Lets talk about the Emmys!

Lets talk about the Emmys!

They sucked. they were really really really bad.

the office got shafted 7 out of their 8 nominations, and that just breaks my heart. Jenna Fischer was amazing last season, and i was so sad she lost to Jaime Pressly.

and, lets talk about how the cast members were totally shafted and stuck in the BACK. i saw the cast... twice. all i saw was rainn wilson and a 5 second shot of the girl sitting next to john krasinski.

heroes also got shafted.

and oh my god the jokes were SO bad.

oh, and when is tony benett just going to stop (or maybe rehearse a little more if you are going to be on tv)?

at least ugly betty didn't win for best comedy again. LAME. instead 30 rock won, a show i just do not find funny.


i have lost faith in the entertainment industry.

its probably for the best that most of the shows i used to watch are cancelled. ::sigh:

i am utterly FLOORED when i realize how stupid people can be.

so i'm watching 1 vs 100, and the $2,000 question has to do with the definition of genealogy.
the guy uses a help line because he thinks its about antiques. ITS IN THE NAME!
it hurts my soul. the guy obviously passed the entrance test, and i get that it must be stressful to be in front of all those people. but oh my dear god. plus, he's older than i am, so i mean, he should know more than me, shouldn't he?

so i decided i should be on 1 vs 100. i went to check out audition times, but i missed the open casting... and you can audition via tape. in your video you have to say what you would do with $1,000,000. thats easy.

anyway. while looking at this, i saw that nbc is bringing back american gladiators! OH MY GOD that is awesome.

love/hate

a little something i DON'T hate: PostSecret




i really think the postsecret project is completely genius. i have secrets i'd like to send in. part of me thinks i should really just tell real people about them, but another part of me is terrified to do so. this is why its a great idea.

coming soon to aimee hates everything!
-loud music/ bass
-the lack of imagination in the movie industry.

this is silly and i know it. however, i don't ever remember claiming to be an incredibly rational person.

so, i highly dislike overtures. i enjoy musicals immensely and (as shynie can attest) they help me focus and get work done, so i tend to listen to soundtracks a lot.

so this thought struck me while we sat through the ass-long overture to Orpheus in the Underworld at school. i swear it was like 10 minutes long. woah. i get the idea of overtures and whatever, introducing the show to the audience and whatever, but seriously. thats way too long for me.

maybe it goes to the point that i'm not a huge fan of instrumental only recordings (though this is a general statement, i'm known to listen to some vivaldi on occasion), but i'm just not a fan of overtures. they bore me. perhaps i'm just SO excited to get to the show, that i don't want to sit through extra time of staring at an actorless stage or main drape.

now, i think its genius when the overture starts before the lights go down. now thats a great way to bring people in. music while they are waiting anyway, and for anyone who gets there late, well sucks for them, because thats what happens when you aren't there in time for theater. if you aren't 15 minutes early, you are 10 minutes late.

short, sweet and to the point.

and, as charlie predicted at the beginning of the summer... i AM becoming a sondheim fan.

muahaha!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070712/ap_on_re_us/toddler_booted

yet ANOTHER kid and family kicked off a plane!

for those of you who don't want to read the article, a 19-month-old and his mom got kicked off a plane because he kept saying "bye bye plane." they were flying from atlanta to oklahoma, with a stop in houston, which is where this all happened. apparently they never made it to texas. apparently the flight attendant found 'bye bye plane' objectionable, which honestly i don't blame her for. i guess she implied that drugging the kid would be a good idea (baby benadryl).

now, those of you who know me well enough, will know that i hate screaming children and i hate the ones on planes even more. but, i don't agree with drugging the kid. woah. thats a step to far for me i think. i'm still with the attendant though. 'bye bye plane' in a post 9-11 world should not fly (HA! PUN!). i get that he's a little kid. but whatever. i think that the well being (ie COMFORT) of a whole planeful of people should be put ahead individuals. i'm sure in some cases i think the opposite (i can think of a handful), but seriously, i'm so not about annoying little kids on airplanes.

whats best is that the mom got all weepy about getting kicked off because she didn't 'know what to do.' um, schedule another flight and shut your kid up? apparently she didn't have anything else with her, no extra diapers, juice or milk. what the hell, lady? how ill prepared can you be? anything involving air travel, you need to plan ahead for half-day delays. this is general knowledge. over-prepare when flying. you suck.

yes, i know that i'm judging this lady on what i read from a yahoo article, and without having parenting experience. but, it seems like this is something she's done before (it wasn't mentioned), why wouldn't you have extras? especially diapers? that just seems crazy to me. i'm sure the flight from houston to oklahoma isn't very long, but long enough to warrant, i don't know, three extra diapers.

