movie quotes in my conversations

video games for boys

bondock saints

my favorite movie is boondock saints. If you have not seen it, i would highly recommend it if you can't handle the language. the interesting thing about this movie is that it was going to come to theatres the week after the Columbine shooting. It never even came to alot of theatres because of the subject matter. I must wonder if the people who control the movies think we are that open to suggesting. If not, then i wonder why they choose to pull the movie from theatres. The director had a chance to have such a hit, but he got cheated out of his glory because no one got to see his work.
Teaching idea: how does the government and society make choices for us about the media we consume?

family guy

So, I love family guy. Next to "what not to wear," it is my favorite show. The problem is, I am not allowed to watch it in my apartment because my room mates find it offensive... which it is... which is why I love it. I watch family guy almost every night over at my best friend Jason's house. We both love it and have a similar sense of humor. So, I think what this post is really about is media and how it is received in different cultures and communities. Obviously family guy is accepted in most college communities, but not so much in the BYU community because of its offensive nature. Likewise, nude art or models are not exactly favored on our campus. I suppose that is not really media, but it is a mixed media i guess... anyway, as for using this idea in my future classroom, I am going to have to be careful what I bring into the school because it may be something that I accept in my own culture, but it may be frowned upon in the school community.

missionary letters

So, I wrote a post a while back about my aunt and the e-cards she sends me and how fake I think they are. It made me think that I kinda do the same thing. I have been writing to a missionary for almost 2 years now. We dated before he left, but we are currently just "friends." In my letters I talk about church. I write little scriptures in the margins. I never talk about my dating life or anything like that, even though it is a huge part of my life. I am editing myself through my letters. I know that he only knows what I tell him, and so I only tell him things I want him to know. It's really strange. I almost feel like I'm lying to him, but I guess, like i put in my last post... I'm just making myself better through media.

Idea: how do we act differently when we are not face to face with someone?

post secret

There is a website that I check every single Sunday morning. It is Postsecret.com. PostSecret is an ongoing community art project where people mail in their secrets anonymously on one side of a homemade postcard. It started out as a small community art project in NY and has since grown to be a country wide phenomenon. the founder, Frank Waren, gives lectures and has galleries everywhere. he has also come out with a few books, filled with peoples secrets. I own 2 of them myself and love to read them. I really feel connected with the people who send in their secrets, even though I have never met them. The secrets range from sweet, to funny, to sad, and sexual. It covers all range of human nature and I think that is why I love it. I have sent in many a secret myself. I have never seen any of mine again posted on the website or in a book, but it is therapeutic to know that at least someone, (Frank,) knows my secret. I have every intention on starting a project like this in the school that I will end up at. I think it builds community and helps people. I guess that is my teaching idea. I am going to do this with my students.
Here are some links if you want to read more:
http://postsecret.blogspot.com/
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2204279126
http://www.postsecretcommunity.com/

online greeting cards

So, my aunt sends me online greeting cards for every single holiday that there is. The funny thing is, is that it seems like a nice gesture, bu honestly, shes crazy and mean to me whenever we are actually in the same space. She puts up this sweet front, like, "Look how thoughtful I am and how much I care because I go to americangreetings.com and send the same e-card to everyone I know!" On top of which, the cards she sends me are so annoying that I can only ever get through about 1/3rd of the song or cartoon before i close the window and never even get to see the message she attached.

here is an example:
http://www.americangreetings.com/ecards/view.pd?i=462926004&m=1693&rr=y&source=ag999

just go there and see how long you can watch that before your eyes cross and you start loosing blood from your ears. i give you about 30 seconds.

really this post is more about putting up a front through media than the actually media itself. I think we all do this. It's like online dating. we put up a media front to make us seem better than we really are.

lesson plan: In the mask club 2 weeks ago Cyrano de Bergerac, we saw 2 men who were both flawed. one was good looking and one was eloquent but ugly. They worked together to woo a woman. The eloquent one was using his words to make him appear better than he really was. this could lead to a discussion on trustworthy information on the internet. How accurate are things when no one must be accountable for the media they produce?

Blogging...

