Wanna be's
I'm watching my Homicide Discs and there's an episode that deals with a bunch of wanna be spies. Men who's fathers had been trained during the cold war to be spies and warriors, and the sons had failed to be as tough as their fathers. It got me thinking, that the world my father and his father lived in seemed to be filled with people who were what they were, but my world is filled with wanna be's.
I look around and everyone is selling themselves as something more than they really are. They all seem to want to be something that they aren't. They want to be rock stars, or punks, slick players, cops, warriors, managers, in control, fixers and a hundred other things that they simply are not. I see a world where my peers aren't ok with who they are, and I don't know that they ever will be. Our quest for perfection, or doing better has left us with out a sense of contentment and it's scary.
at work yesterday I walked into a room where a Norwegian was explaining to an american why he didn't want to have kids in the USA. He was talking about the way kids grow up here, with status and class differences becoming more and more important at younger and younger ages. I couldn't help but agree with him.
The Wire Season 2: simply the best TV show I have ever watched, great soundtrack, grade A writing and a sublime cast, if your not watching you are missing out.
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I'm watching my Homicide Discs and there's an episode that deals with a bunch of wanna be spies. Men who's fathers had been trained during the cold war to be spies and warriors, and the sons had failed to be as tough as their fathers. It got me thinking, that the world my father and his father lived in seemed to be filled with people who were what they were, but my world is filled with wanna be's.
I look around and everyone is selling themselves as something more than they really are. They all seem to want to be something that they aren't. They want to be rock stars, or punks, slick players, cops, warriors, managers, in control, fixers and a hundred other things that they simply are not. I see a world where my peers aren't ok with who they are, and I don't know that they ever will be. Our quest for perfection, or doing better has left us with out a sense of contentment and it's scary.
at work yesterday I walked into a room where a Norwegian was explaining to an american why he didn't want to have kids in the USA. He was talking about the way kids grow up here, with status and class differences becoming more and more important at younger and younger ages. I couldn't help but agree with him.
The Wire Season 2: simply the best TV show I have ever watched, great soundtrack, grade A writing and a sublime cast, if your not watching you are missing out.
more later
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twilight zone warrants a purchase... someday.
i generally never watch tv shows, minus the occaional seinfeld episode... but i'm just finishing season 1 of carnivale, so i'm kinda getting into the format.
Shit man, I'm sitting on a TON of interesting bootlegs that came from Doug himself-several CDs worth of unreleased demo songs, an alternate mix version of the Ear Candy album, etc.