Sunday, February 07, 2010

Gone but Not Forgotten




There is a reason that I have not yet posted again. Really. I have been meaning to summarize the Badass Chronicles, and could not do so until I found something, a recording. Rocco's speech from Boondock Saints II summarizes everything pretty well. (Edited for innocent-ish eyes...meaning I cut out all the unnecessary Fwords.) It is pretty much everything I wanted to say, something of a call to return to masculinity, and I think it's pretty damn badass:

Men build things, then we die. It's in our DNA! THAT'S WHAT WE DO!
And when it all falls down? we build it right back up again, but this time bigger, better. Look around you! Look what we can do. Look how beautiful we are. You think the men that built all this had it easy? They were hard men, doing hard stuff.

I am so sick of all of this self help, twelve step, leftover hippie generation bull.
Now they don't want you to do anything, right? Just sit there. Don't drink. Don't smoke. Don't drive fast.
Kiss my ass!
Screw it! Do it all I say! Do you think Duke Wayne spent all of his time talking about his feelings with a therapist? There's no way he did!
John Wayne died with five pounds of undigested red meat in his ass. Now that's a man! Real men hide their feelings. Why?
BECAUSE IT'S NONE OF YOUR F___IN' BUSINESS.
Men do not cry. Men do not pout. Men jack you in the jaw and say: "Thanks for comin' out."

4 comments:

Anan said...

'cuz Santa Claus is coming to town!

Bob son of Bob said...

Lol

Maggie said...

I don't have anything to say, but I wanted to comment.

Robin said...

Pretty much the same as the above, except I'd like to add freaking bloody awesome.