High Fidelity

I think that High Fidelity is a great movie! It is a great movie that can relate to all kinds of people. Everybody has gone through or will go through a break up like the main character, Rob did. The way that he rates all of his break ups to musical songs shows a great metaphor. Music is has become such a big part of our lives. There is great humor in the plot that makes fun of a situation that can have little humor. I wish that we could have seen the end of the movie because I am dying to know if Rob ends up with his ex-girl friend. I think that he should just move on and fall in love with the musician girl!

Should couples live together before they are married?

In today's culture, more and more people are living together before they are married. Most give the reason that they are testing the waters, trying to see if they can really spend the rest of their lives with this one person. The problem with this outlook is that no can truly know if they are going to have a successful marriage because the only way to know is if you are married and they are not married. Living together is about building compatibility not testing your compatibility. When they start having problems, someone leaves, they have failed the test. When married couples have problems they work through them because they know that they are bound together by a special bond that they both value. Unmarried couple are playing house. This all stems from the "hook up culture" of the college life. It is easier to have sex or move in together than to get married and make a commitment.

The Perfect Wedding

By definition a wedding is a ceremony that celebrates the marriage or civil union between two people or a social event at which a ceremony of marriage is performed. In today’s culture people are spending more and more money on their weddings. They are trying at achieve the perfect day, which is emphasized as the most important day in a person’s life. Over time, the idea of marriage and weddings has become a fairy tale illusion for women. More commonly women are planning the weddings by picking everything out, coordinating, trying to make everything perfect for their perfect day. Men have taken the seat on the sideline. They are there for support but not picking out table cloths and flowers.

In 2007, the average cost of a wedding in America was $28,850. On average a couple is engaged for 17 months before they are married. Out of the 2,290,578 weddings that were performed last year 77% of those weddings were paid for by the bride and groom. Only 58% were paid for by the parents. This goes to show that the even though people are spending more and more money on their weddings, it is coming out of their pockets. In the “Here comes the Bride, All Dresses in White” section of Aims, the author makes the reference to the film, Father of the Bride. He makes suggests, “The ideological work of this film is to delineate the heterogendered division of labor portraying Dad as successful factory owner and Mom and daughter as women who spend his money frivolously.”

The more extravagant a wedding is contributes to the extravagance of the American culture. People are obsessed with living a glamorous, over the top lifestyle starting with the wedding. Some use the ceremony as an excuse to show off how successful they have become. If Mom and Dad can’t foot the bill, they the bride and groom will pay for it, anything to get that perfect day, even if that means going into debt at such a young age.

My Favorite Song

My favorite song is Carolina Girls by General Johnson and The Chairmen of the Board. This song always puts a smile on my face wherever I hear it. I love that he describes Carolina girls as sweet southern pearls and that we are the best girls in the world. If someone was to tell ask me what a good song to shag to, I would defiantly say that this song is perfect. This song makes me think about the beach and shagging at my hometown's annual debutante ball.

Proofing Clemson Printmakers

Recently I visited the art gallery in Lee Hall. The work that is on display there is absolutely amazing. The piece that I found to be the most moving was done by, Jennifer Stoneking-Stewart, entitled, Inner Child. The art work consists of an old black and white photograph of a class of elementary school kids and their teacher. Under the portrait are three drawings of microscopic pictures of bacteria and virus. Over the photograph of the kids there is a red disease that wrapped itself around the kids coming from the three drawings of this disease. The bacteria looks deadly and seems to be unknown to the happy children. There are three black boxes around three different children symbolizing the target of death for the bacteria. The picture is black and white and the only color is the red bacteria and the cultures under the photograph. This shows that the only life left after this epidemic is that of the disease, not the people. Overall, I think this image is speaks volumes about what a bacteria can do, emotionally and physically.