And the tao flows...

Currently Listening To: A.R.E Weapons- Into the Night


So (and i know i have said this before) but im going to try to write in this blog weekly if not daily. I want to keep writing, even if it is online, at least it is writing. So in comes the blog and outgoes my recent thoughts. cut n' dry.


I finished reading Jarhead. I saw the movie, and while on its own its pretty average...nothing too new and the acting wasnt the most superb. Yet it conveyed a message...at least it had that going for it.

The movie however comes nowhere near the scope of the book. I highly suggest finding a copy of it somewhere and reading it. Perhaps it is because i know people involved in the Marine Core or maybe my anti-war leanings made me so enthralled with this book, but i have trouble following that through.

Jarhead doesnt have any real agenda, no lofty goals. I belive Virgina Wolfe said something about good fiction being nothing more than a story about a woman holding a garden party. Ordinary people. Jarhead delivers this. Its a raw, uncensored look into the mind of a Jarhead. Before and After reactions. Startling revalations into the horribleness of War that i dont think we could get from a few talking heads on cross fire.

In the book, Swofford mentions that he realized that he wasnt fighting this war for his country, or himself, or his fellow marines. Just the collected intrerest of a few rich men.

Maybe we should consider that thought a bit more in regards to our current histroy, or maybe not. Afterall im just a commie-pinko who wants to take all your property and money.

heh,

well whatever im going to go eat ice cream.

later days.