Today's My BIRTHDAY (Followup Regrets) · 2:54am Feb 4th, 2013
Right, so after I asked earlier, I headed out to see Django Unchained and hit a fancy club/restaurant/bar or whatever afterwards.
What I learned on this 18th hour of my existence:
Django is loads of fun.
I shouldn't do alcohol. It's bitter and hard to swallow unless you have something sweet to chase it, but in nullifying the bitter punishment. This is an issue if you're like me, and despise sweet things, in which case you chase the sweet with more bitter. This, predictably, leads to a descending spiral into drunkenness that ends only when you either run out of money or simply become too full to keep drinking. Like I said earlier, I'm not going to spend my money on alcohol, but my dad and friends paid for the trip, so... THAT happened.
As far as new experiences go: Fuck alcohol. I feel dizzy, can't focus, I stumble when I walk, it's hard to form complete verbal sentences without excessive use of 'uhmmm' or 'uhhhh', simple things that would normally irritate me for some reason cause me to giggle uncontrollably (What the fuck am I laughing at? What's so funny?). Worst part? I have to rely on spellcheck to write half of this because I can't remember half my usual vocabulary. Friggin A. Why on earth did I do this to myself? I knew what alcohol does to the human mind. Why did I feel the need to experience it firsthand?
Aaaaanyway, I got NOTHING productive done today. I'm just hoping my teachers aren't too pissed tomorrow...
Who cares anyway? I'm 18 now. Whoop-dee frickin-do. Not one fuck has changed, and I'm on the same path I was on a week or a month ago.
...
I need a drink.
Django is a modern-day Blaxploitation film, isn't it? I thought the last one of those was made in the eighties.
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You'd be correct on the former statement, but I can't confirm the latter. I'm pretty sure there would have been more than a couple films centered around 'blaxploitation' in the last decade or so ('Man with the Iron Fist' comes to mind. Whereas Django was a parody of Westerns, this was a parody of Chinese martial arts films. I haven't seen Lincoln yet, but I'm sure that would have had an element of it as well), as racism became less of a taboo and more of a recognized but unfortunately immovable flaw of humanity. With the media having as much freedom as it does today, overuse of the word 'nigger' in a movie simply isn't considered that big a deal anymore.
793235 My grandfather took me to see 'Man with the Iron Fist' because he saw one of his favorite actors in it. Damn near had a heart attack.
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Yeah, it was pretty bad... I didn't even have a semi-decent opinion of it until I was TOLD, long after the fact, that it was a parody of old Martial Arts films, in which case I realized that it wasn't so bad in COMPARISON to those. Even so, it was ungodly be today's standards.