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Jan. 20th, 2008 02:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shadowkatAfter half-watching A Face in the Crowd on TCM, starring Andy Griffith, Patricia Neal and Walter Matthew, I'm debating taking myself to the movies. Not sure if I will or not. It's a pretty day, but violently cold, albeit not as violently cold as it gets in the midwest - KC was often bitter, at the negative numbers. I stopped paying attention when it got 20 below 0, that just meant don't go outside unless absolutely necessary. Here - it seldom goes below 0, but NYorkers being NYorkers act like it does.
If I were to compare my posting style to a fruit - it would be A Prickly Pear - sweet on the inside, prickly outside. I'm prickly. Quick tempered. Opinionated. Inconstant in my opinions or agnostic, often contradicting myself. Often bitchy. Occassionally sappy and sentimental given to bursts of poetic prose. Prone to lectures. Littered with bouts of insecurity. And ghod, defensive. I'm aware of it. Have tried to change it. Have given up. I'm never going to become a raspberry, strawberry or sweet tempered mango, it's prickly pear all the way.
There's just something about online communication that brings out both the bitch and sap in me, no clue what it is. Have considered numerous times of giving up the practice, not posting. But I like to write, more to the point - I like to know people are or may be reading what I write and may occassionally even get a thrill from it.
Anywho, recommend A Face in the Crowd if you haven't seen it. It's a film about a homespun guy who a newswoman turns into a celebrity who becomes over time rotten with power.
The film is about how power and celebrity can destroy a person. It's true. I don't think human beings know how to handle being celebrities or having that much attention focused on them. It warps us in weird ways. I think we all crave the attention, but we can't handle too much of it at one time. It makes us a bit crazy. Like anything I guess.
If I were to compare my posting style to a fruit - it would be A Prickly Pear - sweet on the inside, prickly outside. I'm prickly. Quick tempered. Opinionated. Inconstant in my opinions or agnostic, often contradicting myself. Often bitchy. Occassionally sappy and sentimental given to bursts of poetic prose. Prone to lectures. Littered with bouts of insecurity. And ghod, defensive. I'm aware of it. Have tried to change it. Have given up. I'm never going to become a raspberry, strawberry or sweet tempered mango, it's prickly pear all the way.
There's just something about online communication that brings out both the bitch and sap in me, no clue what it is. Have considered numerous times of giving up the practice, not posting. But I like to write, more to the point - I like to know people are or may be reading what I write and may occassionally even get a thrill from it.
Anywho, recommend A Face in the Crowd if you haven't seen it. It's a film about a homespun guy who a newswoman turns into a celebrity who becomes over time rotten with power.
The film is about how power and celebrity can destroy a person. It's true. I don't think human beings know how to handle being celebrities or having that much attention focused on them. It warps us in weird ways. I think we all crave the attention, but we can't handle too much of it at one time. It makes us a bit crazy. Like anything I guess.