Posts Tagged ‘rantsandramblings’
Sometimes, I just fail to see the awesome in things — doesn’t mean those things aren’t awesome, it just means somebody hasn’t yet duct taped an explanation to a sledgehammer and bashed it through the skull and to the brain. I can be just that thick, so thick you need to punch a hole in my head to deliver a hammed-fed dose of enlightenment. But, so far, these three things mystify me.
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Slater, a flight attendant, got bitched at and maybe knocked in the head by some passenger using the overhead bin door, then went to the intercom, said some shit, grabbed two beers, blew the emergency door and slid to freedom. It’s a helluva way to quit your job. But the slant on the story was a little different. “Hero!” “Working-Class Hero!” “Folk Hero!” What the fuck? Really?
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Last night, went to see Inception. To me, the movie theater has always been a temple. But they have brought prostitutes to the temple. Barn animals, too. Even clowns. Perhaps even barn clown prostitutes. The temple is sullied. Someone pooped on the altar, called it “a sacrifice.”
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I write this post because I just came from reading a thoughtful, incisive post over at John Horner’s Bastardized Version about publishing and e-books (“I Sing The Book Electric“), and there I posted a comment and it feels like, instead of dumping a fat back of blubbering word count in his comment box, I’d be better coming over here and jabbering into the void. So, prepare to get a little bit on you.
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Bold statement: The Wire is the best television show I’ve ever seen, start-to-finish. That last phrase is key. Start-to-finish. Some shows may have had better seasons here and there, and certainly a few really whopper holy-shit bomb-go-off episodes, but as a package? As a show that begins properly and gets a proper end? It’s The Wire. It’s The Wire by a country fucking mile. You feel me?
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