One thing I have learned on my new job:

The movie Armageddon was pretty bad, technically.

I do still tear up a little when Will Patton gives his kid the little plastic space shuttle, though.

No matter how big a piece of schlock a movie or TV show is, there is a swedish or russian dude that loves it.

Don’t believe me? Run something like, say, Battle Dome or WMAC Masters or Vegas (the robert urich one not “Las Vegas”) through IMDB, and read the comments. There, in the middle of all the “WHY GOD WHY” and MY EYES MY EYES” comments will be one swedish guy: “I ACTUALLY REALLY LIKE THIS SHOW ACTING NOT SO GOOD BUT ACTION PACK AND AMERICAN LADIES ARE WO-WOW BORK BORK BORK. I BUY ON VHS PLEASE PUT ON DVD, AMERICA”

This brings us to my real point – something I heard in an interview with Quinton Tarentino, actually. He said, and I’m paraphrasing here, that all those cheesy movies he liked, he didn’t like them ironically, because they were cheesy – he liked them at the time because at the time, they were awesome, and when he watches a movie from that time, or makes a movie like one from that time, he does it without irony and recaptures some of that feeling.

Kind of like Henry Rollins talking about KISS(one again I paraphrase) – “It was so great to see a band on stage, rocking out with zero irony factor, you know, they weren’t like, you know, puttin’ on a show- you see bands nowadays and they are somehow above rock, they have contempt for it, they’re like, ‘here’s our dumb ballad’ – dude, why did you have to say that? I liked that song. Now I feel stupid for liking it – it was great to see someone putting on a rock show. They weren’t all “Here’s one of our stupid songs,” They were like, ‘THIS SONG IS CALLED STRUTTER'”

It was so refreshing to see that rock spectacle”

What I’m saying is, why do we have to be so ironic today? Why don’t people just like the things they like? Why do they immediately start excusing the things they like? “I like the killers, you know, but the aren’t as good as say, the early shows Iggy Pop and the Stooges did at CBGBs.” “Man it’s too bad the strokes have become so weak. I really thought they were going to like, save rock, man” etc.

Man, shut the fuck up. You weren’t even born then. You like the killers? Listen to the killers. You like the strokes, listen to the fucking strokes. Life is not some kind of bizzaro world showcase showdown where the person who comes the closest to hating the stuff they like without going over wins.