Rent
Posted at 10:06 am on Friday, February 8, 2008, in Film Retrospective.
This is much better seen on stage (I saw it on Broadway in 2002), probably because you don’t have any control over fast forwarding, plus it feels like your doing something, and not wasting your life.
This is the thing about Rent. The theme makes up the first half of the Generation X paradox. When you think of Generation X, one of the first things you think of (besides the early days of MTV) is a bunch of slackers dressed in loose clothing. But it is also the same Generation X that has propelled the Web2.0 boom, so not all of them are lazy. In fact, many of them are geniuses, hard-working and successful.
And besides, you have to pay rent. Get over it.
(Returned 01/15/08.)
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March 9th, 2009 at 12:58 pm
[...] When did doing nothing — and on top of that, posing a significant hindrance and cost to society — become something to do? I would like to blame Generation X on all of this — from Facebook to Twitter — and I plan on diatriing on that in detail in the future. (Here’s a hint.) [...]