So, we are supposed to have these media blogs for our class. I think its interesting that I have not yet blogged about my blogging experience. I am supposed to have 3-5 of these a week. That means that I have to come in contact with, recognize, think about, blogg about and come up with a lesson idea revolving around 3-5 pieces of media each week. I am more than sure that I come into contact with quadruple that many pieces of media in a week. However, it is the rest of the steps that are driving me crazy. I find myself sitting down in front of the computer every day and thinking, "I should work on those media bloggs that are due, but i have no ideas, and I think its busy work, and a waist of time, because even if i can come up with teaching ideas for the media i encounter, I can guarantee i will never use it in my classroom."
so, in short, i don't think i really have a lesson idea here because I hate this assignment. However, since i am being graded on it, i can say that I intend for my students to keep a theatre journal in my class and they can use a blogg instead of just paper and pencil and I can check them that way.

what not to wear

My favorite tv show is "what not to wear" on TLC. I watch it every chance i get and whn I am at home, I record it on TVO and watch p to 8 eisodes in a row, only stoping for food and water. :) However, I think it is really interesing how much this show has effected how i see myself and how i see other people. I love this show and I really think it has given me a little bit better of a fatshion sence, but it has also made me extreemly critical of other people. I never used to notice or care how people deressed. I find myself saying thing like, "Clinton would kill him for wearing that shirt," or "What were tehy thinking when they left the house?! did then not look in the mirropr?" or "Shut up! thay outfit is awful!" Previously, I only worried about how kind they were and how they treated me. I still love this show, but I can definantly see how it has changes my oppinion and relationship with th world.
For a teaching idea, we could have a writing assignment on a piece of media that has changed our outlook on life and hwhat it actually id to change it. we could thn share ideas and stories and discuss jsut how influential the media is in our society.

my car radio

I love my car more than anything. it is so ghetto and it is falling apart at the scemes. she is a 96 ford conture in dark green. I have had her since my sophmore year of highschool. She is the car I learned to drive in and I dread the day she dies and takes the long walk to the freeway in the sky. I replaced her tape deck with a CD player and replaced all of her speakers about a year ago because I had blown them all out with the radio. In December, the radio mysteriously stoped working. It sounded liek somthing was grounding out in the passenger side door because I could throw things at the door and things would fade in and out. It was really strange becasue I usually listen to hardcore RAP when I am driving around. When my radio went out, I drove around in silence. It was really interesting because I realised that I drove slower. I was calmer and had less road rage. Recentlly, I have had better luck and the radio has started working a little bit better. The crazy thing is that I am again listening to music in the car and I can notice a difference in my driving and in the atmousphere in the car.
For a teaching Idea, we can talk about media affecting our emotions and manipulating wht we feel. For an activiy I could tell them that we are going to wright about a time when yu felt really sad or depressed and that I am going to play some background music for them. let them start writing, and then turn on music that is really happy, bouncy, and joyfull and let them go for a minute. then turn off the msuic and talk about weather it was easier or harder to wright about somthing sad when the music was happy.

Kurt Halsey

This is a digital painting from my favorite artist in the world, Kurt Halsey Fredricen. his website is: Kurthalsey.com where you can see the rest of his fantastic artwork. I love his art and I have about 500$ worth of his art hanging on my walls and in my personal collection. I feel a connection with his earlier artwork becasue I felt like it was speeking directly to me. it was my expirences and my emotions that I was expirencing when i was looking at his art. The artwoerk is cute bu itself, but I love it and continueto collect it because it is personal to me and tells my story. Likesise, I think comercials are more effective at selling to their target audience when they relate to the viewer. A mom is more likle to but a swiffer duster to rid herself of ehr dogs hair if the comercial shows a woman fed up with dog hair and solves her problems with a swiffer. I think that could be a really interesting classroom discussion. How the media effectivly sells to a specific audience.

facebook

So, i figured i could not have a media blog as a college student and not write about facebook. Facebook is a huge part of my life. its how i keep in contact with people. If I'm not friends with people on facebook, we are not really friends. Thats just the way it is. I think that facebook is really altering the way people communicate. I have only talked to my best friend on the phone twice since Christmas, which is lame, but i facebook her every single day. I advertise for my show on facebook. I look at facebook instead of doing my homework. my friends know how i am doing because of my status on facebook. It's really twisted if you think about it... so i try not to think about it.
As for using this in a classroom, I think, like the myspace project, this could be used for character analysis and exploration. what would your profile picture be? what applications would they add? who would they talk to?

ducks

Boys are Doctors; Girls are Nurses.

• Boys are football player; Girls are cheerleaders.
• Boys invent things; Girl use the things boys invent.
• Boys fix things; Girls need things fixed.
• Boys are presidents; Girls are first ladies.

