Since everything in my life tastes amazing, and nothing is bad, I guess I don't have much to talk about. School is a fantastic diversion to everyday life, and my time with friends is better than it ever has been, not to mention a new season of LOST... everything is just good. Though, I will talk about something that I have been thinking about recently if only through others: people in general. Not just people though, but past friends, or even just someone(s) you knew. At least for me, as I have gotten older and experienced more out of life, I have become increasingly disillusioned by those around me, almost like they have lost whatever it was that made them interesting to me in the first place. I don't honestly think that people change as time goes on, they just adjust to their settings or become more in tune with themselves. A change would require soemone to completely reverse something about themselves, and as beings in constant progression, I don't know if that word really fits all too well. I do have people that I know that really mesh with me, and in this case, it's different- they seem to understand themselves more or something. I'll try to explain better- someone I know got a girl pregnant. He and this girl had been dating for years, and lived with one another, and she wanted to keep the baby. Well, this guy I know breaks up with the girl and refuses to talk to her. This is the sort of thing I am talking about, people you used to feel good around, or at least civil with, no longer hold the same bearing today. I 'small-chat' to so many people in my life who I could easily just do without, not because they're bad people (or maybe they are in some instances), but because there's nothing there- nothing lasting or worthwhile. A lot of my old friendships just don't hold up anymore, and that is how it is, it's not anyone's fault in particular, I'm just moving in a different direction. It's harder to explain than it is to live it out, but I'm sure others have felt the same exact way. Relationships I once felt were meaningful no longer hold true, and it's not like I've done anything out of the ordinary, I just don't feel the same about them as I used to.So, apparently the Academy felt that having five best picture nominations was just not enough, so now there are ten.. oh wait, no, now it's only nine. Seriously, even Cannes is getting more and more ridiculous as the years go on. A movie like 'Blow-Up' would never win the Palm d'or these days. Now we just give it to things like 'The Wind That Shakes The Barley'. So, where do I look to for a correct movie insight if none of the prestigious award shows are even trying anymore? With 'Avatar' winning Best Picture and Director at the Golden Globes, and 'District 9' receiving a Best Picture nod at the Oscars this year, where am I supposed to look? All the reviewers for the most part have not a clue about the very thing they specialize in, and just give four stars and A's to whatever they thought would resonate with their daughter's preschool field trip the most. It's just a disgusting franchise of money these days, even independent cinema is just getting worse and worse because of this inflammation of glorifying terrible tripe day after day. Something has to change with the current atmosphere of ALL media, because we're letting what was once known as 'bad' into 'a seminal work by Zemeckis'. It's just infuriating, honestly. If it's not the newest Chuck Palahniuk book, or the newest Owl City album, or the new movie by Michael Bay, it's bound to be the new fashion on the cover of Nylon Magazine. DO NOT get me started on current fashion trends, please. I will say this though, there is a difference between thinking the 80's had good fashion ideas and dressing like you are in the 1980's.
Today is the Super Bowl. I think I'll do everything a good American boy should, and watch '2046' or something instead. I don't care about anything but Basketball, and that's the way it will stay forever. Football is boring. BORING. Ten minutes of commercials and two minutes of playing before another set of commercials. Sorry, it's just not my cup of tea.
Speaking of tea, I bought down tea leaves and a tea ball... the tea ball was from Asia somewhere, and there is most certainly some sort of, as Dan called it, 'lead shit' on it in places. It was promptly thrown in the garbage, because I don't want any part of that.
Today, I feel like every word is written for me, in well spaced calligraphy, her hands outstretched and wrote simply, "No, not today and not ever."
-Brandon















































