Rocky Rambo.
{ Posted on Thursday, January 24, 2008
by alan
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Any regrets about doing it your way?
"I have tons of regrets, but I think that's one of the reasons that push people to create things. Out of their angst, their regret, comes the best from artists, painters and writers." -Sly Stallone, Interview - Parade Magazine
Another admission: I don't know what it is about Rocky or Rambo, or hey, even Arnold's Predator and Terminator. There is something to be said (not all of it good!) about old guys going to the wall. That, football movies, and Shakira are my guilty pleasures... Please, no comments...
There's something irrepressible about Stallone and I love this quote. It's genuine, it's courageous, and it's humble. I live a pretty good life, like many of my friends, and the worst thing we do is settle for the good that we have. We deny our hurt feelings, we beg off on the things we didn't achieve priding ourselves that we didn't want them anyway. Stallone has none of that. He's the epitome of the Rocky character who says I'm going to go, it don't matter what you think.
I'm reminded of a T-shirt I wore when I was in high school, quoting Picasso, "The chief enemy of creativity is good taste." One of the best aspects of the post-modern world is that we can have it both ways. Understanding multiple world-views, being able to live with questions and tensions, means that we can have our regrets, our pains, our muses to dig deep and try for a transcendental life, even as our lives seem so good, so clean and sterile. We just have to, like Stallone, honour our regrets.
But can you believe it? I just used Sylvester Stallone as a talking point... Ah, what the hell, if the shoe fits... "Yo, Adrian!!!!"
"I have tons of regrets, but I think that's one of the reasons that push people to create things. Out of their angst, their regret, comes the best from artists, painters and writers." -Sly Stallone, Interview - Parade Magazine
Another admission: I don't know what it is about Rocky or Rambo, or hey, even Arnold's Predator and Terminator. There is something to be said (not all of it good!) about old guys going to the wall. That, football movies, and Shakira are my guilty pleasures... Please, no comments...
There's something irrepressible about Stallone and I love this quote. It's genuine, it's courageous, and it's humble. I live a pretty good life, like many of my friends, and the worst thing we do is settle for the good that we have. We deny our hurt feelings, we beg off on the things we didn't achieve priding ourselves that we didn't want them anyway. Stallone has none of that. He's the epitome of the Rocky character who says I'm going to go, it don't matter what you think.
I'm reminded of a T-shirt I wore when I was in high school, quoting Picasso, "The chief enemy of creativity is good taste." One of the best aspects of the post-modern world is that we can have it both ways. Understanding multiple world-views, being able to live with questions and tensions, means that we can have our regrets, our pains, our muses to dig deep and try for a transcendental life, even as our lives seem so good, so clean and sterile. We just have to, like Stallone, honour our regrets.
But can you believe it? I just used Sylvester Stallone as a talking point... Ah, what the hell, if the shoe fits... "Yo, Adrian!!!!"
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