The incredibly true adventures of a travel loving kid at heart who just became both an MBA and a recent widow. Navigating widowhood is the hardest thing I've ever done. Come along for the bumps in the journey.
5.30.2006
i'm a snob
i admit it. i'm a total snob. a music snob who knows far more than the lame peon telling me how cool the kid rock concert was. it isn't true, of course, that i know much more about music than the average kid on the street, but i live my life as if it is. and tonight i found out i'm an entirely other kind of snob as well. on tuesday and thursdays i have my LIT class... tonight was out midterm and after i finished my essay, i sat in the old raggedy couch in the hallway listening to my ipod (to music far cooler than anyone in my class could possibly imagine, of course). the hallway is full of classrooms for the arts... there's a room full of easels, a room full of video editing equipment and the hallway itsel fis lined with black and white photos... really really awful black and white photos. they're underexposed, overexposed, double exposed, badly composed... just really horrendous. They're not raw and artisticly deconstructed to evoke emotion... no, they're just crappy. So as i'm sitting there soaking up the stink that is the 15 or 20 photos someone thought enough of to tape against the lockers i see a girl walk out of one of the classrooms with a camera in hand... she takes a moment to snap 3 photos of the empty hall. the repeated flash apparently draws the attention of a girl nearby who knows camera girl... camera girl walks up to her friend and tells her to put her sunglasses on and "pose religiously". the girl throws her arms in the air in a pose not evenly vaguely reminiscent of anything religious that i've seen (oh, wait, were there roller coasters in the bible?) and the brightest flash on earth goes off again... i sit there, in all my snobby snobbiness, and think "if she were the slightest bit serious about photography she'd have a digital SLR and not that grey plastic box that does everything for her... i told you i'm a snob... and no one need comment that they can take better pictures with a disposable camera that they found in the trash under a carton of rotten milk than i can take with my fancy-ass digital SLR, because i'm well aware... but that's not the point, see?
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Yes! Raphie is a music and photography snob. I love it!!!!
...better than being a bitch!!!!!
See, I always have the opposite problem. I always feel "dumb" while thinking everyone else is a "snob" because I'm the kind of person who knows a little bit about a lot of things. And there are always people who know a lot about things. I secretly wonder if they look at me and think, "What a dweeb."
I don't know.. I have to say that being a bitch is a whole hell of a lot better than being a music and photography snob. If you're a bitch you get to be a snob with anything.. you don't have to limit yourself to just music and photography. But not everyone can be a Professional Bitch! It takes a lot of work and only a few Universities in the country have degrees for a Bachelor of Science in Bitchiness. But, R and A do an awful good job at being Professional Music and Photography Snobs... isn't that how we got the name "Autumbuster Music"?
You can take that camera and shove it up your ass!
"Not everyone can be a Professional Bitch.." You must be so proud!
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