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Bad Girls Club

I have a confession to make: I've been watching The Bad Girls Club: Miami. Typically I don't watch the Oxygen Network and typically I'm not into television shows depicting foolish women who are my age, but this show is actually entertaining. Originally, I wanted to see an episode because it was filmed Miami, but after watching I became dumbfounded how ridiculous this show is and became somewhat obsessed.

Now, imagine being born a cute baby girl. You get smacked on your tush by the doctor, you get wrapped around a pink blanket, you get breast-fed by your mother, you start growing, you love cookies, you have tea parties with your teddy bears, you skip to school, you have your cootie shots, you have been taught every good manner, and you're sugar and spice and everything nice. Now imagine everything opposite of that and you have these ladies:

a photoshop disaster

My Tuesday nights have been pretty dull ever since Lost ended so whenever I wasn't doing anything on my former Lost night I would turn on, tune in and drop out by watching The Bad Girls Club: Miami. I've watched tons of screaming, "fights", shit-talking, bad girls leaving the house, new bad girls entering the house, drunks, bleach thrown around, and that one time they went to Churchills.

Did I learn anything from watching the show? Yes and No. Yes, this Miami season was more entertaining than Jersey Shore's Miami season (seriously I only watched two episodes). No, it's not earth shattering, but what I did learn is to embrace the "bad girls". When I first heard of this show a few years ago, I was completely baffled that a show like this exists. Who wants to watch belligerent women hmm, I mean girls, literally do nothing but drink and fight? I'm a classy board but after seeing a couple of episodes of this season of The Bad Girls Club I realized that "bad girls" are more interesting and always makes history. Com'on the first official bad girl is Eve-y Eve herself, the first woman on earth who ate a forbidden fruit from The Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil.

Heck, even the Maries from the Czech New Wave film Daisies (Sedmikrásky) were on to something. They figured since theres bad everywhere in this world, they should go bad themselves.

A nihilistic approach to life! So can I conclude since these bad girls are without (or barely with) moral standards, they are the faces of the future of post-nihilism?

Ugh, too much thought for this show. If you want to read more I suggest checking the coverage by Miami New Times.

Voting or something like it

Election Day is tomorrow and sadly I have been slacking. Normally I'm on top when it comes to voting: studying the sample ballot, research candidates and amendment articles etc; I just haven't been swayed by politics this past year. What I can say is:

• I have a super political crush on Debbie Wasserman Schultz. I thought about applying for her internship.
• Out of the 14 mailed political advertisement sent to my family only 1 was endorsed by the Democrat Party.
• One of these 13 was directed to me: a person who has voted for socialist candidates in past.
• All of these endorsed Republican Party ads all mention wasteful spending.
• And Obama Liberal/Liberal Media
• I can't find my voter information card.
• I'm hungry and I want pizza.
• Shit, I really should've done an absentee ballot.
• Oh well, photo shoot tomorrow.

Why I "deactivated" my Facebook account

Because I'm tired of it. Since deactivating my account last week, the first question I've been asked from friends is "Did you delete FACEBOOK!? Are you okay?" Yeah I'm fuckin' okay.

This is one of many reasons I felt the need to leave. Why did I let this social networking site (now a social brand) become the source of communicating with friends?

When I first made an account with Facebook was back when I was in undergraduate and my university was invited to be Facebook (yes, back when your university was invited to be on Facebook). I took it as a joke and signed up as Angelica la Douche, then a day later I deleted my account. Why? Because I thought it was dumb and I didn't want former classmates from high school to find me and try to request to be "friends" with me. I simply did not care what they were up to. It wasn't until about 3 years later when I decided to join again as suggested by a good friend who had recently moved. The first two days of joining I was overwhelmed by the amount of people requesting to be my friend. Some people I didn't know, but knew them as a friend of a friend who I later end up meeting. It's always awkward when you meet someone and you add, "Oh yeah I think we're Facebook friends." What does that even mean?

I had an amazing art history professor who once had a huge 4 hour debate about the meaning of friends and communication (there wasn't much art in this art history course at all, it was more like a philosophical debate course). He argued that you're only allowed to have 5 true friends and everyone else is just an acquaintance. If you had more friends than that, you're lying to yourself. It's about quality not quantity, am I right!? He also argued that the best way to communicate with your friends is face to face, 2nd was calling them/or writing a letter and the last was texting them. He did not discuss much about social networking because it was slightly before its peak and it was the era of texting. One of my readings for the class was Jean Baudrillard's Simulacra & Simulation. Baudrillard's main argument was everything now is just a hyperreality -- references without no original (a simulacra). Facebook and etc., are simulations of actual human interaction.

