Musings - what I might have tweeted (Part 2)

I got a lot of positive feedback from the last time I did this, so here's another list of random thoughts, things that don't rate a full post but also that I want to share with the world (like this pic of a semi-suspicious Garfield shop I found in Osaka).

• Listening to a friend's mp3 player on shuffle for a half hour will probably tell you more about them than a 6 hour conversation. But listening to any single song tells you nothing.
• People who make their living on overly brazen humor that's based on (supposedly) making fun of racists should feel guilty that a lot of their income actually comes from providing the real racists with hours and hours of entertainment. Racist idiots don't get satire or sarcasm.
• I've always felt the best way to be funny is to tell a lot of bad jokes. Because someone's going to find some of them funny sooner or later.
• If you have to choose between two equally good or bad options, always pick the one on the left. No, this is not a political statement.
• Every popular fashion trend is started by someone who would've looked good in anything, then is copied by the masses even when it doesn't fit them.
• Don't pirate shit if you have the option to get it legally. If price is stopping you, tell them to sell it cheaper by not buying it or waiting to get it used. If availability is the problem, then all bets are off.
• Mitt Romney can't beat Barak Obama because he looks too much like Frankenstein.
• If it's possible to make a perfect gin & tonic, play a shut out game of baseball or perform a flawless concert, then shouldn't it also be possible to make a movie that not only defines a genre, but simply cannot be surpassed later? To the doubters out there I would say Unforgiven. IMO the reason why the Western was the first genre to find perfection is because it's a rather simple genre. Action movies may have come close several times - The Matrix, The Road Warrior, Die Hard - but aren't there yet.
• Old school 90s action movies are better than any of the crap coming out these days simply because they knew how to pace stuff better then. 84 minutes of "pure action" gets tiring very quickly.
• And in my final movie comment: you can always tell the decline of a movie genre because it's marked in time by one specific movie - the movie that epitomizes a technique, look or feel. This is true of smart horror movies (Scream), 3D sci-fi (Tron: Legacy), 80s-90s action (Total Recall), sappy smart love storeis (When Harry Met Sally) and many others.

OK, that seems like a good place to stop, before this post then morphs into a rant on movies. More to come. If you want to check my first list of musings you can find it here.