I decided over a year ago that going to the movies was a huge waste of money. I had a buddy I went with on Thursdays, we would meet after work, get popcorn, drinks find a nice seat half way up and in the middle then settle in for we hoped would be a good movie pic. My buddy has never seen a movie he didn’t like.  Well , he hated Solaris, but who didn’t.

Me on the other hand, well I have been called a movie snob more than once. I feel that if I am going to shell out 10 bucks for a movie ticket and another 10 for snacks I should be totally honest in what I thought of the movie. Now I always waited till after the movie. Always. You see, the older I get the more I dislike other people. Especially other people in movies theaters with me. They talk and shift and bring newborn babies and text and talk on their phones. Those of you who do it know who you are, it would be nice if this post would change your ways, but I know it won’t. I only hope one day someone does the same thing to you when you are trying to enjoy something. Karma is alive and well in my world.

But that was a bit of a tangent, I decided that if I simply held off for 6 months I would circumvent movie theaters altogether. No more 5 dollar popcorn, No more 5 dollar Jr. Mints. It was the perfect plan, and it worked. We made it through the rough times and actually used Blockbuster for the reason it was created, to watch movies you have never seen. Cheaper. Hell they even mail them to me. The cool thing about watching a movie at home, you don’t get as annoyed if it sucks. You’re just like, well that was bad, and you move on. You don’t have the sting of over priced tickets and food on top of a crappy movie. It was pleasant.

However, I am still a movie fan, some movies need to be seen on the bg screen. Iron Man, The new Star Trek. Both great movies and they were better when they were larger than life, larger than sound. It was great. And to the girl and boy sitting behind me and my wife, I am sure you were on a date, next time, go find somewhere to park, and you’ll get less looks from me. Anyway, it appears I inherited tangents from my father.

I will get to the point. I recently just bought tickets to see the new Transformers movie. My family loved the first movie, we are looking forward to seeing it tomorrow. I found myself reading my geek websites. Reviewing the movie, it sucks, they shouldn’t have made another one. So on and so forth. Tickets already purchased I found myself thinking that maybe we shouldn’t go to the movies tomorrow. What if it sucks?I have a lot of fond memories of going to movie with my father. It’s too bad

What if it doesn’t? Either way I am going out with my family. (which is important) And we will watch TF2. And Jerry better have done a damn good job. (I can call you Jerry right?).  There isn’t really a point to this post it’s more of a jumble of thoughts. Well if you need a point here goes. Critics can ruin movies before you even see them, and people can ruin movies while your in them. Either way, after tomorrow, I am heading back to blockbuster and my big screen tv and surround sound.

Bumble Bee is still my favorite.

J

The world has come a long way since I was a child. In a mere 20 plus years people have grown more sensitive and lost the ability to govern themselves. There is so much, (too much) PC in the world that is damn near impossible to talk to someone without a small concern in the back of your mind that you might offend someone.

This disturbs me, because it gives power to others too much, isn’t it up to me if I get disturbed? Do people really have that much control? Can someone say something to you and affect your mood? Your disposition? If so perhaps you should take a step back and look inward, or pay someone to help you look inward.

In this country of countries, our democracy, it should be majority rule. Not the vocal minority. Now, however, it is NOT their fault the world, our world, my world, has gotten this way. It is OUR fault. It is too easy to sit back and watch TV and say, “that sucks, that shouldnt be that way”. Then change the channel. If it does suck say something. If it isn’t right speak up. Lord knows the other side is speaking up loud and clear.

Now, should the vocal minority, meet the vocal majority, who do you think they (they being the suits, the people who freak out when people bitch), would listen too? See where I am going with this? Now I too am guilty of this, though the older I get the more I get riled up about it. Maybe its time to get riled up when you are younger, I mean, riled, well it just sounds old doesn’t it? While the word might be old you do NOT have to be old to do it. So get your rile on.

I know some of my geek brothers and sisters have gotten upset at the cancellation of a TV show. So you break out your emails and twitters and facebooks and you swoop into action (I have them all as well). Same concept. Government officials have email, so do big wig executives. And should they start to be flooded, well the vocal minority will not be so loud will they? Do you really want someone deciding what you should watch, read, listen too, do?

Now that is just a small facet of the PC issue going around, somewhere in there the worlds sense of humor disappeared as well. My dad has a saying, take it with a grain of salt, and while I know he did not coin it, people should heed it.People are offended more easier than ever before. Why is this? Does anyone know? Tell me there is a scientists are out there performing tests in a lab on hypersensitive people. PLEASE. Long drawn out painful tests. With needles. The world in general just needs to take 2 chill pills and call me next decade. Up the chai tea intake and stop being so damn sensitive. Diversity, that word is praised, I am diverse, we are diverse, isn’t being diverse just another way of pointing out differences? What happened to melting pot? Isn’t that the bases with which this country was created? Take it all, skin color, accents, dispositions, put it in a pot and see what comes of it. Not seperate it all out and set it side by side by side. Can’t we all just go back to being Americans again?

J

Why did I do this?

Hell I dunno, I did it because I guess I have a lot to say, or at the very least a little to say occasionally. I am doing this because I wanna write down my thoughts from time to time, and well, I have just enough of an ego to think that maybe someone else might wanna read them.

I have been a husband, as of today’s date almost 11 years. My wife K is a difficult woman who I love dearly. I call her difficult because she takes nothing from me, none of my bs or flack. Am I so difficult she should be sainted? Far from it, but she is a good woman and takes care of me. She is one of the most artistic people I have ever met in my life. Add that to the already list of things she is, intelligent, beautiful, sexy, funny. Well you get it, I am lucky.

I have been a father for 10 years. My daughter (C) is a being all her own, she is athletic, dramatic, funny, she is amazing. And she scares the bejesus out of me. She has a dash of myself and my wife in her, so that makes one complex individual. She makes me smile bigger than ever before and keeps me up at night with thoughts of how I care for her.

I have been a Son for 38 years. I am my fathers son, I will speak about my dad quite a bit I imagine, he shaped me into the person I am today and for that I am grateful. He is my go to person, thoughts, questions, rants and compliments, he does what ever persons dad should do….LISTEN, then talk. Should I feed his advice he supports me, should I not, he supports me. Quite possible the best father a child could ask for, I know I am biased, sue me.

My mother passed away last year. The kind of woman that people gravitated too, she was an artist, through and through, the world has a hole in it since she left.  My memories of her are peppered with an interesting past. I will share from time to time about her, but that will be later. I miss you mom.

This is a pretty simple concept, I talk and spill my guts and I feel better for not bottling them up, and maybe just maybe someone else reads it and feels better because they are not so alone in their trials and tribulation. Who knows. I know I don’t.

I will of course not be limited to just the above subjects, being my journal I can talk about anything I see fit so expect random entries from time to time, a movie I want to share, or a game, or even some rant, which I am pron too, when I feel the fools of the world have gotten to close to me so I feel the need to shake off their touch with a post. Either way, this is my blog, nice to meet you.

J