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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 Bodhi, Bromance, Dirty Harry, Dirty Harry Callaghan, Ex=presidents, High Noon, John Pilger, Johnny Utah, Kathryn Bigelow, Point Break, Ronald Reagan, Simone De Beauvoir, The Hurt Locker, The Wild Bunch, Will Kane on February 18, 2023 by Jarrod Boyle
Point Break: Redux
Posted in Film, Observation, Pretensions toward cultural theory, Real Men with tags bank robbery, Daniel San, ex-presidents, FBI, Johnny Utah, Keanu Reeves, Mr Miyagi, Patrick Swayze, Point Break, surfing, The Karate Kid 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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‘Story is Such a Lie.’
Posted in Observation, Real Men with tags C.S. Lewis, Charles Dickens, James Joyce, Luis Bunuel, Mr Deasey, Rodney Hall, Ulysses on January 20, 2023 by Jarrod Boyle
Rodney Hall, frequent guest of this blog, began a spiel on this topic when last we met. This commentary on the nature of art is so fundamental and so important, it needs to be posted somewhere: once again, I exhorted him to start his own blog and yet again, he refused. For that reason, I present his ideas here, rather than attempt to pass them off as my own.
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‘A Warrior Culture Steeped in Violence.’
Posted in Journalism, Pretensions toward cultural theory, Real Men with tags America, Apocalypse Now, Australia Day, Ben Roberts-Smith Versus the Media, colonel kurtz, SAS, The Guardian Newspaper, Viet Cong, Vietnam war on December 18, 2022 by Jarrod Boyle
Meditation Killed My Motivation
Posted in Observation, Pretensions toward cultural theory, Reading, Real Men, Statement of intention with tags Alain De Botton, Blade Runner, Buddha, How Proust Can Change Your Life, In Search of Lost Time, Luke David, Marcus Aurelius, Nietzsche, Osho, Proust, Roy Batty, Scott Moncrieff, Tim Ferriss 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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Miyamoto Musashi Versus Cameron Quinn: A Book of Five Rings
Posted in kyokushin karate, Martial Arts, Real Men with tags A Book of Five Rings, bodhisattva, Cameron Quinn, Kyokushin karate, martial arts, Mas Oyama, Miyamoto Musashi on April 21, 2022 by Jarrod Boyle
Miyamoto Musashi Versus Cameron Quinn: A Book of Five Rings
Posted in kyokushin karate, Martial Arts, Real Men with tags A Book of Five Rings, Autobiography of a Yogi, Boxing, Cameron Quinn, full contact karate, Gavin Scott, jiu-jitsu, kendo, Kyokushin karate, Mas Oyama, Paramahansa Yogananda, Rumi, Shihan, shootboxing, Swami Sri Yukteswar, The Holy Science, This is Karate, Tokyo, University of Queensland, Victor Harris, wrestling, Zen Do Kai on April 12, 2022 by Jarrod Boyle
Shihan Cameron Quinn is, by the standards of ‘Theme Park…’, a luminary. He began training in Kyokushin Karate in 1971 and lived in Japan in 1976, studying Japanese and training at the Kyokushin Honbu dojo in Tokyo under Kyokushin founder, Mas Oyama.
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In Search of Lost Time
Posted in Reading, Real Men with tags Alain De Botton, How Proust Can Change Your Life, In Search of Lost Time, Leo Tolstoy, Marcel Proust, Rodney Hall, War and Peace on November 14, 2021 by Jarrod Boyle
In Search of Lost Time
Posted in Reading, Real Men with tags Alain De Botton, How Proust Can Change Your Life, In Search of Lost Time, Leo Tolstoy, Marcel Proust, Rodney Hall, War and Peace on November 9, 2021 by Jarrod Boyle
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I finished reading In Search of Lost Time a few weeks ago, and now it’s over, there is a peculiar Proust-shaped hole in my life.
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Happy 60th Birthday, Henry Rollins
Posted in Pretensions toward cultural theory, Real Men, resistance training with tags Asylum, Cronos, Judith Herman, King Lear, Morbid Angel, Rollins Band, Slayer, The End of Silence, The Palace St Kilda, Trauma and Recovery on February 28, 2021 by Jarrod Boyle
The first disturbing event of first-year university was the day I went to meet a childhood friend of mine when he was discharged from the insane asylum.
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Theme Park at its Darkest 