Trash: my TED talk
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chase_acow
I think the last time I referred to myself as trash it was in a comment to a post someone had made about the new Terminator Dark Fate trailer which features this song that haunts my dreams:
But I called myself Terminator trash. If there's a terminator movie I'm going to watch it whether it's good or not, for me it's because I like the idea of terminators so much. I remember my mom leaving for work and telling my older brother not to let me watch the movie because I was too little and it was too scary. So we immediately watched the movie. Was I too little? Was it too scary? Yes. Emphatically yes, and I have ongoing occasional nightmares that a terminator is after me that leave me in a cold sweat and necessitate easy to reach nightlights even at the presidential age of 35. (Similar story with Jaws, though in that case the cartoon Street Sharks made the nightmares super weird.)
So trash. I have good feelings about the word, but probably because it's my label and hasn't ever been used against me. It releases me from having to be good or good at something as valued by others. I can just try my best, or accept that the things I like aren't the best, but I like them and that makes them worthwhile to me. This probably isn't news to y'all, but I sat at the kid's table for years when it came to understanding my media consumption.
I was thinking about trash during Toy Story 4, which was not exactly what I wanted due to the lack of funny, but Forky's existential crises about whether it is trash or toy is what I wanted based on the trailer. I liked Forky's character arc, kinda wish it had been more the point.
All of this was brought on by this article: Used Sporks in the Hands of an Angry God: Toy Story 4, The Good Place, and What it Means to Be Trash
Not my response the the sunshine challenge, but related. So how about it? Trash, yea or nay? And if yea, what sort of trash are you?
But I called myself Terminator trash. If there's a terminator movie I'm going to watch it whether it's good or not, for me it's because I like the idea of terminators so much. I remember my mom leaving for work and telling my older brother not to let me watch the movie because I was too little and it was too scary. So we immediately watched the movie. Was I too little? Was it too scary? Yes. Emphatically yes, and I have ongoing occasional nightmares that a terminator is after me that leave me in a cold sweat and necessitate easy to reach nightlights even at the presidential age of 35. (Similar story with Jaws, though in that case the cartoon Street Sharks made the nightmares super weird.)
So trash. I have good feelings about the word, but probably because it's my label and hasn't ever been used against me. It releases me from having to be good or good at something as valued by others. I can just try my best, or accept that the things I like aren't the best, but I like them and that makes them worthwhile to me. This probably isn't news to y'all, but I sat at the kid's table for years when it came to understanding my media consumption.
I was thinking about trash during Toy Story 4, which was not exactly what I wanted due to the lack of funny, but Forky's existential crises about whether it is trash or toy is what I wanted based on the trailer. I liked Forky's character arc, kinda wish it had been more the point.
All of this was brought on by this article: Used Sporks in the Hands of an Angry God: Toy Story 4, The Good Place, and What it Means to Be Trash
Not my response the the sunshine challenge, but related. So how about it? Trash, yea or nay? And if yea, what sort of trash are you?
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