{"id":6710,"date":"2010-08-23T07:53:43","date_gmt":"2010-08-23T14:53:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=6710"},"modified":"2010-08-24T07:16:59","modified_gmt":"2010-08-24T14:16:59","slug":"roll-over-beethoven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2010\/08\/23\/roll-over-beethoven\/","title":{"rendered":"Roll Over Beethoven"},"content":{"rendered":"

Overheard this weekend:<\/p>\n

“Du-u-u-u-de”.\u00c2\u00a0 As in five syllables.\u00c2\u00a0 Or maybe better called the “Rolled ‘u'”.\u00c2\u00a0 I look over to the person who said it.\u00c2\u00a0 He looks like you’d expect, and fits the stereotype.<\/p>\n

#2: “Way!”
\n“No Way!”
\nI think this a progression from Bill and Ted over to Wayne and Garth.\u00c2\u00a0 I do not believe the people who had this dialogue fit the stereotype quite as well.\u00c2\u00a0 It might have been done with a sense of irony.<\/p>\n

A few days ago, I was trying to find the words to a monolouge from the movie “Jaws”.\u00c2\u00a0 The bit about a Shark’s eyes being like a dog’s eyes, soulless, and all of that.\u00c2\u00a0 I could not find it, and still cannot — my transcript precision is off just enough.
\nInterestingly, Jaws was played by the Parks and Recreations Summer Movie “Flicks on the Bricks” series, part of the “Movies on the Parks” series.\u00c2\u00a0 Of the five or so movies played this summer, the two that caught my eye, that might be worth attending for the movie and ambiance, were “Muppets Take Manhattan” and “Jaws”.\u00c2\u00a0 I went to the Muppets one early, didn’t like the general ambiance — a few too many wee ones — and left.\u00c2\u00a0 The reality is the only reason I took to Jaws as against this “problem” was that probably I came late for this one.
\nI did see something interesting there.\u00c2\u00a0 I watched a family walk by.\u00c2\u00a0 The 15 or 16 year old daughter was wearing a “Kiss” tank-top.\u00c2\u00a0 The father had on a Radiohead t-shirt.\u00c2\u00a0 The mother — I think Joan Jett, maybe?\u00c2\u00a0 “That’s one Rocking Family!”, I thought.\u00c2\u00a0 The only one not in proper attire was the pre-teen son, who I’m going to assume is rebelling by focusing all his musical tastes on Beethoven and Bach.<\/p>\n

Other less common denominator snuck through at other parks.\u00c2\u00a0 This<\/a>, I assume, came in from a completely different cultural organization.\u00c2\u00a0 I meant to see that one, but somehow missed it.<\/p>\n

The “Shark’s eye” dialogue popped up in Jaws, toward the end.\u00c2\u00a0 The thing is, my reference point for it is topsy-turvy.\u00c2\u00a0 I know it less from Jaws and more from a parody on the Chris Elliott tv show “Get a Life”.\u00c2\u00a0 Such is the way of things.\u00c2\u00a0 Several years back, I read an essay from a teacher (college professor, I assume) who watched a reference point for his classes for a particular pop culture item shift from Tom Cruise in his underwear lip synching “Old Time Rock and Roll” in Risky Business to Alf in underwear lip-synching “Old Time Rock and Roll”, not knowing fully the source material.\u00c2\u00a0 I’m temtped to suggest that if he’d waited a few years, everyone would know it from Homer Simpson, and lose the belief that the Simpsons was parodying Alf.<\/p>\n

These things have supposedly warped into hyperdrive.\u00c2\u00a0 Take something like this<\/a>, for instance.\u00c2\u00a0 These things have proliferated, warping pop cultural points of reference.\u00c2\u00a0 It also takes new dimensions to the old debates — if the creatives that are creating these things were to channel their energy into something more substantial, would we have a new generation of Shakespeare?\u00c2\u00a0 Or, perhaps these disposable (more so than ever) diversions are just what we need — and the alternative is turgid didactic overhype.<\/p>\n

………….<\/p>\n

Other things seen: “I’m on Team Jacob” Twilight bag.\u00c2\u00a0 I assume there’s a “I’m on Team” Whoever the supernatural creature that is not Jacob bag.\u00c2\u00a0 I give props to the Republican Candidate in 2012 who runs against Claire McCaskill if they bring the Supreme Court question up in the course of the campaign.\u00c2\u00a0 Hard to say if I’m being sexist with that — throw me an equally inane male dominated pop cultural Senate item and I’ll see if my reaction is the same.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Overheard this weekend: “Du-u-u-u-de”.\u00c2\u00a0 As in five syllables.\u00c2\u00a0 Or maybe better called the “Rolled ‘u’”.\u00c2\u00a0 I look over to the person who said it.\u00c2\u00a0 He looks like you’d expect, and fits the stereotype. #2: “Way!” “No Way!” I think this a progression from Bill and Ted over to Wayne and Garth.\u00c2\u00a0 I do not believe […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6710"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6713,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6710\/revisions\/6713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}