On my end, as a straight guy: bartenders, waitresses, barbers, dispensary worker, farmer, influencer, strippers, OF girl, retail
Basically if you have a college degree and don’t get paid by the hour, you’re in
Mostly asking out of curiosity since I’d feel immensely irresponsible dropping $3000 on a watch, but man, that thing is beautiful.
I have a few reasons for not wanting to. I tried Lexapro about a decade ago (I’m 31), but it completely robbed me of my ability to feel anything. I stopped taking it cold turkey maybe about a month and a half after I started.
Then I started studying philosophy and loved it and committed to it as a career. Terrible choice, but it is what it is, and now I’m likely two years from finishing a doctoral degree in it. Because of all the philosophers I’ve read, I picked up this kind of passive anti-psychiatric stance—if I medicate away my suffering, I am shirking back from what all of these figures I so admire were able to sublimate into something beautiful. I think of Kierkegaard willingly choosing to leave Regine Olsen and pining for her for the rest of his life, or Nietzsche writing about the Overman even though he was sickly, weak, and bedridden for so much of his life.
I’m also afraid of losing some indeterminable quality that makes me me. I can function relatively well without medication, so why would I risk something so important?
Plus the young, angry Marxist part in me that was able to survive my encounter with Heidegger in my early 20s would be disappointed in that, by taking SSRIs, I’d be simply suppressing myself for the sake of better performing my labor functions.
I’ve been diagnosed with generalized anxiety disorder and dysthymia, and I wonder what it would be like without them—but maybe not to the point I’d be willing to actually try it.
It’s better than Goldeneye, although not by a whole lot. Elektra as the Bond-girl-turned-villain is much more interesting than 006, who, despite having a great backstory, wound up being fairly generic in his motivations and plans.
That’s actually my problem with Goldeneye as a whole. It’s a good movie, but just so generic, and what parts aren’t generic are campy, e.g. Boris, the club scene with Zukhovsky, and Onatopp busting a nut when she kills someone.
Of course, this isn’t to say TWINE has no issues. Denise Richards gets way more hate than she deserves for Christmas Jones, and the movie would’ve probably been better had that role been cut, but she’s not terrible—just wooden in her emoting. There are also a few dialogue and pacing issues, but I think, overall, it’s not nearly as bad as people think.
Out of the Brosnan movies, I’d rank them:
The World is Not Enough
Goldeneye
Tomorrow Never Dies
Die Another Day