ive been browsing the new york times tonight and a couple things caught my attention

in the future, male models will now also be encouraged to be anorexic: aka the vanishing point. the boys cant let women win that one huh? apparently its not bad enough that the media is obsessed with youth for the female gender and wants to sells us images of looking like we are 14 for the rest of enternity. now, its trendy for men to also look like they havent hit puberty. excellent, lets all live in never never land with our magic fairy dust and hang out with the lost boys. oh wait, lost boys = what is being encouraged here? some of the photos of models on the runway are just hideous. they looks like children wearing their pyjamas at boarding school.
the best quote was "I personally think that it’s the consumer that’s doing this, and fashion is just responding". uh-huh. yeah, because any red blooded beer drinking, barbequeing, football watching, regular guy wants to lose weight and shop with his son in the boys department. riiight.

who gave the media so much power to manipulate the minds of the commonfolk? can they take it back now, please?

the next one: obama is a mac and hillary is a pc. to start off, i dont have that much of a preference which democrat wins the next us election. it would be nice if the voting population would actually get rid of the republicans since they failed miserably at the last attempt. the article compared the websites of barack and hillary.

first strike went to obama: i dont want a welcome message asking for my email and zip code. the times gave you rave reviews on how awesome and easy to navigate your website was, IP RECOGNITION. i am not in america and i dont want to be on your mailing list, nor do i want to have to click through the screen.
second strike went to obama: way too much text and i have to scroll too far down the page.
third strike: obama for the youtube video. i am on fucking slow internet i dont have to patience for that to load.

thumbs up to every possible social networking site on obama.

clinton's site i think is more simple. however the times interviewee had a different opinion: "Hillary’s text is all caps, like shouting" -Jason Santa Maria, creative director of Happy Cog Studios. dear jason, please open the door and actually leave the house for once if the you think the website is shouting at you.

clinton's site has graphics and whether or not they look like parody ads, is up to the user to decide. i dont think they do. someone like my mom who could represent an average voter if she were american, would easily navigate the clinton site because it had more catchy visuals and was overall clearer.

so, obama get a win for tech geeks. clinton gets a win for the rest of the normal people who know how to socialize offline. the tech geeks represent how much of the voting public again?


oh and one more that was on channel 10 news tonight. omg, britney is out of rehab. that is so important to my functioning for the rest of the day, i so HAD to know that. can the media please forget that this girl ever existed. perhaps some the problem is amplified by the cameras that follow her around everywhere. how sad is society when a substance abusing entertainer is whats important?

i went to see an advance screening of into the wild yesterday afternoon. wow. i think i posted before how i hadnt read the book, but i should. everyone i saw it with (minus the manfriend) had read it, so that was a point of comparison when the movie was over. i like it. i really did, but there was something missing that none of us could quite figure out. possibly the way it flowed overall. and some of the relationships with the people he met on the way to alaska seemed really forced, especially the old guy in the desert. i to ask if the book was written in chronological order or if it jumped around like the movie did. i dont think the movie would have worked if it was told without the flashbacks. and it was so long..

the ending was very moving. i liked that part. not the very end, but when he starts writing in his journal that he is lonely and scared. very relatable. the sense of adventure and discovery throughout the entire film was good. i think 90% of the people i know would be willing do to the same thing. just fuck off from whatever boring thing they do every day and set off with no goal to just live life.

oh and the music. that was an exciting thing, to see where the songs were going to fit into the movie. hard sun is a driving song!!! :P some of the clips were a definite, yah that makes sense now that i see the visual. others not so obvious but the clarity was effective.

we hung around for a while after the movie. trying to find where alan's taxi was going to pick him up. the girls had been doing activities in carlton for most of the day. a few of us had election parties to attend. sonia and manfriend excused themselves to dinner and the rest of us did what we had to do.

my election party last night was at claires house. i think it was officially hosted by dan though.. anyhow, i headed over there from nova which was only a 10 minute walk. with all the things i had been hearing from various sources during the day it seemed as though the masses were voting liberal. everyone i know that was open about their support was going for labor.

general comments about the coverage i saw on tv: no one dressed up. 98% of the candidate i sw interview from their electorates head quarters were not wearing ties, or even suits. that would not fly at home. i cant remember her name but this cute lady from adelaide-ish had a low cut top and an "N" necklace. this prompted comments of "omg, she has a carrie necklace". again, youd never see that at home. the party leaders were dressed at a level i thought was more becoming of a politician. johnny's goodbye speech from the sofitel was very black tie, as one would expect. rudd's speech from brisvegas was to a room full of kids in "kevin '07" t-shirts and wristbands that allowed them access in. looked a bit low key for the next prime minister.

dan explained to me how the electoral process worked.. you vote by ranking the candidates in your riding. interesting. so the lowest score wins, i was told. this was weird to say the least, and i was not the only one who thought so. apparently alaina got in a fight with one of her friend about how the voting process worked. "no, it cant be."

catching up with all the americans yesterday i became so insanely jealous that they are all going home for christmas. i was trying not to think about at all this year. but when your family is a 24 hour plane ride away the holidays become really shit. i miss the cold. sort of. its so far to go home for a week, but makes all the difference in the world. hmm.