Pastiche

I've spent a lot of my life watching TV and movies. I rewatch things constantly. I start off being entertained, then I become analytical and start breaking down plot moves, character decisions, directing choices, and so forth. What I love about my entertainment needs to be disected and inspected. Think of it as the idiot box version of taking a radio apart to see how it works.

One of the side effects of rewatching so many things is rediscovering your lexicon. A character says some throw-away line that has somehow floated into my subconscious and feel like I've learned some weird truth about myself. My identity comes from the things that entertain me. My speech is informed by robots in space, an incompetant office manager, or men who fight ghosts with lazer beams.

Intellectuals and boring smart people may dictate that I feel ashamed of being inundated with pop culture instead of the proper culture. Certainly, I should be studying poems, novels, or paintings to round myself out as a human being. No one does that. Those that who make the effort to be more highly minded seem only to do it to show off.

Don't get me wrong, I love art and I read sometimes (mostly comic books), but it hasn't been as big of a part of my life as television and movies have been. Sorry, prentetious art people.