What happened to the world?

So I haven't write in almost a century. I don't even think that I know how to write a blog post any longer but I do have to express this one thing that's bothering me.
Since I don't work and, therefor, have absolutely nothing better to do with this ocean of spare time that lies in front of me I always look for ways to at least fill my ears since my eyes and hands are usually busy with drawing.
The best way to fill the silence is SIT COM-es. Lame, I know, but more serious shows need a higher lever of attention. But with sit com-es it's easy, you listen to whatever the characters are mumbling about, you give a smile at the cheese jokes and a good hart laugh when one of the main characters gets a major "BUUUUUURN!".
And this is how I burned thru the most popular ones like "Friends", "Two and a half men", "That 70's show","Scrubs" or "How I met your mother" and oldies like "M*A*S*H" and very oldies like "The Honeymooners". Since all the good ones were done with I started watching some of the new ones "2 broke girls" which is decent and let me tell you, Kat Dennings's place is not in either a Brooklyn diner nor a cheep ass TV show or "New Girl" where Zooey Deschanel creeps me out every week (no girl in her right mind is that perky and optimistic).
The sad truth smacked me in the face after I watched some episodes from one sitcom called "Awkward". I was a socially awkward kid, I still am an awkward more or less grown up so the title kind of spoke up to me. I thought it's going to be something like 10 things I hate about you (missing you still Heath) but it's not. It's about a high school girl that like a boy and so he can like her back she's agreeing to sleeping with him, she was fifteen and I can't highlight this enough FIFTEEN AS IN 15.
My parents didn't set boundaries form this point of view, probably because they trusted me that I'll do it when I was good and ready, probably because they felt too awkward to talk to me about this stuff. (tend to go for the second option).
I'm not a prude, I'm not a virgin Marry and most of all I'll never be the kind of mother that forbids her child to do what teenagers need to do.
I had the misfortune of being the first one in my class to grow boobs and my God I remember a time when I was fourteen and a classmate smacked my ass, not in a "joke" sort of way but in a "horny teenager" sort of way. I remember how violated I felt, how embarrassed and maybe a little bit betrayed by nature.
Now, I realize that, that one guy was a jackass and my boyfriend was allowed to hold me close, and kiss me (even though he was a horny teenager to) but I remember blushing only at the thought of that* happening.
Staying on the subject but leaving the TV show aside for a second I want to say that I was shocked last autumn when I saw videos form the first day of high school. The girls were wearing huge heels and low cut tank-tops, short skirts. "It's still summer" they said. "Why should we wear uniforms?" they asked sarcastically.
It's true, the "do what we tell you to do and wear what we tell you to wear" was always rejected by the youth but every generation and every decade had something to rage against, something to fight for by refusing the dress code or making a music that would speak up for what they'd believed in and if the 60's and the 70's were influenced mainly by the flower power (hippie) culture that appeared in America as a result of the Vietnam war escalating and Lyndon B. Johnson recruiting more and more young men for the "fight against communism".
The 80's were all about freedom of expression thru art thru music, the rebels took control and got birth to an epic decade that anyone would be lucky to have spent their teenage years in. Also, the Cold War had finally ended, event celebrated so majestically in the song "Wind of change" by the Scorpions released all the way in 1991.
The 90's were about evolving and even though it has it's roots in the 1910's , the big blast of FEMINISM took place in the 90's and the youth had one more strike for society.
The 2000's were about the growing up. All those punk-heads from back in the 80's cut their hair short and showed the people that they can do something constructive as well. Science, technology, medicine, robotics, every field had some sort of breakthrough while the 2000's kids got hooked up on social media and so, in a blink of an eye the 2010's came along and this is where we, as a society, start stepping back. The kids got locked up behind computer screens, voiced over cartoons and headphones, creating and living inside an artificial world, seeing the green of leafs only in pixels. Smothered by overprotective parents, trying to create their own battle with society the youth raged against the one thing that remained standing - the childhood.
In ten short years we managed to bring the future generation into a new medieval era, where teenagers are proud to be married and parents at the age of 16 and by doing so THEY managed to kill creativity, art and music.
Great work new generation, everything is just...... dandy!!!!

Sange Adevarat

Sau True Blood, vorba americanului. O alta reteta de succes despre cum sa faci bani dintr-un trend cinematografic mondial. Cum am in fata mea doua saptamani de zacut, intins si cascat datorita mult-asteptatului concediu am luat cu asalt productiile televizate care au starnit valva, la ei nu la noi, si-am inceput sa ma intoxic cu personaje narcomane din “Nurse Jackie”, reuniunea dramatica a unei familii de australieni dintr-un serial de succes de la ei “Packed to the Rafters”, incercari lamentabile de reecranizare a filmelor cu adolescenti din ’99 in “10 Things I hate about you”, titluri cu potential ridicat si continut 0 “Drop dead diva” (chiar ma asteptam sa vad vre-o Paris Hilton macelarita, din nefericire filmul nu are nicio legatura cu punerea pe cale de disparitie a acestei specii) si nu in ultimul rand potentiala existenta a unor creeaturi mistice, insetate de sange dar romantice si anume vampirii din productia celor de la HBO de care mi-am adus aminte, ce-i drept , cam tarziu.

