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Jul. 5th, 2003 11:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
timepiececlockI'm kind of half-watching "MTV's Most Controversial Videos." They just had Jeremy by Pearl Jam, unedited. I remember seeing that video once before, a long time ago; I paid close attention to it this time. It was excellently directly and shot, more like a short film.
The show host said that it was based on the real story of a Texas boy who shot himself in front of his school class. Looking at it after all the school schootings of the last 4 years, it has a different significance to me. Almost freaky in its precognition. The character stylized in the music video and the song seemed to emboy all those elements of alientation, anger, pain, fear, and frustration that were described in the real world school shootings, though this boy only shot himself.
It made me sad.
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It also makes me angry (not about this kid, about the killers), because I got mocked somewhat in middle school and I never shot anyone, or blew anyone up. It's very.... weak. It's weak of them.
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I think I'm going to go back to reading Rowling now. Maybe Harry will get so upset he'll avera-kedavera his entire class. He still seems to be a Very.Angry.Young.Man.
Also, somewhat self-involved, now that I think about it. But I can see where he'd develop that from.
The show host said that it was based on the real story of a Texas boy who shot himself in front of his school class. Looking at it after all the school schootings of the last 4 years, it has a different significance to me. Almost freaky in its precognition. The character stylized in the music video and the song seemed to emboy all those elements of alientation, anger, pain, fear, and frustration that were described in the real world school shootings, though this boy only shot himself.
It made me sad.
[EDIT]
It also makes me angry (not about this kid, about the killers), because I got mocked somewhat in middle school and I never shot anyone, or blew anyone up. It's very.... weak. It's weak of them.
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I think I'm going to go back to reading Rowling now. Maybe Harry will get so upset he'll avera-kedavera his entire class. He still seems to be a Very.Angry.Young.Man.
Also, somewhat self-involved, now that I think about it. But I can see where he'd develop that from.
