lol this thread, Rihanna, TOP and Taeyang on ontd!

http://community.livejournal.com/ohnotheydidnt/41293300.html?thread=6335975156#t6335975156

Wolves howling on temple grounds

I developed this non-Twilight related interested in wolves over the past couple of months, I didn't know much about them but I started reading and doing research on them and they're so amazing and fascinating. But its also sad how as I said before they've been hunted into extinction in some parts of the world and their numbers are slowly coming back now. I saw this thing on Discovery Channel one time and it was about what would happen if man completely disappeared from the world, they said that one of the first creatures to multiply extensively would be the wolf! Their capabilities for survival in the wild w/o man's intervention is amazing.

I like how family oriented they are, they're actually one of the few monogamous animals in the wild. Once the alpha male and female find each other they stay together for life! In the pack only the alpha male and female are allowed to procreate but the entire pack helps raise the kids.

This quote was in one of the reference books I bought,

"If we could live like wolves,
we would never hate our brothers
and sisters just for being a of different colors."

I was like AW :/ Its so true though if you think about it. Wolves are also interesting because they can live off anything from vegetarian options to eating other predators so they're known as super-predators! Ha. Their hunting also helps keep nature strong by killing prey that have diseases or are weak, so when those living members of the prey procreate only the strong genes get passed on.

Anyway they do a lot of amazing things in the wild~ I worked on this piece for a week, illustrating the wolves was the easy part, everything else took forever. I was really inspired by Ando Hiroshige's work, he's a ukiyo-e master and his work has a lot of amazing foreground, middleground and background compositions. A lot of his work features one huge thing in the foreground, sometimes half of it is outside the frame, its really interesting and kinda modern for the time in which it was being made.

I learned a lot from looking at his work because usually my work doesn't have formal compositions because its really time consuming to figure out those details and i'm impatient lol. A lot of the work on this was just figuring out how to position the fucking snowflakes, how big to make the Torii arch back there and how big the mountain needed and which snowflakes to blur to get the right sense of perspective lol. Its fun just drawing things but doing the perspective work and position work is very time consuming @.@; Part of why I like tattoo work is that it can just be a nice illustration of a Koi threading water, you don't need background details.

I put an earlier version of this online last week but I like this version much better.

Now I need to figure out what I'm doing with my holiday cards this year! I originally started this illustration thinking I was going to put the wolves on the xmas cards, but it turned into this whole thing so lol~

SUCCESS!!! My ghetto light tree ahahahahaaaaaaaaaaa. Got new lights on from CVS, I shook around the Dollar store ones from yesterday, and they work again D: So I put them around my left window, need another set of light to put on my right window.

YEY HOLIDAY DECORATIONS! ♥

SET LIST:
Mad House / Wait Your Turn
Russian Roulette
Don’t Stop The Music
Take A Bow
Disturbia
Hard (feat. Young Jeezy)
SOS
Unfaithful
Live Your Life Interlude
Run This Town / Umbrella (feat. Jay-Z)

AMAZING, STUNNING, FLAWLESS, ETC!!

If you follow me on FB you probably noticed that I have a weird fascination with Rihanna, lol. I mean she wears such odd things like ALL THE TIME, but I find that fascinating in an era where Black female artists are usually boxed into one thing, one genre, one look, she ties to shatter all that bullshit. Also she's half Guyanese (same as me if you didn't know lol) and has the same name as my mom but spelt differently.

Anyway stylistically I thought she was interesting but could never get into her music because well her voice has this weird tone in it that hurts me lol BUT I downloaded the leaked copy of Rated R. The first time I listened to it I was like NO this is terrible, but then I gave it another listen and it really grew on me, more so when I listened to it on ipod. Her voice has grown on me a lot and seeing this live show I think she's come a long ass way in her live singing too. Her previous live endeavors were not that great in my opinion but I LOVE, LOVE all the rearranged more rockin versions of her previous pop hits, Disturbia, SOS and Unfaithful.

I wish they'd let her wear some pants, all these female artists have a uniform now I swear, leotard and stockings D: She has an amazing body but Lady Gaga to Shakira have worn outfits like hers on this live show. Anyway whomever arranges her material live did an amazing job and the live band is great.

