This is how I feel all the time.

Deal with it

Advice from Outkast

This seems like a good way to live your life.

Holy Crap

Living at home where you don't have any friends in town is BORING. School starts next week, which is good because it will give me something to do/stress over. But yeah man, not doing anything for days on end is kinda lame. Good thing I've had some fun/hanging out with cool people recently.

Movies that I've seen this summer

I have seen three movies in the past 3 weeks and I think there may be some common theme amongst them. The three movies were Inception, The Expendables, and The Kids are All Right. You may asking, what is the connection between these movies? And this may be a tenuous connection but it came into my head while I was watching the body count rise and the explosions engulf the screen during my viewing of The Expendables. The connection is about the role of males in society as seen through the lens of summer movies. This is not a post that states that men are good and women are bad, or even that the role of men in society is dwindling. The post is simply trying to square the circle about males in the media.

We (I mean people who have read/skimmed the article The End of Men) know that males in society are having a harder time adjusting to this post 2008 economic downturn world. This is not an article about how men are being oppressed, we're not. But we do have some trouble adjusting and in the media the man is sometimes considered the "omega man" (not that Charlton Heston movie) as defined in the Atlantic Article:

American pop culture keeps producing endless variations on the omega male, who ranks even below the beta in the wolf pack. This often-unemployed, romantically challenged loser can show up as a perpetual adolescent (in Judd Apatow’s Knocked Up or The 40-Year-Old Virgin), or a charmless misanthrope (in Noah Baumbach’s Greenberg), or a happy couch potato (in a Bud Light commercial). He can be sweet, bitter, nostalgic, or cynical, but he cannot figure out how to be a man.

So how does this fit in with the three movies mentioned above? In the Kids are All Right the sister is the smart one, the brother is the strong but less bright hapless jock and their sperm donor is a bum who clearly does not "have his shit together." The women in the movie have their own share of problems and the movie is a treat and great slice of life movie but the males are getting the short end of the stick in the film. In Inception the female Ellen Page is the architect of the dreams. She creates the dream worlds that the other characters' use to accomplish their mission. While the main male Leonardo DiCaprio is a complete unstable nutcase who is no longer able to act as an architect. There is a woman in his head that may or may not be his own creation that seeks to ruin his attempts to achieve his goal. This story may be a good allegory by itself for a man's place in society. Woman are more than capable of running society, the man used to be able but was crushed by the weight of it, and he blames the woman for his own downfall. (One or many interpretations of this movie). The Expendables is the ultimate guy movie, it "blows up real good" and the men are in charge and the women need rescuing. It brings back memories of action movies of the 80's and early 90's. Is this movie trying to return us back to those times when men ruled are is this an attempt to placate males. Throwing men a bone while the world keeps turning without them?

Of course I too am struggling to be a man as well because I think this is the coolest website in the world http://www.perpetualkid.com/.

Sigh

Buuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuung

Thumbs beware

Just got some of these.



Though I have El Chupacabras and El Diablo. So if anyone wants to have their thumb's candy ass handed to them let me know.

Boring day

Can I retire?
Fast forward a few decades
Being an old man