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‘The Men Who Came Too Late and Stayed Too Long.’

Posted in Film, Observation, Pretensions toward cultural theory, Real Men with tags , , , , , on March 25, 2023 by Jarrod Boyle

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What I like about Peckinpah is that you never know what you’re going to get. You’re certainly not there to be ‘entertained’. Like David Fincher says, it’s going to leave a scar.

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‘The Men Who Came Too Late and Stayed Too Long.’

Posted in Film, Observation, Pretensions toward cultural theory, Real Men with tags , , , , , , , , , , on March 19, 2023 by Jarrod Boyle

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Surgery is a major life event. I had a hip replacement, which means full derailment; it’s a paradigm shift quite unlike any other. And most of the time, paradigm shifts find you stranded in a world that’s changed and requires that you develop new skills in order to cope. In my case, I return to the world with a certain ability that I had lost, namely, the ability to walk and stand square and strong, without pain.

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Point Break: Redux

Posted in Film, Observation, Pretensions toward cultural theory, Real Men with tags , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on February 18, 2023 by Jarrod Boyle

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Once he discovers his newfound friends and mentor are actually the ex-presidents, Johnny draws his line. During a botched stakeout shortly after, Utah reveals his identity when he pursues them in an attempt to capture.

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Point Break: Redux

Posted in Film, Observation, Pretensions toward cultural theory, Real Men with tags , , , , , , , , , , on February 3, 2023 by Jarrod Boyle

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I had very little memory of the film when I switched it on to pass a recent Saturday evening, and was concerned that watching an ‘old’ film from my teenaged years had become a recreational activity worthy of my time.

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‘A Warrior Culture Steeped in Violence.’

Posted in Journalism, Pretensions toward cultural theory, Real Men with tags , , , , , , , , on December 18, 2022 by Jarrod Boyle

What is the problem with that?

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Meditation Killed My Motivation

Posted in Observation, Pretensions toward cultural theory, Reading, Real Men, Statement of intention with tags , , , , , , , , , , , , on December 1, 2022 by Jarrod Boyle

Tim Ferriss once said that he had initially avoided meditation for fear it would bliss him out and diminish his drive. In my case, I fear that it’s true.    

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Limp Bizkit: The Last Great Band of the Nineties?

Posted in Music, Pretensions toward cultural theory with tags , , , , , , , , , , on October 16, 2022 by Jarrod Boyle

I’d never had much interest in Limp Bizkit until I saw the Netflix documentary, Trainwreck: Woodstock ’99. Nu-metal didn’t do a lot for me, and there was something that felt just a little bit entitled about Fred Durst.

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Millennial ‘Ethics’

Posted in Pretensions toward cultural theory with tags , , , , , , , , , on July 24, 2022 by Jarrod Boyle

I recently found myself embroiled with a couple of young women, millennials that I will refer to as A. and S., who seemed to defy all criticisms of millennials that I had experienced.

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Stolen Focus: Recovering the Sense of Flow

Posted in Observation, Pretensions toward cultural theory with tags , , , , , on May 1, 2022 by Jarrod Boyle

I’ve been reading a bit about the effect of the smart phone on the attention span, and I must confess, I recognise a number of Johann Hari’s observations in my own behaviour.

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Instagram: Is Photography the Language of the Lie?

Posted in Pretensions toward cultural theory with tags , , , , , on February 12, 2022 by Jarrod Boyle

‘Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.’

– Oscar Wilde

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