Hey guys,
I just walked out of the theater from seeing the new James Bond movie Spectre. I enjoyed the film, but that’s not the point of this post. The point is that about a third of the way into the movie I notice a random light coming from a couple seats down. Some guy was doing something on his phone. Easily illuminating a few seats beside him as well. He puts his phone back in his pocket and I can focus back on the movie. Of course he ends up doing something on his phone 3 or 4 times during the film and even leaving about 5 minutes early. If I was big and muscular I would have told him to get out, but if you know me, you know that I’m not either of those things. Just really annoyed me, his cell phone light took me out of the movie. It’s not that hard to leave your phone in your pocket for 3 hours. That’s coming from me, who practically lives on his phone. There is no real moral to this story, but if you need to be on your phone, watch your movie at home, or leave the room, use the phone then come back.
Matt Shouse
Annoyed James Bond Fan
Hey guys,
So first off this is directly inspired by filmmaker Rory Kramer. He shoots a lot of videos with Justin Bieber. Rory just posted a statement about how he is saddened about the amount of people that follow him and that aren’t happy. Rory has over a hundred thousand followers on instagram. He’s doing well on that account. I have barely over 700 followers on instagram. But what he’s saying is exactly right. We can’t find ourselves in how many followers we have or if some celebrity follows us. At the end of the day that really doesn’t matter. I’ve been caught up in this mindset at times myself. What i’ve noticed is that lots of people who have lots of fans on social media do what they love and people see that and want a part of it. Do what you love, and people will be drawn to that. It’s not the amount of followers you have, it’s what you do that really says something about yourself and who you really are.
Peace,
Matt Shouse
Hey guys,
This is a bit more personal, and less professional. If you aren’t into that go ahead and just stop reading here.
I think that as humans we’ve become so in touch with everything that in some round about way we are really more out of touch than ever. That sentence doesn’t really make sense, but I’ll try to explain. These days we all have our phones attached to our hands. We’re in communication with people 24/7, and I’m just as guilty about this as the next time. Always texting, tweeting, instagramming, snapchatting, you name it. I do it almost all day. It’s pretty bad. There’s a point to all of this though. I think that all of this communication and such has really affected my friendships and relationships. For example I was once seeing a girl for a while and we texted every day and would go out frequently and what not. I booked a job that had me away for a week. I was not only away for the week but I had no internet or cell phone access what so ever. Over the course of this week I just realized that this girl was not the right person for me. I just realized that after being away from her and not talking to her for just a few days I didn’t really miss her. This may sound incredibly cruel, and maybe it is, but when I came back we broke things off. And she’s happy now I think. I just wonder if you took a young couple from today and told them they couldn’t talk at all for a week, could they do that? I just realized that I was with this girl because of the constant communication and almost routine of it, not really because she was the girl for me.
Maybe I just had a unique experience, maybe i’m crazy. I don’t know. I just think that this whole smart phone revolution has really changed things. I’ve never connected more with someone than being face to face with them. I’ve never hung out with someone and thought, gosh I wish I was just talking to them on the phone.
This has been the most random, confusing blog post ever. To wrap all this up I’m going to put my thoughts in brief concise statements. Even though we now have everyone we could ever want to talk to at our finger tips in a cell phone, I think we are more out of touch with one another than ever before. I also think that not talking to someone for a period of time can really make you reset and think if you really want to stay in contact with that person or if you miss them or think about them at all.
End rant, should probably not even post this, but oh well. Welcome to my weird mind.
Matt Shouse