One thing that I have never been able to align with are pre-conceived notions of how we must live our lives if we are in certain age brackets. Here's how it goes- If you're in your teens, you ought to study hard till someone acknowledges it, when you hit your 20's you ought to be looking for a job and slaving it out till your boss acknowledges it. If it's the 30s, you ought to be looking forward to getting married. When you land in your 40's you ought to be worrying about your children's future. Come 50, you ought to tear your hair out worrying about their marriage. when 60 hits you, you ought to take it easy, calm down, not run around too much, read the papers and watch tv till you die.
F#%*. F!@#. F!@%. Son of a f#$%ing bitch, I hate these pre-designed patterns and how diktats are announced subtly into our primary mindsets if we want to gain social acceptance, else we are outlawed as pathetic creatures on the other side of the fence that aren't worth eating with on the same table. Why should I do any of this- for which reasons written our there in the cosmos? Is it written? Then where? I refuse to grovel on these food trails that lead to particularly nowhere- or should I say, quicksand graves.
What particularly bugs me are concocted notions for our senior citizens- that one must rest and not move around too much if you are over 60 and 'retire'. What the @#$% does 'retire' mean? Whoever came up with this @#$%ed up idea that once you go past 60, you should- here's the big word- r-e-t-i-r-e. Clint Eastwood and Rupert Murdoch are well in their mid-70's and are still active enough to give people half their age some serious butt-kicking. That's called living it up. We have a particularly nasty tradition of subjecting our senior people to some seriously f&*$ed up rules and disallow them to enjoy themselves. I hate it. F&@#. We then do it to ourselves. This makes us feel older when we reach 60 (remember that turning point age after which things are supposed to go downhill?), and psyche ourselves out into sickness and ill health. We aggravate problems with even more demeaning, fatalistic conclusions that are inevitable if we are wrinkled and slow.
Here's what I think. We 'retire', if you like that word so much, when we feel like. We keep doing with our lives what we feel like UNTILL we feel like. i don't know about you, but that's how I intend to live it out. So if you feel like filling coloring books 'meant' for 3 year olds, surrounded by toy cars 'targeted' for 10 year olds, while Mozart plays in the background in the same playlist as punk rock and Bhimsen Joshi and trance, while you devastate a 3-scoop all American Banana split, while browsing through spiritual or holiday and destination magazines, you go do that. nobody tells you what you should be doing if you are 'so' old. F%&# that. Just F&%# that.
McDonalds's happy meal has the Ninja turtles these days in it. I have two of them, two more to go. Here I come me hearties...
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
8-18 till I die
One thing that I have never been able to align with are pre-conceived notions of how we must live our lives if we are in certain age brackets. Here's how it goes- If you're in your teens, you ought to study hard till someone acknowledges it, when you hit your 20's you ought to be looking for a job and slaving it out till your boss acknowledges it. If it's the 30s, you ought to be looking forward to getting married. When you land in your 40's you ought to be worrying about your children's future. Come 50, you ought to tear your hair out worrying about their marriage. when 60 hits you, you ought to take it easy, calm down, not run around too much, read the papers and watch tv till you die.
F#%*. F!@#. F!@%. Son of a f#$%ing bitch, I hate these pre-designed patterns and how diktats are announced subtly into our primary mindsets if we want to gain social acceptance, else we are outlawed as pathetic creatures on the other side of the fence that aren't worth eating with on the same table. Why should I do any of this- for which reasons written our there in the cosmos? Is it written? Then where? I refuse to grovel on these food trails that lead to particularly nowhere- or should I say, quicksand graves.
What particularly bugs me are concocted notions for our senior citizens- that one must rest and not move around too much if you are over 60 and 'retire'. What the @#$% does 'retire' mean? Whoever came up with this @#$%ed up idea that once you go past 60, you should- here's the big word- r-e-t-i-r-e. Clint Eastwood and Rupert Murdoch are well in their mid-70's and are still active enough to give people half their age some serious butt-kicking. That's called living it up. We have a particularly nasty tradition of subjecting our senior people to some seriously f&*$ed up rules and disallow them to enjoy themselves. I hate it. F&@#. We then do it to ourselves. This makes us feel older when we reach 60 (remember that turning point age after which things are supposed to go downhill?), and psyche ourselves out into sickness and ill health. We aggravate problems with even more demeaning, fatalistic conclusions that are inevitable if we are wrinkled and slow.
