wojr - words, occasionally sentences
Friday, June 04, 2004
If the Road to Success Was Paved with Anything (Even Good Intentions), It Would Be Easier to Find
Some of you have noticed that I've been refraining from writing up my usual crazy rants. Well, I have been writing them, but lately they just seem a tad too bitter and preachy then I would like. So, I have scrapped most of them. (What? You think I post any old manic diatribe that comes to my disjointed mind?)
For example, there was this one..
"It Gains The More It Gives & It Rises With The Fall"
"As most of us are aware, the society we live in is based on systems. When we are born into this world, we are not given the opportunity to pick or deny these systems. They are placed on our doorstep and we must accept them or suffer society's consequences. Taxes, education, politics, religion, decorum, morality, religion, fashion, recreation, sex, violence, medicine, economics; they are all there, part of the machine. The machine wants you as a cog or it will gladly grind you into dust as it ever strives in the direction it believes to be forward.
Thus, the individuals awarded the greatest achievements and rewards are the ones with the greatest ability to navigate these systems. Financial awards are not given for creation or innovation but for guile and routing ability (or an excellent jump shot)."
And it goes on like this for many more paragraphs..
Before posting these types of ramblings, I normally realize that I've probably been reading too much Ayn Rand and toss my words aside to go look for some comic book or pulp magazine cover that makes me laugh.
But then I read something like this (from wired.com):
"An America Online customer service rep illicitly surfs the company's customer database, ferrets out private data on celebrity members and then hunts them down online under a false identity, seeking fame and fortune in Hollywood. Sound like a prelude to prison? Not in the case of Heather Robinson. The former AOL employee managed to parlay privacy violations into useful contacts in Hollywood. With the help of those contacts, Robinson, 25, landed a movie deal, and she's using her toehold in the industry to advance another."
And I wonder if I'm not bitter enough.
Now, I jokingly call myself a media whore. The whole purpose of this site is to promote my ass. The sad attempts to elicit laughter are just the glossy veneer. I want people to read my stuff, plain and simple. This is done mainly because I want to quit my day job and unleash the inner hack I contain inside. ("Why yes, Mr. Katzenberg, I would love to write Shrek 46.")
However, if I am fortunate to obtain any modicum of success, I want it to be based on the quality of my writing. Not because I know a guy who knows a girl that spanks a studio head in her basement dungeon. And definitely not because I know which Hollywood A-List Stars like to surf Underage Fisting websites.
As the great Buddy Ackerman says:
"See that's the trouble with your fucking MTV, microwave dinner generation. You all want it now. You think you deserve it just because you want it? It doesn't work like that. You have to earn it. You have to take it. You have to make it yours. But first, Guy, you need to decide what it is you really want."
And with that, I am off to write. It's time to start earning what I want.
wojr
Some of you have noticed that I've been refraining from writing up my usual crazy rants. Well, I have been writing them, but lately they just seem a tad too bitter and preachy then I would like. So, I have scrapped most of them. (What? You think I post any old manic diatribe that comes to my disjointed mind?)
For example, there was this one..
"It Gains The More It Gives & It Rises With The Fall"
"As most of us are aware, the society we live in is based on systems. When we are born into this world, we are not given the opportunity to pick or deny these systems. They are placed on our doorstep and we must accept them or suffer society's consequences. Taxes, education, politics, religion, decorum, morality, religion, fashion, recreation, sex, violence, medicine, economics; they are all there, part of the machine. The machine wants you as a cog or it will gladly grind you into dust as it ever strives in the direction it believes to be forward.
Thus, the individuals awarded the greatest achievements and rewards are the ones with the greatest ability to navigate these systems. Financial awards are not given for creation or innovation but for guile and routing ability (or an excellent jump shot)."
And it goes on like this for many more paragraphs..
Before posting these types of ramblings, I normally realize that I've probably been reading too much Ayn Rand and toss my words aside to go look for some comic book or pulp magazine cover that makes me laugh.
But then I read something like this (from wired.com):
"An America Online customer service rep illicitly surfs the company's customer database, ferrets out private data on celebrity members and then hunts them down online under a false identity, seeking fame and fortune in Hollywood. Sound like a prelude to prison? Not in the case of Heather Robinson. The former AOL employee managed to parlay privacy violations into useful contacts in Hollywood. With the help of those contacts, Robinson, 25, landed a movie deal, and she's using her toehold in the industry to advance another."
And I wonder if I'm not bitter enough.
Now, I jokingly call myself a media whore. The whole purpose of this site is to promote my ass. The sad attempts to elicit laughter are just the glossy veneer. I want people to read my stuff, plain and simple. This is done mainly because I want to quit my day job and unleash the inner hack I contain inside. ("Why yes, Mr. Katzenberg, I would love to write Shrek 46.")
However, if I am fortunate to obtain any modicum of success, I want it to be based on the quality of my writing. Not because I know a guy who knows a girl that spanks a studio head in her basement dungeon. And definitely not because I know which Hollywood A-List Stars like to surf Underage Fisting websites.
As the great Buddy Ackerman says:
"See that's the trouble with your fucking MTV, microwave dinner generation. You all want it now. You think you deserve it just because you want it? It doesn't work like that. You have to earn it. You have to take it. You have to make it yours. But first, Guy, you need to decide what it is you really want."
And with that, I am off to write. It's time to start earning what I want.
wojr
Thursday, June 03, 2004
There Were Strange Sounds Coming From His Cubicle
From comedycentral.com:
"CHAPPELLE'S SHOW: ALL-NEW SOUND BOARD!
Mix it up with Tyrone, Black Gallagher, Tron and 6 more of Dave's other alter egos with the Chappelle's Show NEW Sound Board. Pick one of the nine characters, choose a beat and laugh your damn fool ass off!"
Click Here For Literally Hours of Quality Entertainment
wojr
From comedycentral.com:
"CHAPPELLE'S SHOW: ALL-NEW SOUND BOARD!
Mix it up with Tyrone, Black Gallagher, Tron and 6 more of Dave's other alter egos with the Chappelle's Show NEW Sound Board. Pick one of the nine characters, choose a beat and laugh your damn fool ass off!"
Click Here For Literally Hours of Quality Entertainment
wojr
Wednesday, June 02, 2004
All That Matters Is That It Interests Me
A few Internet findings that did not suck the joy from my day:
A free comic book worth your attention - Daredevil #61 by Bendis and Maleev. Not only a great example of why I like the funny books, but ten times better than the Affleck/film version.
But if you prefer the comics of yesteryear, visit this page for a look back at.. well, at Hostess Fruit Pies.
An internet exclusive trailer has been released for Garden State. While not as awe-inspiring as the first one, this still remains one of my films to see this summer.
wojr
A few Internet findings that did not suck the joy from my day:
A free comic book worth your attention - Daredevil #61 by Bendis and Maleev. Not only a great example of why I like the funny books, but ten times better than the Affleck/film version.
But if you prefer the comics of yesteryear, visit this page for a look back at.. well, at Hostess Fruit Pies.
An internet exclusive trailer has been released for Garden State. While not as awe-inspiring as the first one, this still remains one of my films to see this summer.
wojr
Tuesday, June 01, 2004
