Sick. But not the flu. I'll be damned before I let one of those little sonuvabitch, no-good, leecher viruses into my system. Seriously, if I'm infected and expiring, I swear to God I'd rather shoot myself than succumb to that POS.
Anyways, I got caught up in the Firefly frame of mind awhile back, and I was getting nostalgic about it again, so I googled the heck out of it, and watched fanvids on youtube like a chain smoker. Behold the theme song.
It's one wacky and appealing show.
How wacky? (besides the country music)
Sci-fi, spaceships, laser guns, horses, revolvers, frontier planets that look like the Old West all in the same universe, people swearing in English as well as Chinese, and 9 totally different people on one small unarmed ship against a big government, that's how wacky.
Why appealing? (besides from the points mentioned above)
Prostitution is legal. Need I say more?
I will anyways.
The whole philosophy of it: Freedom. Free to take jobs as they come. And never have to be under the heels of nobody ever again. (That was a quote.)
There isn't some dumb sense of greater good, or a stupid tendency to heroics, or some supreme mission of ridding the world of evil, it's just 9 people, trying to make a living in the universe, despite a huge government trying to get rid of them, with some sense of righteousness, religiosity, humor and love mixed within.
It describes what we all are, just minus the spaceship.
If it doesn't in any way connect to you, it's either because you haven't seen enough of the world yet or that you're damn rich.
I realize this sort of old west/sci-fi style story doesn't appeal to all, and it's fine, I'll just respect you a little less. I know our lives are high stress and fast-paced nowadays, but I still want to show a little smidgen of what the Firefly movie looks like so:
Sums up the story of the movie. It lost some of its deep meaning, and acquired some selfless acts and shooting, but that's Hollywood for ya.
Firefly teaches us another lesson, and that is that all good things end. Shit happens to good people [and things]. Remember that.
Firefly got canceled by Fox after one season despite it's popularity. That equals just 3 weeks worth of the show. From a pessimistic point of view, Firefly, can be summed up in 5 seconds like so:
Wash, playing with dinotoys: "Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal! Yaarr!"
-Show fox logo-
The show started off with the scene.
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Summer is coming, blog posts will be infrequent and drop off entirely soon. It's summer. I'm no longer pessimistic. Maybe next winter.
Tip for writing essays to you folks: It's a lot easier to write about something you dislike rather than something you like.
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
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