plugged in

i went to the cinema last night. when i sat down in the very last row, a guy gave me the stink eye. i think he wanted a hand job from his girl and my presence ruined the covert operation. i am a master cockblocker.

let me get seriously serious.

...so i saw "surrogates."2012 is coming, whatever that means. the more i think about it, the more i feel like the world is moving towards that very dystopia and we're all either unaware or apathetic towards it. at this very moment, i'm on one laptop, my bf is on another while my sister is watching tv. plugged in. it has just dawned on me that the internet and television has completely consumed all of our lives to the point of imminent death if we were to be without it. we've relied so much on modern technology that we've all lost touch with mamon nature and those beautiful cosmos that replenish us on a daily basis.

senario: you've all contemplated this at one point or another. maybe you were drunk- philosophizing and asked yourself if you would still want to live if you were a vegetable. alive, but a vegetable. what if you were paralyzed from the neck down like superman? would you want to live?

i once said no. today i'd still say no. what's a life if you're not out there in the brave new world, living? the film raises these questions quite slyly. i'm gonna semi-ruin it and tell you that the characters "live" through their robots (aka surrogates). they never have to leave their rooms and never have to physically connect to their environment because their surrogates do it for them. sound kindda familiar? creepy. once you get past the surface, it's a bit eerie. they are "perfect" in this form and they actually feel as though they are living "real" lives. the worse thing is is that the idea is not that far-fetched. most of us live through our computers now. think of all the big networking sites that exist today. apparently everyone thinks talking, seeing, and engaging with others in the flesh is overrated. we like to use technology as a crutch for communication. but there is a breakdown.

i was asked, and said i no, i wouldn't have pushed the button either (you'd have to watch to get it).

where am i in all this? well, i normally wouldn't be blogging. i quit myspace a long time ago. i don't actually have 247 friends (i have a hard enough time getting together with one!). oh and i didn't find out what a "tweet" was until, like, 2 weeks ago. technology is highly addicting and i'm trying to balance it all out. but i'm old school at heart, too. my love for classic rock, reinhardt, blues, thrift stores, and old lady sweaters are at odds with my ultra-mod self- the one who high-fives apple, uses a phone as a miniature laptop, and is addicted to netflix. the past and the future pulls on all of my limbs at equal acceleration. all i know is that i still write letters with my own right hand and pay the 44 cents to send them.

digressing to today's observations:

.birth control is not cheap. pills cost $70/pack. no wonder the right is trying to kill obama's campaign. they're making a killing, no SLAUGHTERING off those without health insurance. i completely get this overpopulation thing.

.gays are so gay and festive! why can't straights get that loose?

.mustaches come in all kinds of shapes. and they're all mesmerizing.

and i've only barely woken up and i have to sleep too soon.