- Why can't there be more romantic dramas like Brokeback Mountain and Strawberry Panic!? By now, the world has heard of Ang Lee's gay cowboy romantic epic that earned him the Best Director Oscar, so I won't go into details about the story, but let me sum up Strawberry Panic!, since the majority of people won't understand what I'm ranting about. This is an anime romantic drama and a coming-of age tale about the lives of 12 adolecent girls who attend an all-affiliated all-girls schools that share a campus and dormitories, and their relationships they have with half as friends and half as lovers. You heard right, this deals with lesbian relationships (or as the Japanese would cal it, yuri), and to those who think they're in for a graphic smut show, snap out of it. The show's payoff isn't in the sexual intercourse or the partial nudity, it's in the relationship of the main characters (Nagisa Aoi, Shizuma Hanazono, Tamao Suzumi, Hikari Konohana, Yaya Nanto and Amane Ohtori) and how each girl learns firsthand the double-edged sword that is love. It's a heartfelt, yet heartbreaking ode to young love and the feeling to be either swept away or destroyed by it. Here's part of Episode 1, if you're interested.- What is America's problem with hearing inconvenient truths about itself? Are Americans to be forever induced with the fallacy that the Great and Mighty U.S.A. can do no wrong? If so, then we're in worse shape than I thought. Barack Obama was talking about illegal immigration when he said "You go into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing's replaced them…And they fell through the Clinton administration, and the Bush administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not...And it's not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations," and the comments are already being used as cannon fodder for the conservatives. First, Obama's comments aren't anti-American, he's speaking truth to power; thanks to the corporations outsourcing jobs to China and India for cheaper labor and higher profits and Bush Jr. handing out tax breaks to the wealthiest 1% of Americans, the citizens are pointing the blame on Pedro and his illegal crossing the borders buddies for the reason why they don't have a job, when they're real problems lie with CEO's who are too wrapped up in greed and keeping the mansion with five swimming pools and six luxury cars in their garages to give a fuck about the millions of workers who allow them to have the life they take for granted. Second, why do we continue to make trivial comments like these define who wins or loses an election? We have more important issues to worry about than this.
- Will my fellow Padre fans stop their bitching about Jim Edmonds? I was listening to a local sports talk station this week, only hear Padre fans bitch and moan about how the ex-Cardnial is getting old, that he isn't capable of playing in center field anymore, etc. Give me a break! We knew that Edmonds was past his prime, that he was coming off some injuries from last season and Spring Training, and that he's not the Jim Edmonds that struck fear into the Nation League Central when playing under Tony LaRussa! Guess what? Kevin Towers still bought him cheap in hopes to boost our lackluster batting order! Plus, it's still way too early to harp about Edmonds now! Jesus, get a grip, Friar fans.- Can someone please explain to me the attraction of American Idol? Aside from Kelly Clarkson, Carrie Underwood, the lead singer from Daughtry, and Jordan Sparks, who else has really succeeded at becoin a big name in the recording industry? We haven't heard a damn thing from Taylor Hicks, Ruben Studdard, LaTonya Jackson (at least, I think that's her name) or Clay Akien (thank God) or any of the other runner-ups. These people may have talent, but who are we kidding? Most of the finalists probably won't have a huge singing career, they'll just end up on a cruise line singing karaoke or on VH1's The Surreal Life.
- Why are the idiots who dreampt up the Iraq war quagmire continuing to voice their opinions on a.) the dangers of leaving the war-torn country and b.) why we need to attack Iran? Neocon parrots from William Kristol to Dick Cheney to blowhards like Sean Hannity are the same people who said that Saddam had Weapons of Mass Destruction, that the war would last from six days to maybe six months, that the insurgency was in the last throes of power, etc, and after five years of this senseless war, all their predictions were dead wrong! When you continue to fuck things up in regards to foreign policy, should you not be considered an expert, or at lest should you quit running your mouth? Hell, if these knuckleheads told me that it was raining outside, I would have to check with some non-partisan government agency to make sure they were telling the truth!- Why does it seem that more and more movies are sucking now-a-days? I can understand that January and February are the times when major movie studios take an enormous crap at the theaters and allows the audience to roll around in the filth, but the streak of Hollywood taking constant dumps at the box office has spread to March and April now, with movies like Prom Night, 10,000 B.C., Superhero Movie, and the upcoming Baby Mama being the biggest offenders. It's sad to say that the last decently good movie I saw was Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who!, but isn't hard for Hollywood to produce one, maybe two, really good movies that we can proudly watch over again? I'm hoping that this year's batch of summer movies don't suck, or else we'll be in for a long, painful 2008 movie season.
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