in the latter regard

drunk people who are stupid enough to write their name in salt on the grass deserve to be made to sit in a freezing tub of salt water for several hours. especially the ones who are stupid enough to do it when they're the only person with this name in rez....gee...i wonder who the culprit is?

i thought that my mythbusters shirt would be delivered to the rez office. i was wrong. apparently UPS workers don't know what a doorbell is. bring me back my fucking shirt! i DEMAND to be labeled a Human Guinea Pig!!!

im trying to get started on two essays. this is the slowest start i've ever had in four years of university on any paper. the one that all these nifty little books are for is only 1500 words max, and i should really be able to motor through it in two or three hours. i have quotes and information all ready, but i just can't get it going in my head. it's annoying. i'm good at writing essays, but writers block is not helpful. thankfully both aren't due for a week and a half, so i have some leeway.
the short one is on the anthropological aspects of blogs, and how identity is constructed through them in an online culture. i don't want to really base the whole paper on expansive potential and realism as in Slater & Miller, but i might have to. this isn't a communication class so i don't have to get into any media theory. i think that would be easier.
the second one is a lot longer, max 10 pages. i think i'm going to write about the political economy of popular vs. indie music. or how the hip hop industry is contributing to the citizen as consumer theory. maybe i'll do the second one, i've written about it before.
while i was reading through some of those books, i got to thinking about commodity fetishism. basically, it means that we fetishize everything material without taking into consideration the labour that has gone in to creating it. like a tv. you have a tv, you watch it, the picture magically appears. it's just there. no one stops to think about how many sublevels of production there are that go into making that picture appear. but then i started to wonder if blogs could be seen as a fetishized commodity. i think most people would argue that they can't be because they aren't of themselves a material object. but neither is the internet, and that's one. i think that blogs are representative of a sort of secondary fetishized commodity. i say this simply because of the fact that we are able to change the way it looks. if you have access to the code of a blog, you are in essence labouring on it. you are producing that which magically appears on the screen for others. ok, i go now.

current mood: "Stone in Focus" by Aphex Twins

in the latter regard