To be honest I'm just excited to see a Black female artist do the rock thing, a mainstream one at that I should say. Sure its not pure rock but nothing in the mainstream music scene is nowadays and I'm excited to see her break barriers in terms of public image. When I was growing up I didn't know any other Black people who liked rock, except Slash (who's half) ahahaha. Also I liked Slash because he had giant curly hair like I did at the time lol. From my irl friendships I know that us ladies of color love our rock and edgy-ness but its nice to see someone in the media show that off too. In the American media especially there's almost like one accepted portrayal of Black people and their interests and its really annoying to the rest of us who don't share that definition or those interests.

Anyway Rated R is a good pop album, its diverse and addresses a lot of situations that she's been dealing with ever since that Chris Brown incident D: I recommend giving it a listen :D My fav tracks are: So Hard, Mad House, Rude Boy, Cold Case Love, and Photographs if Will.i.am didn't ruin it D:



The lyrics are fun and so nasty, but I was like she's speaking the truth man!

Tonight Imma let you be the rider, giddy up, giddy up, giddy up yea!

iPhone pics from Anthropologie store in Center City, Philadelphia. This is one of my favorite places to go seek inspiration. When you walk in there its like going into another world, where everything is filled with fantasy and whimsy. I wanna live in this store seriously!

( moar whimsy )

( MY FAIL DIY project )

Fall Foliage pics! I've taken pics around my neighborhood in Spring and Winter but never in fall for some reason. We got some lovely yellow leafed trees going on, part of why I love living where I do is that you get the urban landscape but there's also plenty of opportunity to enjoy the changing of seasons and scenery.

( yellow and orange )

I thought to pick
The flower of forgetting
For myself,
But I found it
Already growing in his heart

-Ono no Komachi


I just read that and was like goddamn! That is so deep and I think we've all experienced such sentiments.


Though I go to him constantly
On the paths of dream,
Never resting my feet,
In the real world
It doesn't equal a single glance.

- Ono no Komachi

ain't that the truth lol, Ono no Komachi keeps it real!

This week life has been basically illustrating by night, sleeping in the day lol. IDK I'm in the zone~ I'm almost done with my piece, I'd say its like 90% done. My inspirations are: wolves, winter, ukiyo-e master Hiroshige, snow, monochromatic colors, Buddhist style art.

I've been buying all these art reference books and I can't stop even though I'm broke as hell right now D: BUT I NEEDZ THEM! I bought this AMAZING book the other day.


Japan Season by Season $24 on amazon

Illustrations and photographs, each paired with an eloquent quotation, take the reader on a tour of the Land of the Rising Sun in Japan. The images include some of the earliest photographs taken in Japan, in addition to the work of contemporary photographers, plus traditional and modern prints and designs. The accompanying texts are taken from classic works like The Tale of Genji, as well as more modern literature, each one revealing a piece of wisdom from the East for each season of the year.
Japan has held a certain fascination for many Westerners since its reopening by Commodore Matthew Perry in 1854. Thanks to two centuries of isolation, its classical traditions and customs survived industralization and globalization, resulting in a unique blending of old and new. This book brings together the historical and the current in a broad portrait of Japanese heritage through the centuries.

Its really inspirational and awesome *-* I highly recommend it, despite that really exocitized write up from Amazon ugh~ Mythical far east ok we get it. I love the book because it showcases a range of work from minimalism to detailed, to somewhere in between. The simple kind of stuff is the hardest to do.

I also got this book which is like mindblowing in terms of the intricacy and detailing in the artwork.


Celestial Gallery $16.47 on amazon

Boldly reinterpreting the age-old Tibetan and Nepalese art form known as Thangka, Celestial Gallery offers beautifully detailed representations of mandalas, or celestial spheres. Simply gazing upon the mandalas is meant to inspire in the viewer a heightened state of intention and clarity. Master painter Romio Shrestha and his team of artisan monks have created postmodern versions of these enlightened Buddha realms from hand-ground malachite, lapis, marigolds, and other rare substances. Painted at times with a mere three hairs from the tail of a cat, these multifaceted scenes of otherworldly deities are rich with hauntingly powerful detail. Depictions of White Tara, Green Tara, the Medicine Buddha, and many other celestial beings invite and inspire meditation and reflection.

