He is also known for doing the voice of Tom from Toonami fame and Spike Spiegel from Cowboy Bebop, from which this blog gets its name. brb geeking out
4 Heaven’s on Fire - The Radio Dept.
NOTE: This is not directed at any person or party. And I apologize if I come off as preachy. I don’t want to tell you how to live your life. Please correct me if I’m wrong on any points here.
Throughout high school, my opinion on freak dancing has ranged from utter disgust to mild tolerance. After Junior Prom last night, I think my opinion now resides somewhere in between.
Freak dancing is the new dance craze. Like swing dancing and the twist. But while swing dancing and the twist were established upon jubilant songs about having fun, grinding has found its way onto the dance scene through songs written about sex - in particular, men sexually exploiting women. The music is not what I have a problem with, don’t get me wrong; that’s a different topic for a different day. I do, however, take issue with the fact that freakdancing degrades women. Prom is a big deal. Incredible amounts of time and money are spent on tickets, outfits, makeup, hair, flowers, pictures, and other things. To take all of that effort and minimize it by spending four hours rubbing male front to female back seems so wasteful. From a male standpoint, I want to see your face when we dance. While the temperature when freak dancing may be hot, the interaction itself feels so cold, as if I’m getting the cold shoulder. And though I can’t speak for females, wouldn’t you like to be appreciated for more than just your ass? It took lord knows how long for you to prepare for this very night. I’d make damn sure that people acknowledged the effort I put into looking beautiful.
Freak dancing is conventional. You go to any club or any high school dance these days and everybody’s doing it. Especially in a group of teenagers who find conformity and “fitting in” necessary, I can see why it happens. Seeing as I’m somewhat of a hipster and a nonconformist, and understanding that very few would agree with my stance on “fitting in”, I’m not going to explain my opinion any further than conformity does not matter.
And certainly, male and female hormones play a role as well. By nature, sex is important to pubescent teens. Sexual tensions formulate and escalate during school hours, and these dances are just a way to let those sentiments out. Comedian and thinker Doug Stanhope commented on this notion that for most people, sex is the ultimate goal in life, and how much more humans could accomplish if we realized that sex isn’t really that important or intimate. Now, everybody is entitled to their opinion, and even I don’t fully agree with Stanhope. At the same time, I believe teenagers certainly have misconstrued freak dancing as some sort of meaningful expression of affection. While terms of endearment vary for each set of partners, grinding seems like settling for so much less than what that expression could be. While the dance may be physically intimate, from afar it looks and feels like freak dancing is anything but emotionally intimate. Then again, your values may vary from mine, and that’s fine. I’ll just be in the corner, dancing more affectionately and having more fun than a night of grinding ever could be for me.
#Pigblood #Finning
7 His moon colony will solve all your problems. Really.
8 I can’t stand cowards. Spineless assholes who voice their opinions behind the veil of the internet, in particular. So when certain members of the student population opt to run for office and throw themselves into the public eye, and those people who have kept their opinions quiet for so long choose this moment to reveal them, that pisses me off more than anything. This past week has been nothing but stress and drama for these six due to the stress that elections bring, and these inconsiderate jerks who think that they’ve done any good by vocalizing their one-sided thoughts do not deserve to speak at all. And while I may not know all of the candidates personally nor agree with all of their views, I still have much respect for every one of them for having the courage and dedication to their school, unlike their disrespectful critics.
But, you may say, this is what happens in real life to actual politicians, Teddy! Slander and vilification occurs every day! That may be so, but the practice is repulsive nonetheless. Frankly, I don’t give much of a damn about any candidate’s personal life. Leave that for the tabloids collecting dust in drug stores and dentist offices. In my eye, they have the freedom to do whatever they please outside of the workplace. As long as they’re doing an adequate job fulfilling their tasks, what does it matter what they do outside of that?
So congratulations to the winners of the ASB elections, and cheers to all who ran and will run for student elections this and next week. You make our school prouder than any of your naysayers ever will.
But hopefully I’ll meet a sea horse and name it Mystery and we’ll have the best of times
I was paying for gas today with a credit card, and the cashier made me sign my name with a pencil. I couldn’t though because it looks like this pencil (puts on sunglasses)… was unleaded.
