WARNING: READERS DISCRESSION IS ADVISED
So this past Friday, Chris and I went to watch a documentary called "F*CK" written by Steve Anderson. We went to some old run down theatre to watch it. The place was totally packed. I had no idea what I was going to watch because Chris bought the tickets and I didn't bother to look at the synopsis online. I didn't want to spoil the surprise for myself. With no expectations of the movie, I couldn't drop any lower. The documentary was in an interview style with excerpts here and there. Steve interviewed a total of 35 people including both Conservatives and Democrats. Some of the more well known people are: Billy Connolly, Drew Carey, Miss Manners, just to name a few.
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The documentary is around 2 hours long and goes through various topics surrounding the word f*ck. They started with the history of the word, or could be the lack of history. There doesn't seem to be a known "inventor" of this word. Different people have different POV on this subject. Some say it's from the word "frichen", some say it's a acronym for "Fornication Under Consent of the King", but the bottom line is that f*ck is mainly used in sex. There are many different usages for the word in sentences, it can take the form of a noun, verb, adjective, pronoun, etc. A very very versitile word. There is a political aspect of this in which the speakers have a certain point of view about the use of the word. A lot is debated over the "freedom of speech." Some people find that there is a fine line between freedom and CHAOS. On one side, we have some that say if we are not able to speak freely, then we are not free at all, what kind of democratic place is this? The other side says that there is a fine line and by being a potty mouth, we've stepped over the line. Both sides have their points, but I'm siding more to a side of we should have freedom of speech, but in front of certain audience, we must clamp down our mouths and lock away the toilets. There is one thing that I'm 50/50 on, in today's world, especially the entertainment world, most movies and some sitcoms have vulgar words spoken (some even try to out-potty-mouth other movies). I'm not sure what I'm for in the realms of Hollywood. Finally it was very very interesting to see Ron Jeremy (major Pr0nstar) and Miss Manner's in the same interview. Over all, I believe that this documentary was very entertaining and also informative.
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This weekend zoomed by like a breeze. I went to watch MI3 on Saturday, it was good. 8.5/10, Cruise can actually act (Sorry to all the Cruise lovers out there, it's how I feel). After MI3 my friends and I all went home to play Settlers with the expansions. Wonderful evening of rage and fraustration. Technically I sat there and rolled the dice all night long.
I would like to congratulate Mark Leslie for making it on the C-List for Blogerity.
I would also like to congratulate both Ant and Shirley on their engagement 4 days ago (which I just found out). It is such a wonderful thing, being engaged, planning for the wedding, getting all worked up. Then *BOOM* in 24 hours time of the wedding day, all the sweat and blood that was poured into it comes and goes. Weeeeeee.....lots to look forward to.
This morning coming into the office was a nice walk in the sun because NO STREETCAR IN SIGHT!!!! I'm quite fed up with the transit system here. The continually increase in cost and the lack of transit things.....cars......busses.........this is some vicious downward spiral I think. They don't get enough money, so they can't provide the service, so they raise the price, people are driven away because of the price and because we aren't given the service we want, so they get even less money.......so it continues...this is really really...REALLY pathetic.
I would also like to mention that I'm now officially a Corporal (in training) of my St. John Ambulance division. I'm really really excited.