HOW MANY TIMES MUST I SAY: OVER-PREPARE FOR AIR TRAVEL.

ooh it has been a while. and i'm back to being pissy.
(though i do admit, many things that anger me are petty, and i should look at the bigger picture, but it's the ranting that helps me regain that perspective. and i practice my writing this way.)

financial aid sucks balls.

seriously.

since i started at state, i've had problems with their fin aid department, ie them sucking at helping me out. every year i get denied a cal grant, I GET IT ALREADY. for the fifth year i've gotten a disqualification letter, and it always says the same thing, we make too much money. though i looked at the income ceiling listings and we so do NOT make that much money, but whatever. my parents aren't CA residents, i wasn't a CA resident, blah blah blah.
this year however, it's because i've been in school too long AND my degree isn't qualified. what the hell.

so my real rant is about the sorry state our financial aid system is in.
no matter what i do, my parents seem to make too much money. this is bullshit. my parents do not make that much money. according to the stats on wikipedia my parents make less than the dual earner, and we are in the middle 33%. i have never been qualified for a grant.

partly this is my fault, not looking more actively for scholarships and deciding to go out of state and put myself $85,000 in debt. but, apparently i am not alone. its normal to graduate with debt now, and we are all going to suffer dearly for it. i'm not prepared in the least to pay back loans, and i'm terrified for it.

what i'm mostly pissed off about is people always say theres all this money just waiting to be claimed. where the hell is it? government money waiting for students? how the hell are we supposed to get it? cut off an arm? a leg? sterilize ourselves as to not contribute to the ever-growing population problem?

i'm always disqualified because when i fill out my FAFSA my parents are required to put their income on there, even though they do not support me while i'm in school. i'm no longer claimed as a dependent, but the misguided fin aid people assume they are going to contribute over $7,000 annually to my schooling. how about not? at least my parents let me live in their house on breaks. i know there are people out there who are completely detached from their parents, yet are required to submit their income, and effectively screwing them over from aid that is desperately needed.

there are things direly wrong with the financial system in this country. not just with aid, but with distribution as well. uuber rich people make disgusting amounts of money. desperately poor people can't afford to live. the middle class is shrinking, and we aren't moving up in the world, we are falling into the deep abyss that is 'lower class' and those in the 'lower class' are probably falling below the poverty line, that is, if they aren't there already.


sometimes i feel like my life is dictated by one phrase: i'll have to see if i have the money. money money money. i don't have enough money. there will never be enough money. we don't have enough money. they have way too much money. why won't they share their money? am i not skilled enough to make more money? etc.

chances are i will never make enough money. i chose two majors purely on the fact that i enjoy them and they will make me happy. THEY WILL NOT MAKE ME MONEY. unless of course by a freak of nature i write a best-selling novel. and then another one and another one and maybe i write the screenplay of a tony award-winning show or perhaps a movie that makes a gross amount of money. and then MAYBE i'll have enough money. i'd pay off my debts, buy the family new cars and find a place to live. maybe several places to live. but i doubt it would ever be enough money.

as much as i'd like to hope that i would be a good rich person, i don't know that. i try to shop on a budget, but i like some nice things and i can spend money very quickly. all that money might go to my head. i will forget all about being broke and ignore all of the poor people. but i hope not.

so i better get started on the next best-selling american novel.
or maybe win the lottery.

(not the shirley jackson one though. THAT would suck. and my co-signers would have to pay my loans back. which sucks even more).


//i am sleep deprived, i hope this made sense.

funny how in one moment, just a split second, everything you thought was important becomes ridiculous, anything that bugged you dissapears, you fall apart, sadness is all you feel, and the only thing you can do is lay in the dark, crying.

RIP
Anthony Koster
1919-2007

oh noes!

what happened to Meg Ryan's face?

i saw her on the cover of a magazine... and i was kind of afraid. poor meg ryan, why would you do that?

... i don't have much else to say on the matter. well... that might be a lie.

so plastic surgery... hm. it's a tricky one. i mean, its good for people who get reconstructive surgery because their face was broken or something, but it's kind of ridiculous for others. but, the doctors make soooooooooo much money, it's never going to stop.
and i guess it all boils down to the extreme shallowness/ focus on appearance that plagues our society. i'm not going to lie, i'm affected as much as anyone else. and even though i try NOT to be... sometimes i just can't help myself. and its probably how we are all raised and all that. and oh my god the magazines don't help in the least. i remember the first issue of Teen magazine i ever got. i'm pretty sure Jennifer Love Hewitt was on the cover, and it was right around when Can't Hardly Wait was coming out. (brief interlude as i look up dates). so i'm guessing it was summer of 1998. that would have put me between 7th and 8th grade. this also happened to be the summer i started growing my hair out and decided AGAINST wearing wind suit pants all the time. strange coincidence? i think not.
i didn't want to look like a boy any more (not that i did want to in the first place, that's just sort of how it turned out) and the land of teen magazines was where i ended up in. i was steeped in teen culture for the next five years. and i kept most of my copies as well. i had three paper boxes under my bed full of magazines: Teen, Teen People, Cosmo!Girl, Twist, YM, Seventeen... eventually, Twist went under and went to TeenVogue, and then YM died and switched to ElleGirl. oh my, my my. it's no wonder that teenagers get distorted perceptions of what they should look like! sure, there were always stories about girls who hated their bodies and then after much trauma accepted themselves, by no means am i shunning their stories. i think they are important, and teens should read about the dangers of eating disorders and the like. BUT they are completely overwhelmed with what to wear this season, and pages upon pages of fashion spreads along with tons of advertisements, all of which were full of stick thin girls and gorgeous men.
way to put pressure on both of the sexes. girls have to be skinny and men have to be muscular and have chiseled features. oh dear me.
so there was that along with all of the celebrity gossip, who was with who, look at all the pretty boys, la de da. so like i said... i was steeped in this stuff. i had my fair share of celebrity crushes and i plastered my walls solid with pictures. (oh i have photo documentation for anyone interested). I think my favorite magazine was Twist, they had more stuff about pop culture instead of fashion. i think that's why i liked it and why it went under. three pages about books? no way! i'm getting off topic. so as i'm surrounded by the pictures of Popsicle-stick girls, you can bet i'm doubting myself. i in no way, shape, or form come CLOSE to them. and that was high school. until senior year. where i a) spent half of my summer in Washington actually DOING things and being active and such, b) got my eyebrow pierced, c) was no longer in the shadow of my big sister and d) didn't really care any more.
to hell with beauty magazines! i'm much to busy doing theatre and such to read such rubbish. and the the clouds parted, and sun shone down on me, and i was okay.

