This beat is automatic, supersonic, hypnotic, funky fresh, outrageous, so contagious...

So, I was just watching some shizzle on abovetheinfluence.com, which I was only on because they had an advert when I was watching launchcast videos and there was a link and, automatically, I clicked it. Anyway, I watched the adverts, and there was this one called Transformation with this guy in the middle of a room and in speduptimemode (there's so a technical term for that) all these people changed his clothes and his hair and his whole appearance, and the advert was saying how taking drugs because people tell you to is just giving up who you are and who you decide to be and letting them decide for you, which is the basic theme of the adverts.

And it made me think. Aren't we all just who someone else wants us to be? Don't we all just hide or ignore the things we don't like and emphasise the good parts? So, then, let's say for example that you have a friend you don't see very often. You see them just enough to still know who they are but not often enough to know very much about them. Every time you see them you meet up in the same place for the same amount of time; the location and the dates and the times never change, so there's nothing memorable about that, other than a day on your calendar where you go "oh yeah, that's the day I see-". So then, because you don't see them very often, and because there's nothing really to differentiate between one meeting and another, you have to build up a picture of them as a person every time you see them, because you've forgotten it by the time you see them again. So, the first time you meet, they're wearing a My Chemical Romance hoodie and they talk about their crush a lot, and so you think, okay, teenageangstypityme type. The next time they're wearing pink and talking about their horse, so you think, okay, girliegirlspoiledlittleprincessdaddy'slittleangel. Is this or is this not making people into what you want them to be, or what it's easiest for you to think of them as?

Ticking all these boxes and grouping them in your head for your convenience. Not getting to know people but knowing to easily sweep everyone away into stereotypes, regardless of whether these labels actually fit them or not. If the square peg doesn't fit in the circle hole, you're damn well going to make it fit! You'll sand off its edges and you'll maybe widen the hole a little, but they're still not two things designed to go together, and you're just doing it out of laziness and stubborness.

In other news, I really want a video camera. I hope I get one for Christmas, which is ages away but still.