Sunday, December 07, 2003
If I take you from behindPush myself into your mindWhen you least expect itWill you try and reject it?-Madonna "Erotica"
Okay, this weekend was neither restful nor relaxing but it was productive. I have to be thankful for that plus the opportunity to look forward to two major opportunities to get smashed next week and a Fountains of Wayne show on Friday night. Well, to be honest, I have no intention on getting smashed given the fact that my current medication makes me want to projectile vomit at the mere hint of alcohol. Though short of the Hustler Holiday Party our Holiday Party must be at the top of the list for debauchery. It's in a massive place. I mean I've seen HUGE concerts in the venue. In fact it's one of the larger venues in the city. There's drug and sex and inappropriate behavior galore. However, this will also be my SEVENTH and ever since the dot com boom busted they've gotten progressively tamer in my eyes.
First of all my first departmental party was held at Lips. Which is a restaurant in the city where all the waitresses are transexuals/cross dressers. And everyone got blitzed. That was the warm up for the big show.
My first company party was like stepping into the Christmas party in the movie "Less Than Zero" it looked startling similar. Plus there were live penguins in the mezzanine. I kid you not. I left that one after 4 AM in the morning and made it to work by 9 AM the next morning. Yes I was completely different girl back then (plus I got totally knackered). I was severely sexually harassed by someone I worked with and he used the the phrase, "You're the one with the tits and the pussy..." If that happened now, he'd have gotten smacked and human resource charged up the arse. But I was a wide eyed girl straight out of college who still believed the hype back then. My favorite moment was sitting at a table in the mezzanine overlooking the dwindling crowd (though the party is rumored to go until at least 6 AM) and my friend looks at me (he wasn't jaded and embittered at that point)...well he looks at me as says, "Did you ever think you'd be sitting at the *** Christmas Party @ 4 in the morning?" and I looked at him and said, "Of course." Yup, I was a different girl. A couple of years later we'd sit at a similar table on the lower level and he would tell me about a girl breaking his heart. And I would tell him he was too good for her and that he needed to walk away. Somehow I was a similar girl then as well.
So I am way too tired to warble on so I've decided to poach some of my old material circa a letter to the editor which was published in the Bangor Daily News... I have no idea what year maybe the very early nineties... I found it in an old year book...
"As Nasty As They Wanna Be"
I would like to put my two cents in about the censoring of the 2 Live Crew album, "As Nasty As They Wanna Be." The government has no right to ban the album. Florida officials have led their crusade with shouts of obscenity, but who has the right to judge what is obscene? To me, the answer is perfectly clear. I, the consumer, have that right and no judge or government official has the right to take away any consumer's freedom of choice.
Rappers have brought up the question, is this another attack on the black man? Many people say no, but what is the real evidence? Andrew Dice Clay's performance are sexually discriminatory, obscene and racist. He also has an album. Is it being censored? The Ku Klux Klan has pamphlets and books promoting racial violence. Are they being banned? Skinheads have even gone further than the KKK and have TV shows and radio broadcasts in addition to literature. Have they been censored? What about pornography and sex in films? Have these been banned? 2 Live Crew has been accused of corrupting the youth, yet doesn't the youth have access to more dangerous things?
Florida officials have bigger things to worry about than one album and one rap group which from all this publicity has become rich.
My full name with middle initial here.
If that isn't funny enough, here's a response which was sent to the Bangor Daily News.
2 Live Crew album is truly obscene
In response to My full name with middle initial here...of insert my town...(Readers Write, July 2); I would like to inform readers of the content of the 2 Live Crew album, "As Nasty As They Wanna Be." The following is a list of obscene material contained in the album. This information was broadcast on "Focus on the Family" to inform listeners of the album's content:
226 uses of the slang word for copulation
117 explicit terms for male and female genitalia
87 descriptions of oral sex
163 uses of the vulgar word for excrement
42 uses of the word for a backside of a person.
That is only half of the list and it goes on down from there. Some of it can't be described in the terms just given. This is an album that kids are buying. This is more than a racial issue or the consumer's freedom of choice.
This album is legally obscene.
