Thursday, November 11, 2004
All Fuzzy On The Western Front
Excerpt from an email to My Friend John:
There was no real "Kerry state" per se. I've been reading the last couple days how the Hollyweirdians are just in "Shock". Seems even parts of California itself are hotbeds of Conservative thought! Who knew? Well, outside your town, anyway, LOL.They seem to think that, because they go on location every once in a while, they've got the "pulse" of the American people. I guess because Jennifer Anniston gets "courageous" and plays a small-town K-Mart girl, that she "gets it". Nah. I mean, she goes home and Brad Pitt fucks her. Puh-leeze. Bill Murray turned down a chance to return with Charlie's Angels as "Bosley" and passed it down for a serious role in a critically acclaimed movie. Did he get any recognition? No. What was the movie? I dunno? What was the "Charlie's Angels" movie? "Full Throttle." Had Demi Moore in it in a bunch of sexy outfits and customized gold-plated Colt .45s. Had the girls in tons of cute outfits and situations barely escaping Demi's evil ploys. Why did I see that? HBO picked it up.
They don't seem to see it, there on the Pacific. The heroes are GONE. Bogie was a real man. He's dead. John Wayne: real man. DEAD. When you find out J. Edgar Hoover was a cross-dresser, you start facing reality a little more. Rock Hudson, Mr. Studley from all those 50s movies? Colon Commander. Robert Reed, wisest and most caring TV father: GAY. DEAD.
How tough is this to grasp? We don't WANT Hollywood role models. We've had about 100 years to learn that's one big sleaze orgy, interrupted by brief periods of acting brilliance/schlock, then on with your lives. The money, the fame? You've got that because you did some stuff we enjoyed watching you do. It was partly you, because we vicariously wanna do nasty stuff like you are on film (with you), and partly that cool role you landed somehow.
Have you ever noticed that the teen actresses can move on to the bigtime by a) showing their 18-year old boobs in a film, and b) follow that up with a sex scene. The boys can find a nice movie where they've not only enjoyed a) and b) from the girl, but they've been hounded and pounded by bad guys to the point where in real life, they'd need 3 weeks in the hospital recuperating from exhaustion, but in the film, they're walking off, arm around the heroine, for a hot shower, couple of tokes of weed, and more boffing.
Roll credits.
I have to wonder. Is there a group of bestialists out there named PUTA?
PATA? I dunno.
Yesterday, I turned 49. This is a very awkward age, I think. I don't wanta be 50, but it's coming like a freight train. I don't wanta be dead, either, so my options are limited. I wish, I truly wish, they'd started studies like in "Time Enough For Love", by Robert Heinlein, for the prolonging and enhancement of the human race. Get your body cloned, move into it when you're too old and funky to go on in your present one. Get a "rejuve" when you're about my age, new blood, new parts if needed, to restore you to a condition where, physically, you're about 30 again. Gee. Guess I'll quit bitching and start hitting the weights again.
Dad's still hot for the 50-year old Bowflex Woman.
I got to thinking about that movie Pam Anderson was in, Naked Souls, and those interesting statues she was creating. I guess I gotta see it again, find out what kind of materials she was using. I could make some of the most incredible lawn furniture ever!
BTW, don't see that film if you can help yourself. Even the sex scenes were dull. That's hard to do. Star Pamela Anderson and make those dull.
That may be a cinematic accomplishment, after all.
Trauma! I bought, on EBay at an unbelievable price, a 6.1 Megapixel digital camera with a ton of special effects and capabilities built in. Due to shipping complications, the seller offered me an incredible secondary deal on a plug-in memory card with huge capacity. Something broke inside the camera, and I have to send it back for repair. Still under warranty, happily. I'm going to miss it while it's gone. I have others, of lesser capability to use in my work and play, but they don't do as much with minimum switching.
I'll try to be interesting next time, ok?
