For smiles or for sex?: gunther, a case study

It's hard enough to determine weather someone is doing something that is jenuine or not. For the sake of this entry I'll be talking about humor. We usually have our own ways of figuring this out, such as if the person is saying "I fucking hate you" while they smile or if your friend turns to your other friend and says "I want your dick" and then punches it. These things are easy to detect as joking. Yet, it's not always clear. Sometimes people are "half joking." It gets especially conflusing when someone plays a character to the point that it's still funny but it seems that their silliness and them have begun to fuze into one strange being. This is also the case when you meet such a strange and bizzare creature with pouted lips and sounds that include that the line between joking and senserity becomes really fucking blury.

One such being is a scandanavian pop-glam sensation who calls himself Gunther. According to various parts of his website and his videoblog (http://www.gunthernet.com), his jihad (my word, not theirs) in this world is to make songs "of love to the whole world" through "Champagne, Glamour, Sex and Respect." Clicking on his youtube videos you begin to listen to the hypnotic beats and his seductive voice as it calls out, "Ohhh, you touch my tra-la-la. Ahhh, my ding-ding-dong." He also has a Christmas song starts out with a nice cozy Christmas setting, just like all of us Christ followers have had. Remeber when your aunts and grandmother put on some makeup and got dressed "more comfortably" with their new metrosexual Euro-boytoy? "Mmm it's christmas, Christmas ahhhh." "Kissing, presents, candy, ahhhh." So fun!

After experiencing his website and music, I had to ask myself "is this man for real?" Is it half joke half superstar sensation? Lord knows. He says such rediculious things as "ding dong needs a christmas song" yet the video quality is very high and he has such a conviction in his pouted lips and sighs. So then i ask all of you my friends, is it real? Could it be? Is it important? These qustions still go unanswered and probably will be debated by scholars and weirdos for centuries to come.

In conclusion, thanks to college I could probably have submitted this to an academic journal and become published. Thanks mom and dad, clark university, the financial system and my $54,000 in debt! :(
But at least ding-dong got his christmas song...