Cliches of the Silver Screen

Cliches of the Silver Screen 1) A character will always overhear a conversation and get the wrong idea. 2) When walking into a room, someone will always answer a question they could not possibly have heard. 3) Two characters will attempt to kiss, only to be interrupted. 4) One person has vital information to tell another, but after the other person says what they want to say and asks what they wanted, they say "nothing" or lie. 5) Professional killers can damage everything but the person they're trying to kill. 6) An evil mastermind will always explain their plan to the secret agent they have caught. 7) Characters can jump across buildings and catch a ledge without fracturing any bones. 8) Characters can also jump down from tall heights, but not break their legs. 9) Cops can always kick in doors, no matter what they're made of. 10) Characters will always point a gun at someone, but not cock it, which normally would give their foe a chance to shoot them or escape. 11) Characters who are thrown through glass windows never get cut. 12) After making love, either the couple will be fully dressed in bed, or the man will have a sheet up to his waist and the woman will have a sheet up to her neck. 13) Even in the seediest areas of a city, no one will lock their cars. 14) People will always leave their keys in their cars, often in the ignition. 15) Everyone knows how to drive motorcycles, boats, and planes. 16) A person who has never picked up a gun will shoot their enemies with accuracy that their assailants don't have. 17) When someone punches another person in a bar, a bar fight will always start up. 18) If someone gets mad because their cell phone isn't working, they will always throw it. 19) Anyone will be able to hack into high security computers. 20) Amateur family photos always look like they were professionally done. 21) If a character runs across a street, they will be hit by a car, but they won't be injured. 22) In a fight, the woman will always choose a vase to break over the bad guy's head. 23) Being hit with a bottle or a vase will not give a character a concussion. 24) No matter how thick the glass is, characters can jump through it. 25) When one character tells another, "you look terrible", the other character doesn't look any different. 26) Women will always wake up in the morning with their hair and makeup perfect. 27) If a man runs down a beam or pipe, he will slip and fall on his crotch, but not be injured. 28) All characters can breathe underwater indefinitely. 29) If a bad guy is shooting from a balcony, he will be shot and fall through the railing. 30) When running from an explosion, characters will not be injured or killed by shrapnel or debris. 31) All characters know the phone numbers and houses where other characters live. 32) After the bad guy wrecks his car, the good guy will run up to the driver side, only to discover that the bad guy has disappeared. 33) If there's a car chase, there's an endangered fruit stand. 34. A semi truck will always appear when cars are in both lanes. 35. A superhuman villain will throw a person across a room, usually into a wall or shelf, but the person will not be injured. 36. If the good guy is fighting the bad guy and scratches his cheek, that's when the battle begins. 37. PCs boot up and instantly go online, even if the character has dial-up. 38. When there's a virus on a PC, there will be a big red screen saying "VIRUS". 39. Alcoholics and people who eat junk food have perfect bodies. 40. All nerdy women look like supermodels when they take off their glasses.

Role Models & Kids Today

Role Models & Kids Today


This really should be a blog entry & maybe I'll make it one after. I was talking to a woman on Friday night while filming that live music, and we were talking about how much things have changed in a few decades, especially for kids growing up now.

First, there are NO role models left. The President screwed the country, so he's not a good role model, he got away with lies, was a traitor in fact (Bush and Obama now too), so kids can't even say they want to grow up to be President anymore.

The sports figures? They're all either using drugs, steroids, are raping maids in hotels, screwing around on their wives, none are good role models anymore, and why would a kid want to collect these people's cards now?

The church, the pope? FUCK that! The priests are having sex with boys, the pope won't do anything about it, and the deacons & bishops are hypocrites who say do as we say not as we do. If a kid can't even trust his church or his priest, higher ups in the church, and the supposed intermediate between god & himself, who the fuck can a kid trust???

Local business leaders? In this corporate greed society? Where people no longer matter, only the almighty bottom dollar, to the point of having people in foreign countries both being manufacturers & tech support? His male family members are probably unemployed or working for shit pay & several jobs just to make ends meet, where's the successful role model in that?

Actors & actresses? Should we even pretend to go there? I can't think of many I'd want to BE, or emulate. Can you?

What does a kid growing up today learn from all of these people? To lie, cheat, steal, use drugs, rape, molest, harm & destroy to get one's way or to succeed, that a human has no worth to their boss or company, nor to their church leaders who are supposed to be the examples of living a godly life.

So don't blame the kids for being bad, they have no examples to go by. Blame YOURSELVES, for being so self-centered you never thought what your actions were teaching those to follow. Perhaps it's the media's fault for reporting the facts, rather than hiding them as they used to do decades ago? We all knew JFK was screwing Monroe, but rarely did it make the papers. We all know humans are imperfect, and no one can be a perfect role model all the time, yet no one even tries anymore.

I'm not being moralistic, nor hypocritical, I'm just stating what reality is today for most growing up, now & in recent past. I don't think we need a more religious society since that never worked even centuries ago. Our govt. & politicians often quote family values as a justification for laws & censorship, or prejudice against gays or whomever, when those same lawmakers are doing the very things they want to stop US from doing. "Hey let's make mandatory prison time laws for non-violent crimes like drug use & instead let murderers go free, then we will do drugs & never have to suffer the consequences because we are too superior to have the same rules apply to us. Let's deny gays the right to suffer marriage along with us, while in secret we go do bath house gay sex ourselves. Let's crack down on prescription drug abuse, while we abuse the same drugs ourselves".

Everything in fact these people do against us, is a projection of their own actions left uncontrolled and unpunished. Why do we allow this dichotomy? Where has the backbone of America gone? why aren't we fighting back tooth & claw? Just my thoughts on this rainy day...
Gina Jordan AKA awolgina
Copyright 12-7-2011 at 1:46 PM Mood: TruthseekingMusic: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9yibUR5KNI&feature=related