Here's what I think. We 'retire', if you like that word so much, when we feel like. We keep doing with our lives what we feel like UNTILL we feel like. i don't know about you, but that's how I intend to live it out. So if you feel like filling coloring books 'meant' for 3 year olds, surrounded by toy cars 'targeted' for 10 year olds, while Mozart plays in the background in the same playlist as punk rock and Bhimsen Joshi and trance, while you devastate a 3-scoop all American Banana split, while browsing through spiritual or holiday and destination magazines, you go do that. nobody tells you what you should be doing if you are 'so' old. F%&# that. Just F&%# that.
McDonalds's happy meal has the Ninja turtles these days in it. I have two of them, two more to go. Here I come me hearties...
F#%*. F!@#. F!@%. Son of a f#$%ing bitch, I hate these pre-designed patterns and how diktats are announced subtly into our primary mindsets if we want to gain social acceptance, else we are outlawed as pathetic creatures on the other side of the fence that aren't worth eating with on the same table. Why should I do any of this- for which reasons written our there in the cosmos? Is it written? Then where? I refuse to grovel on these food trails that lead to particularly nowhere- or should I say, quicksand graves.
What particularly bugs me are concocted notions for our senior citizens- that one must rest and not move around too much if you are over 60 and 'retire'. What the @#$% does 'retire' mean? Whoever came up with this @#$%ed up idea that once you go past 60, you should- here's the big word- r-e-t-i-r-e. Clint Eastwood and Rupert Murdoch are well in their mid-70's and are still active enough to give people half their age some serious butt-kicking. That's called living it up. We have a particularly nasty tradition of subjecting our senior people to some seriously f&*$ed up rules and disallow them to enjoy themselves. I hate it. F&@#. We then do it to ourselves. This makes us feel older when we reach 60 (remember that turning point age after which things are supposed to go downhill?), and psyche ourselves out into sickness and ill health. We aggravate problems with even more demeaning, fatalistic conclusions that are inevitable if we are wrinkled and slow.
Here's what I think. We 'retire', if you like that word so much, when we feel like. We keep doing with our lives what we feel like UNTILL we feel like. i don't know about you, but that's how I intend to live it out. So if you feel like filling coloring books 'meant' for 3 year olds, surrounded by toy cars 'targeted' for 10 year olds, while Mozart plays in the background in the same playlist as punk rock and Bhimsen Joshi and trance, while you devastate a 3-scoop all American Banana split, while browsing through spiritual or holiday and destination magazines, you go do that. nobody tells you what you should be doing if you are 'so' old. F%&# that. Just F&%# that.
McDonalds's happy meal has the Ninja turtles these days in it. I have two of them, two more to go. Here I come me hearties...
Monday, January 19, 2009
Thursday, January 01, 2009
New targets for a new year
Just the tech I've been waiting for- I made these quick sketches on a 13" touchscreen laptop called HP Pavilion tx2009 and the biker on a HP Touchsmart PCwith my finger tip. We spotted these machines in 2 different digital shops. Both have bluetooth so moved the sketches to the phone. Everything is moving towards touch and gestures. Drawing directly on the surface beats the tablet for some reason. but you get more options with the tablet. I figure touch tech will get there quick- where you can choose brush types while drawing with your finger tip... pinch zoom in, finish it further. Maybe this tech is already out and I am just not aware of it yet. Jeez things are moving fast.Got around to seeing Slumdog millionaire. Apparently this movie will not be released in India. Pity we are still so tight-assed about stuff that should matter less now. Also this year have resolved to see all Woody Allen movies. My other big target should finish this year. Will post up when it's done else I'm going to make a real ass of myself. Happy new year!
New targets for a new year
Just the tech I've been waiting for- I made these quick sketches on a 13" touchscreen laptop called HP Pavilion tx2009 and the biker on a HP Touchsmart PCwith my finger tip. We spotted these machines in 2 different digital shops. Both have bluetooth so moved the sketches to the phone. Everything is moving towards touch and gestures. Drawing directly on the surface beats the tablet for some reason. but you get more options with the tablet. I figure touch tech will get there quick- where you can choose brush types while drawing with your finger tip... pinch zoom in, finish it further. Maybe this tech is already out and I am just not aware of it yet. Jeez things are moving fast.Got around to seeing Slumdog millionaire. Apparently this movie will not be released in India. Pity we are still so tight-assed about stuff that should matter less now. Also this year have resolved to see all Woody Allen movies. My other big target should finish this year. Will post up when it's done else I'm going to make a real ass of myself. Happy new year!
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