Sometimes I Make Media References and Nobody Gets it and I Think it's Funny.

Today at work some people were done eating and when I was clearing their table one of them grabbed their chopsticks.  The other person  said, "Why do you still have your chopsticks?"  I said to them, "Chopsticks are pretty cool, especially Chopin's."  They just looked at me.  It reminded of one night last summer, that went a little like this:

My friend had a birthday and her roommate invited a boy over. He was okay until he started talking about how hardcore he is and saying that a bunch of stuff was gay. He named off a bunch of hardcore bands he liked so I started a discussion with him that went like this.
"Do you like Atreyu?" I asked.

He replied, "Yeah, they're way good."
"What about Falkor??"

"Yeah they're pretty good."

"Oh. Do you like Bastian then?"

"I haven't really listened to them but I've heard some of their stuff."
Then I said, "What about the snail guy?"

He never caught on.

Media is fun.  People are funny.

Me and my friends are Jem girls. Jem. Jem is my name.

My girlfriend has a Netflix account.  On Friday, we got Jem: Season 3, Disc 1.  I had never seen Jem before but I was a little familiar with the concept.  It is a wonderful example of the culture of the day. A time when people looked like this:

This is Kajagoogoo, a band from the eighties that produced hits such as "Too Shy."  That guy in the middle is Limahl and he sang the theme song to the Neverending Story.  

Anyways, Jem and the Holograms were an all girl version of this picture except with pink and blue hair.  Placed throughout each episode is a music video that actually has the title and artist text in the bottom left corner.  This reflects the rising popularity of music videos in the modern world after the advent of MTV(which never plays music videos.  If it weren't for new media I would never see a music video).  

Bottom line: I love Jem.  Maybe it's because my girlfriend loved it so much.  Maybe it's because the DVD player started screwing up and the audio didn't play for an entire episode.  But I think it's because of the music. Just listen to those lyrics.  

I've played all my cards

I really love ABBA. This morning I was feeling a little blue so I started to listen to them. And then I started to watch their videos. I haven't watched a lot of them since I was ten. But earlier this year I saw Persepolis in the theaters and there's a scene with a boy named Fernando, and they were all sitting around a campfire, and I got so excited and giggled to myself because I remembered how it was exactly like the Fernando video by ABBA. I thought it was so good how subtle they referenced old media in a new film.

This is not Fernando. But it is a hit.