skins

The snow fall in New York City this 2011 winter so far is about, what, six already?  I wasn’t really counting but I believe two of them hit us pretty hard.  In all this snow, I have been taking the subway because it’s better to leave the car where it is and take mass transit.  I can move it because I shoveled it out but no one else on the street seems to be moving their car, they're still covered and surrounded by snow.  If I drive my car and when I come back, I'll lose my spot.  I don't have a driveway.  I was watching the news that people have been leaving their garbage can to reserve their spot in front of their house, after all it is reasonable for whoever's hard work to shovel the area out to retain the spot.  How fair is it that you leave for even five minutes to the grocery store and the spot gets taken, unfair.

I saw ads for it twice, on the subway trains, is the only reason I wanted to check out the new MTV series called “skins”.  Originally I thought it was going to be about some teenage reality series with a bit more baring skin or something like that.  “skins” is a remake from a running hit show from the UK version of “skins”.  The first episode leads to I guess one definition of the name of the show: marijuana skins, rookies (more knowledgeable users use a bong or pipe because you get a better "high" from the fumes than smoking it).  In part from when they were going to smoke some marijuana in the SUV they stole at a rich kid's party, but searching for some marijuana skins they start moving around and accidently sink the SUV they stole in a body of water.  I say one definition because there is also the rated PG barring of clothing in the show.  It’s said to be about a show illustrating what teenagers really do in today’s times in High School, in this version is specifically plotted in Baltimore, Maryland.  The main topic of the show is sex: this episode focuses on one of the characters losing his virginity, now in High School, this topic is at the top of the agenda list.  The show begins with the main male character getting out of bed working out and viewing a nude neighbor, he then notices I guess is his sister coming home from a party with no shoes, clothes hanging off her and eyeliner washing down her eyes.  He blares the music as a distraction so his sister can come in unnoticed by their parents.  The rest of the beginning scene involves him messing with his father by purposely hogging the bathroom and locking the door so his father can't get in, later his father says something like: "you think I'm your bitch"?  Dysfunctional family at it's best.

The second episode of the American version of "skins" (2011) focuses on a teenager, named Tea, played by Sophia Black D'Elia who is a lesbian on the show.  It's been a week since I watched, so the part where I remember the show starting off is in class when Tea is staring at a guy in front of her, that, or dazing off. Unknowledgeable about her sexual preferences I assume she likes him, then another girl in front of Tea looks back glaring her way.  They make eye contact.  When class ends, a note lands on the other girl's desk, Betty; the note reads something like: "Northern Soul".  Scene flashes forward: you see Tea getting into a club with a fake ID that looks nothing like her, but bouncer lets her in.  Inside are all teenage girls dancing with some hip foot work for their age.  Betty shows up, they dance and in a one, two three scene you see Tea and Betty kissing and then with some vivid lesbian sex scenes.  A few other scenes from the show I recall include: the male main character, Tony, is set up on a date with Tea by their fathers not knowing all the details of their children's lives, Tony and Tea actually know one another from school, so I guess they play along and find that both their parents have mob connections.  They hang out on a playground Merry Go 'Round drinking Vodka talking a little more personal on a one to one level involving their sex lives.  Eventually in the heat of the moment they get so into each other that they have sex.  The funny part in the three seconds sex scene that past by when it ended is a comment by Tony after Tea starts laughing is: "normal girls like it"; and the other scene worth writing about involves a conversation between Tea and Tony, where it was addressed that Tea's father probably gave up being a top mob member after his "family disowned him", in order to pursue love with his wife, Tea's mom, possibly for marrying a Jewish wife.  This last note, along with some other plots in the episode shows the contrast between Tea's father and Tea who is not after commitment. -Play and Dance to: Wade In The Water by Marlene Shaw - Album: Anthology

So this is the depiction of today's youth via the view of MTV: marijuana smoking and liberal leaning to the left sex.  I mean we all chased after sex in our High School years, but I don't recall it being like this.