Celebrity: Is it a celebration?

I really don’t understand why some people who act as if celebrities have personally offended them. Seriously making claims on the internet that you think Justin Bieber or Miley Cyrus should die is not a joke. Just because you don’t like someone’s music or acting style does not mean that that they deserve to be beaten up or be killed.  I don’t think the death of any person is funny no matter how much I dislike them.

Celebrity Worship Syndrome is becoming a serious problem and there are so many stalkers out there that it’s kind of insane. Look at that guy who loved John Lennon so much that he had to kill him!  It’s just crazy! People should be realistic about celebrities. They are not gods who deserve to be worshipped. I know I sound hypocritical since I talk about celebrities all the time, but I see appreciate celebrities for the contribution to the entertainment world and I would honestly not scream or faint if I saw one of my favourite actors or musicians. I would freak out a little and maybe get nervous to talk to them, but I would still respect them and their privacy.

Some people struggle to distance themselves from these celebrities, because they struggle to realize that those people aren’t the same as their public personas. They are human too. Actors are only playing a part; they aren’t the characters they play.  People need to realize this…Pisses me off… it makes me feel weird about having a normal love for celebrities…

John Green, as ussual, said it the best:

Horatio...

This demotivational poster combines two of my favourite things: CSI and Shakespeare...

Watchdog Entertainment

While researching CSI on the internet (and by researching I mean downloading pictures of Eric Szmanda a.k.a. Greg Sanders) I made a shocking discovery! I came across the Parents Television Council! Shudder* “What fresh hell is this?”

Apparently a group of parents were really bored one day and instead of restricting what their own children were watching they decided to actively campaign against EVERYTHING in today’s modern entertainment world.

Firstly I get what they intended to do, but you that the road to hell is paved with good intentions and this kind of this seems kind of sick. The world is a rough place and life is hard- there is no denying that and at some point all children will know that. My parents knew that I was too young to watch certain programs and when they thought I was old enough I was allowed to watch what I wanted to. I promise you it hasn’t negatively affected me.  I have the ability to know that when I watch something on TV that, that show that I am watching is fake. I know that it is fake blood and that the injured or murdered actor or actress will simply get up and go to lunch after that shot. I know that it’s all fake and an act and thus it doesn’t affect me.

People have fought and died so that our media would not censored and these PTC people are actually campaign to hide certain information from their children. I get that you don’t want your child exposed to violence and indecency, but where do you draw the line? What is going to happen to the child when by the time they are 18 they have been so coddled that they won’t be able to function in the outside world?

I’m not promoting that children be exposed to violence or explicit sex, but it individual parents responsibilities to turn off the TV or change the channel to ensure that what their children are watching is appropriate for them. Why ruin it for the rest of us? I know that I would never let my 7-year-old cousin watch Supernatural with us so I don’t watch it when she is around and thus I sit though hours of Barney at ease. Simple as that…

The PTC’s website photo looks like they want you to join some kind of cult with them or something. They even cal themselves the welcome CLAN! I am truly disturbed by this weird control they have over everyone. This is the real world and we live in an age where we are lucky to be exposed to these things ONLY via the entertainment world. In the past children would have seen a lot worse…

I think I’ll go watch some CSI-which was, by the way, voted the most indecent show on TV by the PTC- and then I’ll sleep peacefully knowing that I have the power to choose what I am exposed to and what I can handle in my life. Screw you PTC…

CSI and it's spin-offs

Yes, I'm still on the CSI thing...

CSI: Miami is my least favourite in the CSI trilogy, but this is mainly, because of its largely brighter tone and it’s too crazy, unrealistic plots. The other two are much darker, but due to Miami more festive atmosphere the show needed a head detective who could be serious and yet be mockingly ridiculous at the same time. Cue Horatio Cane. Even people who haven’t seen CSI: Miami know about Horatio’s infamous sun-glasses trick. These days I don’t see anyone remove their sun-glasses without impersonating Horatio with an added cheesy one-liner. CSI: Miami has many hot characters like Eric and newbie Jesse, but my heart belongs to Ryan Wolfe! Ryan may have his faults, but I love his tenacious nature, OCD tendencies, intensity and cute humour. From the first moment his handsome face stepped in the crime scene I was hooked and I freaked out like the rest of the fans when he was shot with a nail gun and then later when he was fired! So there I was cheering on his reinstatement and hoping desperately at they would finally get him a love interest…

CSI: New York is infamously known as the most gruesome of the three, but, hey, if you are playing with stereotype, New York is pretty dangerous place. And a dangerous place needs a badass head detective and that’s where Mac Taylor comes in. Mac is a lot darker and more intense than Horatio, but he knows how to come down hard on crime, with his sharp eye and serious attitude. CSI: New York may be dark, but it also played host to one of the greatest love stories in CSI history. Early on sparks flew between Danny and Lindsay and we tracked their love story between all the blood and gory.  Now to my lab geek love! I already had a crush on A.J Buckley when starred in Supernatural, but his role as Adam Ross is so cute and nerdy and awesome! You would think that my crush would be a lab geek, but in CSI: New York the Don Flack the one that caught my eye! A Tough gentleman with a kickass suit and soft heart! A true modern day knight and those eyes!

