I'm known as a student of computer games. But I cannot bring myself to play those games. And I begin to think of it as an advantage. Some scholars study the same phenomenon as me--gamers paying real money to get in-game virtual wealth. But their questions are generally on the track of: Is this form of cheating detrimental to the game?
From now on, I will see everyday as a wrestling match! Today I have to wrestle with Bank of America, my professors and my long-overdue laundry. Watch my high flying moves!
So far I have won the first round with the alarm clock, or does it mean I lose to Time? It's such a fine line between strength and weakness as Tricia said.
I watched two films--When Nietzsche Wept and Sex and the City--in the past 24 hours. The two films obviously have a lot in common: Nietzsche's story happened in Vienna, which in the 19th century was as big an apple as NYC is today. The two films both address love, lust and self-exploration.
Mr. Big in Sex and City and Nietzsche have a lot in common too, although Mr. Big is much richer and better dressed than Niezche, Niezche's mustache really makes him equal to someone as metro as Mr. Big. But their fate couldn't be more different. Mr. Big freaked out before his wedding (his third) with Carrie, mainly because he preferred the City Hall to a slightly fancier NY Library as the wedding location. Nietzsche's marriage proposal was rejected, he attempted suicide and never quite got over that love affair throughout his life. Mr. Big wrote love emails to rescue his relationship with Carrie, but the emails were merely copies of famous people in the history, and the only original one from him has only one sentence, possibly typed out by his secretary. But I understand that, in our age eloquence from a man is not considered sexy. Nietzsche instead had hand-written long letters, and obviously wrote most of his books and music to get some attention from his dream lover.
Lou, Nietzsche's dream lover, has a lot in common with Carrie in Sex and the City too. Lou is a psychoanalyst while Carrie writes books on the inner life of women. Carrie was sad about her ruined marriage with Mr. Big. At the end, she realized that it was her fault because she was too self-centered in wedding planning. In contrast, Lou said, "I don't need a husband, I wouldn't do that to a man". Lou spent her life seducing the great minds of Europe of her time, broke their hearts so their intellectual passion was flamed, and made them valuable case studies for psychoanalysis. It seems to me that, Lou really should be a character in today's Sex and the City. You should see her dresses too!
I really don't like either films. When Nietzsche Wept has those lines like "we love desire more than the desired", "you have only one life", "say yes to yourself", "I have to be ME before I can be WE", all of which have become banal words today. The only thing I like is that the two intellectuals at the end acknowledged their powerlessness in the face of lust.
Sex and the City does not really break any gender norms as it promises to. It's still the same old story about men freaking out before weddings. And there is only one scene of three-some in the whole movie, and not involving any of the main characters! That's not the sex in NYC as we know it.
I'm also disappointed because I cannot find any character to identify with. Though I like writing ineffective and long love letters like Nietzsche, and possibly as subject to despair as he does, I would never wear a mustache. I really hope to be someone like Smith, the actor boyfriend of Samantha, only if I was good looking and blond! Yes I have the brain of Smith and the look of Nietzsche, WTF!
US OPEN Golf championship sucks.
Before digital camera and photoshop.
Just discovered Slide this creative tool, another distraction from what I should do :( but why not just Let It Slide
We tend to see more order than there is in this world. What we consider a pattern may very well be just randomness. I'm not saying this out of blue, or am I?