--I'm Glad I'm a Boy, I am Glad I am a Girl

by Whitney Darrow, Jr. ã 1970

when we read this book in class, I cringed. I am always frustrated with moms who wont allow their boys to play with dolls, or their girls to play with cars. I have a really hard time with the restrictions of gender that our society places on us. For example, There was a little boy that came into my work with his mom and sister. he picked up a hot pink rubber duck and came over to me and asked if Pink was a boy color. I replied that colors don't belong to anyone, and pink could be everyones color. He got a big grin on his face and skipped off. Later, his mother and sister and he came up to the register to buy their things and the little girl put a light pink rubber duck on the counter and the boy put his hot pink duck on the counter. His mom looked at him and then picked up the duck. She told him to, "put it back and choose either a blue duck or a yellow one, because pink is for girls. you sister can get a pink duck, but you cant." He got the saddest look I have ever seen on his face and said, with tears welling up in his eyes, "but I don't like blue or yellow. the pink is pretty." She made him put back the duck and get a blue one. He walked over, changed ducks, and put the blue one on the counter in front of me, and said that he couldn't like pink because he was a boy. My heart broke for this little kid. What was wrong with this woman!? This boy was only about 4 years old! I had to ring them up. If I had had a dollar in my pocket, I would have bought a pink duck for that kid. The moral: boys should be allowed to play with dolls if they want to. the end

As for using this in my classroom: I need to be careful when making assumptions about gender. There are a lot of gender stereotypes in the theater that I don't want to enforce or reject entirely. I don t want to put any of my students into a mold of what girls and boys are supposed to do. I also however, must be aware that my student may have parents who do enforce gender stereotypes. In high school there was a student pulled from the musical by his dad because his dad wanted him to do soccer, not dance in a musical. I need to be sensitive when dealing with gender issues in my classroom.

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Enchanted

so I got to see the movie Enchanted over Christmas break with my family and again last week when it finally came to the dollar theater. Actually, i have seen it 3 times in the dollar theater, for 3 consecutive days because I LOVE IT! I just get so happy when she starts singing. it is so remenicient of my childhood movies with princesses and princes. The great thing now is that they have pulled my childhood into the real world and also pulled in some more adult themes. (For example, when the finance walks in and Giselle is in a towel.) It is still innocent and adorable, but it is not an entirely fluffy movie. Ok, its a mostly fluffy movie, but i love it anyway. It made me take another look however at my old animated favorites. I was watching Hercules and i started to think how silly it would seem if set in the real world... I don't know.
As far as using this in a classroom, we could always discuss and evaluate the conventions that are acceptable in animated films but not in regular movies and compare it to musical theatre and straight theatre.

shirts

So, for the show I am working on for directing is of course little shop of horrors. I wanted to create cast t-shirts because I am just that campy. I was designing shirts with a company that I had used before. However, because I only needed a small amount, they would have been really expensive. I was reading my Cosmo magazine... which I read cover to cover religiously every month. I noticed an advertisement on the side of on of the pages. It was for an online company that made personalized t-shirts. the add said that they had personalized shirts starting at 10$ a piece for just one. Granted, the picture that was int eh add was of a girl in a personalized tank and thong that said "Dave's Valentine" but it said they had shirts too. I did end up going to the web sight and between my cast and I we ordered over 200$ worth of shirts. (you can see them above.) I think it is i interesting becaue I have always blown off magasine advertisemnts mostly becuase I dont read magasines, (witht eh exception of cosmo.) Therefore, I always assumed that they were a waist of time and magazine space. TV was the only type of advertising that I thought was effective. But, just from one small advertisement a company got 200$ worth of business from just me. Never mind all the other people who have seen it.

talking on the phone and online

This is more of just an observation more than an experience with media. I was online last night talking with my best friend and my brother when my phone rang. it was my boyfriend. I spent the next 2 hours talking to all three of them without interrupting the flow of any of the conversations. AND, I actually was paying attention to all 3 people. I must say that I was rather impressed with my mad communication skills. the problem arose when my room mate walked in and wanted to talk about her date. I was not cool enough to keep up 2 online conversations, one phone conversation, and a face to face conversation.
I guess the only way I can connect this to a teaching idea is just to be aware that my students are going to be a multi tasking generation. Just because they are not looking at me attentively does not mean that they are not listening.

anchor man...

