joyce meyer

I have lost faith in my country's tastes yet again...

So I'm pretty much used to everything that I love (music, movies, books, whatever) being completely ignored or even hated by the majority of my conservative (and in many ways quite backward) country. That doesn't mean that it doesn't still sting sometimes. The most recent example was definitely a stinger.
What kind of country do I live in where the Alvin & The Chipmunks movie (freaking Alvin & The Chipmunks!!!!!) can debut to nearly double the box office that The Golden Compass did last weekend? It's enough to make me want to crawl under a rock and cry.