pop culture
Epic love stories and relationships as depicted in pop culture, though it rarely turns out like that in real life.
How Avengers: Endgame Changed My Life
Picture the scene if you will: it's 2019, you love movies and you've dutifully watched (almost) every installment of the MCU for the past eleven years. You've booked a double bill screening to see Infinity War and Endgame back-to-back, Endgame starting at one minute past midnight so you can be one of the first audiences in the world to see it. The cinema is busier than it often is at social hours of the day, lots of people are dressed up, and you can feel the excitement buzzing in the air. The film lives up to the hype, everybody gasps and laughs together, and you leave with a bubble of happiness around your little soul. It's still intact as you get into work the next morning. Yes you're a bit tired but you're on time and you do your damn job like you always do. One of your colleagues asks you how the film was and your boss overhears and accuses you, in front of your colleague and potentially customers, of being unprofessional. The bubble of happiness is well and truly disintegrated. You hold it together, hearing them talking about you to your colleague while they think you're out of earshot, until lunch when you cry in a public place, call your Mum, and then promptly hand in your four weeks notice when you get back.
By Angela Nolan3 years ago in Humans
America Don’t Have Talent
The names have been changed to keep their anonymity and time distorted the memory of the event, so it might not be as accurate as I wish it would be. However, I did my best to stay as close as possible from the truth I know. It’s as close as I could get from reality. If I remember correctly, it was in 2012, but I might be wrong and it’s just a detail anyway. Enjoy the story.
By Calie Judy Brooks3 years ago in Humans
Kate Bush v Tori Amos
It was the mid 80s. I was in a hot car, staring out an open window with my hand riding the rippling air of teenage angst and drama. This journey always managed to send me into a state of mental dreariness, particular during the monotonous landscape miles, which felt like slow motion driving over a B-grade movie set. We regularly travelled this 60 minute journey which took us from a beautiful farm into the nearest decent sized town of 3,000 people. During these trips, if the radio managed to crackle into existence, the local station became my vocal pinnacle and I would mumble along to legendary Australian rock, anticipating the occasional mind bend upon hearing international music
By Merry Adams3 years ago in Humans
The Beauty Over Brains Debate
The beauty over brains debate is a dispute that has been going on, I’d bet, for at least over a century. If you were to have asked me at the age of 12 what was more important, intellect or beauty, I would have looked at you funny. It was an obvious answer to me. I didn’t even think it needed to be discussed. I thought even the mere questioning of it was a sign of stupidity. “Intellect!”, is what I would’ve yelled with no second thought. I would’ve put brains over beauty every time until I was about 20 years old. But now, after having lived more life, my answer is a resounding vote for beauty.
By Dream Silas3 years ago in Humans
Waiting For The Green Light
This is inspired / stolen from a Bill Hicks sketch, as he was one of the most intelligent foul mouthed comedians ever. In fact this is going to be an appreciation of the great man with a retelling of the Green Light incident.
By Mike Singleton - Mikeydred3 years ago in Humans