I've always wanted to know WHAT the name of this style of art is because I find it absolutely amazing, you see some of it in traditional Japanese tattoo art style. I love how they draw elements in nature like clouds, water and fire *-*

I think as an artist you can definitely learn a lot of timeless techniques and composition ideas from these styles of work. I don't really like a lot of contemporary graphic design and illustration because its so trendy, from one year to the next it looks dated, or just really fucking boring. To be honest I really hate annual compilations where firms are highlighted in Print magazine or whatever. The work just makes my eyes glaze over for the most part, because a lot of what is awarded and deemed "good" is really stale corporate oriented work. I find more interesting and creative work being curated online on design blogs.

My other big inspiration is wolves! Which are totally amazing creatures, I had no idea because what we all know about them is passed down from pop culture right? I'll post more about their awesome super predator-ness when I post my illustration piece. Its so sad how they were hunted to extinction because man is fucking stupid and evil and blamed them for his own insanity jfc D: Their population is slowly coming back but they were totally wiped out in France, Italy and Spain at one point -.-

I got this book around Halloween and I was like ohh~ Its like a historic account of where the myth of the werewolf came from and how man has dealt with his relationship with the wolf throughout the ages. Basically men had a bunch of psychological problems in the 15th and 16th centuries that they had no name or at the time scientific explanation for so they made up these stories about man transforming into animal~ LOL ugh poor wolves! They didn't do anything, it was just a bunch of cannibals feasting on children :/ No really ... they ate the children and some grown ups too but folklore spun stories about man's soul being owned by the beast.


Werewolves: A Field Guide to Shapeshifters, Lycanthropes, and Man-Beasts $10.19 on amazon.com

Most of us are familiar with the idea of a werewolf--that someone can change, either deliberately or unwillingly, into a ravenous creature--but is there some justification for such a belief? And if so, how is it achieved--through magical potions or ointments or simply by the light of the full moon? Or is the whole thing simply a form of delusion, the product of a disturbed mind?

In Werewolves, author Dr. Bob Curran examines the deep psychological roots that underlie this profane linking of human and beast. Do the roots of such a belief lie in the supernatural world, or are there other explanations? How has the discovery of feral children shaped our ideas of human-beasts? And what is the future of such beliefs? The author also considers the use of genetic engineering--in this case, the fusing of human and animal genes--in order to cure some human diseases and alleviate suffering. Is the idea of man turning into beast really so far fetched?

The book also has amazing mythical wolf related stories from Ancient Greece to Ireland and also Native American wolf stories. It also highlights how stories of were-people were used by the English to tarnish the Irish and Scottish as wild children eating people! If you're a myth geek like I am you'll love this book.

OMFG HE'S SO DREAMY~ *-* WAHHHHH, I can't stop listening to this song, its so sweet ;A; It shoulda been me oh Taeyang one day you'll make some lady very, very happy.

Henry Cavill posts are the BEST FUCKIN THING ON ONTD! Mostly because of the hilariously horny comments and the gifs of him being nude on The Tudors, oh and those sexy ass Hellraiser gifs omgggggggggggggg!!!!!!



http://community.livejournal.com/ohnotheydidnt/40589343.html

so much NSFW action omgg, he's so hot. I think he's gonna become ONTD's new b/f, the comments on ASkars posts never got that dirty! hhaahahahahaahahahaa




UGHHHHH I LOVE BEARDS LIKE THAT! *-*

OMG! LOL this is a clip from this drama that TOP is in called Iris. He saves this chick from creepy fucking dudes hitting on her in the club. Ohhhh I was fantasizing about something like this happening last week when that guy was cussing me from his car because I wasn't paying attention to him. Save meeeee TOP! haahaaaa.
Also BIG BANG's upcoming track Hallelujah is playing in the bg bwahaha ♥

You can watch the drama episodes subbed here:
http://aja-aja.com/regular/iris

TOP plays a hitman oh yea ♥

Big Bang sing in Japanese! LOL aw their accents are mild fail XD Why do they pronounce with so much staccato? IDGI, go listen to more native Japanese singers BB! haha. Anyway... this video is super classy and makes me think of Christmas. TOP and GD barely have anything to do but make longing glances haha, GD looks really bored not being the center of attention, Daesung sounds the best I think, but Taeyang does a good job with his accent on the chorus.