All this is not to say that I don't believe Facebook and other forms of social media is not a great tool. It makes communicating a whole lot easier, especially when you have something to say to all of your "friends" or instead of driving around to see your friends. I have good friends living all throughout south Florida, from North Palm Beach to Coral Gables and Facebook made it easy to connect with my friends.

Recently, one night a friend posted and tagged a photograph which led all my friends in the photo (including myself) posting comments at 2 in the morning. After 20+ comments one friend mentioned why were we all on Facebook at 2am instead of actually hanging out and that this was some creepy futurist event. This is when it first dawn on me -- why was I using Facebook? Why was I replacing actual human interaction?

All of these thoughts, from my art history professor to Jean Baudrillard's Simulacra & Simulation to creepy futurist events to Facebook's fucked up privacy policy to people who once hated Facebook (and other social networking sites) who all of the sudden they won't stop posting about their personal life to the simple fact that I've always hated Facebook made me deactivate my account -- for awhile of course. An experiment of sorts but also to get my butt geared on applying for graduate school.

A friend (a real one, not a Facebook one) said that if we become dependent on these tools (social media) then need to get rid of them of our lives that we're just using them incorrectly. I disagree with him, because of two reasons:

1. There's no actual way of correctly using Facebook. You're either on it or you're not.

2. Most people I know who uses Facebook are dependent on it, and if you believe that's the incorrect way of using it then you should deactivate/delete your Facebook account.

Todos vuelven a la tierra en que nacieron, al embruje inconfundible de su sol

This past weekend I've been obsessing over Rita Indiana y Los Misterios. Hailing from the country everyone thinks I'm from, Dominican Republic, Rita Indiana's music pays respect to merengue (old) and experimenting with electro (new) making her music completely groundbreaking. Rita Indiana, has been taking DR by storm without having an official release. You could watch any of her live performances on youtube and hear the crowd singing along (as well as following her dancers' steps).

What makes me so excited aside from the smart lyrics and musical fusion is her androgynous look. There's always room for tons of criticism when a latina doesn't look "womanly" enough. Complete fearlessness is what you see and hear from Rita Indiana. Merengue and other forms of latino music have always been dominated by men. The machismo music industry is just going to have to set aside, hopefully forever. With all respects to reggaeton which I always like to think is the reason why there's MTV tres, I never felt like it was creative enough. I'm glad someone took a part of reggaeton and mixed it more in her sancocho.

Rita Indiana y Los Misterios -- La Hora de Volve

La Hora de Volve couldn't be a more perfect song, the African influenced merengue highlighted with electro. Could this be what our future sound like? Hope so!

Plus this video, with all its greatest has awesome tribal-like dancing.

Show your roots!

Where have all the architectures, gone?

City Hall of Opa-Locka

Last summer I picked up a poster "Only 6 Months Old Is Opa-Locka -- Sincere, Sustained Development is Making it Miami's Fastest Growing Suburbs" with images of historical places in Opa-Locka at the Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami. The poster illustrated points of Moorish Revival architectures interest in the city, incorporated in 1926. The work in progress is a collaborative by Anne Daems and Kenneth Andrew Mroczek entitled Opa-Tisha-Wocka-Locka, will tell the histories of Opa-Locka. Perhaps my immediately placement of the poster to my wall comes from my nerd fascination for historical places. Sadly, I didn't think much of it afterwards.

It wasn't until two months ago, when I making a trek to visit a friend in Coral Gables that I past the Opa-Locka Tri-Rail station. I was completely amazed. Never in the history of me riding trains, was I head over heals for how a city's train station was constructed. Everything I could remember from my Islamic Art and Architecture course came to mind: minarets, domes, arches, mosaics, the color (cobalt) blue. I felt like I was no longer in South Florida, heck, for sure not in the states either. To make me even more excited was an article I read about the city's developer, Glenn Curtiss in the Miami Herald...I believe. This whole town was developed by the theme "Arabian Fantasy" based on 1001 Arabian Tales.

