Banality of Beauty
This is from a recent Wife Swap episode which featured 15 year old, Alicia Guastaferro. It’s only two minutes long but details a spoiled rotten, only child, princess that believes it’s only what is on the outside that counts. It’s at times like this I’m disappointed that Kevin Spacey’s charater John Doe from Se7en is fictional. I wonder would she survive the Pride test, unlikely! Alas, at least from the supplied video, it looks like the parents have a lot to answer for.
However watching the video I am reminded of two things. One, when Jason Alexander was a guest on Dennis Miller Live :
I once went to speak at a school, and there was a 16-year-old girl…And the girl says to me, “You know what? I don’t care what I do, I just want to be famous.” And I thought, you know, I should really just shoot her in the head because it would serve two things: It would make her famous as the girl that Jason Alexander shot in the head, and it would, you know, spare the world of the banality of the rest of her life.
The other is from Bill Hicks discussing people who work in advertising or marketing, I would like to add teen aged beauty queens :
“By the way, if anyone here is in advertising or marketing, kill yourself. No, this is not a joke: kill yourself . . . I know what the marketing people are thinking now too: ‘Oh. He’s going for that anti-marketing dollar. That’s a good market.’ Oh man, I am not doing that, you fucking evil scumbags.”
