2012年5月26日 John C. Reilly

He's a great actor, but watching him bang his way through the film We Need to Talk About Kevin was a bit much. There are just some actors that I would rather not see banging anyone. 

In the film, Reilly plays an average or everyday kind of guy. He seemingly loves his wife, son, and daughter. All of whom treat him with kindness, except his wife when she's being bitchy. 

His wife is played by Tilda Swinton. You might recognize her as the evil bitch witch from the Narnia series or as the angel Gabrielle from Constantine. Or other movies, which I haven't seen her in or forgot about.

In We Need to Talk About Kevin, Swinton's character is a hostile and resentful bitch towards her husband (Reilly), but still goes for shaft. I guess it's not a problem that she's a bitch. It's just awkward to watch Reilly and Swinton banging each other in any film. 

Banging Tilda Swinton

And every time I see Reilly in WNTTAK, I think of him in as Steve Burle from, Check It Out! with Dr. Steve Brule. So when he's fucking Swinton, I'm about to gag.

On the upside, if you haven't seen Check It Out! with Dr. Steve Brule give it a shot. Although personally I've only seen about 15 minutes worth.

2012年5月25日 House M.D.

I like House, M.D. but the last episode, Everybody Dies, was a terrible episode. What kind of moron was allowed to write and direct that episode? Jumping back and forth through sequences and other questionable continuity problems made me feel like this episode deserves a "D" for dog-shit.

Surviving the fire and somehow changing "dental" records, was just a bunch of shit.

I will say I did like very end (last 15 seconds). It showed House ending up giving everything up to be with his friend Wilson. If either were homosexuals or if one happened to be female it would be a perfect match in terms of a long-lasting intimate relationship. 

The reason I liked watching that show is because I enjoyed watching how the character Wilson and House interacted. Their friendship is what binds them together, good, bad, and ugly. I think the only good thing that one can take out of this seemingly facile episode is that friendships are extremely important.

This may also be the reason why the show has ZERO characters who are in healthy and physically intimate relationships. All of those types relationships (sexual contact) are doomed to fail within House M.D., because no couple actually enjoys another character's personality once physical contact (sex) is removed. Take away the sexual intimacy, physical contact, and not much is left for couples on this program. The reason I believe that is because no character actually enjoys another character's personality without things such a sex as an incentive.

That is why Wilson and House do well, kind of like Frodo and Sam in The Lord of the Rings. The lesson here is that intellectual, emotional, spiritual, and yes (but not limited to) physical contact needs to be maintained. But I would stress that intellectual, emotional, and spiritual contact are more important from a character or a (real) person's own being rather than a wallet or utilizing one's biology.

Before I pressed PUBLISH POST a girl in one of my classes came to me and asked, 

"What is it to be a human?"

I thought it was funny since I had been writing about things related to that question up until that point. I reminded her that fire-fighters deny biology any time they run into a burning, saving someone else's spawn, or another human who may not be the same race, ethnicity, or blood as their own. Fire-fighters do this. That makes them human in my opinion, to override fear, for the idealization that a human life is a sacred thing.

On that note, I'm again reminded of the very end of House M.D. and Fight Club.

Tyler Durden wisdom:

this is your life, 

and it's ending one minute at a time 

this isn't a seminar 

and this isn't a weekend retreat 

where you are now 

you can't even imagine 

what the bottom will be like 

only after disaster 

can we be resurrected 

it's only after you've lost 

everything that you're free 

to do anything 

nothing is static, 

everything is appalling (evolving), 

everything is 

falling apart 

you are not a beautiful and unique snowflake 

you are the same decaying

organic matter as everything else 

we are all a part of the same compost heap 

we are the all-singing, 

all-dancing crap of the world 

you are not your bank account, 

you are not the clothes you wear 

you are not the contents of your wallet 

you are not your bowel cancer 

you are not your grande latte 

you are not the car you drive 

you are not your fucking khakis 

you have to give up 

you have to realize that someday you will die, 

until you know that you are useless 

I say let me never be complete 

I say may i never be content 

I say deliver me from Swedish furniture 

I say deliver me from clever art 

I say deliver me from clear skin and perfect teeth 

I say you have to give up 

I say evolve, and let the chips fall where they may