That is why I stopped ranting


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Posted by GLaadBag at w107.z064003093.san-ca.dsl.cnc.net on August 08, 2001 at 20:19:17:

In Reply to: Sometimes a Cigar.... posted by VioLenT BoB on August 08, 2001 at 20:13:13:

: Some people may find GLAADBAG and the rest of the anti-sycophants irritating.

: I don't.

: I get it.

: I got it.

: It made sense.

: But now it's overkill.

: It's true there is a tendency on this board to agree blindly with anyone who is a different color (now who's racist?).

: But there is also a tendency to jump on someone who shares a belief with a Red for the sole purpose of doing so.

: One reason for this so often set forth is that the accuser wants to be noticed. Most often they are accused of wanting to be noticed by a Red.
: Sure, hey that's cool. Everybody wants validation in some way.

: I've been here over four years now. And I still get a charge out of talking to Kevin and Vinnie and Brian and Johnson, and shit even Walt.

: Are they famous? Yeah. Is it cool that they take time out of their day to discuss shit with so called 'ordinary folk'? Yes.

: But even cooler than that is that they don't treat you like ordinary folk.

: And that's where we need to learn to make the distinction.

: Sure it's cool to see a reply to your thread all in red with Kevin at the HEAD. (rhymin and shit).

: But it should be the content and not the messenger.

: You knock Lynch's stories. Hey that's your business. I had the opportunity to speak with Brian Lynch all day when I was an Extra and the stories he can tell that aren't for internet general consumption are very entertaining. Not to mention chockfull of entertainment gossip and facts not openly discussed.

: Don't fuck up what is one of the greatest opportunities to peek into Hollywood with careless and hurtful banter towards each other and those providing both this board and this 'proverbial' window.

: Vinnie knows more about movies than anyone I've ever met. Period. End of it. He knows more than me. And I know a shitload. An assload of trivia that equates to about a quarter of vinnie's flickbank. Listen to the man, he knows what he's talking about.

: As for Kevin, he's the only director I know that doesn't get pissed off when you drop by unnannounced to his office, and talks to you for twenty minutes about things other than himself.

: It's a very, very down to earth bunch.

: And that's where it all gets fucked up. Admire the work, admire the skills, but don't elevate them to this huge pedestal where a post either congratulatory or negative is the end-all/be-all of your existence.

: Don't accuse everyone who shares a similar view with Kevin and Co. of being an asskisser.

: Malcolm called me a sycophant once. But better still, he didn't just call me a sycophant he CALLED ME on it. And he was right, at the time I was out of control, because FUCK "I WANTED TO BE IN BHD."

: And at 17 I thought that's what it called for, it didn't.

: Sometimes people are just sucking up, and sometimes people are being genuine, and it's being called a sycophant when your'e being genuine that drives people away and is more hurtful than a hundred "ISIS SHUT YOUR MOUTH" posts.

:
: For instance, I haven't eaten a vegetable or fruit (aside from mashed potatoes; I'm irish couldn't escape it) in about 8 years. Before that, (I was forced for two weeks to eat shit by my absentee father.) I hadn't since I was 3.

: Now do I have a prediliction towards Meat because Kevin does. Nope.
: Shit I just found that out from Wizard.. And 1983 was a decade before Clerks.

: But I guarantee if Kevin said something himself, instead of his Wife, Jen.
: There would be hundreds of people saying, Yeah FUCK VEGETABLES. And half of them would be sincere, people like myself, who just think BEETS taste like shit.

: The others would be agreeing to agree, yes-men.

: Either way they're taking time out of their day to visit this little corner of the Askew world, and their sending their dollars to the coffers, so they're paying members....ask yourself what you are...

: VB
: Jesus: "Let He who is without sin cast the first stone."
: (THWACK)
: Jesus: MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM! I'm trying to prove a point here!
: Mary: Sorry.


Enough is enough. I just wanted to make a point and it was made. Now I am all about the help. You guys are right I am an asshole that sucks at typing. Does that mean I hate Kevin. Heavens, No. I have met the guy and he is one of the most honest and caring people in hollywood. The only reason I posted some of the things I did is to get a rise out of the sickofpants or whatever that long ass word is. I am finished I assure you. I will probably be banned but hey that is cool my point was made and that is what I wanted.

The Mary and Jesus thing where does it come from?


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