jesus h christ.
i started out watching SNL, cuz it's been awhile, but then i got bored with the paul simon attempt at heart string tuggin' and i wandered off into cable land....
and fuck if i didn't eventually land on the most fucked up yet mesmerizing broadcast, on msnbc...i only made it back once or twice to the joviality of SNL during commercial breaks from this intense shit...
it's a series called "captured" and it basically follows coroners on their jobs in l.a. it trapped me like deer in headlights, like the rubber-neckin jackass that i am...
this show was so real and disturbing that i am still processing it as i sit here typing.
it was a "real life" type documentary style show. it's actually a series. this one was called death on the streets or some such shit. it was an upclose interview with real l.a. deaths: two gunshot suicides, one suicide by throwing body in front of bus, and one accidental death by trying to cross the freeway. it showed the coroners taking photographs of the deceased involving holding facial parts in the best-guessed place, coroner sleuthing, body and parts removal, and notification of the family.
i couldn't stop watching. it was so sad and real. it made me cry and want to vomit. yet it also made me think... a lot....
we live in a really multidimensional world where a lot of fucked up shit goes down. small scale, big scale (i.e. a frantic young woman gets run over multiple times on the freeway in l.a.; many thousands die on 9-11). there is soooo much sad, sad, sad. it can break a girl's heart....
let's be happy that we can be happy....there IS a lot of happy....
can i get a witness? : (
i started out watching SNL, cuz it's been awhile, but then i got bored with the paul simon attempt at heart string tuggin' and i wandered off into cable land....
and fuck if i didn't eventually land on the most fucked up yet mesmerizing broadcast, on msnbc...i only made it back once or twice to the joviality of SNL during commercial breaks from this intense shit...
it's a series called "captured" and it basically follows coroners on their jobs in l.a. it trapped me like deer in headlights, like the rubber-neckin jackass that i am...
this show was so real and disturbing that i am still processing it as i sit here typing.
it was a "real life" type documentary style show. it's actually a series. this one was called death on the streets or some such shit. it was an upclose interview with real l.a. deaths: two gunshot suicides, one suicide by throwing body in front of bus, and one accidental death by trying to cross the freeway. it showed the coroners taking photographs of the deceased involving holding facial parts in the best-guessed place, coroner sleuthing, body and parts removal, and notification of the family.
i couldn't stop watching. it was so sad and real. it made me cry and want to vomit. yet it also made me think... a lot....
we live in a really multidimensional world where a lot of fucked up shit goes down. small scale, big scale (i.e. a frantic young woman gets run over multiple times on the freeway in l.a.; many thousands die on 9-11). there is soooo much sad, sad, sad. it can break a girl's heart....
let's be happy that we can be happy....there IS a lot of happy....
can i get a witness? : (
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life is much to short to dwell on the bad stuff
i know it can be hard when its in your face like that
sometimes we all need a reminder how good we have it
did you get my email? lemme know if i should resend it. ejoy the weekend...