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Tue | December 19, 2006

j'ai besoin an explanation of the youtube lazy sunday snl video

I watched it again just now not having realized that I had watched it twice before. I keep seeing references to it in articles (this time, TIME magazine) that tell me to watch it. While I get the general idea that it is parodying rap videos, I don't really get it specifically. I mean, it just seems like an ad for Magnolia cupcakes, which aren't even that good. And Narnia, which I haven't seen.

Mostly it's about how white people aren't cool. That's the source of humor in the video- white anxiety about themselves being white. I'd like to see a video that isn't for white people, dammit. And my new writing group, I like 'em, and am glad to have an active group- but what the hell, they are so white. One of the conversation topics of the last meeting was white guilt. It's like I feel like I have like, massive immunodeficiency problems and they are like, asking to be helped first for their papercuts and I am like in the emergency room about to die and they are like I have problems too you know and I'm like no you don't and they are like why are you so mean and bitter and I am like you don't understand and they are like explain it to me and I am like NO. it's too complicated and I don't need to explain this to you and then they are like then why are you talking and I am like I don't know. or I do know but I'm not going to explain that to you either and they're like okay whatever and I'm like NO IT'S NOT OKAY and they are like why are you shouting and they're like -no I'm like I'M NOT and then maybe I am. Of course I am not really shouting I never shout even when my flesh is melting away and my cells are like lysing and I am choking on my own blood.

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