O productie de succes, dupa cate recenzii bune am citit referitor la ea, inspirata, ca majoritatea filmelor cu vampiri, dintr-o serie de romane a autoarei Charlaine Harris “Misterele vampirilor din sud”, serie ce contine 10 publicatii si una “pe vine”.

La prima vedere am fost dezamagita de cei de la HBO si apoi furioasa deoarece multe dintre aspectele personajelor, cat si idila dintre o muritoare si un vampir conicideau prea mult cu indragita serie “Twilight” de care m-am atasat fara a mai exista posibilitatea de a-mi displacea.

Actiunea se petrece intr-o lume fictionala, in care vampirii “au iesit din cosciug” si si-au dezvaluit existenta. O lume in care s-a pornit un razboi mediatic intre vampiri, cu sustinatorii de rigoare si adeptii religiei, care ii vad pe vampiri ca soldati ai diavolului, ce doresc exterminarea definitiva a pradatorilor rasei umane.

Sookie Stackhouse, chelnerita telepata ce lucreaza in barul oraselului imaginar Bon Temps din Louisiana este protagonista, atat a serialului cat si a romanelor. Desi in varsta de 25 de ani Sookie este virgina deoarece, nepuntandu-se abtine sa auda gandurile potentialilor viitori iubiti, gasea acolo intentiile ascunse de privirile blande si saruturile aparent inocente.

La mai bine de 2 ani dupa ce vampirii si-au dezvaluit existenta, in premiera, isi face aparitia Bill Compton, un vampir de 174 de ani care vrea sa se retraga in oraselul din Louisiana pentru o eternitate linistita. Incercand sa isi renege natura si pentru a cruta vietile umane Bill consuma un produs artificial inventat de japonezi denumit True Blood care se straduieste sa imite sangele adevarat fiind categorizat chiar si pe grupe sangvine.

Tot sangele, de data aceasta cel al vampirilor, este recunoscut drept un narcotic puternic cu calitati vindecatoare rapide. Din aceasta cauza, in prima lui seara in Bon Temps, din barul orasului este ademenit de doi indivizi, imobilizat cu un lant de argint al carui proprietati ii slabeau puterile si conectat la o perfuzie cu actiune inversa. Sookie citeste gandurile celor doi si ii sare in ajutor lui Bill.

Seara urmatoare Sookie este batuta pana la epuizare de indivizii din seara anterioara, ocazie ca Bill sa-i rasplateasca chelneritei actiunea de salvare vindecand-o cu sangele lui si creeand de asemenea o legatura speciala intre ei, legatura ce ii permitea vampirului sa o gaseasca pe fata oriunde s-ar afla si de a-i simtii emotiile, ca un plus, band din sangele vampirului, fata simtea o atractie de natura sexual catre el. In aceeasi seara Sookie realizeaza ca nu ii poate auzi gandurile si il scoate drept partenerul ideal fapt care se va si concretiza.

De aici, o serie de intamplari mai mult sau mai putin infricosatoare printre care demascarea unui criminal in serie, descoperirea unei noi specii, si anume pe “cei care isi schimba forma” (creeaturi cu chip uman capabile sa se transforme, la o adica, in animale)reprezentata de prietenul si seful lui Sookie, Sam, si o confruntare cu diavolul insusi care infecteaza toti locuitorii orasului cu pacatele capitale. Un dusman, dar tot odata si aliat si protector isi mai gaseste Sookie si in vampirul milenar, Eric Northman, care, la inceput o foloseste pentru puterile ei supranaturale si apoi incepe sa nutreasca sentimente nobile pentru ea. Intr-un atentat cu bomba legata cu lanturi de argint, care are ca rezultat moartea a trei vampiri si doi oameni, Eric o protejeaza pe Sookie cu propriul lui corp rugand-o mai apoi sa suga bucatile de argint din ranile lui pentru a-i salva viata. Sookie se simte indatorata si cade in capcana intinsa de Eric, inghitind sangele lui si prin urmare formand o legatura emotionala cu iz sexual intre ei.

Povestea e interesanta si desi Eric pare a fi personajul negativ, infiltrandu-se miseleste in relatia dintre Sookie si Bill, suferinta si devotamentul pe care il afisaza in momentul in care Creeatorul lui, Godrik - un vampir in varsta de 2000 de ani care, satul de violentele de care semenii lui sunt capabili si de incapacitatea acestora de a se emancipa - se sinucide dand ochii cu rasaritul pe acoperisul hotelului, realizezi ca este de fapt foarte vulnerabil. Punand la socoteala si noua tunsoare pe care vrand-nevrand o capata dupa o sesiune de coafat esuata din pricina sangelui de la una din victimele sale, intins in par, blondul vampir suedez arata chiar atragator.

True Blood e o productie slaba in viziunea mea, cel putin raportata la cota de mediatizare care I s-a oferit. Sunt totusi (pana in present) 24 de episoade impartite in 2 serii care nu esueaza in incercarea de a trezi apetitul pentru mai mult. Daca va plictisiti, merita descarcat si vazut .

Un mic advertisement totusi, din cauza finalurilor care creeaza un suspans apasator poate sa creeze dependenta :) .