A Pot-Pourri of Thoughts
Having taken a seasonal rest from blogging and writing (switching off to the world to some degree) I am, with a collection of thoughts going round in my head, back in action again.
Sexualization:
Actor, Liam Neeson believes society has been too sexualised and that the trend is ruining loving relationships (The Dominion Post 8.1.13). I support his belief. A whole generation or more in the Western World has been denied its innocence.
When I was a young man, photos of pin-up models in bikinis were considered to be akin to porn. A model might even be photographed topless on occasions but always with her arm (or something else) covering her nipples. That was as daring as it got in mainstream publications at the time. The mystery of what a woman looked like nude was still there for a man to discover, ideally after marriage or at least in a loving relationship.
For later generations, nudity (in photography and, later, video) became increasingly common and, as Neeson says, the more familiar “you get with something it moves from the sacred to almost the profane.” Private parts and sex aren’t private anymore.
It’s sad that younger generations don’t know what they’ve missed out on.
The Hobbit:
I’ve seen the movie twice and, in my opinion, it deserves being a box office hit. Of course, I’m biased by the spectacular New Zealand landscape of “Middle Earth” which is the movie backdrop in many scenes.
What does it say about American taste in movies that The Hobbit was toppled from first place at the US box office by a sequel to the 1974 Texas Chainsaw Massacre? (The Dominion Post 6.1.12)
My Stars:
My horoscope for the week (Kapi-Mana News 6.1.12), taken with a grain of salt, says there is part of me that is a great storyteller (nice words for a novelist to hear) but advises me that I “need to be able to draw the line between stretching the truth” and my “make-believe world”. I hope I’m doing that okay.
The Kapi-Mana News, in the same edition, kindly ran an item on publication of my fifth novel, “Island of Regrets”, in the USA.
Christmas:
Always a time for nostalgia about my own childhood and for memories of the financial struggle to make it a fun time for my children when they were young and of helping them now to make it a fun time for their children.
Thank God that some children are still innocent enough to believe in Santa.
If you weren’t allowed to, then you really missed out on a delightful part of growing up.
Sexualization:
Actor, Liam Neeson believes society has been too sexualised and that the trend is ruining loving relationships (The Dominion Post 8.1.13). I support his belief. A whole generation or more in the Western World has been denied its innocence.
When I was a young man, photos of pin-up models in bikinis were considered to be akin to porn. A model might even be photographed topless on occasions but always with her arm (or something else) covering her nipples. That was as daring as it got in mainstream publications at the time. The mystery of what a woman looked like nude was still there for a man to discover, ideally after marriage or at least in a loving relationship.
For later generations, nudity (in photography and, later, video) became increasingly common and, as Neeson says, the more familiar “you get with something it moves from the sacred to almost the profane.” Private parts and sex aren’t private anymore.
It’s sad that younger generations don’t know what they’ve missed out on.
The Hobbit:
I’ve seen the movie twice and, in my opinion, it deserves being a box office hit. Of course, I’m biased by the spectacular New Zealand landscape of “Middle Earth” which is the movie backdrop in many scenes.
What does it say about American taste in movies that The Hobbit was toppled from first place at the US box office by a sequel to the 1974 Texas Chainsaw Massacre? (The Dominion Post 6.1.12)
My Stars:
My horoscope for the week (Kapi-Mana News 6.1.12), taken with a grain of salt, says there is part of me that is a great storyteller (nice words for a novelist to hear) but advises me that I “need to be able to draw the line between stretching the truth” and my “make-believe world”. I hope I’m doing that okay.
The Kapi-Mana News, in the same edition, kindly ran an item on publication of my fifth novel, “Island of Regrets”, in the USA.
Christmas:
Always a time for nostalgia about my own childhood and for memories of the financial struggle to make it a fun time for my children when they were young and of helping them now to make it a fun time for their children.
Thank God that some children are still innocent enough to believe in Santa.
If you weren’t allowed to, then you really missed out on a delightful part of growing up.
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