Man, the part where the whales fade up behind the music... That is the defining moment of the piece. It was amazing.
This piece rips on the ridiculous way people try to paint a dramatic picture of such and such situation, and whether or not they realize it, end up just turning out one cliche after another. But on the radio!
It's like being in a high school english class and listening to your peers read their "what I did over the summer" papers and rolling your eyes to your chums and thinking "god these people are so lame and corny! were they trying to sound dopey? my paper is far superior". But on the radio!
Basically, the satire is pretty heavy handed. Over the top, even, and when you get the corny monolouge mixed with the oh so witty commentary plus some ell oh ell sound clips, it's kinda confusing! In the end, though, the point is made that all the cliches really do serve a purpose, and that even the corniest high school english paper had something human behind it.
Review of Graduation Story
Ben Lavine
Posted on December 07, 2005 at 06:30 PM
Man, the part where the whales fade up behind the music... That is the defining moment of the piece. It was amazing.
This piece rips on the ridiculous way people try to paint a dramatic picture of such and such situation, and whether or not they realize it, end up just turning out one cliche after another. But on the radio!
It's like being in a high school english class and listening to your peers read their "what I did over the summer" papers and rolling your eyes to your chums and thinking "god these people are so lame and corny! were they trying to sound dopey? my paper is far superior". But on the radio!
Basically, the satire is pretty heavy handed. Over the top, even, and when you get the corny monolouge mixed with the oh so witty commentary plus some ell oh ell sound clips, it's kinda confusing! In the end, though, the point is made that all the cliches really do serve a purpose, and that even the corniest high school english paper had something human behind it.