Good morning anarchy enthusiasts. Embrace the hate of a government shutdown. Feel the hate and let it flow through you. I know I have, and it feels just…capital.
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If you haven’t seen or watched the wonderful new series on Showtime, Ray Donovan, I highly recommend that you check it out. I’ll give you a brief overview of the second episode: A young movie star is caught texting a video of himself with a tranny to heretofore referenced tranny. The tranny then attempts to extort money based on the fact that the young movie star hasn’t been outed as gay, and has a big summer block buster coming out. You may think the movie star has the most to lose, but he’s doesn’t. It’s the film’s producer.
Ray is a fixer. He gets the call about what’s going down, and starts to put a plan in motion. He meets the tranny, who only wants the money to complete the reassignment. Think whatever you will about this, but in Hollywoood this is seen as a noble reason for extortion. He then puts the movie star in rehab, destroys the hard drives and phones that contain the video, and pays a visit to the producer. The producer is a real POS, who has not been kind to a woman that they mutually know. And by mutually know, I mean they’ve both payed winkie doodle with her.
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Ray then demands $1M from the movie producer and starts to pay off the various players. He gives the tranny the money for the surgery too, which was a bit unexpected. Again, this is the ‘right thing to do’ in Hollywood even though the extortion set off a chain of events that were unsavory. He also pockets a considerable sum, and goes about dealing with his family that is falling apart. John Voight plays his father, and has recently been released from prison. He holds a grudge against Ray, and believes that Ray set him up for a long stretch in prison 20 years ago. There’s considerable tension as Ray’s father tried to integrate himself back into the family for either love or revenge. The viewer never really knows which. In one interesting scene, he explains to his grandson that when in prison, ‘a mouth is a mouth,’ which also references the fact that the movie start has been with a girl/boy and is the name of the episode. Clever.
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The point of this rambling 400 word review of a series that no one will probably watch is that it’s got a little something for everyone (Liev Shriver is easy on the eyes for the ladies, and there’s always boobs in it for the guys) and includes interesting lessons from an objectivist point of view. Each character is exclusively following their self interest , although the world they live in is completely devoid of the moral underpinnings that must accompany the social construction for objectivism to be successful.
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No one posts on Tuesdays so I figured this might be kind of interesting before we devolve into talking about gardening/working out/chickens/your mom/my height.
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UPDATE: I had meant to start the video at 5:45, which is one of my favorite movie quotes of all time: You see, in this world there’s two kinds of people, my friend: Those with loaded guns and those who dig. You dig.
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If life hands you a loaded gun. Use it.
Update – costume idea for emmjay:
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