No point beating around the bush on this one. I hate labeling. I'm a selfless hypocrite (get it?) and I don't give a damn crap. I fail to see why it is that people NEEED to label other people so they can feel comfortable around their presence. I get asked a lot about what kind of designer I am (are you a... print graphic designer or a web graphic designer? how about a chicken graphic designer or better yet a... beer graphic designer?) why can't I just be me in the eyes of others is beyond me and probably will be beyond me for as long as I am me.

I feel it all the time, when talking to people to whom I'm "new" and (in some cases) are new to me. It's like a complex where no real conversation or even a vote of confidence take place if the whole "what do you do?" conversation hasn't taken place or hasn't been answered directly. Sometimes even that's not enough, because it's easy to answer the question by saying "i'm so so and so and i do this and that for those", but then it's like [these] people's brain suddenly switches to horse mode and they can no longer look to the sides while seeing you. It's like in their mind you're the girl with the awesome mustard chicken recipe, but you can't ALSO be the world's stare contest champion because then they'd feel all icky inside like they walked into the bathroom after you and you didn't flush. Like somehow you betrayed their trust that the toilet would be pristine after you scrubbed it (you didn't think I was talking about... OH YOU DON'T KNOW ME AT ALL!)

So yeah, I do labeling a lot, but we all have the right and actually should label things to organize our thoughts, our priorities and ultimately our lives. But notice that I said things. Music, books, film, jobs, food, fine art, all of these are things that are static in that once they are created and put into a viable application, they can't be changed from being what they are without turning into something different. Full Metal Jacket will always be labeled as a war movie because it was, is and always will be Full Metal Jacket. It can't suddenly morph itself and become a musical or a romantic comedy, because it is static. You see where I'm going with this when we apply the same fucking reasoning to a human being who can be an awesome writer one moment and a successful athlete the next.

Things like these make me wonder if we're in fact progressing as a society, you know what with more technology around and more individualism and shit, you wonder why our personal bubbles keep expanding more each time while at the same our conception of what is "cool" just gets more twisted into plain plastic... canned emotions.

And I saw that trailer for balls of fury and while the movie seems to be only salvageable by Mr. Walken I gotta ask: am I the only person who hates the fucking fade in and fade out at the beginning of the trailer? IMHO what was obviously a crappy editing decision in the transformers trailer doesn't have to become the norm simply because that movie did OK in the theaters.

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