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Friday, 02 March 2007 |
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So after watching a T-Wolves (Basketball) game at a local bar the other night, I came home and was ready to go, just not to sleep. So I browsed through my DVD collection, looking for something long and not too involving. Peter Jackson's King Kong, bingo! I mean, the movie is good, for entertainment, but you're not going to pull any philosophical muscles by watching it...or will you?
As I was diligently watching Kong unhinge a T-Rex's jaw with a can-coozied Milwaukee's Best Light in hand, deja vu struck like God's lightning bolt across Lucifer's brow; causing a revelation to spring from my forehead like Athenea from Zeus.
We are getting dumb. And soon Apes will inherit the earth.
C'mon would Charleston Heston mislead you? How did this come about? Remember the part where King Kong battles the Prehistoric reptiles and many times does the chest-pump before, during and after the monsterous scrapping? Ever watch basketball, or many other sports where athletes hit their chests with a clamped fist? It accentuates their primate capabilities while being extremely popular.
Darwin was right, with the whole evolution thingy, but maybe it was like backwards, like in that um one movie where like, um, there is like this, different planet, but its actually just like earth in the future, but the monkeys ride horses and can talk, but the people can't and like the women don't even have like designer clothes, and they can't even really talk, it's like really trippy....
Anyways, how you get from drawing a somewhat shocking similarity between professional chest-pumping and primate chest pumping, which ironically enough, symbolizes the same message to deciding that humanity's intellectual abilities are going to pot is kinda behind explanation; besides explaining it kinda all came at once and quickly, and I had had a few....
I just know that one of the saddest days of my young years was being in London for the bombings, and then a few days later watching adults pile onto the Underground with noses stuck in copies of J.K. Rowling's latest Harry Potter series. And here I was carrying around a copy of Shakespeare's Tempest. O.K. I give kudos to Rowling for her creativity to create this world, but unless you're under the age of 12 you shouldn't be exited for this summer's latest Potter installment. Sorry. If you didn't know that Athena, god of war, sprung from Zeus head full-grown and wearing armor, you should go back and pick up some mythology. Start with the Iliad, it was 'written' by a guy named Homer. Or go historical fiction on mythology with Mary Renault's The King Must Die, it deals with the island of Crete and the mythological beast that lives in the middle of a maze. (The Minatour, duh!). Or if you didn't know that the Lucifer allusion was to Milton's Paradise Lost, go grab it, while you're out grabbing that, snatch up Dante's Divine Comedy, it's equally good. Also throw in your cart Spencer's Fairy Queen & Chaucer's Cantebury Tales. After that you'll be able to conquer everything dubbed a classic, and every film, tv show, etc. will be that much richer, unless you're watching Friends and American Pie re-runs that is. Alright, my rant is done. | |
English/Mass Comm
Written by Drew on 2007-03-18 20:19:40
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Written by Drew on 2007-03-18 20:16:44
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Written by ameserwhere on 2007-03-10 19:35:53
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writen by: Drew
What is up FoCo?
I am a recent college graduate of Minnesota State University Moorhead. After recieving my B.A. in English and Mass Communications this past August I moved down to Colorado.
I enjoy long walks on the beach, candlelight dinners, and heavy metal. My hobbies include reading and writing, music, movies, and getting drunk. Some of my favorite contemporary authors include Bret Easton Ellis, Chuck Palahniuk, and Kurt Vonnegut. My top movies are anything directed by Kubrick. I enjoy listening to anything that rocks.
Right now I am just trying to get to know Colorado and FoCo better. Mostly in order to find the best drink specials on each day that ends in Y. So if you know where I can get a cheap drunk on, let me know!
--Drew |
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| | What is up FoCo?
I am a recent college graduate of Minnesota State University Moorhead. After recieving my B.A. in English and Mass Communications this past August I moved down to Colorado.
I enjoy long walks on the beach, candlelight dinners, and heavy metal. My hobbies include reading and writing, music, movies, and getting drunk. Some of my favorite contemporary authors include Bret Easton Ellis, Chuck Palahniuk, and Kurt Vonnegut. My top movies are anything directed by Kubrick. I enjoy listening to anything that rocks.
Right now I am just trying to get to know Colorado and FoCo better. Mostly in order to find the best drink specials on each day that ends in Y. So if you know where I can get a cheap drunk on, let me know!
--Drew | |
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