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(For those of you *not* in the S.F. Bay Area this week, you don't know that apparently San Francisco has its equivalent of the Santa Ana winds and everyone in the area was/is competely cranky and insane this week. This will explain my mood).
In an effort to make myself feel better I was watching my long-neglected box set of the TV show "Titus". Based on the stand-up of Christopher Titus it is of course a cheesy sitcom, but it is also painful and real and funny and one of the better examples of a "dysfuctional" family on television. Before Fox TV fucked it up, it was one of the better shows on TV.
If you've never seen Christopher Titus' stand-up, watch some bits on Youtube. (I want to buy and send his special, "Norman Rockwell is Bleeding" to people for Christmas). This is someone who doesn't understand a two parent, "normal" home and who has kind of come to embrace that fact. As he says, 63% of the households in America are considered dysfunctional, which is good, because dysfunctional people know how to handle problems; when the Apocolypse comes, the other 37% are going to lose their minds. He has done stupid, cruel ugly, embarassing things-- and he's actually learned from them. He can even laugh at them, and laughter is the best medicine yeah, but it's also the kind of medicine that hurts like a mo fo. (And by dysfunctional I'm going to mention he's child of divorce, child of alcholic parents, of an unstable -heh- mother, the white trash elements...all that fun stuff).
And, Kittie may or may not appreciate this, but anyone's who's read my writing will recognize the truth of it; when he points out how children of dysfunction have problems learning to communicate, it's not even a joke, it's true. We require full-time translators. She was pointing this about me the other day, and rewatching "Titus" only confirmed that fact. It's uncomfortable seeing it spelled out like that, but I wouldn't be laughing if it wasn't true. If my childhood had been healthy and "normal", I'd be as confused as most of my friends would be watching it.
It's a hard thing, embracing your crazy, your weird, your W.T.-ness. He helps. Hell, even if you're not White Trash, if you didn't grow up not in a good neighborhood, or with crazies, or had a significant other who beat you up, or with the drunk-ass, horrible parent, or done something incredibly crazy and stupid just to rebel and to get the attention of someone who doesn't give a damn, even if you never had any of that, chances are, you still never had that picture-perfect childhood, and those scars are what make you who you are (and what make you make the art you do).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDiNk0t-BqY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-P2kxPEQ11Q&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SP1kKcZtnkQ&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpszZtVAAKw&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nDfaUnCPGk&feature=related
Hell, just watch all of "Normal Rockwell is Bleeding"
In an effort to make myself feel better I was watching my long-neglected box set of the TV show "Titus". Based on the stand-up of Christopher Titus it is of course a cheesy sitcom, but it is also painful and real and funny and one of the better examples of a "dysfuctional" family on television. Before Fox TV fucked it up, it was one of the better shows on TV.
If you've never seen Christopher Titus' stand-up, watch some bits on Youtube. (I want to buy and send his special, "Norman Rockwell is Bleeding" to people for Christmas). This is someone who doesn't understand a two parent, "normal" home and who has kind of come to embrace that fact. As he says, 63% of the households in America are considered dysfunctional, which is good, because dysfunctional people know how to handle problems; when the Apocolypse comes, the other 37% are going to lose their minds. He has done stupid, cruel ugly, embarassing things-- and he's actually learned from them. He can even laugh at them, and laughter is the best medicine yeah, but it's also the kind of medicine that hurts like a mo fo. (And by dysfunctional I'm going to mention he's child of divorce, child of alcholic parents, of an unstable -heh- mother, the white trash elements...all that fun stuff).
And, Kittie may or may not appreciate this, but anyone's who's read my writing will recognize the truth of it; when he points out how children of dysfunction have problems learning to communicate, it's not even a joke, it's true. We require full-time translators. She was pointing this about me the other day, and rewatching "Titus" only confirmed that fact. It's uncomfortable seeing it spelled out like that, but I wouldn't be laughing if it wasn't true. If my childhood had been healthy and "normal", I'd be as confused as most of my friends would be watching it.
It's a hard thing, embracing your crazy, your weird, your W.T.-ness. He helps. Hell, even if you're not White Trash, if you didn't grow up not in a good neighborhood, or with crazies, or had a significant other who beat you up, or with the drunk-ass, horrible parent, or done something incredibly crazy and stupid just to rebel and to get the attention of someone who doesn't give a damn, even if you never had any of that, chances are, you still never had that picture-perfect childhood, and those scars are what make you who you are (and what make you make the art you do).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDiNk0t-BqY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-P2kxPEQ11Q&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SP1kKcZtnkQ&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpszZtVAAKw&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nDfaUnCPGk&feature=related
Hell, just watch all of "Normal Rockwell is Bleeding"
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