30 Days

This is a series that I picked up a couple of weeks ago, from Morgan Spurlock, the creator of Super Size Me. I saw the commercials and couldn't resist. It's a show featuring six, one hour episodes of everyday people trying out someone elses lifestyle for the appropriatly named 30 days.

Not only are they entering a different lifstyle, but they're entering one the is completly opposite to their, religion, profession, ect. The first episode is Morgan himself, and his girlfriend living on minimum wage. They had a lot of issues between the two of them because of the $5.15 they were each making an hour. I saw this one on Oprah (one of the few oprah show I've ever seen) and the majority of the audience seemed horrified. In that case they would be clutching their hearts just stepping into my hometown of Frederic. According to the 2000 census the median income of males was $31,058 while females raked in an entire $20,625, we also had a 12.1% below poverty level within the entire population.

Another episode is of a homophobic religious man from Michigan going to live in the Castro area of San Francisco. Click here for some statistics on the amount of gay males living in San Fransisco. He goes to gay bars, clubs, and even gay churches. I had no idea they even existed until I watched this. On the streets there were protestors of the homosexuals, with signs reading, "God hates fags," which I believe isn't true, and that He hates the sin. This was by far the most interesting of the episodes. One quote I picked up from the homosexual preacher, Penny Davis, is, "I think God cares more about what we do with our resources than what we do with our genitalia." ...

Others include a binge drinking mom, american consumers forced to live in an environmentally friendly neighborhood, and a devout Christian living with Muslums. Not all of the characters are as interisting or charasmatic as others, but it's the experience that they had to go through that got my attention.