Up all night

I feel like a kid again. Used to stay up all night watching late night shows on tv and info-mercials. Can't stand watching tv anymore and honestly never thought I'd get tired of it, but it's true... first of all, tv's not what it used to be. Simpsons is still on, yes, but it's a perfect SHINING example of what happens when you out-live your usefullness as a series. There's nothing left in the tank on that show and it's like watching an old mangy dog limping around these days. The movie that came out should have come out long before the show started to decline. Its audience is grown up now. Half the original cast is dead or aging beyond the ability to perform, sad to say. Sometimes you just have to accept the inevitable in life and this is such a case. I'll always remember the Simpsons as a monumentally great show, but here we are witnessing its last puff of breath as it slowly dies, and it SHOULD die. Sadly its just over stayed its welcome.

It's a crazy time to be alive. I don't know. I look at life and have always looked at life as an artistic experience. Every day is a show, an adventure, and it often is. You have obstacles to overcome, something funny may occur. That's why I always liked good tv shows that seem to capture that amazing quality of life that sometimes happens here and there. But I'll be god damned if suddenly this day and age we've lost it. What the flying fuck were we smoking in the 90s that so many goddamn great classic shows came on tv. I guess it was the lack of internet back then. You had to bring the goods or your show wasn't going to be put on tv, so typically only the best shows were put on or at least decent enough to garner good ratings. Nowadays, goddamn. Yeah I always knew porn was always around, not like there wasn't playboy available and my dad had plenty of the stuff, tried to hide it, but I found it anyway. Why the hell would you want to hide naked women from your son, I'll never know. My family is stupid. Anyway... what the fuck happened? Easily the best answer is that the geniuses who delivered quality tv in the old days are now old and have moved on...

I want to remain hopeful that things will bounce back to the good ol days but they won't. Its like the Superman Returns fiasco. I tell myself today that that movie and the reason I loved it so much upon viewing it was because it's as if it embodied the spirit of my chilhood, not perfect but ernest and full of heart. Growing up with a lot of religous influences meant that you believed there was a God looking out for you and you used his power to get you through life, so it appeared to me that Returns was a movie that I personally felt  connected to on a religous level. And it took a brass pair of balls to make a movie like that, release it, and spread hope for humanity to the world through film. Damn though did the devil get to work or what because apparently there is a group of people sitting around at their computers looking to squash and surpress good powerful heartfelt films in favor of whatever their personal tastes are. Whatever, I say to myself. That's your prerogative. Don't try to shove it down everyone's throat. But I guess they got they wanted. Superman's been rebooted in the most boring throw away meaningless way possible. Is that the kind of thing we want as artists? To take it easy, not challenge ourselves with works like Returns that twist and reshape our perceptions of superman. We want him to fit neatly into a little box and not try anything new like with Man of Steel? That sucks. Because yeah, I grew up in an artistic renaissance period that was the 90s where the whole point of the decade seemingly was to go crazy don't limit yourself, be free... now because some kkk dudes wanted superman to be all conforming their ideals, we have this boring shitty superman movie now where we had a brilliant director coming up with new exciting ideas for the character. Thats why they made returns the way it was in the first place, because we've seen the origin a billion times, seen superman struggle with his place in the world a billion times. I rolled my eyes watching Man of steel as did a lot of people most likely because it was just going through the motions. Nothing new about it, forgettable, lame. I'll take Superman Returns any day over that. But no body will admit it I'm guessing... It's hard to grow up loving superman all your life only to get embroiled in the truly tragic state of the character today as a bunch of guys in hollywood try to figure out what the fuck to do with him and ultimately fail... sucks man. I mean the movie doesn't even make sense. Why does clark show up at the daily planet in disguise if Lois knows how he is. What's the point of having a secret identity in this version of superman if he doesn't need it really. He's superman, he doesn't need a job. The military is constatly tracking him and most likely will find out who he is.... what a load of bullshit.

I personally as a mega superman fan am not looking forward to more of this version. Too bady for Routh and Singer, they made the better film and no one wants to admit it. not one fucking moment in Man of steel comes anywhere close to the island beat down. If you can't top that, don't even bother making the movie imo. Now we're on to the sequel. What's there to say about that, looks like they want to kill too birds with one stone or some shit. Reboot batman and reboot superman at the same time. This has fail written all over it. By all means bring it, but I'm not going to hope for greatness because Snyder can't deliver that.