2NE1's Park Bom solo mv You and I, the pv is soooo gorgeous *-* and sad ;A; Awwww, Bommie! she's so super adorable in it ♥ ♥ ♥

http://www.life.com/image/3292734/in-gallery/25371/30-dumb-inventions

These had me loling so bad! The one with the lady in the shower with the protective makeup cap made me lose it hahahaaaaa. Also the one with the parents and baby harness on the ice skating ring, jesus christ why would you EVER think that's a good idea?

I'm sorry I love this stupid show! Its holding me over until True Blood comes back and it has sexy eye candy in the form of Ian Somerhalder's character Damon. In the clip he's the bad one reading the newspaper and telling the new vamp baby (this show's Jessica) that she should feed and be free! Stefan who's trying to keep her on the morally correct path is this show's Bill, thankfully he's not as annoyingly offensive! He still looks way too fucking old to be trying to pass off as a highschool student, much less a 17 yo! JFC! He looks 35, the school should be worried he's a pedo lol.

In terms of canon Damon would be your Eric/Lestat kinda vampire, he lives to be bad and he's so good at it. Stefan is your Louis/Bill type, he doesn't feed on humans NOW and feeds on animals lol, but he's not a fucking stalking weirdo like Edward, although he does have mysterious Edward qualities, but when allowed to show his personality he's actually really cute and interesting and there seems to be lot under all that brooding.

This show is actually pretty good for being aimed at teens, the first couple episodes are terrible but it keeps getting better and better.


Stefan and his maker Catherine

I also love how kinky Damon and Stefan's maker Catherine was, she was some civil war era femme fatale who wanted to fuck them both LOLOLOL GET IT GURL!! Oh yea they are brothers lololol double kinky and weird~



LOLLOL yea that's right, there was nothing subtle about their ad campaign XDDDD I'm tired of these stories where two guys fight over a girl, they should all just get together and fuck AMIRITE?




The lead female character is Elena and she looks just like their maker Catherine! Shocking I know ... anyway she's actually a pretty smart female character in the sense that when she finds out Stefan is a vamp she's like GET THE FUCK AWAY FROM ME! I DON'T WANNA BE EATEN! Which is surprising reaction, usually these females spread their legs right away ahaha. But I'm sure she'll lose all this common sense once she gets some vamp peen, look what happened to Sookie! She started out so great and then Bill "put his dead pecker" in her :/ But until then I shall enjoy Elena being a skeptic and a far better and intelligent person than Bella Swan, and way less self righteous than Sookie.


And everyone on ontd pretty much watches for this hot bastard, also he gets the best lines lol. Damon~



It airs Thursdays at 8 on the CW! You can watch all episodes on like sidereel.com or surthechannel.com or some place like that.

Edit to add:

The queen herself, Anne Rice talking about these young vampire things:

What do you think of the whole vampire phenomenon that’s taken hold?

I think it’s wonderful fun. Now that I don’t write the Vampire Chronicles I feel free to enjoy it. I really enjoy the HBO series “True Blood.” When I was writing my own, I wouldn’t have wanted to be influenced.

Have you read any of Stephenie Meyer’s books?

No, I haven’t read any of the Twilight series, but I did see the film. I felt that it reflected the deep desire of young women to have the mystery and protection and wisdom of older men. I think many girls mature much earlier than boys, and they are frustrated when they approach young boys for love or protection. Hence the fantasy of a wise and protective vampire coming into the life of a young girl who, of course, appreciates him in a special way.

Sounds like daddy issues lol, no but seriously I think she has a point. There is something about these eternal males who are supposed to look like teenagers but have the experience of older men. That is definitely tremendously attractive when you consider that even men in their 30s are still trying to live the lives of boys. @.@

Oh LJ finally has their Halloween banner up, the birthday one seemed to be there forever haha.




