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Just finished watching Jesus Christ Superstar with the kids. Haven't seen it in a long, long time, and I'd forgotten just how powerful some of the scenes are. Pilate's Dream and Trial Before Pilate are just... gah. For some reason I've never understood, the exchange

PILATE
Then you are a king?

JESUS
It's you that say I am.
I look for truth and find that I get damned.

PILATE
But what is truth?
Is truth a changing law?
We both have truths.
Are mine the same as yours?

... gets to me somehow.

Oh, and. Somehow I'd forgotten just how campy King Herod's scene was. I blame heavy drinking.


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Stolen from a heck of a lot of people, the spoiled meme.

The idea is that if you can tick off 30 or more of the following items, you are Spoiled. Um... right then, let's go:

Do you have:
( ) your own cell phone (nope, lost it about 6 months ago)
(1) a television in your bedroom
( ) an iPod
(2) a photo printer (well, I've got a printer, and it prints photos; does that count?)
( ) your own phone line
( ) TiVo or a generic digital video recorder
(3) high-speed internet access (i.e., not dialup)
( ) a surround sound system in bedroom
(4) DVD player in bedroom
( ) at least a hundred DVDs
( ) a childfree bathroom (ROFLMAO)
(5) your own in-house office (does the room where our computers are count?)
( ) a pool
( ) a guest house
( ) a game room
(6) a queen-size bed or larger
( ) a stocked bar
(7) a working dishwasher
( ) an icemaker
(8) a working washer and dryer
( ) more than 20 pairs of shoes
( ) at least ten things from a designer store
( ) expensive sunglasses
( ) framed original art (not lithographs or prints)
( ) Egyptian cotton sheets or towels
( ) a multi-speed bike
( ) a gym membership
( ) large exercise equipment at home (not unless you count the mile-high laundry baskets)
( ) your own set of golf clubs (environmentalist here, so => anti-golf)
( ) a pool table
( ) a tennis court
( ) local access to a lake, large pond, or the sea
( ) your own pair of skis
(9) enough camping gear for a weekend trip in an isolated area
( ) a boat
( ) a jet ski
( ) a neighborhood committee membership
( ) a beach house or a vacation house/cabin
( ) wealthy family members
(10) two or more family cars
(11) a walk-in closet or pantry (pantry, in the basement)
(12) a yard
( ) a hammock
( ) a personal trainer
(13) good credit
(14) expensive jewelry (inherited from my mom)
( ) a designer bag that required being on a waiting list to get (I thought that was totally made up by Sex And The City!)
( ) at least $100 cash in your possession right now
( ) more than two credit cards bearing your name
(15) a stock portfolio. A small mutual fund.
(16) a passport
( ) a horse
( ) a trust fund (either for you or created by you)
(17) private medical insurance (through Chris' job)
(18) a college degree, and no outstanding student loans (Chris' outstanding student loans are quite enough, thank you)

Do you:
( ) shop for non-needed items for yourself (like clothes, jewelry, electronics) at least once a week
( ) do your regular grocery shopping at high-end or specialty stores (::snicker::)
( ) pay someone else to clean your house, do dishes, or launder your clothes (not counting dry-cleaning)
( ) go on weekend mini-vacations
( ) send dinners back with every flaw
(19) wear perfume or cologne (not body spray) (White Musk from The Body Shop?)
( ) regularly get your hair styled or nails done in a salon
( ) have a job but don't need the money
( ) stay at home with little financial sacrifice
( ) pay someone else to cook your meals
(20) pay someone else to watch your children or walk your dogs
( ) regularly pay someone else to drive you taxis
( ) expect a gift after you fight with your partner

Are you:
( ) married/partnered to a wealthy person
( ) baffled/surprised when you don't get your way

Have you:
(21) been on a cruise (I was twelve)
(22) traveled out of the country (my dad was an airline pilot, so yes)
( ) met a celebrity
(23) been to the Caribbean
(24) been to Europe
(25) been to Hawaii
(26) been to New York
( ) eaten at the space needle in Seattle
( ) been to the Mall of America
( ) been on the Eiffel tower in Paris
(27) been on the Statue of Liberty in New York
( ) moved more than three times because you wanted to (moved more than three times, yes; wanted to, never)
( ) dined with local political figures
(28) been to both the Atlantic coast and the Pacific coast

Did you:
( ) go to another country for your honeymoon (Stratford, Ontario doesn't count, does it?)
( ) hire a professional photographer for your wedding or party
(29) take riding or swimming lessons as a child
( ) attend private school
( ) have a Sweet 16 birthday party thrown for you

Hee - barely made it into the "not-spoiled" category. This was written by and for people under the age of 20, I think. Although Chris believes it to be written by a teenager with sadly inaccurate ideas of what grownup life is all about ;)


BTW, does anybody know whether those "Current Location" things ever show up anywhere other than in the lj Update forms?

Comments

[mynuet.livejournal.com]

Whee, JCS! The first time Milo made a directed noise, it was in imitation of Simon Zealotes' primal yell bit in the video. I used to come home from work and lay him on my chest and play the video and we'd nap together.

[snarkhunter.livejournal.com]

I got about 15 of those. And I consider myself pretty darn spoiled, considering my station in life.

Also, some of those are just lame. Eating at the Space Needle? Not *that* big a deal. Really. And since when does paying for child care = being spoiled/having money? Ugh.

Oh, I just realized I only got 14, since apparently having a college degree with loans = not spoiled. (I will admit to owning more than 20 pairs of shoes, but in my defense, I have had some of those shoes since high school, and usually buy them at places like Payless.)

[daf9.livejournal.com]

I think Chris has it right about the spoiled meme. Especially since if you blog google it and look for the earliest version you can find it includes items such as having a mom and a dad, your own room and, my personal favorites, construction paper and coloring books.