Guess what? I am beginning to write this at 11:18 PM, so don't expect it to be super deep or anything like that. I just have to do it today because I won't have time tomorrow.
This week wasn't particularly exciting. I let my friend cut my hair, which was an adventure. I have also been going to the gym with this friend regularly, and he is good. He has been correcting my form for me, which actually makes a huge difference. I used to not get very sore. Turns out it was because I wasn't actually working the muscles I was supposed to. Shoutout to Dylan. One day I'll have a six-pack. It is one of my life goals, but every year that slips means it is less likely to occur the following year. I should probably start running too, but I can't freaking run anymore. My lungs don't breathe the winter air.
I watched Kendrick ruin Drake again in his Super Bowl halftime show. This guy got SZA and Serena Williams to perform on the Drake disses with him, which is insane because Drake dated both of them. People sang "a minor" louder than they cheered for the Eagles all game long. My coworkers said that Kendrick mostly looked like his pants were too tight and thus couldn't move properly. I concur. The part where they stood in the shape of the American flag and danced in sync was pretty sick.
I liked Kendrick's rhetorical message portrayed through his show. I find messages in performance to be increasingly rare these days, so I appreciated his attempt. It was reminiscent of Shakespeare's "Taming of the Shrew," when Petruchio tells Kate that they need to play the game in order to get by and beat the system, while recognizing that the rules themselves are stupid. By dressing up Samuel L Jackson as Uncle Sam, Kendrick implied that some parts of America are kind of stuck in the past, and want to go back to an older, calmer way of life that is more proper and less... modern. His show demonstrated that the only way to move forward in a positive way is to acknowledge history, learn from it, and make something new. One must play by the rules that were created before to create something valuable to society. If they don't, they end up getting clowned on like Drake has been for violating common morals and ideals. I thoroughly enjoyed the brief part where Kendrick is having a conversation with his famous detuned female vox, responding to its recurring question: "Are you sure you want to do this?", after which he proceeded to roast Drake and ask America what it really valued.
Don't think I thought that the show was the best thing ever. I also felt that it was lacking in several areas, especially in K Dot's own choreography. The staging was kind of boring at times, and had several technical issues, including whatever deaf person was mixing his vocals. You couldn't understand most of his show, which was incredibly disappointing. He didn't have much diversity in his presentation, and he didn't elaborate on some fairly large parts of the set. Although the "game" was mentioned, it wasn't well explained, and left the viewer to fill in a lot of gaps. If they are used to doing that, then it works. When you're trying to get a message out to as many people as possible... such an approach is fairly ineffective.
There's my rhetorical analysis of the Super Bowl Halftime Show. In other news, I went on a really weird date with some slightly crazy girl who I kind of hope that I don't see again because she freaked me out. She wanted to drop out of school and study meditation in India. I got along with the 30 year old dentist guy who was there though.
My entire skin organ has been really itchy for some reason and I have broken blood vessels in several places, can't figure out what that's about. Not that you need to know that at all.
I'm gonna be so late for class tomorrow. I've been working on my French homework in between paragraphs, so I've gotta finish that up then go to sleep.
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