Topic: Rambling && Daily Info
I know I've been doing a lot of bashing lately, but it just seems to be on my mind whenever something overwhelmingly stupid comes up.
Lemme put it this way: I want to be fully entertained by what I spend my hard-earned (yes, coding can be very hard) money on. I like watching Anime (English-dubbed is fine by me, I'm not an elitist when it comes to Anime) because I know that, if I start from the beginning, I'm going to get a long, long, long very detailed and enriched story that will engage me and not treat me like a damn idiot. I like "Wolf Rain," "InuYasha," and "Cowboy Bebop" even though I'm only vaguely aware of what the over-arching plot is (I'll leave it up to you to google for it since I won't do them justice). I like Steven King since he doesn't bludgeon me over the head with his themes (okay, he does kind of do it up with The Stand and a few others). Hell, I spent months puzzling out Dune and its various sequels, and I still do. Why? Because it's entertaining, I always find something I missed before, always a new angle to look at.
I just get pissed when Hollywood pumps out some crap, ramps up its hype-machine (the shit is so formulaic it has to be describable as an algorithm), expects me to shell out my money on crap, says that movies are crap due to file-sharing of several varieties (yes, I know downloading movies without paying for them is illegal, but the network is blameless, just as the video-tape is blameless, the people who misuse it are to blame), expects me to buy that line, and then wonders why the fuck their profit margins are plummeting (hint: it's not the file-sharing). Seriously, most of the time these studios are engaged in a collective circle-jerk over the money they want to make. In the last four years, I've seen maybe 10 movies I thoroughly enjoyed. I'm not even sure how many movies Hollywood pumped out in that time-frame (probably in the hundreds). Most were just hunks of junk based on stupid premises trying to ride the wave of what was popular at that moment. Seriously, how many formulaic “feel-good” movies can you name in the last year? Or how abut movies that try to capitalize on New York City (*cough*Day After Tomorrow*cough*)? Seriously, Hollywood you are dying because you are writing fewer and fewer good scripts. There are hundreds of specialty channels on TV that provide what a viewer wants, when they want it, and mostly they get good quality. Why should the viewer deal with Hollywood's schedule? Why should the viewer spend his dollars on something that may very well cause him to leave the theater and waste his time? These are the things that run through most people's minds about movies, at least on some level if not consciously. Seriously, you pay a more or less fixed rate for an assload of channels on TV, so if something sucks on one channel you can switch to another.
I dunno, maybe I'm making no sense here and I'm just spinning my wheels. But I think there is some truth to it.
As for wondering why I haven't spoken about myself lately, its kinda simple. My life consists of the following: get up, shower, go to work, work, go home from work, possibly shower again depending on the day, watch some TV/read, try to sleep, repeat. Emotions wise, meh, just lonely, but that's par for course for me I guess.
Later-o.