Last Blog

Well, this will probably be my final blog ever. I'm graduating this semester but for some reason, I can't accept the idea. I never thought that this day would come...well, at least I hoped it would never come. Oh, well. Thanks for everything this semester Professor and I hope everyone else enjoys their Holidays.

Peace :)

The Wall

The concept of the wall is simple. You reach a certain point in a given activity, and once and a while, especially if you've been working really hard on the activity, you suddenly freeze up, unable to do anything. Unfortuanetly, it seems like I've hit the wall. This is my last semester and one of my last papers and I can't for the life of me, think what else to write. I just don't have the energy.

The worst part? I have to write another 7-8 page research paper for my other film course. This semester can't end fast enough.

Censorship

I've been watching the TV show Lincoln Heights, which airs on ABC Family, and frankly I can't believe how it possibly made it on that channel. The show is about a black family which moves to Lincoln Heights in LA. The father is a cop and the mother is a nurse. The show revolves around the father and the cases that occur during his job, sometimes involving his family. One episode in particular seemed a little too extreme for the network that it airs on. The episode begins with the parents finding a baby in a dumpster wrapped in a trash bag. By the end, we find out that a 15 year old girl was raped by her father, gave birth to the baby in her house and her mother threw the baby in the trash to "get rid of the abomination". To me it seemed like this was a little too real for a network like ABC Family.

On another random note, Nip/Tuck showed full frontal female nudity on FX about two weeks ago. The only reason that it was allowed (I would assume) was that the girl had no nipples because they were surgically removed (I'm not going into the reasons why lol)

It seems the standards of censorship of old are starting to die out slowly but surely. Hell, network television usually uses every swear except f**k nowadays (which I'm sure won't be far away). Not that I'm complaining but I do find this phenomenon interesting (i.e. the changing censorship standards that we live by).