Hello friends. I hope that you had a good weekend. My weekend consisted of watching a movie and exercising more in two days than I probably have in the last two months combined. T'was a good couple of days for me.
As far as the exercising went, I'm not big into lifting weights, jogging (or is it yogging?), or any kind of calisthenics for that matter. I find going to the gym to be about as boring as any activity that there is out there. I seem to get very little out of it, and I absolutely dread the idea of consistently doing these activities multiple times per week. That being said, I'm getting to the age where if I decide to not do anything active at all for long periods of time, I'll slowly (but surely) turn into a lard ass. Probably not the greatest idea (you know, if you're into the whole dating members of the opposite sex thing, and living past the age of 50). So I guess that you just have to find alternative methods of getting your exercise. For me...sports.
I played about 10 games of basketball this weekend, 3 games of softball and I swam a bit as well. It felt good to be active, and I'm hoping that my shot slowly begins to come back on the court, because my outside shooting performance was pretty embarrassing out there. Hopefully it's like riding a bike, because I shot about 20% from outside, when I used to be a fairly consistent shooter as a youngster. We'll see. Hopefully basketball is not like golf where the more you practice, the worse you get (maybe that's just me?)
For as fun as playing softball under the lights or getting a bunch of hoops in over the weekend was for me, seeing Quentin Tarantino's new movie "Inglourious Basterds" absolutely took the cake. Wow. What a masterpiece. It's very rare that I go into something with the kind of expectations that I had and walk away completely satisfied like I did on Friday night. For me, it was one of those movies that I wanted to see again immediately after leaving the theater. I ended up going to this as kind of a "man-date" with four of my buddies (never cool under ANY circumstance, true...BUT, "Inglourious Basterds" probably isn't the type of movie that you take your girlfriend to either). Anyway, when we left the theater, three of us loved the movie (me included), one of us fell asleep but said that he liked what he saw (I'll give him a pass because the movie didn't start until 1AM, and it was a long one), and the other one of us said that he "didn't understand the message that Tarantino was trying to send." This last comment pissed me off.
The next day I still had the movie fresh on my mind and when I saw one of my buddies that had seen it as well, we were reciting our favorite lines and putting the movie up on the pedestal that it so richly deserves. He then told me that a Jewish friend of ours said that he will NOT see the movie because "He simply doesn't watch "Jewish Fantasies." What!!! Now I'm finding myself being really disgusted with some of the people that I know.
Don't get me wrong...everyone has the right to their opinion. If you don't like something, that's fine. I'm not going to judge you for it. We all have different tastes and that's what makes this world of ours so interesting at times. Not everyone is the exact same. My problem is simply this: For example...if you watched "Inglourious Basterds" and then told me that you just really didn't like the movie...cool. I'm not going to agree with you, but hey...that's your opinion. I can live with that. Not everyone likes everything that I like, and that's fine. Just don't tell me, "I won't even give it a chance because I don't watch Jewish Fantasies." By saying that, you're an idiot. First of all, this is NOT a "Jewish Fantasy" (You wouldn't know that, because you HAVEN'T seen it!) But even if it was, why would you deprive yourself of the possibility of enjoying something just to live by your stupid ideals that are meaningless and serve absolutely NO purpose? It's idiotic.
A good example of this is the fact that I don't like tomatoes. I don't. I think that tomatoes are disgusting. A lot of people would disagree with me, but that's my opinion. What if I was like the asshole that didn't like "Jewish Fantasies" and said something like "Since I don't like tomatoes, then I'm NOT going to ever try pizza?" First of all, I'd be an idiot (not unlike our "Jewish Fantasy Hater") but I'd also not knowingly deprive myself of my favorite food, simply because I was trying to impress you by being some sort of righteous individual when in reality, I'm just being a moron. For some reason everyone has to be "Mr. Contrarian" to everything these days instead of actually giving something a chance and then giving an INFORMED opinion about the matter. It's stupid, and it's completely backwards.
I mentioned earlier that one of my friends that saw the movie with me said that he "Just didn't understand the message that Tarantino was trying to send." This is ALMOST as stupid as the "I don't watch Jewish Fantasies" comment. Who cares what Tarantino's message was!!! This isn't the "Cosby show." You shouldn't need a message and you shouldn't need everything to be wrapped up into a bow either. It's a MOVIE. It's made to entertain us. Watch the movie, and then either love it, hate it, or consider it to be average and then move on with your day. Good God. Let's stop trying to be "Captain Philosopher" and start enjoying our lives a little bit.
I know that 99% of the people that saw "Inglourious Basterds" will, even though it was just a stupid "Jewish Fantasy." Moron.
Hit me up on facebook. www.myspace.com/theskyfall or in the comments section of this blog. Right now I'm listening to "Having a Party" by Sam Cooke. You probably love this song unless you won't listen to "party fantasies from the early sixties." Drinks of Choice: vodka lemonades to refresh my mind until this evening.
Peace the F.
Webby
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