Think About It
The issue, the one that sends me to the dictionary of philosophy, if I had one, is the idea of acting like myself. Where do my hands go when I'm myself? Are they in my pockets? I frankly can't remember. I have a tough time just being myself, you know, at parties and such. I start talking to someone and suddenly I know I am no longer myself, that some other self has taken over.
The less active the body, the more active the mind. I had been sitting for days, and my mind made this curious excursion into a tangential problem: Let's say my shopping list consists of two items: Soy sauce and talcum powder. Soy sauce and talcum powder could not be more dissimilar. Soy: tart and salty. Talc: smooth and silky. Yet soy sauce and talcum powder are both available at the same store, the grocery store. Airplanes and automobiles, however, are similar. Yet if you went to a car lot and said, "These are nice, but do you have any airplanes?" they would look at you like you're crazy.
So here's my point. This question I'm flipping around-what it means to act like myself- is related to the soy sauce issue. Soy and talc are mutually exclusive. Soy is not talc and vice versa. I am not someone else, someone else is not me. Yet we're available in the same store. The store of Existence.
-- Steve Martin
Those people, you know? The ones with the hair.
Against Me!, AFI, WIFS, Leftover Crack, Choking Victim, Star Fucking Hipsters, Intro5pect, Jonas Brothers, Lower Class Brats, 999, Rancid, The Queers, Tilly and the Wall, Juliet Lloyd, Street Dogs, Rooney,The Adicts, GBH, The Distillers, The Misfits, Anti-Flag, Against All Authority, The Nobody's, The Briggs, Buzzcocks, Toy Dolls, Cockney Rejects, Dead Boys (RIP Stiv), Evanescence, The Exploited, Harry and the Potters, James Blunt, Hymn of Siren, Jason Mraz, Lars Frederiksen and the Bastards, The Libertines, Lola Ray, Nirvana, Oxymoron, Phantom Planet, Revis, Sham 69, Staind, Subhumans, System of a Down, Tenacious D, Toadies, USA Waste, Jonnee Earthquake, Clinic Bomb, Piracy, Toxic Narcotic, Mustard Plug, The Damned, New York Rel-X, One Man Army, Splogenessabounds, UK Subs, English Dogs, The White Stripes, Common Rider, OpIvy, sooo many I forget.
I like movies. They're cool when they're made correctly and cast correctly and acted correctly and promoted correctly.
And like a bajillion others.