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hunter

(39,250 posts)
6. That sounds unpleasant. No, just no.
Thu Dec 14, 2023, 01:42 PM
Dec 2023

One of the things I most love about my wife is how she simply refuses bleak movies. Clever romantic comedies and optimistic speculative fictions are her higher arts. Think TNG Star Trek.

My first serious girlfriend, who I broke up with by jumping out of her moving car causing much bloody damage to myself, loved these kinds of bleak movies. She once took me to Eraserhead on a date.

Overall, I think apocalyptic fiction is too cheap and easy. Who among us hasn't imagined everything going to hell, especially in today's crazy world?

My own PTSD was hard earned and I've got these scars to show for it.

The "real world" I was trying so hard to conform to in my youth was completely self.obliterated in the early 'eighties. And I'm the guy who pulled the fucking trigger.

I've watched one episode of Friends in and I still don't get it. I know someone, Erdős number one, who became a millionaire unconcerned about money working that gig.

One of my kids also had an obsession about that series. One Christmas present was the boxed DVD set, and talking to an actual Friends guy.

Same kid, summer home from college, set us up with Netflix after my wife and I had quit traditional television entirely and were only watching DVDs.





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