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yeah yeah yeahs: rich

wow! yesterday’s entry provoked quite a discussion, and i liked it!

thanks for all of yr responses… i truly enjoy learning about the perspectives and (varying) opinions of my friends. it’s one of those things that makes life so rich and interesting, don’t you think?

i’ll definitely make more of an effort to post provocative entries in the future, since it’s nice when my blog isn’t all fluff and cupcakes.

with that said…

ahem…

today i’m writing about gossip girl.

i know, i know, the ice caps are melting and the dollar is falling and the congo is basically my worst nightmare. which is why we all need a little distraction now and then, am i right? i guess it becomes an issue when we let too many things distract us from what’s “really going on” in the world, BUT gossip girl is ONLY one hour a week.

and it is a delicious, wicked little gem of an hour!

since i know i won’t convert many of you, today i’m just going to talk about how the show contrasts with my actual high school life, which is probably why i enjoy it so much.

ok, so, here’s the cast:

they are all GORGEOUS people, with incredible clothes, amazing hair, and pretty much killer bods. i mean, look at those legs on serena (the blonde in the front)!

here’s my friends and i in high school:

(i know, i already used this picture, but it’s the only one i have on this computer)

hmmm.

let’s see… jean shorts… t-shirts… bangs. and we all look, oh, about thirteen. did i mention this is our senior lunch? and also that the gossip girl cast are all in their junior year of high school? oh, except for jenny, who is OBVIOUSLY a freshman:

let’s contrast jenny, who plays a fourteen year-old, with how i look NOW, at 28:

GAH! I AM SO EXCITED TO FINALLY BE IN HIGH SCHOOL!!! i get my own locker and everything!!! plus high school boys are WAY more mature!

anyway

the point is, the people on this show are brazilliantly good-looking. and while my friends and i weren’t fugly or anything, we certainly didn’t hang all over limos and look like sex gods:

speaking of limos, all of the people on this show are cray cray rich. like, when blair (the brunette) has a slumber party, her servants bring in posh air mattresses and cover them with satin sheets, PLUS she hires manicurists and stylists so the girls can get their make-up and nails done while they search through racks of expensive clothes in order to play “dress-up.” here’s jenny and blair, in the middle of some simple, girlie fun:

“oh, that old thing? i got it at bendel, but it is SO last season. you can have it! now, let’s go play truth or dare, which is really an excuse to watch two girls kiss!”

seriously, they play truth or dare, which leads to making out with businessmen in bars and stealing jackets from store windows.

ok, when i had a slumber party in high school, it usually consisted of the following:

sleeping bags

doritos

pizza

my collection of nail polish, care of walgreens

clerks or princess bride

and when we played truth or dare, the dares involved something like crank calling a boy (gasp) or licking a stick of deodorant (SHOCKING).

i know, we were truly girls gone wild. especially when it came to fashion! oh man! sometimes i wore old navy jeans with a hook-ups t-shirt (you know, the skater brand! so alterna!), or if i really wanted to spice it up, i wore a tank top with jean shorts! and maybe some kooky socks!

this is how serena, the star of the show, dresses for school:

yeah, she has to wear a uniform, which is SO UNCOOL. i feel really lucky that i went to public school so that i could wear the crap out of my “cows from around the world” t-shirt and gap jeans.

also, um, i would die for those boots. literally.

i don’t quite understand the uniform policy, though. i’m starting to think that the basic rule is that you have to wear something that *looks* like a uniform… and that’s about it. take blair and her two sidekicks, whose names i can never remember:

congratulations! you girls look extremely preppy! you have officially met the dress code!

the girls hang out on the steps of the metropolitan museum of art every morning before school so that they can drink coffee and gossip and plan the next ball/soiree/Social Event Of The Season. hey! that’s just like how my drama friends and i would sit on the lobby floor of the theater before class and geek out about the upcoming play and what roles we might get! maybe i have more in common with this show than i thought!

so yeah, almost every episode of the show includes a massive blow-out fancy pants party. this week, blair hosted a masquerade ball, where everyone was glitzed up in thousand dollar outfits and masks. see?

i think the fanciest party i ever “threw” in high school was the annual drama club banquet, when we rented out a room at the local italian joint then had a slumber party on the stage of the theater. i even got to wear a dress from EXPRESS!!! holla!

most of our parties, however, looked sort of like this:

well, we ARE in a *formal* dining room setting. AND becky is actually wearing some sort of headdress, which gives you a little taste of our glamorous, hard partying ways.

i’m pretty sure there was cake, too.

also, let’s talk about the boys.

on the show, EVERY SINGLE GUY is incredibly good-looking. here’s the “bad guy” of the show, chuck:

you can tell he’s bad, because he’s sinfully handsome.

and then there’s dan, the potential love interest of serena:

what’s up, hotness?!

in high school, i had a few crushes. however, i wouldn’t say they were “future models” or “people i might actually want to see in a 12 month calendar.” know what i mean?

oh, you didn’t get a good look? here’s another picture:

dan is the “regular guy” on the show, and he’s also representative of “the poor.” see, he’s from williamsburg, in brooklyn, which hipsters might think is “cool” but is actually “the wrong side of the tracks.” dan is totally impoverished. like, he can’t afford a personal driver or a shopping spree at barney’s or ANYTHING! honestly, it is heartbreaking to watch him (handsomely) suffer like this.

i mean, in high school, i was lucky. i got to BABYSIT and earn up to $6 an hour! there were weeks when i could afford to buy a babydoll dress at judy’s AND some knee socks from contempo. watching dan struggle to survive makes me really appreciate the times when my friends and i could go to any movie theater we pleased AND buy junior mints!

i don’t even want to get started on serena, the lead character, but suffice it to say, i never came *remotely* close to looking like this in high school:

nor will i ever.

p.s. serena, will you write a hair care book and publish it, please? k thanks!

in summary, gossip girl is amazing. it’s the kind of reality we (ok, maybe just me) all wish we could live in, minus the frequent back-stabbing. i mean, don’t get my wrong. i had a great time in high school. but maybe, *just maybe*, it might have been a little better if i had a pair of thigh-high grey leather boots.

i’m just saying.

LINKS

if you’re a GG fan, check out this article in EW.

the UN published an environmental wake-up call. more like another reason to never, ever get out of bed again.

before i saw this clip, i never knew how much i wanted to watch phillipino television. but now, thanks to a future filipino christina aguilera, some bubbles and an extremely vocal audience, i do.

if gossip girl didn’t exactly inspire you to comment, maybe this will. hmm. i wonder if UT will give me the day off for Slut Day?
willie wonka has FINALLY released his scratch n sniff wallpaper!!!! but i don’t see any snozzberries on it. hmm.