My Response to The Washington Post Review of The Road

This is my entire comment on her review of The Road.

"'The Road' finally resembles little more than a highfalutin' zombie movie with literary pretensions."

And...

"At its best, "The Road" offers a profound portrait of parental devotion and a child's instinctive love of mercy and justice and gratitude, but McCarthy's fatal sense of cruelty and hyperbole make the trip a bummer."

You're describing what makes it realistic. Even our world right now, at times, has a "fatal sense of cruelty." Any rational and logical person would expect that to be magnified by tens of thousands of times in a situation like the book and movie depicts. Of course it's a "bummer." It's the end of the world as we know it. It doesn't have a clean, crisp ending with a new beginning as you see in something like Roland Emmerich's Trifecta of Non-Depressing Doom; "Independence Day" and "The Day After Tomorrow" and "2012." The "happy ending" in McCarthy's "Road" is simply the fact that although the boy's father died, the boy will live on, hopefully.

You seem to be lamenting the fact that the movie didn't have this wonderful ending with blue skies and warm weather and a kiosk that sells iPods, iPhones and laptops. Here is to a realistic "disaster" movie, The New McCarthyism, it lacks the sturm und drang of Herr Emmerich but retains the flicker of humanity while showing the dregs of same.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/25/AR2009112501106_Comments.html

The Road - Excellent Movie...

I went to see The Road yesterday. It is one of the best movies I have ever seen. I was expecting a horrible nightmare of a film, I really was. It was delayed at least three times, I stopped counting, and I figured the whole project was in deep trouble.

For those that could not make it through the book because they didn't care for McCarthy's writing style, the movie is the book come to life yet it's so different because it is a film...you will probably like the movie where you didn't like the book.

The Long and Winding...ROAD...

Oh...are they ever going to release this movie? Just checked because I have not seen the trailer on TV and it was supposed to be about October 16. I went to the OFFICIAL website and it had at the top of the page October 16, 2009 but it wouldn't load so I refreshed the page and that changed to November 25.

Just the lyrics from a wonderful song...

"Have no fear in your heart...
though you feel you've been broken and lost...
there's a place where we will meet up again...
there's a place that mends your hurt and takes you in...
there are times faced alone...
when you find all the holes in yourself...
you don't have to walk the night on your own...
I will say a prayer for you to lead you on...
I will say a prayer for you when you have gone..." - Bird York

Patrick Swayze

Dead at the age of 57. 57 is a magic number, cancer won its battle with my Dad when he was 57 as well.

Rest easy.

The Long...and...Winding...ROAD...

It looks like THE ROAD is going to be out on October 16.

Let's just hope they don't try to turn the book into some type of screwy Chuck Norris movie.

Buddha on The Road...

"Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense." - Buddha

I am a big believer in nothing nowadays...or so it seems. If I told you what I really believed, you might think I finally went over the edge. Rest easy, it's not that bad. It's not that bad...for one thing, I'm not going to tell you what I really believe! I guess the fear of being ostracized is a sanity-check all its own, innit?

Perhaps in my self-imposed religious agnosticism and political atheism I will finally achieve the epitome of pessimism. Know this: I care not about this world or much of anything in it except my family and friends. I don't care about tomorrow and I don't care about yesterday. All I care about is today. Yesterday's face is one of sadness and Tomorrow's is one of fear and apprehension. You can take your "Global Warming" fears and the rest of your (true) paranoia and soft terror and shove it up your lower vent, I don't need it. Here is Wisdom, Let him who hath understanding reckon The Two Names of The Beast - capitalism and communism. It's all smoke and mirrors to get you and I in the same place - slavery.

Rest easy in your chains tonight.

The Road...less traveled...

I have been waiting since last Fall for "The Road." I finally purchased the book last week and finished the book yesterday.

I can't figure out why Blogger has removed Jay's old "World of Tomorrow" blog but I feel as though I should, once again, simply delete this one because you just never know when you are going to violate someone's silly fucking Terms of Service for not sucking the theoretical penis of whatever blogger.com wants to promote.

I remember back last Fall that people were complaining on talk radio that blogger was suspending blogs or removing their blogs because they didn't support a certain candidate who ended up winning. Can you believe that happy crappy? 8-)

Welcome to the free medium, I'm amazed they are not charging for this shit. Anyone remember all of the old free online photo accounts? They all went to charging people once they had a ton of shit on their website and it was, "Pay us or it's all gone, have a nice day." Sort of what this will eventually turn into but they have never made the software really good enough or reliably enough to actually have the balls to charge for it.

There are a few free photo sites still around, I guess sooner or later they will follow those that came before them and start charging. You would think with all of the POP-UP TRASH those fuckers have that it could remain free forever! You would think America Online would be free as well...considering the amount of shit they have flapping all over the place as soon as you sign on.

Anyway, that's the thought as of late, waiting for "The Road" to come out in the movies and thinking about deleting this thing again and just focusing on the website I have.

Still waiting patiently...

for Viggo Mortenson in, The Road.