In my recent trip to New York City, I made sure to look up as much as I can. There are buildings with many excessive decorative constructions, something you do not see in recent town developments and plazas. It made me wonder what future will hold for architectural design and how will people response to our current structures. I can't help but be completely bored and sad to see new constructions being built. Granted there's so much to planning constructions: monies (make it cheap, make a profit), labor, deals with the city and etc., but I miss looking at beauty.

Cool as smoking while pregnant

Sociological Images has to be one of my favorite website which I try to keep up with on Google Reader. Sometimes I end up skipping posts that are crucial reading because

1.) I tend to catch up with Google Reader at work.

2.) I'm probably catching up on Best Show on WFMU with Tom Scharpling while doing work that doesn't use too much of my thought process.

3.) FAILblog is a whole lot easier to take in, than reading amazing, informative articles.

It takes a lot of commitment to be a better person.

Catching up on Sociological Images, I came across a video called "The Story of Bottled Water"

A pretty simplified "story" but nevertheless, informative. The last few weeks I've been thinking about how much water bottle consumption is done in my household. My thoughts were mostly on the energy it takes to produce these bottles, which mostly never gets recycled.

Time for changes!

My Friends are blogging, so why did I stop?

First off, my awesome # 1 undergrad (undergrad, instead of 'college' because I need to work on that 'grad' school or what I like to say because it makes me feel like I'm an aging adult) bff ANDREA, has a new blog Eating with Good Intentions. An honest blog on Andrea's trials and tribulations on her effort to eat healthy. As a person who doesn't eat as healthy I should, it is inspiring to read and a call to action for myself as well.

Second off, my awesome # 2 undergrad bff Misael over at Art. Music. Film. Whatever. finally posted his last part to his Art History Senior Seminar paper.

Misael managed to get an A+ on his paper and I think Andrea and I only got a mere "A". My argument, there's no such thing as an A+ in the university level, because a 4.0 GPA is just an A, nothing more. Boooo! In all joking-ness aside, I looked over/slightly help edit this A+ paper. I thought about this paper when Jeanne-Claude past away a few months ago, and was glad that Misael decided to share it on his blog. Part One, Part Two, Part Three, Part Four, and Part Five . If you just slightly interested in art or always wondered about what the deal was with Christo and Jeanne-Claude, this is a must read.

Thee One to Change

A magazine about female drummers? I giggled and held the first issue like a prize. Interviews of Frankie Rose, Ali Koehler and others makes Tom Tom Magazine a forceful beat (harhar) to the lack of media representation of women in music.

Since I can remember no other instrument made me want to play music. I spent hours in front my parent's mirror, listening to Hole's Live Through This and pretending I was playing the drums. Since then, I have only been on a drum kit twice and both occurred last year. Finally I will get my drumming lessons and possibly buy my kit once funds and space kick in. Which leads to why I was disappointed with Frankie Rose's interview. A quite boring interview in which Frankie Rose shrugs at all the questions related to drumming. Understandably she doesn't consider herself a drummer but has been in some of the most talked about bands such as Vivian Girls, Crystal Stilts and Dum Dum Girls. How can it be that this magazine's first interview is about a drummer who doesn't consider herself a drummer?

I've thought about it for awhile, and thought that deconstruction of drum playing is fine, keeping it simple is fine, but it gets boring quickly. You can't be punk at the age 40. As a listener I can appreciate Frankie Rose and her musical projects, but as a musician I would want to change everything she represents. I guess that's how it usually goes.

Lift American Spirits

More reasons to love Press Secretary Robert Gibbs:

ZING!

Previously on Lost

Robert Gibbs on Lost

For some odd reason this past year I developed a crush on White House Press Secretary, Robert Gibbs. It's possibly because of his charming smirk he flashing during press conferences. There's a feeling there's a big joke residing in his mind and none of us are aware of. Plus, he looks sweet.

Although the State of the Union occurred last week I wonder if Gibbs will be watching Lost tonight. I wonder...

Don't enjoy the silence

Only one day left until the notorious Black Friday gives us consumers sales we only dream of.  News reporters are already on line before anyone else, and normally I could careless. Usually Black Friday just means Buy Nothing Day to me, but I had a change of heart this year. It is not I've become a frantic shopper, or I enjoy supporting big evil corporations but I find the idea of Buy Nothing Day a bit useless. The only people I know who shout to buy nothing, turn off your tv, go outside and etc. are of the intellectual, sociopolitical kind. Those masses are nothing compared to the working class who could careless on what they have to say. 

