This year, 2009, marks ten years since I've graduated from high school. In actual chronological time, ten years is not that long. I'm still in my twenties, I still rent my residence, and I still eat ramen on a semi-regular basis; in other words, I don't feel like I've even ventured into Sophisticated Adult territory, that wonderful foreign land where people drive cars with heated leather seats and know how to cook artichokes. In pop culture terms, however, I am an ancient fossil. I make jokes with Saved by the Bell references in them and whenever I see Zac Efron described as a heartthrob I want to lock myself in a dark closet for, like, the rest of my life. So naturally when I heard about the new FOX series Glee, which is set in high school, I had visions of shaggy-haired hipster wannabes and waifish fashion victims; essentially the characters from the new 90210 regurgitated and repackaged for a comedy show.
I was wrong! Sure, Glee has many of the usual expected television archetypes (the dumb-as-dirt jock, the mean-girl cheerleader) but their own special brand of jock has a mohawk, is named Puck, and is played by 26-year old Dallas native Mark Salling, who is old enough to remember his namesake from Real World San Francisco. Wherever his high school is, I want to go.
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2 comments:
i. love. glee.
From someone creeping up way too damn fast on her 18th high school graduation anniversary-
the sophisticated adulthood of which you speak means being too tired to party often of stay up past 11,
paying dearly when you do, things sagging way earlier than you ever expected despite years of fitness, and the USPS man seeing you in your pajamas and it NOT being a good thing.
Hold onto your twenties for dear life Girl!
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