i digress... plastic surgery. i think it's silly for many people, but i also think that many of them feel they NEED it. just like they NEED to be beautiful. i wrote a whole paper on this (which, consequently got chosen for a symposium and published). i don't think i know anyone who has gotten PS, and i'm slightly intrigued by those that do. why do you feel you need to fit in so badly? has society put that much pressure on you? is life so bad the way you are?
maybe it is. there have been studies that prove that people mentally judge others by the way they look. i know i do. why lie? i can be incredibly superficial. look at how i started this entry.

i like to think that i am somewhat better that just judging by appearance. sure, when Incredibly Hot BECA Guy comes into the prop shop, i practically melt, and i about died yesterday when he shook my hand. BUT, i love the skinny geeky guys too (sometimes too much... le sigh).

damn our society and the freakish attention to appearance.


*if you actually made it through this whole post... you rock hardcore.

a quick little rant before i start my homework (which is due in 4 hours):

what the HELL is up with the spam on myspace?! My account got hacked once already, which was incredibly embarrassing, seeing as it posted comments on people's pages that i hadn't spoken to in quite a while. and it also posted bulletins about a 'rager' i was throwing. what the hell. i never ever ever use the word rager. ever.
those damn spammers are tricky little buggers. they post comments with code in them to make them stay at the top of your comments box, incredibly annoying if you ask me.
and now, god dammit, they've started to spam my blog comments. and its not just like 'ooh, click this bla bla' instead if you click on it, it takes up the whole page, essentially making a new page for itself. and of course, myspace is being retarded right now and i can't even delete the comments. i can't even delete the blog entry because it won't load. damn you myspace!

OMG TV!

reality tv is not a new thing. its pretty far from it actually. Survivor has been on since 2000 and is into its 14th season already. talk about overload. i'm okay with some reality tv. beauty and the geek is cute, the amazing race is awesome, i love project runway and i've been known to watch a few episodes of america's next top model. HOWEVER. there are a couple i'm totally annoyed by.
Dancing with the Stars and American Idol.
i've never really watched them. maybe thats my problem. i saw a bit of dancing with the stars once, it was pretty cool, but what i am flabbergasted by is the fact that america is OBSESSED with these shows. i mean, Heather Mills has a prosthetic leg. whoop dee, way to make her a marketing gimmick abc. i'm sure you really just want to "level the playing field" but every time i see a commercial with 'One of the contestants has to overcome the BIGGEST OBSTACLE" and she's all like "losing my leg." oh dear GOD i want to punch an exec in the face. i find it incredibly rude for abc to use her as such a marketing scheme. its disgusting. augh.
oh, and american idol. what the hell america? how is it we seem to stop our lives for six weeks so a show can take over our tvs and lives? practically any show that runs on the same night as idol (which seems like every single freaking night to me), is put in reruns for the six weeks that idol runs. um.... excuse? no part of me is awash with excitement to see pretty people sing for the opportunity to be exploited in the music industry. i know that some of them have a 'story' but to be honest, i dont care. the fact is that every day after idol has been on, yahoo! runs odds and recaps in their top news section. um. okay. idol is not top news. top news is finding that missing boy scout. top news is more troops killed overseas. top news is the government screwing us even more. top news is more than what was on tv the night before! oh my god. and when someone gets kicked off... well... even bigger story! its just gross. i was looking at entertainment weekly yesterday and there was like a 5 page spread about idol and the chances of the top 9 or however many there are. i just dont understand why people get so into it.

is it an escapist thing? watching fluff so we don't have to think about our real problems? i get that. i do that too. but i don't understand why america goes bizzare over this talent show. i don't mean to offend any fans, i'm glad you have something you enjoy watching, i just want to know why all of the shows i watch have to go into reruns because of it. lame.