Stop it

Apr 20, 2008 02:34

Forgetting Sarah Marshall was fucking hilarious. It was like Superbad in that it had a couple of extremely awesome scenes and one liners, but unlike Superbad in that there was actually a good movie still in between said scenes and zingers. It did tug at my nutsac a little bit over something that's starting to irk the shit out of me - Hollywood's ( Read more... )

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ceejishi April 23 2008, 11:10:02 UTC
Wearing button up shirts almost every day and getting up habitually at 7:30am seven days a week are things currently making me not me.

I hear you. I just got a review from my peers through an anonymous corporate process. Three of them used the word "professional" at least twice in their comments (in the what I could do better section). Does that sound like me? Really? Am I that good at hiding?
Working in the corporate world and wearing the uniform make me question if I'm turning into who I'm acting like. At what point do you become who you impersonate instead of who you are?

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judge April 23 2008, 19:14:54 UTC
For me it's less about forgetting who's under the mask and more about being affected in ways that I hadn't really thought of. I don't dress like I do because I feel compelled to put on a false front, I just figured "I guess this is appropriate ok" not "OH GOD I MUST CONFORM AND WEAR THE COTTON BUTTON UP SHIRT, THE NOOSE OF MY PAYMASTERS!". But in retrospect dressing like this and getting up early and all of that have had an impression on me at least subconciously.

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