Hi guys, it's Emily. Chris's blog has been invaded! Hello to all Empire Files readers! (Hi, Mom.)
NYC Pissy:
To start off, I'll say that maybe it's just been a bad couple of weeks for my relationship with good ole NY. I spent the last couple of weeks searching for an apartment AND my phone was stolen! I was stupid enough to think that the guy who found it was going to return it. Or maybe he was just stupid enough to pick up my call from my office during his phone call joy ride. I should have realized when he said "yo don't blame me if it don't show up again" that it WASN'T going to show up again. Yes, I blame him.
In the midst of these couple of weeks, the trailer for New York I Love You seems particularly asinine. NY Mag hits it somewhat when they say: "This trailer's constant, pie-eyed refrain — "New York's not such a big place!" "God, I love New York!" — reminds us painfully of a bunch of tourists wandering around Times Square."
Let's stop pretending that NYC (or Manhattan particularly) is anything other than a playground for the rich. Yes, you can lay your head dramatically on the train while shuffling between 59th Street Lexington and your Murray Hill condo. What about the woman with the hour commute from Flushing? Is her story of actually struggling to pay the rent not interesting? Why do NYers have this cuddle-blanket comfort story that we tell ourselves about the types of people that live on the island? Does anyone who has actually paid rent in this city buy this crap? And why is the entire cast white (ooo! look! an Orthodox Jew, how authentic). Yes, Manhattan is full of white beautiful bohemian ARTISTS. Go find them!
Woman Pissy:
I'm not all cynicism. This gal's eyes got watery when Michelle Obama did her thing last night. After watching that speech, I'm particularly irritated by videos like "Why Do You Let Me Stay Here" by She and Him. Yeah Zoey Deschanel is cute but I am SO TIRED OF WOMEN PRANCING. You look cute in costumes and hipster bangs. I get that it's fun and light and I'm just being a kill-joy (this song reverberates on the L train walls) but this video hurts me a little bit inside.
ps: I'm not saying she needs to be dancing around little starving children in Darfur, I'm just exhausted by grown women being trotted out like children for sexual attention (and therefore validation). Sigh.
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4 comments:
both are nauseating, but she and him make for good tunes, if lame videos.
well, i do think the juxtaposition of the prancing and cute outfits with the overall content of the video is interesting.
i was kind of hoping that the blood was some sort of death to cutesy message, but found that it didn't really follow through...?
This video is a waste of bangs.
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