We all know that the original is the always the best and CSI: Las Vegas is proof of that. This team started the whole thing thus naturally my loyalty will lie with them. The legendary Gil Grissom is the head detective of this team. His interests in bugs might be a bit strange and his love for a fellow CSI might be really bizarre, but Grissom is the best in his field. William Peterson is a stunning actor and it’s a shame he retired around the 10^th season, but his replacement Ray Langford is still cool, I guess. Anyway, Catherine Willows is my hero! I wanna be as hard-core and kick-ass as her one day! Now I get to my ultimate geek obsession…Greg Sanders! Greg would play loud rock music in the lab, joke around with his co-workers, wear strange costumes around the lab and constantly act like he is the biggest ladies’ man around. I cried like baby when he was beaten up in Season 7! But he risked his life to save someone else and that says a lot about him!  Later on in the series, when he gets promoted, he becomes more serious, but still retains that Greg-like charm. What a cutie... 

“One man’s garbage is another man’s evidence pile.”

Put your hands where I can see them!

Hello my name is Elri Steenkamp and I am a CSI addict. Now there is no need to laugh. I know CSI can get cheesy. I know that some of the crimes are improbable, but I can’t help it! I love mysteries and I loving trying to guess who the murderer is before the trusty CSI team works it out; even if that’s always in vain, because I’m the worst guesser. Now that I no longer live at home I have been forced to watch CSI alone in my res. room and watching CSI makes me feel very homesick. Back home my family would gather together to watch CSI and somehow my dad will always be able to guess who the murderer is.

So the original CSI, which is set in Las Vegas, Nervda, aired for the first time in 2000 and has lasted until now, with two spin-offs, set in Miami and in New York, Currently on air also. For those of you who don’t know CSI: Crime Scene Investigation is a fictional TV series which follows the lives of a team of Crime scene investigators as they solve various murders though gathering evidence. Each of the CSI team is run by a senior detective or CSI who is usually the most experienced or most educated or most hard-core. Next there is a tough second-in-command who is usually a woman and a team of Level Three CSIs and lower detectives; one hard-ass man-with-a-gun and a few lab geeks.

CSI is not thought provoking or serious or even believable, but it sure it entertaining. Watching CSI is a great break from studying; because no matter how bad things get the CSI teams always solve the crime in the end! The hot CSIs also make the show a bit more worthwhile to watch…Plus when you hear those theme songs by the Who start up you can’t help get pumped up for some ass kicking…

Photobomb!

Have you ever had that moment when you are about to take a photo of one of your friends and when you look again there is suddenly a whole group of people posing in front of you or those moments when you are just about to take a photo and suddenly someone jumps in front of you and hijacks you photo. The best photobombs are, naturally, the ones that take place behind the person or whatever you intended to photograph. The more bizarre or out-of-place the better. The background of a photobombed photo has to be so distracting that it draws all the attention away from the person or thing that you intended to photograph.

Even the Beetles were into it:

My friends and I have tried desperately to achieve the ultimate photobomb and think Yvonne’s photobombing of Andre trying to photobomb Ruan at their Grey Matric Farewell comes pretty close to be the best one I’ve ever seen…

Anyway here’s to ruining a bunch of people’s photos!

Eagle Eye

So recently in my Media Studies class we talked about surveillance and that, due to today’s modern media and technological improvments, we can now be monitored and tracked also everyday of our lives. This made me think about that movie Eagle Eye in which hottie Shia LaBeouf is being stalked by a mysterious woman who can view his every movement and that made me think about the latest Die Hard movie in which a group super hackers manage to take over a whole city by digitally controlling all forms of public services such as water, electricity, traffic lights, etc. They made use of technology to basically destroy the whole infrastructure of a city. See I was paying attention to more than just Justin Long in that movie…

Firstly isn’t it amazing how powerful an influence technology has on our lives and I know I’ve mentioned this before, but this is such a scary thought! We have become disturbingly dependent of technology that without it we might not be able to survive, but at what cost?

Think about this…

When you wake up in the morning and walk out of your home there is a large chance that you will be picked up on a surveillance camera at least once. Every day of your life you will be monitored somehow by some kind of surveillance technology. Just think about how many people will be could be watching at any given moment? Imagine a fat, security guard eating a donut in his security box perving over you at his own leisure…

Now think about all those photos you have taken of your friends and someone you don’t know has snuck into the background of the photo accidentally. What if you were that person? How many photos of you are floating around right now? Let me tell you the elusive photobomb, if pulled off correctly, can be a really amazing thing, but the thought that anyone might have access to a photo of you creeps me out. More on Photobombs later...

So while you are reading this blog via the internet, someone could be tracking your internet usage and will be able to know what you are viewing or what you are doing at this very moment.

So with that thought I hope that you sleep soundly tonight…

Revenge of the Nerd attraction

I have to confess that I find an intelligent man extremely attractive and although I don’t mind nerds a badass intelligent guys would be more what I’m into. Think Liam Court from 90210.  But yeah, nerds are the new in thing. Think Geek Chic. Nerds like the guys from Big Bang Theory or Greg Sanders from CSI or if you stretched your mind a little even Sam Winchester from Supernatural might also be considered as a geek and they are all making Geeky-ness cool.   

So girls I am here to tell you that Nerd guys are not as boring as you think. A nerdy guy will always be there when you want to have intellgent conversation even when your and his looks begin to fade. I think Max Miller’s brilliant performance of pleasing Naomi in 90210 should be enough to convince you. Any guy that can get Naomi Clark to dress up like an Aviatar must be doing something right…

But I have something to confess…Every single human being on this planet is secretly a nerd. Every fully functioning person feels overly and disturbingly passionate about something and every person will feel insecure at one point of their lives. Everyone is nerdy about something so be proud of your nerdy-ness and embrace your inner nerd!! (And like Naomi embrace the outer nerds too :P)

Jim Parson, Sheldon Coooper from the Big Bang Theory, says it the best: “To be geeky about anything is to feel passionately about it; to absorb yourself with it. And I think that it’s a really attractive quality in someone. And also very necessary to be successful at something.”