little shop, listening and blocking

I am directing a show this semester as you may well know and it scares me to death. I have been having trouble seeing in my head what I want it to look like and how to accomplish it anyway. In my frustration, I put in the CD of the show and started listening. Like a book on tape, my mind started seeing what was going on on the stage, even though I have never seen this show. I find it so interesting that I am able to see thing when given something to base my ideas from- like I hear the music, so I can see the blocking and the dancing. It is so cool! I had almost the entire show blocked after listening to the soundtrack. The realy crazy thing is that now I have a running start and I am able to block the scenes that do not have any music when I was not able to before. Can anyone explain why that is?
I have my little set design, and while I am listening to the music, my pencil jsut goes and draws where I want people to stand, be and what I want them to do. I think it is so interesting that the music is what has helped me figure out how i want this to look.

the billboard

I drove to salt lake last night to take my visiting teaching to the airport to visit her boyfriend for valentines day. I had heard that there was snow coming, but it seemed like the sky's were pretty clear and so we headed out 2 hours before her flight was schedule to leave. We got a little past Orem center street on the freeway, and then traffic stopped. It just stopped. There were small flurries, but nothing really bad. It then took us 3 1/2 hours to get from there to thanksgiving point. I am quite sure I could have walked faster. It was snowing really bad at that point. After we got over the bug hill at the point of the mountain, all the traffic just disappeared. It was so crazy. I would have thought they were all abducted or something. they just ::poof:: and vanished. we got her to the airport and she got on a later flight. However, I was then stuck in SLC because the southbound traffic was going even shower than the northbound had been. I had to spend the night at my grandparents, and subsequently miss this class the next day. There is a media related point to this story, I promise. during the hours that we did not move, we were right next to a huge billboard for BYU. It was one for online courses and it had a big picture of Meg Moffets face on it, with something like, "online classes fit her schedule!" and it got me thinking... Meg has not taken online classes... ever. she is just cute. thats why she is on that billboard. Then I was thinking, how often does that happen? In my magazines, and on TV, the people are just good looking. they may never have tried the product, service, or company they are representing. It makes me a little more wary of advertisements that seem convincing because of the people.

little shop of horrors, the movie

I am directing a show this semester. It is a condensed version of the musical of little shop of horrors the musical. I could not be more excited for the rehearsals to start. (they start tonight!!) I have focused on the fall and repentance process that Seymour goes through with his interactions with the plant. The plant is being played by a 6 foot girl who has crazy black hair and weights 102 lbs. I am so stoked. To prepare for rehearsals I watched the film last night. I cant even tell you how bad the acting was in the movie. I am stoked because I think that the actors who are playing my characters are going to be much more talented than Steve Martin, and rick Moranis. they were awful! However, after watching the film, i realize some things that I DON'T want to do. I don't want Audrey to be stupid and trashy. I want her to have a normal voice that dosnt

You aint artsier than me...

My friend sent me this song because I was feeling a little inadiquate. I am hoping to get a job working in the theater, and I don't think I fit the traditional theater stereotype. I am not a hippie and I may be radical here in Provo, but in the rest of the world I'm pretty conservative. I am not ok with getting naked on stage, among other things. My friend and I were talking about this and he sent me this song. besides the fact that I dig rap and the hiphop sound, I thought this was so funny and true. It made me feel like I don't have to fit the stereotype to make great art.

Artsy
by The Grouch.

You ain't artsier than me...
Cuz you got sideburns and a vintage Tee

i said You ain't artsier than me...
Cuz you pluck a guitar.. that ain't f-ckin bizarre

You ain't artsier than me...
Cuz you live in Los Felis, b***h you ain't jesus

You ain't artsier than me...
I got a colorful vocab... watch the low jab.

So what you're a vegan?
It shows in your presence you be geekin'
and you be seeking the same life
speakin the game like the enemy

hang tight

I got a tail about 6 foot 1 by infinity
full of sun, rain and potential energy
all you saw were the K-swiss,
clean crisp creased jeans means this.

So you thought in ----------- ?
thought-tipper, unzip the zipper
no I don't wear hemp or drink liquor
and that don't make me the man, just a little bit sicker

Spit-kicker with an eye from the big dipper
from an island clip emerges a loud whisper
and I'm proud of this. it's my art
You're doin yoga just to look the part

You ain't artsier than me...
cuz you chop up breaks and you dig in the crates

You ain't artsier than me...
You're just a trendy lesbian.. dreadlocked thespian

You ain't artsier than me...
cuz you make weed brownies and knit wool hats

You ain't artsier than me...
you pseduo-elitst old-school sap

Don't let an 808 scare ya
shake stripes off your shirt and clear the whole area
I'm humanoid too
and if you're cool with me then I'll look past avoiding you
...instead of through
I'm down with VWs and flossed-out caddys on 22s too.

