Wednesday, June 19, 2019

Taylor swift - You need to calm down

So I've always not liked taylor swift.  While her songs are catchy, most of them are about how terrible men are.  It got so pathetic that at one point Seth Green made fun of her on family guy.
https://youtu.be/704KL-JP0UA

When Jack Molay tweeted a link to it this week, my first reaction was "Oh here we go, clearly she's jumping on the LGBTQ bandwagon".. Then I read everyone that was in it, and I go "shit, she's legit.  No way all those people would sign on to be in her video if she wasn't being sincere".  Ru Paul and Ellen are HUGE celebrities.  The song itself has a great message, but the video makes it much more clear.  It's showing the typical trump fans who want to hate everything.  The set is a trailer park that reminds me that scene in "too wong foo thanks for everything" when they have the watermelon picnic (very vibrant and colorful)

At the very end, taylor swift and Katy Perry make up after their long fight.  It's really heart warming and I've watched it over and over.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dkk9gvTmCXY

Also at the end she posts a link to get congress to pass a bill protecting the LGBTQ community and it's already surpassed it's original 300,000 goal
https://www.change.org/p/support-the-equality-act?source_location=discover_feed

Sunday, June 9, 2019

Black Mirror - striking vipers (netflix)

Sooo... this episode was incredible.

**SPOILER ALERT**

If you haven't seen black mirror, it's basically like twilight zone but with futuristic tech.  So in this episode, a couple friends play a street fighter like game called "striking vipers" as teens.  11 years later, they meet again and the one friend gives him a gift for his birthday, it's an updated version that's "immersive".  So they both log in one night (the guy that gave the gift has already tried it out), but the other friend is shocked at how realistic it is.  Well as most dudes, one always chooses the female character.  Usually they say it's because they would rather be staring at a girl than some dude.  So they both start fighting in the game, and at some point the girl character ends up on top of the dude.  There's a pause, and then she ends up kissing her friend.
https://youtu.be/m3hkFveFUgQ

The dude backs away, wiping off his mouth.  He's embarrassed he just kissed his friend, so he exits game.  A few days go by, and they both log back into the game.  You assume they are both going to ignore what happened before as they creep towards each other ready to fight, but then they both let down their guard and run to each others arms (this time having sex).


  So this goes on and on, the one dude starts to hide this from his wife (plays at night while she's sleeping).


At one point, he asks his friend (who's a girl) what it feels like.  He's like "craaazy! if being a man is like a guitar solo, being a woman is like a whole orchestra!"


Finally the one friend demands they kiss in person to see if there are any feelings, to know for sure if they're just gay.  Turns out there aren't any feelings, the only feelings are in the game.

Eventually the married friend confesses, and they strike a deal that one day a month he gets to have sex in the game if she can go on a date with someone.