tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3893665144141962944.post275473998411317598..comments2024-01-25T15:09:03.714-08:00Comments on Whiskey's Place: My Own Worst Enemy Was It's Own Worst EnemyWhiskeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01854764809682029464noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3893665144141962944.post-72183457451097968492009-05-15T06:10:00.000-07:002009-05-15T06:10:00.000-07:00Metrosexual movie leads are chosen by the same ga...Metrosexual movie leads are chosen by the same gay elite who choose the 'supermodels' that look androgynous. Since this phenomenon has been several decades in the making the young women have been growing up with this image of the clean-limbed, effeminate, boy-man and consciously don't know any better. Take a look the their boyfriends however and you'll see that they really do prefer manly-looking men even if they occasionally date a Metro. You can disguise human nature but you can't fight it.By The Swordhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16799389743529116360noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3893665144141962944.post-55116484504379177882008-11-20T05:22:00.000-08:002008-11-20T05:22:00.000-08:00"All mild-mannered men are vicious. They hate the..."All mild-mannered men are vicious. They hate themselves for being mild and they hate the world because of the strange attraction a violent streak holds for beautiful women." - spoken by Walter Matthau in "Face in the Crowd" ( 1957).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3893665144141962944.post-49608194537494670792008-11-18T21:31:00.000-08:002008-11-18T21:31:00.000-08:00One quibble. AJ Sun should be viewed as the deriva...One quibble. AJ Sun should be viewed as the derivative anagram of Janus. According to Roman mythology, Janus is the god of entrances, gates, bridges, beginnings and endings. He is usually depicted with two heads that are focused in opposite directions. Its an appropriate symbol for an organization populated with split-personalities.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3893665144141962944.post-28526027423006934942008-11-18T07:15:00.000-08:002008-11-18T07:15:00.000-08:00I just asked my wife (who is over 35) to name a se...I just asked my wife (who is over 35) to name a sexy movie star, and she said "Russel Crowe". Second choice? "Harrison Ford". She says that most young male movie stars today "look like kids". I wonder how much of a generational thing there is here? I know a lot of women in their 30's who will see ANYTHING Russel Crowe is in. Is the taste for "metrosexuals" confined to younger women, or is it more of a personality thing, with married women (like my wife and her friends) preferring the more classical type of male appeal, with the unmarrieds preferring the metro type. Any young guys out there with, ahem, experience with both sets care to comment? Roissy, do you read this blog...<BR/><BR/>TschaferAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3893665144141962944.post-50393877071621740532008-11-17T13:45:00.000-08:002008-11-17T13:45:00.000-08:00Great post. You pretty much summed up why 'Lost' i...Great post. You pretty much summed up why 'Lost' is the best show on TV. It has all the positives you listed in spades.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3893665144141962944.post-59563819923238123572008-11-17T00:25:00.000-08:002008-11-17T00:25:00.000-08:00The Spiderman my father read as a kid, and even th...The Spiderman my father read as a kid, and even the one in the fairly recent Saturday morning cartoon series was a wise-ass. He had heightened strength, sure, but he wasn't in the mold of the straight ahead clobberer. He was sarcastic, liked to mock the folks he was fighting as he used his agility to stay out of reach.<BR/><BR/>The Tobey Maguire Spiderman had none of this. Not much funny asshole in him at all. In the third film, once he gets possessed by an evil symbiotic alien lifeform, he finally grows some balls and becomes temporarily likeable (though the change is portrayed as evil). But I guarantee you the legions of twenty and thirty-something male comic book fans weren't thinking about what a jerk he was when he was pulling in cash and women for the first time in his life.<BR/><BR/>As an aside, the biggest leftist stereotype in the film, that of Jameson the newspaper man, drives me nuts. Parker is supposed to be a very intelligent student, studying hard science, etc. And in one of the films they mention Jameson's paper is something like the fourth or fifth largest in the city. And Jameson keeps lowballing Parker on his <I>exclusive</I> pictures of Spiderman, and Parker, whom we're purposely shown is very intelligent, never takes his f'ing shots to a rival paper. Even when they're used on the cover, frequently! What a goddamn moron. "<I>Hey, Mr. Rival Editor, you know that shitty rag I usually submit my exclusive Spiderman photos to, the ones that drive their meager readership? I'm unhappy with the pay I've been getting and am shopping these around to you and your competitors. Can you improve upon my current rate?</I>"<BR/><BR/>Jumping back to television, what think you of all the solid FX Network series? The sitcom <I>It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia</I> craps all over everything it can, and <I>The Shield</I> and <I>Sons of Anarchy</I> are fairly manly. There's a bit of <I>The Sopranos</I> where family drama gets worked in, but people are still having tattoos burned off of their backs with cutting torches and having their faces scared on the burners of electric ranges, and feature macho male leads.Mr. Smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06054086617167297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3893665144141962944.post-54450877238678480142008-11-16T23:40:00.000-08:002008-11-16T23:40:00.000-08:00Shia LaBeouf, Orlando Bloom, and Tobey Maguire are...Shia LaBeouf, Orlando Bloom, and Tobey Maguire are not large-boned nor assertive in their roles and characters. Indeed the plague of Emo-types, including Pete Wentz (famous for saying he's swung both ways) of Fall Out Boy and other make-up wearing sort-of-gay types, such as Russell Brand, has no shortage of female takers.<BR/><BR/>That goes back as far as Bowie or Jagger. Female audiences seemed to like emo-Spider-Man, though men seemed to hate the emo take that Maguire had on the character. <BR/><BR/>Women seem all over the map on this, emo-types and say, Russell Crowe or Brad Pitt or George Clooney can appeal to them.<BR/><BR/>But leading men find success most often by appealing to their own gender, which is what Hollywood used to serve up through films through the 1980s, with Gregory Peck, John Wayne, and Jimmy Stewart being replaced by Bruce Willis, Harrison Ford, and Mel Gibson. Until the Metrosexual plague that dates from the 1990's or so. Kingdom of Heaven (2005) starred Orlando Bloom. Had it been made in the 1980's, it would have starred say, Emilio Estevez or Judd Nelson. Who at least were not Metrosexuals.Whiskeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01854764809682029464noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3893665144141962944.post-67176923616559491672008-11-16T23:16:00.000-08:002008-11-16T23:16:00.000-08:00Ive harped on the "leading man" as depicted by Hol...Ive harped on the "leading man" as depicted by Hollywood for over a decade now.<BR/><BR/>Women primally are attracted to large-boned, square-jawed, fit, assertive, muscular (does not mean bodybuilding) men with hairy chests and they probably always will.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com