How To Royally Screw Things Up
shailynn
They never tell you what you need to know.
Last night I started to watch a movie. It’s one I’ve seen so many times I’ve lost count, but it’s been awhile.
Casino (Robert DeNiro, Joe Pesi, Sharon Stone)
Such an excellent movie but at times it’s painful to watch because in just about every scene each main character is slowly ruining their life and they can’t help themselves because of their egos. Usually the same theme with Scorsese films.
It just made me think how many people I’ve seen in real life do the same thing. Not rob, murder and do insane amounts of cocaine but do stupid things to mess up their lives. We’ve all done it to some degree, we knew better, sometimes we were too dumb not to know better but should have. Sometimes we ignored the consequences because the reward was too gratifying.
Casino (Robert DeNiro, Joe Pesi, Sharon Stone)
Such an excellent movie but at times it’s painful to watch because in just about every scene each main character is slowly ruining their life and they can’t help themselves because of their egos. Usually the same theme with Scorsese films.
It just made me think how many people I’ve seen in real life do the same thing. Not rob, murder and do insane amounts of cocaine but do stupid things to mess up their lives. We’ve all done it to some degree, we knew better, sometimes we were too dumb not to know better but should have. Sometimes we ignored the consequences because the reward was too gratifying.
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There was one documentary I watched a few years back of a hit done with a .22 with fewer grains to hold the noise down. The assassin had to shoot the guy in the head like 5 times before he was killed - 5 time! Grizzly.
People went nuts over The Sopranos. I tried and I just couldn't get into it. It must be me.
I recently watched The Summer Of Sam. In 1977, during Son os Sam, NYC had that massive power outage and Spike Lee used real news footage of the looting. It looked like a pre-BLM riots. I do think it accurately showed what life was like, and it was rough in those neighborhoods.
Movies that are overlooked today are The Wild Bunch, and The Great North Field Minnesota Raid (I know these are not MAFIA-related.) And, 1927 "Metropolis" with a view in the 21st Century that is pretty accurate 100 years later. Sorry, I digressed.
I see a lot of this too, even a relative who is a criminal. I've known a few people that make me wonder - you were doing so well, how did you manage to take THAT FORK in life's road.
Even strippers, and for that matter models, as examples: What do they do when their career is over, and that could be like just 10 or fewer years? Do a great job and stash away as much money as possible knowing they have a short runway unlike a software developer, lawyer, trucker, electrician, plumber or CPA?
I've been told my strip clubbing is a fuck up. I'm of the opinion that I understand the trade offs. Time will tell. Perhaps one of these girls will murder me in my sleep, or harvest my organs and leave me in my own bathtub filled with ice. Maybe I'll be diagnosed with an illness that cuts my career short and I'll wish I had the money back. Or, maybe it'll be just fine. I'll die in in the manor of worthy of Tyrion Lancaster: In my own bed, with a belly full of wine and a maiden's mouth around my cock, at the age of eighty. And the next day, the last check I wrote will bounce, with a nod to Saul Bloom.
He's this otherwise formidable, competent man who ruins his life being a white knight.
And kudos to Sharon Stone for making the character she played into such an obnoxious cunt. That's serious acting skills.
I've never seen a scientific study or even a work of fiction that sheds light on what makes a pimp a pimp. It doesn't seem to be the case that any amoral person can become a pimp. In the sense of being loved by women they exploit and have contempt for.
In my world; The short ones never go in...... (putting).