Hitchcock, Joan Fontaine and Laurence Olivier

Last night I watched this awesome early Alfred Hitchcock film called Rebecca and it was AMAZING! Its about this young and naive girl, (played Joan Fontaine) who marries this millionaire called Maxim de Winter, (played by the amazingly dreamy Laurence Olivier) and gets whisked off into his fancy lifestyle. He takes her to his huge mansion but ... the non-literal ghost of his dead wife Rebecca haunts her and the house. Rebecca was known as this witty, charming, worldly and stylish individual while the new Ms de Winter still dresses like a school girl and doesn't have very much self confidence. But her innocence is precisely what Maxim likes about her and he says that she is capable of something Rebecca wasn't, and that was to be a decent person.


This movie starts out being about how the ghosts (in the form of objects and people's memories) of previous wifes/girlfriends can remain in a man's life and how that can be really intimidating when you're the new girl, and you're the complete opposite of that previous woman.

I think a lot of women can relate to this you know? Its like you get to know his friends and they'll make a passing reference to her, or he'll take you somewhere and you can't help but wonder if he took her here too. These things make you feel uneasy and you can't help but compare yourself and be curious about that previous person who was an important part of their life. In this movie the mementos of Rebecca are everywhere, her room stayed the same, all of her initialized stationary and napkins were still being used, her taste in flower arrangements and how she ran the staff is the same. Its like the new Ms. de Winter couldn't escape BUT then the movie turns into this awesome mystery and we find out the truth about Rebecca and Max.

I can't talk too much about it without giving away the plot but I thought there were a lot of really great emotional moments that you could connect with as a woman. There were a lot of subtle things that the actress who played the second Ms de Winter really nailed. The movie was faithfully adapted from a novel written by a woman, the adaptation was superb in terms of the hitting those emotional nails on the head. And of course with Hitchcock at the helm, the thrill and suspense were well executed.

If you're a fan of a good thriller and love Hitchcock then definitely check out this movie. Once again this movie just shows you how far down the ladder the portrayal and writing for female characters has fallen in modern Hollywood. As women we've gained a lot since the 1940s when this movie was made, but in terms of media portrayals we don't seem to be advancing. Women in film are rarely portrayed as well rounded individuals, most times they are just foils for the male characters, sex objects, "nags," "bitches," wives, girlfriends. I always think that if an alien came to our planet and wanted to see what women were like and only had movies to draw upon and saw movies from the 2000s, he'd think all women devolved into shallow, skinny, Blonde, man obsessed idiots D:

The portrayal of females on paid cable is much more well rounded and interesting in terms of shows like Nurse Jackie or United States of Tara, and even on shows like Californication. These shows have certain facets of women that get explored that you normally don't see in movies, but then again its important to note that women are writing for the female characters on these shows! It shows especially in Californication, there are some real emotionally intimate things there sometimes that a male writer wouldn't ordinarily be attuned to.

Rebecca shows how important the female voice is in writing and how movies benefit from it. We all want to see ourselves reflected in our media and the more involved Women and other minorities get in the game, the better and more well rounded people we can see portrayed.

Oh btw you can watch the entire movie on youtube XD Start here!

Bom


Minji


I need a physical copy of W Korea's November edition so I can cut these two pics out, frame them and put them on my wall! Where would you buy this? IDK I'm going to NYC in November, I bet there's some bookstore there where I could get it.

That andro/masculine look is hot on Minji, not like that ugly chick from F(x) D: Why do they make her look like a really ugly fucking MAN? Like its not even androgynous, she just looks like she's living her life as a man.

So today I was walking around the city and I had my headphones on and I sorta hear some type of shouting going on in the background so I turn around and see a bunch of belligerent men in a car so I just shrug it off and keep walking. But apparently they were trying to get my attention and then got really fucking angry that I didn't pay attention. I'm in my own world and turn the corner and their car does too, and there was some traffic, as I'm walking one of them turns directly at me and screams really loud "FUCK YOU! YOU'RE A FUCKING BITCH!" And I was like uh ... your face would look nice against a brick wall, but then I walked into Urban Outfitters and looked at ugly shit to forget about what he said.

