VA: Another Dancing Monkey Bites the Dust…
Jan 23rd, 2008
(23 votes, average: 1.96 out of 5)
Loading ...I haven’t written in a couple of days because I’ve had a few things weighing pretty heavily on my mind. The death of Heath Ledger, for one thing, has been […]
Original post: Another Dancing Monkey Bites the Dust…
While I do have a moments blip of sorrow at the thought of a 28-yo dying, I can not help but feel that the true sorrow is in the fact that, even though I did not even know who he was before yesterday, I now know he was found naked with pills surrounding his bed.
Seriously…. there is a reason regular obituaries do not read: “Sarah Sue, 89, was found naked in the shower. She had defecated in her last moments. She is survived by two daughters.”
Has my life REALLY been enriched by the fact I know that a man who I had never heard of was found dead with his pills scattered around his bed? Is his 2-yo’s life going to be better knowing that not only did her daddy kill himself, but that the entire world knows the intimate details? Would anyone really have missed it if they did not know those facts?
Heath Ledger has been dominating CNN, MSNBC and of course the good people at Fox News.
Meanwhile, soldiers and Iraqis are dying daily with virtually no mention.
our priorities are AWESOME!
I think it’s sad anytime someone that young dies, regardless of whether they are in Iraq or in Hollywood. Heath was actually a decent actor, and I’m hoping he’ll be a good Joker. It’ll be a shame that he can’t reprise the role for future Batman movies.
Who the hell is Heath Ledger?
Remember that January 21 (1979) was her birthday.
It means nothing, yet you dedicate your own post to it. Nice try, V.
I think the saddest part of this whole ordeal is it wasn’t Owen Wilson in the body bag instead.
If I hear one more thing about this overrated actor I think I will puke. In the mean time thousands of Palestinians are dying because the Israeli government cut off gas and power to them. I guess they don’t have enough suicide bombers that they are trying to breed more.
If I hear one more person compare Ledger’s death to the thousands of Iraqis/Palestinians/Congolese that die every month, I think *I* will puke. Why can’t it be sad when ALL of them die?
If you really think Ledger was overrated, you need to watch Brokeback Mountain again. That movie is one of the most honest portrayals of a homosexual relationship (if not the most honest) and it was in large part to his performance. It’s always a tragedy when someone with a talent and a family dies, as opposed to one of the four cokemongering whores of the apocalypse, when it’s cause for celebration.
That said, the media frenzy is completely sick, and I certainly am not crying over some actor’s death. But it is definitely the loss of someone who was really talented.
Goody! Rant day!
#3 AJ: I agree. It is sad when anyone dies. Life is important. But on the other hand, no-one pushed pills down Ledger’s throat. The young Iraqi kids didn’t really have a choice when the invading horde came.
#8 Alex: You can give “one of the most honest portrayals of a homosexual relationship (if not the most honest)” through one movie? Homosexual, or any other [prefix]-sexual relationship, in my very limited knowledge, can’t be described with just one movie.
Actors’ private life has no interest for me. They are people. If I can’t stand any reality-TV (well, not having a TV helps in this matter) why would I want to know someone’s private life just because he made a good flick a while ago?
It’s enough that I see the headlines with a corner of my eye what Britney did recently when I search for real news in the papers. Still can follow perfectly what’s going on in her life. (Not much. Teenage star turning older and wants to party before it’s too late. Big news…)
There is an exception. (Pluralize the previous sentence.) Kiefer Sutherland and Colin Farrel. Those guys seem to be like-minds with me in their private life. (Sans the DUI - never understood that.) Although, you can’t see how someone’s like by reading papers. If I feel like a drink, I take a drink. And if (read:when) I screw up, my apologies would be: “I’m sorry.” not “I’m going to Betty Ford’s.” (At least not without a court-order.)
Damn… I know a lot about celebrities even without reading about them. How? I don’t even own a TV and I never open the celebrety gossip pages in the newspapers.
Nuff said. I’ll climb back to my pedestal.
No, Sami, no one forced the pills down his throat, but if you read up on it, Ledger apparently had pneumonia when he died and the pills have been racking up cases lately of people having very bad reactions to them. It’s suggested that you don’t take this pill if you’re having trouble breathing or whatever, but I don’t think he took the pill knowing that combined with his cold, it would kill him. That just seems a little wonky to me.
And don’t bring that fucking pop tart into this. I seriously seriously believe that Britney’s a very sick girl. Her mother, what a great woman that is, has totally deserted her and no one is willing to get her help. She threatened her children on national TV. Healthy people just don’t do that.
So much for folks thinking outside their “Monkeysphere”. V seems to point out facts like that to us, but fails to display them in her posts most of the time. Perhaps I misunderstood her post, but if she is trying to have understanding of things in her life… she needs to know that her posts don’t always refelct what she seems to believes in.
With regards to Heath Ledger, may he Rest In Peace.
#10 Viola: I understand your point.
