DJ Abs on Revolutionary Road

Groovers,



The blog site http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.com/ - Ouch.





Compulsory read for all white people especially those with apple computers :-). I must throw out my moleskine notebook with my 5 phone numbers and grocery list in it and stop using sea salt.

But I digress.

I know I said I was going to write about saving the world and the global financial meltdown, etc but ROME WAS NOT BUILT IN A DAY and I feel I need to start with the movie Revolutionary Road.

For those that haven't seen it, it stars Kate Winslet and Leonardo Di Caprio and is directed by Sam Mendes. It's about a couple struggling to find meaning and happiness with their middle class suburban American lives in the late 50s.





It's not a great film* but deals with an important theme. One that I think faces many of us bloggy types - how to a get an interesting life and escape "middle class" blandness. A life of of sex, drugs and rock'n'roll, action, excitement, adventure. A life of late night poetry readings and wistful stares over misty sea cliffs.





Well Groovers to save you wasting a good many years of disappointment and restless searching, DJ Abs offers the following revelation that one day came to him (sitting under a tree sprinkling himself with sea salt):

1. For 99.999% of us, work will ever only be a means to an end. Our ancestors hunted animals and spent their spare time painting about hunting animals. So it us with us. Focus your creativity and passion on your ends but don't get them confused with your means. Kate and Leonardo had ample opportunity to enrich their lives without radical change but lack the imagination or vision to do it.



2. I beg your pardon, I never promised you a rose garden. (Ok that's a little random but sort of related).



3. Related to 1. Mediocrity is a state of mind, not a suburb. There are mediocre people in Paris and groovers in Baulkham Hills (ok probably but not many but that is not Baulkham Hill's fault). Creativity abounds in your head and not necessarily in a fishing village in Portugal.



4. Great works of art are inherently valid on their own. Art does not need mass appeal or critical praise to validate it. So go ahead create a great work of Art but don't expect your employer or the taxpayer to subsidise it. See 1.
   


5. Despite the sunshine, there's got to be a little rain sometime. (Again a bit random but related to 2.)



6. And if all else fails, write a blog...
   

Of course, there is also the conventional option of escape through drugs and alcohol or mountain bike riding but trust me that is only a temporary escape -reality catches up with you eventually!

And Thus Spake DJ Abs - On the nineteenth day of the third month in the ninth year of the third millennium.

*RR failed for the same reason most Australian films fail. But the topic for another post (TBW).