I mean honestly the whole thing was so fucking bizarre. I guess they thought I was being stuck up for not acknowledging their bullshit but seriously FUCK THEM! Women face this kind of harassment every fucking day and entitled assholes like that need to stop thinking they deserve anything in return.
Its not the first time someone has tried to catcall me from a car, but this is the first time they ever got belligerent about it. I figured the guy probably had some mental problems or something because the level of anger was just not normal at all.

Seriously though why can't men keep their unwelcome verbal contact to themselves? You know I think there's some scientific evidence that states that men can't read body language as well as women, if a woman is not interested you can easily tell by her body language. I just don't get catcalling at all!! And I'm sorry but its always minority men who do it! I could say some things about the men in the car that shouted at me...
I've walked by some White construction workers but never had anything rude said to me, I mean you can feel the eyes on you but no "hey ma can I talk to you?" bullshit.

I think those kind of situations are really fucked up because it can seriously make you feel unsafe. To be honest I'm glad they were in a car, I can't imagine having to have close contact with someone who displayed that much anger. And being in crowds is the worst because psychologically people don't want to get involved because they think oh someone else is gonna help.

If something like that ever happens to any of you, don't get upset about it because you can start to think that somehow its your fault, but seriously fuck men who are verbally abusive! A woman shouldn't be made to feel unsafe or shitty because she didn't wanna be play nice and reply to unwanted verbal contact. To be honest I really, really hate having to continue on a conversation with some strange guy just because I'm trying to be polite when all I want to do is tell him to stfu.

The other weekend I was in the bookstore, just minding my own fucking business and some dude starts talking to me and asking me all this info that I consider kinda private, like what I do and if I live around there and blah blah. All I wanted to do was get back to reading my magazine, but instead of telling him I didn't want to continue the conversation I felt the need to physically remove myself from the situation to put an end to it. It really pissed me off to have to do that because I shouldn't HAVE to feel the need to do that just to get this dumb fuck to stop talking to me, but I was trying to be polite and a nice girl. UGHHHHH. I slowly getting over stuff like that and learning to speak up more, but a lot of that crap that women put up with is so internalized its hard to deprogram yourself.

And that goes back to the body language thing, is like men can't tell or don't care about telling the difference of when you're trying to end a conversation and you're NOT FUCKING INTERESTED in talking to them. I'm sorry but its pretty fucking easy to tell when a girl is interested in continuing a conversation with you at least from my pov but then again women are more attuned to that kind thing D:

"I don't see how all of this is different than - let's take a modern sex-symbol like Brad Pitt. How many of the women who fantasize about him actually sleep with him?" he asks. "It's all fantasy - that's what entertainment is. I'm here to entertain you, and if my sexuality is apparent and you respond to it, and you're attracted to it, then great, I'm doing my job. It ain't happening anyway!"

This Adam Lambert spread (link NSFW) in Details magazine is ... confusing and disappointing! Why isn't he making out with a hot naked DUDE? This spread is weird because usually Details cover models never have female props in their spreads with them, its usually just hot pics of the GUY!



Look how fucking boring cover model Clive Owen's spread was! He's in bed alone! Fully clothed lol.



Tom Brady ... alone in bed, why no naked Gisele with him? lol



Bradley Cooper ... alone



Jason Bateman ... I'm sensing a pattern here lol



OH hayyyyyyy 8DDD I have this issue with JRM *-*





UNF UNF ERIC BANA!!!

What was I talking about again? I got distracted ... LOL

( some background info on Details magazine )

Anyway Adam's quote is interesting, it makes me think about all those closeted Hollywood actors and how people say they should stay in the closet because people won't believe them when they're acting on screen and are romantically involved with a woman. Adam is pretty honest about his sexual orientation but that hasn't stopped women from trying to engage him sexually or fantasize about him ...