Trying to convince my Latina mom to not buy anything on Black Friday is like trying to win any argument with her -- pointless. For example last night she couldn't stop complaining that I spent 15 dollars on Thai food. All I heard from her for the next half hour was how she would have gone to McDonalds and spent less or have gone out to eat at Olive Garden of course saying all this under her breath. Point is, there's nothing to change my mother's mind on saving money. Black Friday is somewhat of an assistant to the working class, and protesting to buy nothing is too idealistic, too radical for them. Although I do agree that we as a society should consume less, simply ignoring corporations and capitalism altogether in one day does not solve anything. I believe there are other alternatives that really need to be set in place instead.

Awareness for consumer to shop their local independent stores is one. The few records stores here in South Florida are having sales on Friday. Another thought is setting up workshops for people to create simple and fast gifts instead of buying gifts. These are ideas that need to be discussed, not just to buy nothing. We're long ways until us as a society begin to be more aware of where we buy our needs and how our consumer monies are actually being used/who it supports but I do believe as discussions arise, there will be solutions

Not enough coverage of the impact of BastaDobbs.com

BastaDobbs.com Announces Victory: Lou Dobbs to Leave CNN

NEW YORK – Responding to the news Wednesday that Lou Dobbs will leave his post as a longtime anchor on CNN, the leaders of BastaDobbs.com – a national Latino-led coalition that had been advocating for his ouster – released the following statement:

“Our contention all along was that Lou Dobbs – who has a long record of spreading lies and conspiracy theories about immigrants and Latinos – does not belong on the ‘Most Trusted Name in News,’” said Roberto Lovato, co-founder of Presente.org, a national online advocacy organization coordinating the BastaDobbs.com campaign in conjunction with more than 40 local and regional Latino organizations from across the country. “We are thrilled that Dobbs no longer has this legitimate platform from which to incite fear and hate.”

The BastaDobbs.com campaign launched in mid-September, and included online petitions, a viral YouTube video, text-message campaign, radio PSAs and a series of events in 18 cities – organized in conjunction with the CNN special Latino in America. The message to CNN was that courting Latino viewers while keeping Dobbs on the network would not win them favor with the fastest-growing demographic in the country. Since then, more than 100,000 people have joined the effort. The events and the campaign garnered significant press coverage in both Spanish-language and mainstream media.

Lovato said the BastaDobbs.com victory marks a key turning point for the Latino community, as it moved from marching in the streets in 2006 to mounting a successful, high-tech campaign against one of the biggest and strongest media voices against common-sense immigration reform.

“The community is newly empowered and energized, and we are ready to fight for a respectful and civil media discourse when it comes to immigration coverage on mainstream news,” Lovato said. “This is only the beginning of a much longer-term effort.”

To view the YouTube video, click here: http://bastadobbs.com/video

Ya Basta!

In an interview with Katie Couric, Glenn Beck did not define what is "white culture" in response of his belief that Obama has a deep-seated hatred for the white culture. First he failed by saying he didn't know, then doing his best Michael Scott impersonation by leaving you wtf?
Hm, since I had a difficult time figuring out what entails white culture, I headed over at Stuff White People Like to find out. 

The last entry (#128) in Stuff White People Like is camping. Does Obama hate camping? The woods are awesome with its creepiness and crisp wind -- how can anyone hate that? Jokes aside, why is anyone taking Glenn Beck serious? The dude is obviously a joke, but there is a factor in there that is quite annoying, he and Fox are making money. Color of Change's campaign to voice their (our) distaste with advertisers supporting Glenn Beck's program. Sixty-two companies have pulled out their support. 

Glenn Beck is not the only one getting a backlash from their negative view on people corrupting white culture. Lou Dobbs a "birther" has repeatedly reported lies about Latinos and immigrants which fuels hatred (with crime) towards my people. The website Basta Dobbs is asking CNN to stop Lou Dobbs with his extreme views on this so-called most trusted in news news outlet.

Enough is enough, Ya Basta!

Kanyegate meme

Sorry, I had too.

edit: Joe Wilson'd on his own entry!

Next new indie hit: Phillip Garrido

As always, it seems I write too much about waking up to the Today show. I was struggling to fully wake up when I heard that Phillip Garrido recorded music back in the late 70s or early 80s. From the little clip I heard it actually sound decent. The lo-fi quality and its quite psychedelic feel made think about other musicians who suffered from a mental illness -- Brian Wilson, Daniel Johnston et cetera are deemed as a genius. 

News reports have addressed the ominous lyrics:

“For every little girl in the world, they want to be in love, you’re just the same, go play a game, just tell me that you want me, c’mon babe, I’m just insane, I’m crying out to you.”

Words like "babe" and "girl" have always been a part of pop music. Should we be worrying about every lyric that is written now? 

I'm in no way supporting what Phillip Garrido has done, but heck that music is okay. I'm sure his music can easily be featured in a psych/garage compilations like Nuggets or Pebbles. So here's your new indie blog hit sensation:

Today is the day I think of you

There's a certain musical excitement I haven't felt in awhile. Yo La Tengo holds a dear place in my heart. Their music doesn't remind of one person, but everyone I know. Although they are my favorite band, I was not looking forward to the "Buy Early Get Now " pre-order of their new album Popular Songs. All I really want is just the album (okay I also want the original score to Adventureland by YLT on vinyl) I don't need an mp3 code for the album, a poster (I have quite a few YLT posters) or an early listen to the album. I know what I'm gonna get from a Yo La Tengo. They've been together for 25 years and have managed to create strong releases. 

I miss the excitement of an album release. The internet has spoiled us with leaked albums and killing excitement. Tomorrow will be the day -- although I have my 9 hour work day tomorrow and will not have the time to get Popular Songs at the record store, I have trusted person on getting me the best gift.

The "quintessential critics band" will never fail in my eyes. Album sales maybe down, and digital sales might be up but Yo La Tengo fans have always remain true to the band.  

Let's get the real important issue straight

These town hall meetings are getting pretty insane. I'm just happy to see people care about real issues like how awesome Arrested Development (the sitcom and show but not the medical term usage) is. I wonder what would happen if protests for pop culture justice starts occurring frequently, but now that I think about it, it does happen but not for political reasons.

The Lebanon, PA town hall meeting with Senator Spector about the health care reform stirred up a laughfest for myself. These people are a passionate bunch, but I'm not sure if they have a gasp of this deep issue (heck, even I don't know). Katy Abram was one of the people that asked a question to the Senator (she's the one who doesn't want this country turn into Russia, turning into a socialized country). I watched her talk, and through her sighs, I knew she really has no idea what going on. Her interviews after the meeting still more sighs with no actual meat on what she was saying. This dude in the photo most likely wouldn't sigh if he was interview about why protest on bringing back Arrested Development. He's as passionate as everyone in these town hall meetings, except he knows his issues. But seriously, let's get Arrested Development back.

An Eternal Snooze Fest

Earlier this year, a friend was telling about a new art group/organization at FAU -- The Miami Stuckists. She asked me if I've heard of Billy Childish (yes) and slightly told me what stuckism was. When I got home I did my research on it. The basic summary of stuckism:

Stuckism is a radical and controversial art group that was co-founded in 1999 by Charles Thomson and Billy Childish (who left in 2001) along with eleven other artists. The name was derived by Thomson from an insult to Childish from his ex-girlfriend, Brit artist Tracey Emin, who had told him that his art was 'Stuck'. Stuckists are pro-contemporary figurative painting with ideas and anti-conceptual art, mainly because of its lack of concepts. Stuckists have regularly demonstrated dressed as clowns against the Turner Prize. Several Stuckist Manifestos have been issued. One of them Remodernism inaugurates a renewal of spiritual values for art, culture and society to replace the emptiness of current Postmodernism.

I was completely annoyed that such a group exist, especially on campus. The idea of artists coming together is wonderful and I encourage that, but I thought this group will only segregate the art students at FAU. Why not start a radical art group that actually DOES something then make manifestos or protest something worth protesting about.

The Miami Stuckist's Manifesto (which is based on the original of who cares) is a bit of a laughing fest for me. Two points that made me questioned their beliefs:

1. Stuckism is the quest for authenticity. By removing the mask of cleverness and admitting where we are, the Stuckist allows him/herself uncensored expression.
PAINTING (JUST LIKE ALL OF THE VISUAL ARTS) IS A MIMESIS OF NATURE/REAL LIFE -- there's nothing authentic about it.

8. Painting is mysterious. It creates worlds within worlds, giving access to the unseen psychological realities that we inhabit. The results are radically different from the materials employed. An existing object (e.g. a dead sheep) blocks access to the inner world and can only remain part of the physical world it inhabits, be it moorland or gallery. Ready-made art is a polemic of materialism.
PAINT IS ALSO AN EXISTING OBJECT, CANVAS IS ALSO AN EXISTING OBJECT. HOW DOES A DEAD SHEEP BLOCKS ACCESS TO THE INNER WORLD? WHAT DOES THAT EVEN MEAN!!!!?


What got me over the edge about the Miami Stuckists happened a few weeks ago when I found out one of their members has been plagiarizing a former classmate/friend's oeuvre. There are many concerns on this serious issue. This person could get a BFA degree from plagiarized work, and that should not be accepted.

Borrowing in art happens a lot (e.g. ready-made) and that's a part of what Stuckism believes to be not "true art." A walking, breathing contradiction Stuckism is. All forms of art is a representation of life. These forms already exist, and making a rendering of these forms is a conceptual idea. When you start to think what color paint you want to use, what subject matter you want to paint -- all of those thoughts are concepts.

CityLink/Metromix recently reported on the Miami Stuckists "conservative" group. I read the article while the way leaving to work this afternoon and I couldn't help myself but laugh out loud. Stuckism -- based on the English artworld (Turner prize, artworks made over a decade ago) is all the Miami Stuckists could talk about. Really? What about the local art communities? What about art that has been made the last 5 years?

Interesting enough the article only mentions "4" artists for their group exhibition debut. The last time I counted there was 5. The fifth being one who plagiarized. (Strikethough -- cleared up that misunderstanding) Now, I'm all for artists coming together, being creative, exhibiting works, but attacking other art forms and calling those artists "not artists" is rather Childish (huh Billy).

Sunday's Favorite Selection #36:

Slap Chop Rap

Side note: I didn't see this version on tv, but I saw another one that killed me in the morning.

Hate on Today

I'm still not sure why I continue to watch the Today show. It's a routine I do in order to wake up. My alarm goes off, I turn it off, I turn on the tv (which is always left on the pervious channel -- Conan, Jimmy) and I go back to sleep. The nonsense that the Today show reports on always wakes me up. Something I disagree on or something I wonder the importance of the news they are reporting always gets me up in a fury. 

But today's interview with Michelle Malkin was awkward for Matt Lauer and wtf? to the sane Americans watching. Why give a right wing racial a slot at 7am? Why start off the today with hate? Malkin rambled about how Obama is a "racial opportunist" and her lame theories in her new book Culture of Corruption.

Even though I felt the hate through the television, I couldn't help but feel sad for her. She must have a lot of self-hate.

Sunday's Favorite Selection #35:


Illdoctrine

Side notes: I read/saw this video via Sociological Images and was touched by it. Pretty much what I've been thinking about MJ's death/life. Gracefully said.

That's a quitter's way out

(late) Sunday's Favorite Selection #34:

Sarah Palin--Every breath you take

Side note: Recently while listening to a recorded conversation I had with a friend-I noticed all the words I constantly repeat, nervous ticks and my total awkwardness. Not fun.

Tina gets down

Sunday's Favorite Selection #33:


Rosie Perez's dance routine on the opening credits to Do The Right Thing

Side notes: One of my favorite, and in my opinion one of the best opening credit to any movie. It captures the energy of Do The Right Thing and Public Enemy's Fight the Power. If you feel nothing from seeing this dance routine, film or song then you're a soulless person. 

click click click

For the last few weeks, I been obsessed with the photo of Megan Fox denying the yellow flower from "Sweet Boy" at the London premier of Transformer : A waste of time, apparently.  I believe it's an iconic photograph, minus the fact that Megan Fox isn't that famous. She looks highly overwhelmed from all the people and the camera flashes; the 11 year boy aka "Sweet Boy" giving her a yellow flower-the symbol of our Western culture who embraces not that famous people (or better stated, people clocking their 15 minutes of fame).

It's so iconic that Kodak was offering $5,000 to the first person who can give reliable information on who this boy was. His facebook profile was found blah blah, the rest of the story isn't that interesting.

What is interesting is this photo. It's all real, but for some reason it seems so staged. I'm not doubting Sweet Boy's feeling/want/need to give Megan Fox that flower, and I'm not doubting the feeling of disarray in Megan Fox's face but all I can feel when I see this photo is that I'm being lied to. I'm still struggling to figure out why I feel this way. I know it has to do with the stature of celebrities and the reasons why we hold them with an importance.