I Bang for good fools
I kill for nothin
I bill for something
family and peace

hand me the piece I'll hit it... i'm social
hear my opinion. I'm proud. I'm vocal
local in a foreign place
more digital than dusty but trust me I be tourin space.

you be whorin' at a comfortable pace
you be skippin a chore just to jump in the race
I be bumpin my bass like you collect comics
I'm not weird. I'm honest

You ain't artsier than me...
cuz you only read books, don't watch tv.

You ain't artsier than me...
cuz you shop at whole foods in open-toed shoes

You ain't artsier than me...
cuz you speak real soft and drink chai tea

You ain't artsier than me...
I recycle too... I'm kinda like you

I just look cleaner. grown demeanor
wear deoderant... registered voter and
tree hugger too... not in these clothes
me lovin you but it's gotta be both ways

most days I'm earthy, stay grounded...
often it's a paper chase.. I'm well rounded
straight to face
it's all boundless
i'll make a sound universally dope

overcome adversity
reshape the worst of me
do it for the love and release it commercially
like a blockbuster started at sundance
you can't stop man you only get one chance

presentation is key
hesitation ain't me
innovation is my A R T
dedication is free
occupation is me
innovation is my A R T

You ain't artsier than me...
cuz you drive a hybrid and carpool with three

You ain't artsier than me...
cuz you a sixteenth mexican, you ain't ethnic and

You ain't artsier than me...
you're just a broke-ass poet with the same old cadence

You ain't artsier than me...
we was conscious first... welcome to earth.

Picture Documanary

January 24^th, 2008

Media in the contemporary classroom

Photo Essay

1. The narrative of these images is that of my apartment. It is the story of the past week that we have lived with no heat. The different images are thing specific to our survival in the cold of our apartment.

2. I was able to control what things I took pictures of, as well as lighting, placement of people/objects, and what I included in the pictures.

3. Figures include our furnace, our broken thermostat, snuggling room mates, coats, slippers, blankets, etc. There is a picture of my fish because we thought he was dead but he was just so cold that he stopped moving. We had to move him away from the window. I did not give to much thought to what was in the background, mostly I just tried to capture the main figures

4. The only pattern is the theme of the cold and dealing with the cold. I feel like all the figures presented are good representations for the cold in our apartment.

5. I think that showing a furnace of a thermostat is commonly understood to have something to do with temperature control. Also, coats, blankets, slippers, and things of that nature are commonly known to keep us warm. Those symbols are the most predominant.

6. I just want people to feel grateful for their warm apartments, and to get some understanding of what each image means.

Laugh out loud cats

So, in klas i talkd about talkin to ma bruthr. I cud not understand him wen he wus typin. he had me read lolcats so I cud understand him. at frst i cud not read it. After lookin at lots of pikshurs, I now can read them. It is intesting that this is teh new way fur kidz to writes. This is going to cauz prolums.




dis is one uf my favrits. this is the capshun that somone wrote for it:

Dis hits clos to teh home. Citee Ofishuls (fish? nom-nom-nom…) Atlanter sai pleh to teh baggee pantz. Dey can has teh law 2 pull up teh pants? I sez yesh…but udders do not want!

Translation: this hits close to the home. The city officials do not approve of baggy pants. They want to pass a law that requires people to pull their pants up. I agree with this, but other people do not like it.

Spider behavior

I was sent this video by my dad. he said it was a documentary I might find interesting. I was a little confused as to why he thought I might like spiders. However, after watching n it i saw what he meant. I think this video uses some great media tricks. I honestly thought this was a genuine documentary on spiders reactions to different substances. because I am working on my own documentary right now, I liked this because it gave me another way to frame my own. I realized that this was a great little clip because it was informative in the beginning, and entertaining near the end.

listening to music while doing homework...