"There was one woman in Jersey who was actually gorgeous," says Lambert. "She had obviously had a couple of cocktails, and during an after-show meet-and-greet, she just slithered up next to me and started kissing my neck. I was cool with it. But then it started to get a little weird because she was, like, moaning. She gave me a note that said, 'I want to make out with you, here's my number,' and I was like, wow, this is crazy.

8DDDDDDDD NEEDS MOAR TEDDY, LESS TAEYANG WEARING ~SHIRTS~


It makes me sad that this video is so fucking low budget compared to the G Dragon ones. But I love how RnB the song sounds and Taeyang's voice is so beautiful *-*

Oh hay flist D: Um I swear everyone only uses LJ sporadically lately lol. Is it because a lot of people transferred over to the 140 characters or less social networks? Sometimes you don't want to take the time to write out a whole entry about mundane kinda stuff. I'm more active over on FB D:





Anyway so I was watching Mad Men last night and the episode was completely brutal, I don't think any other show on tv has this many unlikeable characters on it, and its not even on the level on which you tend to hate most tv characters, that being that they make really stupid decisions or show a general lack of intelligence and foresight for the sake of plot development. Mad Men characters are just really selfish and cruel people.

Recently Don Draper was voted the most influential man from AskMen.com, and I was like ... so a bunch of douchebags look up to a man that:

-lies to everyone about his identity
-basically stole someone else's identity
-lies and cheats on his wife
-is completely selfish and self indulgent

His human flaws are what make him so relevant to men today. He is by turns a chain-smoking, drinking-in-the-office emblem of a bygone age, and an unusually real, earnest human being who illustrates the struggles modern men know all too well.

So basically Askmen.com wish they could get away with all the bullshit Don does? Granted I think modern men do struggle to define their own masculinity, but Don's version of that is not something to aspire too. Its an archetype I think few modern men could actually live up, I mean how many guys today can support 2 kids and a wife on a single income? To be honest they should be looking more to the Barack Obama end of the spectrum, a man who advocates personal responsibility in parenthood and the family. The comments on the site are kind of hilarious, because a lot of people are baffled by this selection and wonder wtf Don Draper has contributed to society? What has he supposedly influenced men to do? Plus very few people actually watch this show, you can't be truly influential if you don't have mass appeal as say our fucking President! D:

A lot of Mad Men viewers totally buy into the myth of Don and its kind of sickening to be honest. On last night's episode the Don Draper character showed his homophobia and now everyone is like OMG DON IS SUCH A BASTARD! But when he was cheating on his wife, running away from his family, he was totally just hot and charming, because his wife is an ice cold Queen anyways and she ~deserves~ it. STFU internet D: But being homophobe is totally unforgivable ~.~ I think they excuse his misogyny because "oh that's just how the times were" but that's just the times were regarding attitudes towards homosexuals, but somehow that's even worse than his contempt and disrespect for his wife.

I also watched Dexter, and online comments regarding Dexter's wife Rita are disturbing too. Frankly watching this show is an exercise is moral relativism haah, but um people are OMG HE SHOULD KILL RITA! SHE IS SO ANNOYING! I mean sure she's annoying as fuck, but the glee with which people advocate violence against her is kinda disturbing.

Californication also has a rather flawed lead male character in the form of Hank Moody, BUT at least Hank is aware of the fact that he's flawed and has issues with women and commitment, but at least he tries to be a good Dad and doesn't think his shit doesn't stink like Don. And well he doesn't kill people like Dexter lol. Hank is another male character you see guys gushing about but to be honest I have little faith that they get Hank, they might just see a womanizer who bangs hot chicks and that's the extent to which they admire him and miss all the other aspects of his personality and his self awareness, none of which are reflected in the following youtube clip.

This clip from season 2 is so fucking funny and totally NSFW! The female cook is supposed to be like an annoying Rachel Ray-type, Hank is played by David Duchovny, the other character in the scene is Lou Ashby, he's like a retired rockstar that Hank is writing a book about.



The writing on this show kind of amazes me, it has really dark humor, and the topics they engage in are ones you probably won't see anywhere else on tv lol, like last week's theme which dealt with women's dark rape fantasies.

Anyway yea male archetypes on tv!! I need to go get some soup, its supposed to be 40 degrees on thursday, fucking hell D: