7 posts tagged “girls”
Um, yeah, hey there. This is the number three google image result for the term 'drunk hot girl'. This was searched for random blogging purposes, but it also saves you the trouble.
In case you wondering.
When seeing Pineapple Express (review forthcoming), I saw a bunch of previews, most of which stuck out as comedies I didn't even know were being released. One, however, stuck out because it looked poised to suck all kinds of balls. It is called Lakeview Terrace, and it is starring Samuel L Jackson, while being co-scribed by one of the guys who brought you Money Train, and one of the guys who brought us all something called Search & Destroy.
Anyway, the trailer was 3min long for some reason, which is long enough to make you realize that the movie plans on being dumb as fuck (think a neighbor vs neighbor episode of your favorite sitcome, only thriller-y), and so the film may've been better serviced not with an explain-everything trailer, but with one of those slowly-rising-tension type of trailers where there's no dialogue, just lost of shocked people, and running, and people getting shocked by something sudden that won't be revealed til you pay to see it, and Sam Jackson looking badass, followed by an explosion, a slowly opening door, Sam Jackson laughing and saying, "I guess things didn't turn out the way you planned," to which the male protagonist would say, "Guess not," followed by a shot of the female protagonist screaming, and the words 'Lakeview Terrace, Coming this Fall' slowly appearing on the screen. Better luck next time, Overbrook Entertainment.
It farts into multiplexes this September.
Certain tags involving speedos have been getting fuller these days, and with the Beijing games still going strong, that is not likely to abate any of these coming days. So I'll come up with stupid reasons to include humans with ovaries in suggestive/idolizing/exploitative settings, because there's not already enough of that everywhere else on Earth. There's always room for that, brother.
Does this count? Whatever--incoming: top 5 live-action comic book female depictions!
I work out and crap, and, I, like, I assume, most people who do the same, hold myself to a physical template, and this concept will be discussed in this area, on this post, later. I can't figure out how to get my computer at work to accept the level of granduer I expect from my posts, so I have to think of this shit while I'm here, and wait 'til I get home to actually flesh it out, oh, poordom!
I'M BACK: Anyway...So where was I? Right. America's blog, Gawker, calls attention to a study that concludes that pictures of skinny, pretty models advertising a product, makes women feel worse about themselves and, inversely, makes them think the product is representative of some sort of ideal that is better than them, making them want to buy it. I see this happen with dudes as well--they walk by Abercrombie and see the ripped guy posing some jeans, call him a homo, then go buy the fucking jeans, as if Levis doesn't sell just as good of quality. Now, the thing about models, whether male or female, is, if being a model is their primary source of income, then they have all the time in the world to work out if they want to. They don't have to spend all day in the office, or the daycare center, or Applebees, then hit the YMCA on the way home. All they have to worry about is looking good, so holding yourself to look like them can be dangerous, because you are not them.
BUT, I kind of feeling like a dude trying to get ripped like a model can be done in a good way, and the person can become overall more healthy because of it. Of course, anything can be abused, including your body, in the name of obsessing over how you look in the first place. But if girls are trying to look like Kate Moss, and they want to get that way within a year, there really can't be a healthy way to acheive this. She's fuckin' super skinny and (allegedly) does drugs, so even if you're dieting, it's probably a shit diet. If you're working out, it's probably too much. I mean, she's good looking, but why would you want to look like her?
What I mean is, besides the implication of being in perfect light and having a world renowned photographer play up your best features, maybe we can consider the dozens of different body types that come off as attractive, instead of whatever one type we all, respectively, have fixed in our minds as the bees fucking knees. So here's a bunch of pictures of people's bodies, and you can decide which ones are healthily attainable (and worth going for, if only to be healthy, if you need a reason not to feel supeficial about it). Mixed up, boys and girls (click on pictures for larger).
link to gawker
link to Adage covering the study
model portfo pics from COACD
And since we don't just want to hate on some chick without being nice to another, we'll throw out some approval to Selma Blair, who is in Hellboy 2, and about whom we never hear anything bad, so: Selma Blair, you're an awesome chick, so good for you.
...I'm just, y'know, saying.
Will Smith begat a trend. Next up, briefly, is Jessica Alba, though my want for her to go away is less complex, more essential. The thing is, directors seem to be tempted to hire her, and so she will be cast in decent movies, ditzing it up in a ruining way. I mean, starring in Hayden Christensen coma thrillers is one thing--but please stay away from any further Sin Cities, THANK YOU. I will take Rose McGowan's pseudo-comic stylings over this one's wooden line readings any day. But to show I don't just hate actors, or good-looking people, I will say that Rosario Dawson is underrated, genuinely seems to be talented, and should get whatever roles she goes out for, because she doesn't suck, like Jessica Alba, who is fucking awful.
I like a lot of music and other stuff from the '80s, but not like everybody else. I can't stand Bon Jovi, I think Top Gun kind of sucked (this is arguable), but I like a lot of stuff from that time. However, I think the 90s takes the cake as being a time when people began to "care more" about how their product was perceived. Blame it on grunge and irony, but even artists of dubious originality quotients (like, say, Silverchair), wanted you to know that they meant it. With hip-hop and R&B, even the most bubblegum of artists needed street cred, somehow, some way, and one way was to throw a rapper on the track. I mean, people still do this: I think even the Jonas Brothers have done this.
So, in the case of the group Total, they already had the cred because of Puffy, and because they were total tough and/or bullish-looking, depending on which member you were talking about. Could there be a total these days? I mean, the Jonas Brothes are prettier than them, but that's only because they are trying so hard to be--Total didn't give a shit about being pretty, not at first at least. Anyway, Mariah Carey's temporay proteges Allure actually needed the rap accompaniment, if they wanted Funkmaster Flex playing their shit that is. So that's what we get, some Total, some Allure. Happy Wednesday.
