationships with men. The whole essay refers to how homosexuality comes up in the show and the different ways it comes up. The essay was pretty interesting by the ways it looks at how the show refers to homosexuality. Personally I don't understand how a person can look at every degree of a show to find homosexual tendencies in that specific show.

mythbusters

This week watching mythbusters, I watched them test disposable lighters, they tested several different myths about how they may explode. The first was in the dryer it didnt work the lighter didnt explode. Then they tried to put it in a hot car and the lighter did not ignite. They also try to ignite it using the sparks from a guy welding and that worked it ignited in a matter of seconds. The final and coolest myth they tested was they had the lighter ignited sitting on the floor and built a rig to hit the lighter with a golf club and upon impact all the gas was realead and a burst of flames ignited. I thought that was really sweet. The next myth they tested was about the old west and the guns they used. The first myth was can someone shoot off five bullets with a pistol before a silver dollar hit the ground and if you want an idea of how fast that was it was about .333 seconds which is ridicolously fast. Then they tried to put a whole through a solid dollar with a old west gun and were not successful. They did use a newer gone and it worked. Finally can someone being hung be set free by someone shooting the rope and cutting it. That actually was successful but it took 5 shots so it was more of plausible than confirmed. Before they left they put 500 disposable lighters in a car and but a heater in the car that heated the car up to 800 degrees. Finally they added an ignition source and the whole car was up in flames. This show is pretty sweet they prove whether a myth is true or not and sometimes its useful. Though this show has crazy explosions and ridicolous things happening i believe this show is very intellectual compared to reality TV a subject we spoke of all week. It uses science to dissprove everyday myths or some just outrageous myths. To some extent they even help clear falsely based fears that people may have because of myths.

reading

This week I read about reality TV and how it became popularized by shows like The Real World the reading was pretty intresting. While I was reading about Rosie I the author tends to speak about her as if she is an awesome person and is this open honest kind hearted lady, and also how she tends to steal the spotlight. I dislike Rosie alot one time I read in the paper about how some lady complaining about how she dictates the View, and a couple weeks ago i watched 10 minutes of it and that lady just takes over she has to be the loudest most talkative person out of the cast. Sex, drugs and cocoa puffs was a intresting read as well he makes the assumption that a majority of the time theres that odd couple that always argues. One being clean and neat, and the other a complete slob. Then ofcourse he sits down and watches the real world and how ridicolous that show was and kinda compares it to his own life making the show seem like it is reality based. However the show was different back then compared to now. Black bart was also a reading this week that i found kinda cool i never new of a Black Bart. And the way african americans take him and use him as an icon of the social ills going on was genuis. Overall I think this weeks readings were alot more intresting then the past.