Felicia Day

I am not a movie snob. My favorite movies, in fact, are “Babe”, “Bringing Up Baby”, and “Big Trouble in Little China.” Hmm, all “B” movies, weird. Anyway, I love a great summer popcorn movie as much as anyone else, and my expectations are to have fun and not have to think. But when did aiming towards 14 year old boys =hiring the skankiest stripper girls for female leads?

I’m talking of course, about Transformers. I mean, let’s be honest, if you were at a dinner table with these girls they cast, would you drink after them and not think you risked catching hepatitis? Who’s idea of attractive is this?! And they MADE THEM look like that!
I try to think to myself, whenever I make a catty comment about another actress, if it’s just jealousy or some other personal reason. But, when I heard snickering in the theater when these girls tried to seem intelligent, I felt more justified. And it wasn’t entirely the actor’s fault; this was clearly someone’s VISION of what they though the audience wanted in their female characters: Tons of makeup, whorish clothing, and terrible extensions down to their waist. One scene, it seemed like they had a PA underneath the girl shoving her boobs up so the cleavage would JUST make the bottom of the frame. It was touches like that that really gave me a real eye roll.

I would argue that yes, if you’re aiming for women OR men, attractive is important. But there is a real difference between attractive and “hire me by the hour”. It’s a cartoon look at female reality some Hollywood filmmakers seem to have when all their women characters are either Whores or Mothers. It’s an infantile view, in my opinion. If you look at Buffy, and Alias and Lost, and even the latest Die Hard with the daughter(Not the best example, but my most recent and comparable , female characters, when conveyed as intelligent and capable, BECOME sexy, not the other way around.  I mean, who really wants to follow those girls into a sequel? If the women had been more relatable, would it have made a difference? Am I being crazy defensive feminist “bah humbug” actress girl?

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I did it. I’m sorry. From the loins of a MS-DOS prompt I was sprung, a wee child weaned on Windows, and now…I have a MacBook Pro laptop.

I was justified! I need to learn to edit so I can film all these sketches I’ve written. Don’t look at me like that, desktop! I saved your life so many times! I formatted you and compressed-aired you and I made you smarter with RAM, opened you up myself and did it with my own little hands, one of my proudest moments. I made your graphics better with an Uber card, I scanned you and groomed you and pirated music on you, then felt guilty and bought the same stuff on itunes that was DRM which was stupid, it’s just…we can still be friends. Desktop?

I didn’t even have a fire wire connection in my PC, and my family heard my pleas and I got some Apple Gift certificates for my birthday, and after I waded past the line of desperate iPhone buyers I bought a 15″ MacBook Pro. It’s silver and shiny and I hooked up my printer in about 10 seconds to it through the network and…it’s soooo beautiful. A pair of Marc Jacobs shoes got nothing on this sleek baby. It’s GOT A CAMERA IN THE TOP OF THE ACTUAL COMPUTER! For some reason that makes me so thrilled. I hope I don’t become one of those skanky YouTube Vloggers. “So, like last night, I got toooootallly wasted and…” it’s so tempting though, with the camera right there, ready to use. Must resist. Don’t be skank.

Anyway, the point is, it’s beautiful, but I still feel guilty. I can even run it parallel with Windows to play games but I don’t want to sully the purity of the happy little Mac icons by installing it. Maybe I’ll do it later. I’m still adjusting to how the heck the thing works, it’s almost too simple. I can’t wait to go to a coffee shop and open it up and…look like I’m working. It’s ok desktop, I’ll still use you at home, I promise baby.

Edit:

I wanted to share what I just found that is additionally kicking ass:

IN THE MAIL FOR ME!

So this Saturday night could have been funner, I think. I got tickets last month as part of my birthday gift to myself to the closing show of Cyndi Lauper’s “True Colors” tour. I didn’t really know what the deal with the tour was, but when I saw Cyndi Lauper was playing with Erasure, one of my absolute FAVORITE bands, I bought tickets. Then I saw that Deborah Harry (Blondie) was on the bill too. GREAT! First thing that comes to mind: 80′s! Dress up! Cool! So, my brother, my boyfriend and another friend of mine all got together a few hours before the concert and totally Eighties’d it up. I had crazy yellow lace leggings, bright blue eyeshadow, lots of jewelry, and my friend teased my hair into Tammy Faye Baker heights. We all wore crazy colors, and skinny ties, and we looked like a bad band from 1982. Fun times right?

The True Colors Tour will bring together Americans across the country to voice their solidarity against discrimination and for equality and raise public awareness about the issues facing the gay, lesbian, bisexual and trans gender community.

Oops.

Me in my lace yellow tights and hair-sprayed hair, we were one of the few ones in the whole HUGE outdoor stadium who were dressed weird. Awwwwkward. Especially when they showed the Matthew Shepard video tribute. I tried to pat my hair lower during that one. You know that scene in the movie where they tell the nerdy kid “Yeah, it’s a dress up party, wear a costume!” and he shows up in a donkey suit and it’s not a dress up party at all, it’s like a church function or something? Yeah, I just lived that

Erasure was still worth going for. Oh L’Amour!