Insert author's name and town
If I recall correctly, you could still buy such albums if you were under the age of 18 at the time. Then Tipper got all riled up (I wrote several papers about that business) and a year or two later, my brother had to buy me the video single for Madonna's "Justify My Love" video because I couldn't. I was enraged. And to think the video didn't show anything explicit unless you consider a same sex kiss vulgar/explicit. A couple of years after that, my mom had to buy me Madonna's "Sex" book because I wasn't 18 then and it was considered pornography, though I could have bought an Ansel Adams book without any help at all. I am very different girl now and thankfully to some extent, it's a very different world.I need to go to bed
.posted by Little Squaw on 10:34 PM
If I take you from behindPush myself into your mindWhen you least expect itWill you try and reject it?-Madonna "Erotica"
Okay, this weekend was neither restful nor relaxing but it was productive. I have to be thankful for that plus the opportunity to look forward to two major opportunities to get smashed next week and a Fountains of Wayne show on Friday night. Well, to be honest, I have no intention on getting smashed given the fact that my current medication makes me want to projectile vomit at the mere hint of alcohol. Though short of the Hustler Holiday Party our Holiday Party must be at the top of the list for debauchery. It's in a massive place. I mean I've seen HUGE concerts in the venue. In fact it's one of the larger venues in the city. There's drug and sex and inappropriate behavior galore. However, this will also be my SEVENTH and ever since the dot com boom busted they've gotten progressively tamer in my eyes.
First of all my first departmental party was held at Lips. Which is a restaurant in the city where all the waitresses are transexuals/cross dressers. And everyone got blitzed. That was the warm up for the big show.
My first company party was like stepping into the Christmas party in the movie "Less Than Zero" it looked startling similar. Plus there were live penguins in the mezzanine. I kid you not. I left that one after 4 AM in the morning and made it to work by 9 AM the next morning. Yes I was completely different girl back then (plus I got totally knackered). I was severely sexually harassed by someone I worked with and he used the the phrase, "You're the one with the tits and the pussy..." If that happened now, he'd have gotten smacked and human resource charged up the arse. But I was a wide eyed girl straight out of college who still believed the hype back then. My favorite moment was sitting at a table in the mezzanine overlooking the dwindling crowd (though the party is rumored to go until at least 6 AM) and my friend looks at me (he wasn't jaded and embittered at that point)...well he looks at me as says, "Did you ever think you'd be sitting at the *** Christmas Party @ 4 in the morning?" and I looked at him and said, "Of course." Yup, I was a different girl. A couple of years later we'd sit at a similar table on the lower level and he would tell me about a girl breaking his heart. And I would tell him he was too good for her and that he needed to walk away. Somehow I was a similar girl then as well.
So I am way too tired to warble on so I've decided to poach some of my old material circa a letter to the editor which was published in the Bangor Daily News... I have no idea what year maybe the very early nineties... I found it in an old year book...
"As Nasty As They Wanna Be"
I would like to put my two cents in about the censoring of the 2 Live Crew album, "As Nasty As They Wanna Be." The government has no right to ban the album. Florida officials have led their crusade with shouts of obscenity, but who has the right to judge what is obscene? To me, the answer is perfectly clear. I, the consumer, have that right and no judge or government official has the right to take away any consumer's freedom of choice.
Rappers have brought up the question, is this another attack on the black man? Many people say no, but what is the real evidence? Andrew Dice Clay's performance are sexually discriminatory, obscene and racist. He also has an album. Is it being censored? The Ku Klux Klan has pamphlets and books promoting racial violence. Are they being banned? Skinheads have even gone further than the KKK and have TV shows and radio broadcasts in addition to literature. Have they been censored? What about pornography and sex in films? Have these been banned? 2 Live Crew has been accused of corrupting the youth, yet doesn't the youth have access to more dangerous things?
Florida officials have bigger things to worry about than one album and one rap group which from all this publicity has become rich.
My full name with middle initial here.
If that isn't funny enough, here's a response which was sent to the Bangor Daily News.
2 Live Crew album is truly obscene
In response to My full name with middle initial here...of insert my town...(Readers Write, July 2); I would like to inform readers of the content of the 2 Live Crew album, "As Nasty As They Wanna Be." The following is a list of obscene material contained in the album. This information was broadcast on "Focus on the Family" to inform listeners of the album's content:
226 uses of the slang word for copulation
117 explicit terms for male and female genitalia
87 descriptions of oral sex
163 uses of the vulgar word for excrement
42 uses of the word for a backside of a person.
That is only half of the list and it goes on down from there. Some of it can't be described in the terms just given. This is an album that kids are buying. This is more than a racial issue or the consumer's freedom of choice.
This album is legally obscene.
Insert author's name and town
If I recall correctly, you could still buy such albums if you were under the age of 18 at the time. Then Tipper got all riled up (I wrote several papers about that business) and a year or two later, my brother had to buy me the video single for Madonna's "Justify My Love" video because I couldn't. I was enraged. And to think the video didn't show anything explicit unless you consider a same sex kiss vulgar/explicit. A couple of years after that, my mom had to buy me Madonna's "Sex" book because I wasn't 18 then and it was considered pornography, though I could have bought an Ansel Adams book without any help at all. I am very different girl now and thankfully to some extent, it's a very different world.I need to go to bed
.posted by Little Squaw on 10:34 PM
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