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Yesterday I read in the May/June edition of Adbusters that the average American consumes about 34 gigabytes of media per day, with another studying claiming that 8-18 year old Americans spend 7.5 hours a day consuming media as well. This makes sense, with all of the time we spend looking at screens, and listening to music, too. Of course, we are left to ourselves to unearth the intricacies of how these studies are done, but that's okay, because it's Adbusters. They're such smart and hip folks.

I mean, don't get me wrong, I am glad they exist. I just associate a queasy sort of feeling in the stomach with that magazine, you know. After doing a full read-through of it I can't help but feel a little more intelligent and aware, yet somehow stripped of my innocence, my blindness to all the brainwashing done by "society," "the media" and "big corporations."


Speaking of media consumption, I would see this movie if the opportunity presented itself:



Especially considering the fact that a blog I dig gave it some thumbs up in this post, too. Brett has great taste in movies. I feel like we should be friends, or something. (via Sarah. thanks for posting it!)


Oh, so lovely -- I heard this song at a fundraiser tonight for a project of Leanne's church... of course, we all know it, it's in movies and media all the time. I had never seen it performed live. But do take a listen. It's from Léo Delibes’ opera Lakmé. How lovely.


Sous le dôme épais - Joan Sutherland






.... How many gigabytes has this been?