My alarm clock wakes me up with the same old buzzing noise to get my day started. I check the days weather on my phone and pick out cloths to match the temperature. Using my electric tooth brush, I brush my teeth and watch the ESPN for sports updates on the TV. Afterwords, I rush downstairs to grap something to drink and my stuff for school. To avoid the most traffic, my cell phone chooses the fastest route to my college and step by step directions to get there. Waiting for class to start, I text my best friend to see when he gets out of school. While texting I make plans to hang out with him after school and possibly go see a movie. During my drive home I synced my Ipod with my stereo and listened to my favorite music. My friend and I decided to play catch with the football, play some Madden on xbox, download some the new songs out, and later that night go see the new movie "Righteous Kill." We both thought the movie was intense and awsome. Following the movie I texted my mom letting her know I planned on staying at my buddies house for the night and I would be home tomorrow afternoon. Driving home in his new Ford Fusion, we played the music louder then usual and enjoyed every minuite of it. At my buddies house, we played some more Madden, used my laptop to update our Ipods, and fell asleep watching "Dirty Jobs" on the Discovery Channel.
After finishing my day I quickly realized how my usual routine and favorite activities completly revolve around technology and popular culture. By simply waking up to an alarm clock, watching TV, listing to popular music, texting, hanging out with my friend, or even checking the weather, I am expressing popular culture. My daily interaction with popular culture is impossible to erase and will never end. I also now realize that popular culture is truly anything and everything we do. In response to a question from the book "Text Messaging," What isn't popular culture?, I believe everything is popular culuter.
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