Deep Purple Rain... Haze, Yellow and Green

Nothing really happened today. I went to math at Graham and came back home. My dad gave me a ride home because he was in the area. We are supposed to be going to see Jesus Christ Superstar together but I haven't bought the tickets yet so with each passing second my chances at getting us seats at a decent price gets slimmer and slimmer. There was an awkward silence in the car so I filled the void with talk on the subject of Jesus Christ Superstar (I'm sure he was glad that the weight of the silence was relieved). We made fun of Ted Neely for playing Christ again. He played Him in 1973 in the film version of the musical and must now be at least in his mid 50's (whereas Jesus Himself was in his early 30's when he was crucified). Some guy from In Living Color is playing Judas which raised the question: "Are all the Judas's in Jesus Christ Superstar black?" I had been wondering for a month or two but had been too lazy to answer the question myself, so now I finally had the chance to ask my dad (whose pretty educated on the subjects of black people, music, movies and theatre among other things). It turns out that the original Judas was some white guy from Deep Purple, a seventies rock band. But somewhere down the line of Judas' a black one slipped in and at least since the movie came out all of the stage Judas's have been black, it's kind of like a tradition.
When he mentioned Deep Purple, mistaking it as a movie, I said "Oh I haven't seen that", there was a long silence and I back stepped trying to correct my blunder and added "Or heard them, I mean I've heard the name but I don't really know what your talking about."I think he was disappointed that I didn't know that Deep Purple was a band, but really, band names and short movie titles are easily confused (think Purple Rain and Purple Haze, one is a terrible movie starring Prince and one is a song by Jimi Hendrix), especially if your not familiar with 70's rock bands. It was an embarrassing blunder so I tried to recoup with Oscar talk. He powned me at this too when I confused Ellen Page as a Supporting Actress nominee and not as Leading Actress nominee. All in all it was a pretty uncomfortable conversation for me and despite my continuous attempts I didn't feel too intelligent in the end. This tends to happen alot when I try to talk to my dad about... anything. I rarely come out on top or as a conversational equal when I talk to him. I guess that just means whenever we I'll learn something new and no matter at what age I'll still feel like a child in the shadow of a giant library of black people, music, movies, and theatre knowledge.
We also made fun of my brother Cole who has recently proclaimed the colors Purple, Yellow and Green to be "his colors". I found this out when he came into my room last night clutching a purple tee shirt asking if I had anymore purple shirts that I wasn't wearing anymore. First of all I was still wearing that shirt and secondly what?" I went onto ask "you mean purple like a girl" (because Cole is a ballet dancer I enjoy the occasional jab at his sexuality). He elaborated with the explanation "Purple is the color of royalty. Green and yellow are also my new colors." I'm glad that he doesn't wear five pairs of destroyed jeans at the same time but there's only room for one picky shopper in this family, me. I started to notice his interest in dressing nicely when he adopted my moms white sweatshirt because "white is so fresh" (despite the sweatshirts darting meant to accentuate a womans frame). I have no problem with the colors purple, green and yellow but what he fails to realize is that together they are Mardi Gras colors. All I can do at this point is make sure that he never wears them together (except possibly during Mardi Gras).
Reading this journal entry to him he says "Well green has always been my color." This makes me wonder is everyone supposed to have a color, and why don't I have one. I don't have a color per say or a pallet, I've tended to gravitated recently towards colors that work well with brown (my skin color) but I wouldn't call them "my colors", maybe I should work on getting a signature color(s) in the near future so that when people see the color seafoam or mauve they'll think of me. That way I'll always on some level be remembered. I'll also benefit from the adoption of colors on other levels, "Oh look at that seafoam blazer, Jordan would love that, I'll get it for her birthday." No longer would I be plagued with people buying me clothes that I don't like. Now instead of saying "Oh... thanks... a velvet track suit" I can say, "Oh... thanks... a velvet tracksuit in mauve, this is my color, how did you know!."

Until next time...