Battle of the Buldge

Thank you Dara, you had the most insightful view point of the post, congrats! In recent times, I have been trying to loose weight like many other Americans. Oh don't get me wrong. I was once a college football player who was in great shape. I have seemed to keep the arms, back, shoulders, legs, and backside but I have also gained a gut with matching love handles. Marc Jacobs could have not made a better set. I look at myself in the mirror and am disgusted and long for the days of glory when I was built like a mythical beast as opposed to the Pillsbury dough boy. I know that I am not alone in this feeling because of the vast market for weight loss in our country. Looking like an Adonis may be well and good but my girlfriend and love of my life has a different opinion. She feels that my stomach and handles are sexy. Sexy? Did we hear that correctly? Apparently she loves the fact that I have a little more to love. She lays her head on my stomach and goes to sleep like a baby. I first thought she was weird because that's expected for someone who dates me. Then again she may share a common thought amongst most women. I asked a few other women what there take on this phenomenon. I was taken aback at the responses I received. "A man has to have something on him" stated one woman. "I like a big guy with huge arms and legs, something I can hug and feel safe and warm." Another had quoted. As confusing as this seems given society's view on male attractiveness, there a lot of women who like big guys. Or at least that's what I have discovered. Although the slender, artificial frame that is most accepted in the world is what is shown in the forefront. If this is not what women truly want then why are these guys getting modeling jobs and not a 230+ man. The same goes with women too. I can attest that most guys I know, including myself are not fawning over the girls from America's next top model, but the voluptuous women of rap videos and the wild women from VH1's rock of love who are not exactly paper thin. So then why do we continue to accept this altered view on what beauty is in our day and age. Are we just so used to following that we deny our own true desires? Do we really like the images we see on a daily basis? Or are we just that accepting of conformity? It could be that I just ran into people with a thick fetish. Who knows? You do. Intelligent discussion begins with you... Let us begin.

The greatest???

Ok, ok so nobody cares about the world's hungry. I guess that's my bleeding heart cause to whine about. At any rate, the lack of responses to my blog made me unhappy and so I decided to entertain my mind with a vh1 countdown show. The show was about the one hit wonders of the 80's. All was well and good until I saw EU's "Doin the Butt". I saw the cameo apperance from spike lee and the love of my life commented on how he was one of the great directors of our time. This lead to the first stimulating thought I had had all day. Was Spike really that good, or was he just available? I took a look at some of his earlier works and found that the editing and skill of the actors was not all that great, neither were the camera shots and angles. I came to the discovery that from a cinematographic view point the movies were not good at all. However the stories that were created by Mr. Lee were amazing. We all know and love the classics like School Daze and She's Gotta Have it, but was it what we were viewing, or what we were taking in from the story? It seems to me that Spike was not a great director at all, but a positive black man who knew how to run a camera setup. Since he was one of the first and really the only black director at the time, he is considered one of the greatest. Personally I don't buy the greatness of the man, but will admit that he became a good director later on in his career under the guidance of others who showed him how to truly do the job. Below is a clip of a typical "Spike Lee Joint". Look at it from a quality standpoint and judge for yourself. So what say you smart people of the world? Movie making genius, or available negro that took a few radio/tv classes. Discussion begins you intellectuals... let us begin.

(I don't know how to load this clip on the page but here is the link)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lg8Oq_Sd3Bw