Recap

Hey everyone.

It's been too long, but I've been sick. So I'm just getting back to you now.

Lets see... what's there to cover today...

Well, let me start with a short commentary on the US version of Skins. This will - I promise - get it's own post eventually, but there are some things I want to say really quick.

First, the people who are trying to shut it down for "child pornography" and "exploiting children" either don't have kids, are lied to constantly by their kids, never were kids, or have Stepford children. The show takes real life to extremes... I can sit here and say that more than a few of the things that happened in just the first three episodes of the show have happened to me. Hell, don't get my started on how many things from the British version have happened to me. We're teenagers. We fuck up, we deal with the consequences. Just like the kids in Skins. We aren't going to emulate them (alright, so there's always that one dumb kid, but they're generally that one dumb kid who would have done it anyways) but we will learn from them.

Second, I know a lot of people are mad-mad-mad about the whole thing (I'm mostly annoyed that Madison Twatter became Madison le Dong...) but you really ought to give it a chance. Yes, Tony's episode would have fared better if it strayed from the original plot more, but Tea's ep...

Oh. My. God. I'd say I'd go lesbian for Tea, but I'm already about 60% lesbian anyways so it means less. I wish I could transport into the alternate Skins universe and make her mine, regardless of the chip on her shoulder regarding relationships.

Tea's episode was also sweet, and she was the only really original character - though there are some large differences between the UK version of characters and the US version, some of which are good and some of which aren't - and you should really give her a chance because she's fantastic.

And Chris is just sweet, and Daisy and Abbud have fantastic interactions with Tea, and Eura... well, I'm still figuring her out, but you all KNOW how attached I am to Effy. Michelle is (no offense April Pearson) prettier as a ginger, though I wish Tony was taller to match her... and Tony is... well, I actually like him a bit better in this one. Though end-of-season-two-UK Tony will be hard to beat unless they go an entirely different direction (that doesn't involve getting hit by a bus and singing Cat Steven's Wild World... though I love that song...).

Anyways, as I said, that will get it's own post.

This is mostly just a mention to the people attacking Skins that they're being stupid. The advertisers who pulled their adverts need to grow a pair and pull their heads out of their ass while they're at it. MTV needs to stop censoring - at least the censor bar over the mouths for Christ's sake... - and be a bit more racy. Fuck the parents who are afraid. Kids will do what they want regardless. We all know what they're saying, we all know what people look like naked, we all know what sex is...

Just stop.

Alright, now on to the next bit of news...

Seattle was hellish while I was there, though I think I found the best town in the world. Bellingham, where I've applied to WWU, is amazing. Their co-op thinks it's a Whole Foods and there's an ocean...

Um...

Well, I guess I don't have a ton to say, weirdly.

So here are the pictures from the Seattle trip.