Cultural Sophistication

Every few months or so I go through a phase where I decide I'm going to be more culturally refined.  I decide I'm going to watch more independent movies and read more classic literature and stop listening to only the 'Glee' soundtrack 24/7.  I'm in one of those phases right now.

Glee!

I feel like I need to listen to hipper podcasts.  Like Marc Maron's and 'This American Life'. (Which is on NPR. Which totally makes it important and intelligent and shit).  

I'm reading House of Leaves, which so far is awesome and the weirdest book I've ever read, but more importantly, makes me feel cooler.

One time I tried to read Jane Eyre on my own, without a professor telling me I have to, and it didn't work out.

Do classy people still read poetry?  I hate almost all poetry I've ever read so I'm not going there.

I feel like short stories are considered a cool thing to be in to.  Like, collections of short stories? I don't know.

I went through my DVR and canceled the season passes for shows that I don't think are good enough, like 'Gossip Girl' and 'Nikita'.  (Really, they are terrible).

I watched an independent movie on OnDemand today and it cost me $4.99.  But that's the price of intellectual superiority.

I still haven't seen 'Moonlight Kingdom'.  I haven't watched a documentary of any kind in, I'm gonna say, at least a year.


Sometimes I wonder, "Why can't I love small art-house movies as much as I love movies about superheroes and vampires?  Those people who talk about Bergman movies and how much they loved The Infinite Jest sound so much more sophisticated than I am."

Oh my god.  Look how long that is.
I don't even know what it's about.

For about twenty minutes.  And then I remember that that shit is boring and they just don't understand the emotional resonance of 'Grey's Anatomy'.  


That show makes me cry....

Almost 50% of these characters
are dead now.