I have chosen one of my close friends and good diva Steve (Also known upon the web as a certain Stevie Luna Mori). Oddly enough me and Steve meet over some great pop cultural discussions in a state called Ohio (Believe me, you never want to go there!) so I thought he would be perfect for this assignment because he is so outlandish in expressing his feelings.
Steve is a 20 year old student/worker who lives in upstate NY. Steve is what we’d call an “obsessed” blogger as he partakes in reading the millions of blogs on lj and writing entries in his very own blog. While it is fun to read his blog it is easy to say that he is a celebrity reader who enjoys finding out the latest dish on celebrities in Hollywood.
Since Steve was little he was watching MTV due to his love of music, it’s how he became a Madonna fan so he thanks all of his obsessions with the birth of MTV or what it’s former self was. It was here that Steve really accounts the birth of his popular culture intake was born.
He’s also very hardcore about the internet, using it as a source to read news, watch videos, and more that he even went and bought himself a sidekick, something that is advertise for being so internet friendly that it leaves Steve never being a walk away from the interwebs. He also says this is the source for his music obsession and claims that he has a 60 kb ipod that is filled to the brink with music relating how much music really does connect with us on a deeper level. Not only does the device offer him convince but also reassures he’ll never be without his favorite artist blaring in his ear drums.
Steve is perfect for my project not only because he is a media junkie but that he has participated in many different versions of pop culture. Not only has Steve been a fan of comic books, he writes web comics, and works with flash animation for the world to see.
Besides all of these things, one of the things that really interest me and picked Steve out for me was the fact that he was really not denied any aspects of Popular Culture as a child, he tells me that his mother was open and did not keep anything from him that she deemed “inappropriate” for his to see, except for porn which has no place in this assignment at all of course. Maybe this is why Steve grew to have an obsession with the unbridle Madonna who through out her career has been known for her blunt use of sexuality and shocking escapades. Yet, this is only one theory.
My questions for Steve are:
1. In childhood what forms of media were you allowed to consume & what forms of media were you not allowed to take in?
(Steve answered this for me with his little bio he gave me but I believe it is key for setting up some of the answers afterwards)
2. How did you discover Sailormoon & what age were you at this time?
3. What were your original feelings about the show and how much did you consume of it (Such as T-shirts, stickers, talking about the show, finding fans on-line)?
4. Have you gotten to see the original uncut Japanese version of the show & if so please describe your feelings towards it & the impact it had on your memories of the English version?
5. How does watching Sailormoon impact your views of the world and people around you; has it helped shape any of your ideologies or view points?
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The questions you asked are interesting. I think it would be cool to see how he thinks of sailormoon now as compared to when he was a little kid. Also, the discussion about sailormoon in the U.S. vs the japanese version is really great becuase it shows how cultually different we are from one another.
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