I've got a theory

Gorgeous day. Walked down by BU to catch the Head of the Charles for a while before doing some light reading. (Shut up. Structuralism is totally light reading. It makes sense!) I also watched the first episode of Scrap Teacher. No subtitles yet, but... it really doesn’t need them. My impressions condensed and writ below:

Teacher Voiceover: "So, it was the start of a new semester at this crappy underachieving school. Brought my nail file along, stocked up on cup ramen, all hyped and ready for another year! (Not.) Wasn’t very impressed with the enthusiastic new teacher, even after he skydived out of a helicopter, but on plus side he did bring along these three tiny but cute badasses and their Irish jig Theme o’ Triumph music. So maybe he’ll turn out okay. We’ll see. ‘Scuse me now, gotta go slurp some noodles before they get all soggy. See you next week!"



It was while discussing Bad Fan Behavior with snowqueenofhoth that I started talking about stalking underaged idols and the whole marketing overdose as a twisted, inverted commodification of labor. I realized that 1) maybe I understand Marxism better than I thought, and 2) even though I come up with stuff like that in our IM conversations all the time (see also the Unified Theory of Ryo’s Consumptive Attractiveness; the Pseudo-Marxist Signification Theory of Inappropriate Idol Stalking And Why It’s Wrong), Rachel is still friends with me.

In that vein, and because I have new glasses that say "i are smart, seriuz grad student", I bring you "Videointertextuality: A Vaguely Structuralist Deconstruction (sort of) of Two JE PVs". ( Clearly grad school has made me even more insane. Send help plz. Feel free to take this as parody; just don't kill me for butchering Very Important Literary Concepts and not providing essential background information. Also, it's more my train of thought than an actual essay. Maybe you should just... )

( ...skip to the slightly more coherent conclusion )

I've got a theory

Gorgeous day. Walked down by BU to catch the Head of the Charles for a while before doing some light reading. (Shut up. Structuralism is totally light reading. It makes sense!) I also watched the first episode of Scrap Teacher. No subtitles yet, but... it really doesn’t need them. My impressions condensed and writ below:

Teacher Voiceover: "So, it was the start of a new semester at this crappy underachieving school. Brought my nail file along, stocked up on cup ramen, all hyped and ready for another year! (Not.) Wasn’t very impressed with the enthusiastic new teacher, even after he skydived out of a helicopter, but on plus side he did bring along these three tiny but cute badasses and their Irish jig Theme o’ Triumph music. So maybe he’ll turn out okay. We’ll see. ‘Scuse me now, gotta go slurp some noodles before they get all soggy. See you next week!"



It was while discussing Bad Fan Behavior with snowqueenofhoth that I started talking about stalking underaged idols and the whole marketing overdose as a twisted, inverted commodification of labor. I realized that 1) maybe I understand Marxism better than I thought, and 2) even though I come up with stuff like that in our IM conversations all the time (see also the Unified Theory of Ryo’s Consumptive Attractiveness; the Pseudo-Marxist Signification Theory of Inappropriate Idol Stalking And Why It’s Wrong), Rachel is still friends with me.

In that vein, and because I have new glasses that say "i are smart, seriuz grad student", I bring you "Videointertextuality: A Vaguely Structuralist Deconstruction (sort of) of Two JE PVs". ( Clearly grad school has made me even more insane. Send help plz. Feel free to take this as parody; just don't kill me for butchering Very Important Literary Concepts and not providing essential background information. Also, it's more my train of thought than an actual essay. Maybe you should just... )

( ...skip to the slightly more coherent conclusion )