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Oh, goodness. I want to say basically nothing about Occupy Wall Street, because I know close to nothing about Occupy Wall Street and I’d rather not say anything about something that I do try to know about but somehow still feel like I don’t know enough to have even a light conversation about (everything), but I do want to say: I’M SORRY, OCCUPY WALL STREET! You are involved in the dumbest things sometimes and a lot of the time it’s not your fault! You were all over the news that one day because Radiohead, yesterday you were all over the news because Batman, and today you are not exactly all over the news because The Real World, but sill, THIS! From Craigslist:
MTV’s Real World is seeking cast members to tell their unique stories on our show. If you are over the age of 20 and appear to be between the ages of 20-24, and the description below sounds like you, we want to hear from you!
Are you a part of the OCCUPY WALL STREET movement?
If so, please contact realworldcasting@bunim-murray.com. Your subject heading should be YOUR NAME and WALL STREET.
Please attach 3 RECENT PHOTOS and a brief BIO, including your full NAME, DATE OF BIRTH (for ID purposes only) as well as your CONTACT INFORMATION including PHONE #.
The most upsetting thing about this post, obviously, is that you must “appear to be between the ages of 20-24.” 24 is the cutoff age! THAT’S HOW OLD I AM! I am almost too old to be on The Real World and I haven’t even sent in a tape yet! (If I appeared to be anything close to my age!) (Which I do not, really!) (So I don’t really have a lot to worry about, I’ll probably be able to be on the real world until I start getting wrinkles, at which point I will just look like a child with wrinkles!) The best part of this post is that it says “the description below,” and then that description is JUST that you are a part of Occupy Wall Street. They probably won’t even check? So since this is basically my last chance, here is what I’m sending:
FULL NAME:
Kelly Conaboy
BIO:
I am abouuuutttt 22 years old and active in politics, namely Occupy Wall Street.
PHOTOS:
CONTACT INFO:
None.
I CAN’T WAIT TO MEET MY NEW ROOMMATES!
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Don’t worry, Kelly, there’s no age limit on the Occupy Wall Street Gone Wild videos I’m producing.
The really weird thing is that The Real World stopped casting politically aware people back when Kelly was in 6th grade. Since then it’s been nothing but oversexed alcoholic bodybuilders.
Are you implying that just because I’m an oversexed alcoholic bodybuilder I can’t be politically aware?
looks like they got some 23 year old with a copy of Atlas Shrugged in his/her backpack already lined up.
Was this person Occupying Wall Street out of their own best interest?
Also, this article was awesome at making a 28 year old feel crazy old.
The Real World doesn’t really appear to know what kind of show it’s casting….
Occupying Wall Street? Want to Occupy this hot tub?
fun story: i tried out for the real world about 3 years ago now? and it was right after the chris brown, rihanna thing, and it was a table of me and 8 girls and i made some off handed remark which i thought to be funnny at the time, needless to say i was asked to leave the casting call #highlightofmylife
i’ll be here…waiting for the story to get fun…
Anticlimactic.
I am far, far too old to try out, but I always* vaguely wanted to because the idea of someone (me) screaming about people (the other roomates) leaving lovepuddles in the showers and for god’s sakes did none of you learn how to wash the dishes, it’s not rocket science, and I made signs indicating that the confessional was being used for an orgy for a reason, would it kill you to use them? would be very funny.
*always = for about ten minutes until I got distracted by the yellow squirrel that lives in my parking lot.
For some reason, probably Real World and protests, this calls to mind the sweet irony of when hipsters in Wicker Park heavily protested Real World: Chicago because they said the production was gentrifying the neighborhood even though they were part of a process that displaced thousands of immigrants. I had a hearty lol when I read about that.
DISCLAIMER: NOT COMMENTING ON THE WISDOM OF GENTRIFICATION/POLITICS/ETC JUST THOUGHT IT WAS KIND OF TBS VERY IRONIC
Also: there used to be a website that aggregated all of the real world cast members’ myspace pages into one place. I can’t find it now, but if you ever stumbleupon it, it’s a real internet treta
Maybe they should be protesting Wicker Park instead, because OOF, that movie.
I remember that! We walked over there to see what the fuss was about, and there was no fuss. Just a bunch of hipsters with video cameras. I imagine they were all filming a documentary for film class. So glad I wasn’t in a film class that year. Would have had to watch a lot of Real World protest docs.
that’s how i feel when i see white kids holding up signs for occupy oakland and occupy brooklyn. y’all already did!
> I want to say basically nothing about Occupy Wall Street, because I know close to nothing about Occupy Wall Street
Here’s a basic rundown:
OWS was idea crafted by Adbusters to oppose corporate influence by starting something similar to the Arab Spring movements.
http://www.adbusters.org/blogs/adbusters-blog/occupywallstreet.html
While there were attempts to figure out one thing to unite around, that was a secondary goal to ensuring that it remains a leaderless movement. It’s organization is based on anarchist thought, though not anarchist in the sense of riots and such. It’s more about the belief in “self-organization: the assumption that human beings do not need to be threatened with prosecution in order to be able to come to reasonable understandings with each other, or to treat each other with dignity and respect.” It’s also a belief in the old “power corrupts” thing, where they resist giving individuals power because they don’t believe that anyone can hold power without abusing it. A quick overview of the warm and fuzzy kind of Anarchism:
http://theanarchistlibrary.org/HTML/David_Graeber__Are_You_An_Anarchist__The_Answer_May_Suprise_You_.html
Essentially it’s a bunch of people who think that people should exploit one another where the most violent thing they do is block traffic. Huzahhh.
Okay, so my post didn’t format right, so here is it again! Oh, and I forgot to say, this post is the funny.
> I want to say basically nothing about Occupy Wall Street, because I know close to nothing about Occupy Wall Street
Here’s a basic rundown:
OWS was idea crafted by Adbusters to oppose corporate influence by starting something similar to the Arab Spring movements.
http://www.adbusters.org/blogs/adbusters-blog/occupywallstreet.html
While there were attempts to figure out one thing to unite around, that was a secondary goal to ensuring that it remains a leaderless movement. It’s organization is based on anarchist thought, though not anarchist in the sense of riots and such. It’s more about the belief in “self-organization: the assumption that human beings do not need to be threatened with prosecution in order to be able to come to reasonable understandings with each other, or to treat each other with dignity and respect.” It’s also a belief in the old “power corrupts” thing, where they resist giving individuals power because they don’t believe that anyone can hold power without abusing it. A quick overview of the warm and fuzzy kind of Anarchism:
http://xrl.us/bmgi9i
Essentially it’s a bunch of people who think that people should exploit one another where the most violent thing they do is block traffic. Huzahhh.