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| Jesus Yellers |
| 05.12.05 (8:16 pm) [edit] |
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Before the Jesus Yellers rant, I will just say a few personal things. If you don't care about me feeling overwhelmed, and just want to know about Jesus yellers, it's under my current mood. This week, I had to do all the drawings for that project I was bitching about earlier. It ended up not being nearly so confrontational as my emotional self built it up to be. He asked me if I could do something. I told him honestly I didn't have time. The truth is, on Tuesday night, after having to drive to my Grandma's to drop off Jeremy's graduation card, I painted from 10:30 to 2. Then yesterday, I went to class, painted for 2 hours, went to my other class, turned in my (full!) sketchbook, painted, took a break to eat dinner and another to go to 7-11 for all-nighter food, and quit painting at about 4:45 after realizing I was cold, bored, frustrated with what the paint wasn't doing, running out of critical burt sienna, had other things to do, and justified to myself that plowing forward on the painting for another 4 or 5 hours was counter productive. Fine art students are whimps. People during TPFH were having drawing parties at 2, 4:00 in the morning. I never went. I wished there was one last night. I told people I was painting till 5 in the morning, and that was impressive. I thought it was just what needed to be done. Of course if I just abstracted things I could be done quicker. But I don't do that. I got the best compliment on TPFH! Everyone who passed by me and commented when I was working blew sunshine and rainbows up my ass. I only take compliments about my artwork from people who are better than me seriously. But in the elevator someone asked me about how the lady was holding the bananas on her head or something. And I think that is the best compliment because it isn't sunshine and rainbows, it's someone who actually said something thoughtful and worthwhile. Someone, who was in no way required to, thought about my work! Had my radio final today. Didn't study much because of the painting. We also turned in the project that I complaining about. There are too many boys in Radio TV Film. I know this because every project intended to be funny is nothing more than a constant barrage of sex and drug jokes with a lot of profanity. Just the incessantness of it all is a little monotonous after awhile. "I get it! You smoke crack and do weird auto-errotic shit!" Unfortunately girls are at the opposite end of that scale; they are kinda boring. While our project was surely not the most brilliant, it was probably the most different because we had semi-animated drawings which drew much praise. Speaking of girls being unfunny, is two commentators like John Madden and Al Michaels discussing a tiger mauling in a gladiatoresque arena funny? And we don't have much emotional attachment to the maulee... And after the tiger is done doing his business a little guy comes with a broom and one of those dustpans on a stick sweeping up an arm or something? Tomorrow I have a test on muscles. I got an email from KRON4 news about an internship. It will definetely be more production oriented than the other ones that I have yet to hear anything back from (it's been 3 weeks since the SF radio one). They didn't say "Come in for an interview" it was more like "Call us back quick, we're filling up fast." So maybe I won't So life is crazy. I'm going home this weekend. I think I am going to suggest the zoo wedding thing. (But mom, you said somewhere in Sacramento!) I hope going home isn't a mistake. Current Mood:  None, really.OK, now for the rant about Jesus Yellers Friends, I would like to take this moment to analyze a group of people I'd like to call The Jesus Yellers. You are already familiar with these people. They are the people that stand around in heavily populated areas; sometimes you see them at concerts. Sometimes they have signs, or t-shirts, or pamphlets. They are evangelical, but just as much street performers. They stand on the corner and pretty much tell you that you are going to hell. (Well, if you're going to be shouting at me in heaven...). They exercise almost every aspect of First Amendment at once. Although I'm not sure that First Amendment covers freedom of volume. Don't get me wrong. I'm not against them spreading the word of the Bible. I'm not against Christianity. Anyone who knows me remotely knows I'm very much in favor of the First Amendment (favoring the First Amendment means being willing to tolerate the speech you don't like along with the ones you do). I am just critical of their methods. For reasons I'm not clear on, they seem to be ascending on the Art Quad lately. One of them said I was a looser! :lol: That's funny, in my pursuit of higher education I don't feel like a looser. First thing I want to know is why are they always Christians. I realize that part of the Bible is the notion of spreading the word. But isn't that part of every religion? It's not good for business if you go with the "let's just keep this between us" model. I think their methods are all wrong. First off, you just stand around and yell, people are going to either be amused by you (like a street performer) or they are going to be annoyed. They may work in TV advertising, just to get you to remember them (ie those freaky Quizno's commercials a year or so ago!) But it does not work well for the pure spoken word. I saw some girls quietly sitting at a table by the art building promoting a Palestinian state with some pamphlets. I just had to say, "Thank you for quietly promoting your message." Second, universities are, in their purest form, bustling market places of free ideas. California is such a diverse place; faithfully practicing Christians are probably not in the majority. In addition, colleges and professors often get the stereotype (usually from Right Wing nut jobs with talk shows) as indoctoring students with liberal ideology. If we pretend that there is statistical evidence to back this up (I will say that I have found it to be more true than not, especially as a film major) that means that people are getting liberal ideologies, which do not cohere with the "Thou shalt nots" that Jesus Yellers (and the Religious Reich). So why would you come to a place that encourages free-thinking and different ways of looking at the world to shout about one singluar closed way of thinking of things? If you want to preach, go where people will listen to you! Lastly, it seems to me there are better ways to carry out God's word than shouting at people. If these people truly have nothing better to do, why don't they volunteer somewhere helping the needy? Why don't they do work with the church? If anyone who is Muslim and reading this, and you feel personally attacked by these people (which some did, Muslim kids started circling around some of these guys about to go in for the kill), don't react. Because if you do, it will do two things, it will prove that you are evil like they say you are, and they will feel like martyrs; people who had unpopular views and suffered for it. So, that is my rant about the Jesus Yellers. Please, quiet down. I have classes right where you yell. |
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