Media Madness and Marketing Hell

What media do you typically consume?

For me, the typical media intake comes from a combination of the Internet and radio.

What are your favorite TV shows? Bands?Movies? Web sites? Video games?

I enjoy "Law and Order", "CSI" and "NCIS". I also watch a lot of the History Channel.

I don't have any particular bands I'm affiliated with but I do listen to a lot of music. It's a way of self medicating the ups and downs of the day.

My movie preference is about as wide as my music selection but I do have a particular fondness for poorly made and older Sci-Fi films. I enjoy getting friends together and riffing on the movie while it plays.

I have an addiction to Wikipedia, I get on there and just randomly type in any subject I have ever thought about and then read til I see something that catches my eye and takes me to another subject. There is no telling where you'll end up.

I used to play a lot of video games and I still do when given the opportunity, but that hasn't been the case here of late. I'm not restricted to a particular genre of gaming... Stratagy, RPGs, Shooters and a whole lot more. I enjoy playing it all. Well except sports games. If I'm going to play a sport, I'm doing it outside in the open air.


How does what you see and hear influence your language, your perception of normal,your likes/dislikes, and your opinion of what’s “cool”?

I've never been an aficionado on "cool". I learned a long time ago that if I act how I feel like acting, say what I'm thinking and pursue whatever it is I like doing, one of two things will happen. Either people like me or they don't... but the ones that do like me, are people I get along very well with. Everyone else is of no consequence to me. My surroundings and the company within does have an affect on the vulgarity of my language. I tend to try and limit my contact with such influences.

Write a paragraph outlining the effects of “cool hunting”on your own life or (if you aren't a teenager and don't feel like this applies to you) the life of someone you know.

"Cool Hunting" did affect my life. By marketing to my age group the Media shaped those around me, twisting thier perceptions of what's acceptable or not, they indirectly forced me to cope with thier own percieved veiw of reality. Still, while my ideas on things like sexuality, being more conservitive than presented by the media, were thought laughable by some people, I found plenty of people that accepted me. So I guess in the end it doesn't matter.