In some of the first few days of class, we talked about the rising generation being one that multi-media-tasked. (for example watching TV and reading a magazine at the same time. Or surfing the web and listening to music.) I noticed something in the last few days that makes me feel dated and old. My baby sister (who is 16) spends hours on the computer. She always had her I-pod on her person and is always listening to it. She is listening to music when she rides in the car, but also when she is doing homework. My room mate, (who is only a year older than my sister... weird...) also listens to music while doing her homework. She even reads novels with the radio going full blast. Here is where I feel old. I can do anything that requires concentration while listening to music. At least not music with words. All my brain can focus on is the lyrics. I cant think about any other words when I am listening to music. Even in my car I listen to the same CD on repeat because I know the lyrics so well that I can concentrate on a conversation or something else while the radio is on. Likewise, I cant have the radio or TV on if I am trying to sleep. My brain can't tune out the words and it keeps my brain going even when I'm sleepy. There are a few movies that I can watch while falling asleep, but its because I have seen them so many times that know them by heart. I don't know what this entry is saying... but I'm saying it, :)

i was sent this clip by a friend and I thought it was ingenious. It was interesting to watch this after watching the VW commercial. Likewise, it is not immediately clear what this is a commercial for, and even after it is over, i still am more interested in the story than in whatever product this commercial is selling. (i think its lottery tickets, but i cant be sure.) Also, I must say that after watching this, I realized how absolutely awesome the kid in this commercial is. since the first time I saw this, I have been on a mission to find a time when I can use this trick.

Hairspray

I love the movie hairspray. I LOVE it. It is so cheesy and so happy, I cant help myself. In class, Professor Jensen made the comment that she would not yet allow her 7 year olds watch it because she did not think it was appropriate. I found this so strange, because this is one of the cleanest movies I have seen in a long time. I re-watched it today, trying to see why it might not be appropriate for young kids, because when thinking about it, nothing came to my mind. I was amassed at how many things popped out at me when I was looking for them. I am so used to some words and ideas and I just accept mild sexual humor as part of life that I never noticed so many of the little things before. I actually went online and found a parental review of this film and the list of things that were questionable was extensive!

Sex/Nudity (Heavy)
- A woman discusses "screwing the judges" and later refers to risking communicable diseases from such action. She later tries manipulate a man by implying that she wants to have sex, but he does not take the bait.
- For comedy, many different types of innuendo are present. A teen on the dance show will be absent due to pregnancy, and another teen sings that she won't go "all the way" but will go pretty far. After kissing a black boy, a girl states now that she has had chocolate she will never go back.
- Some teens on the dance show and in other places dance suggestively, and some women wear dresses that show significant cleavage.

Profanity (Moderate)
- The words "damn" and "ass" are used.
- The phrase "Oh my God" or derivatives of the phrase are used several times.

Alcohol/Drugs (Moderate)
- Some people are shown smoking, including several teenage girls smoking in the bathroom.
- Some pregnant women are shown smoking and drinking in a bar. A character comments that they are glamorous. The scene is intended to be funny, but the women are portrayed as beautiful and glamorous.

Bad/Disrespectful Behavior (Extreme)
- Several racial comments are played for comedy and to highlight the backward thinking of some characters who believe in segregation. In the opening song for the famous dance show, the teens sing that they are "nice white kids." Once a week the show has "Negro Day," when black dancers have their own dance party show. When Tracy gets sent to detention, the room is full of black students.


Still, I noticed that these were things that I couldn't even remember when trying to think of questionable content. I know this movie inside out, but none of these things stood out to me.
Also, i feel the need to state that Link is a stud, ;)

Coke plus

Whilst browsing my monthly subscription to cosmopolitan, I stumbled upon an advertisement for Diet coke plus. It looked almost identical to the one that I have found and posted here, except it read, "A Resolution, That tastes great" on it instead of the "your friend just got friendlier" I must admit that the add caught my eye. I have recently started weight watchers, and I also LOVE coke, (which i need to drastically reduce in my diet.) I feel kinda silly because I actually bought this product just because I saw this picture and I thought it might be worth trying. (it was not by the way. It tasted just like regular gross diet coke plus funny vitamin taste.) The silly thing is, I went back and found the add later to see what it was about it that got my attention. I realized it was 2 things. the first was the slogan: A Resolution, That tastes great! I had made a resolution to loose weight this semester, and this convinced me that it might be worth a try. The second thing is really silly: the flower emblem and the rainbow font. Lame, I know. It just looked so happy and like something I would enjoy, and therefor the coke must also be something I would enjoy, right? wrong. gross.

speical

My first post. arnt i special.