Resentment.

I thought about this before, but not too much, just a passing thought after having a conversation with a friend of mine about someone we both know.  When you watch a television sitcom about a family, or a bunch of friends, or possibly one of those romantic comedies, or teen movies etc etc, you'll usually see some "attractive" asshole, either male or female, that makes fun of a nice/nerdy/all around great person, but they are "bigger" or in normal terms fat.

Everyone then hates the good looking person, feeling bad for the fat girl/guy and then "karma" kicks in and the attractive one gets it, or the fat one goes through a montage and gets all "hot".

The reason I bring this up though is, I would believe that us larger folk, are more bitter towards those thinner folk, and treat them worse that they probably treat us. I mean, how many times have you heard a larger person refer to another person as a "stick" or "skinny" or something? Those are not terms of endearment. I wouldn't say it's due to jealousy, but it's just people being mean.

I don't understand the purpose of people being mean to other people they don't really know, and insulting them. I mean, does it make them feel better about themselves by allowing them to convince themselves that they are better off than they people they are making fun of?

What do you think?

..reading..

I love to read.

I really enjoy just sitting/lying back with a book and just forget everything that's going on in life and how horrible things can get and just escape. To me it's more about the escape than the entertainment. Not saying that everything in my life is horrible, far from it, but there are those days when you just want to go and run off into the woods and live the rest of your life as a hermit or something.

The genre I prefer the most is High Fantasy. Books from the Dungeons and Dragons family of settings, though I do prefer anything that is kinda ancient history related. The idea that almost anything can happen with Magic, and that things are solved by thought and skill entrance me. You need to be good at what you do in order to thrive at it. I know that these books are always written about extra-ordinary characters, ones who basically excel at everything they attempt.

I would not be one of those characters.

Imagine a book written about yourself in another time? I'd be the farmers assistant, a labourer somewhere, or just some guy trying to get by. The kind that is randomly killed by the villian of the story without an afterthought, or affected by some poison or magic to further the plot, maybe killed by some horrendous beast that introduces the story's hero.  Everytime I begin to read these stories, I feel inspired to want to write something similar, a really good book gets me actually writing for a little bit before my lazyness takes over.

Also, it makes me think. Your life as a story. Are you the hero? the villian? or possibly just the bystander? How many different roles do you take in your own life?

..random movie musings...

Ok,
So apparently I have a tendency to ramble on about whatever pops into my head when I'm around my friends because those horrible awkward silences make me nervous, not sure why, but they do. A friend of mine has a couple of spots, one where he blogs about cookies, and his other is all about coding. I...do nothing. I have ideas about stuff but I never pull through with it. Not that many people are going to go ahead and read this but today I'm going to talk about my idea for Batman 3.

For anyone who has not seen the Dark Knight yet, wtf is wrong with you?

Anyways...

I'm not a comic book nut, or anything, but where they've left the movie off, I hope to fuck that they don't kill off Dent. He should be alive, sitting in Arkyum, blaming batman for what's happened to him, stewing in his own insanity becoming more and more dangerous, of course, we should also see him in a counselling session with Hugo Strange, nothing too dramatic, just him, flipping a coin etc.

That's besides the point, everyone is talking about the villian that should appear in this movie, etc etc. I personally think the "villian" should be another "hero" in the DC universe.  Considering Nolan's "humanizing" of the super hero Genre, then the Green Arrow would probably be the most logical pick. Someone for Bruce to enjoy painting the town with, and Batman will struggle agains't. A nice quirk would be the new Gotham police force lined up to try to capture Batman, and after a couple of failures, the bring in dective Jon Jones, who finds himself in a position to capture Batman but discovers his true nature etc etc.

This movie should dwell deeper into the Pysche of Batman more than actual events. With Bruce, struggling to handle what happened to Dent and Rachel.  I'd also like for them to have Liam Neeson walk by in the background during a scene, or just have his face watching from a distance. 

You could also add something abotu Superman, but since there are actually no superheros, it probably wouldn't fly.

The thing I hate the most about the majority of comic book movies is that they feel they need to Kill off the majority of the major villians. Like Spider man killing off the Green goblin. Now it kinda fit with the insanity of the osbourne family, etc etc for the second movie. Batman has only let Al Ghul die, but with the character in the comics, is he really dead? Hence why Two-face should still be alive...

Anyways, there are some more plot points to discuss but this is what I have on my mind so far.