*WARNING: This post contains strong opinions formed without reading about the subject that much!* (But as I’m always right, I can do that.)
I’m just a bitter guy, who has lost faith in humanity. I myself don’t watch TV, eat junk food, I read EULAs and user guides of all devices and software I have, I don’t act stupid and harm myself if it is not explicitly forbidden, I try to live my life by common sense instead of searching for ‘do not do this’ signs to guide my life, I don’t take industry-made chemicals (I try to avoid it in my food as well) and if a doctor (which I would visit if I can’t handle it myself - has to be a condition where I have to be carried in) prescribes medicine I would read the label first then check the internet and perhaps ask my friends if anyone has taken that - and then, maybe, I would take the medicine. If my condition would change, or if I would have to take an additional medicine, first thing I would do is to check wether my condition has an effect on the medicine, or if combining these two medicines have any side effects.
But that’s just me.
Common sense in not common anymore.
He didn’t bother to check. Bummer. Who was responsible of his life again? I forgot. Can he sue the doctor who prescribed the pills? No, he’s dead. Game over. No extra lifes left.
On the other hand, as the toxicity reports from the autopsy are not ready, like so often before all of this is just speculation. (Had to check, since I don’t read entertainment news normally. Couldn’t find any conclusive info about the alleged pneumonia either.)
But in any case, doesn’t matter who says it to me, my motto in life is:
Trust no-one. Check it yourself.
Nowadays quantity is quality, and you cannot expect anyone to give you quality if you don’t know exactly what you are asking. Your lazyness will cost you not only money, but in worst case scenario - your life.
(Write this text on my gravestone after I have been crushed by a tree I cut down myself…)
And sure, I’ll refrain from bringing Britney into the discussion, as I couldn’t care less about her life - and my knowledge is based on the headlines I haven’t managed to dodge.
Sami,
My bad, you’re right. Obviously, no movie could ever hope to portray something honest, because fiction is all lies with absolutely no basis in a reality. And actors like Heath Ledger should only be credited if they spend years of his life making multiple movies about the same subject — too bad he’s dead now and there’s no room for a Brokeback Mountain II!
#13 Alex: Hey! I though I was the only one allowed to use sarcasm!
But seriously, my point was not about the lie/truth axel. It was about the depth and variety of relationships, which, in my opinion, cannot be summed up in one movie.
Maybe I’ve just had more complicated relationships than the average Joe. (Here’s the sarcasm part again…)
#13 Alex: How about a compromise? How shall I put it…
“Even though any relationship cannot be summed up in any one single piece of art, still with the incomplete information given, the movie Brokeback Mountain seemed to be rather accurate.”
G-sus… I need to go to sleep.
I thought Brokeback Mountain was one of the best love stories I’ve ever seen and I thought he was pretty talented…it must be exhausting staying so “above it all” all the time V. I don’t think there’s any competition on whose death is more tragic; soldiers, Iraqis, Palestinians, young people…it’s all tragic and all part of life. People that are in the public eye get more attention…I don’t see how that’s so confusing to some. If I die, it won’t be a big deal to the world and I’m fine with that.
Dammit, V, because I read your blog I now know that there (1) was a person named Heath Ledger (2) who is now dead. And because I read your comments blog, I even know the details of said death. If you think it’s so unimportant, why do you even write about it? You are polluting my mind with useless trivia! If your posts about your troubled youth weren’t so entertaining I would stop reading, I swear…
Sami,
Sounds like a good compromise. I agree.
I am trying to say is that we are being brainwashed and distracted by our (USA) media. They are trying to distract us from the important things going on in this world by telling us these fluff stories. Try reading news from a source outside the US for a few days and you will see a whole new world. I recommend http://www.aljazeera.net .
I agree with Xin that the whole monkeysphere discussion is a big part of this.
People OD every every day…. no one says shit about them.
I had the exact same response to idiots that could not stop talking about what’s his name (and before I read the post)g. I think V stole it from me… ;-)
Thanks V for keeping things in perspective.
fags
Justin…if you or your friends want to be celebrities…go for it. Otherwise, stop whining that OK magazine doesn’t obsess over you…look at it as a blessing. I can’t believe how jealous some of you are over the attention celebrities receive. It’s pretty pathetic. Things could be worse for you guaranteed.
21 - I love how you can’t wrap your head around the fact that there ARE people out there who don’t want to be celebrities and don’t give a shit about them. It’s like people are so used to celebrity worship they can’t even imagine that things could be different (and that they are for some people.) I don’t dislike Ledger or have opinions on his death one way or another, but hearing about him constantly got annoying.
This was the last entry I’m going to read by VA. I’m sick and tired of white men (and it’s 100% clear VA is a white man) gratuitously throwing around the word “fag”. It’s not political correctness, but if you grew up white, straight and male, I’m sure you would see it that way.
But I suppose it can be expected by a fat, breasty loser who pretends to be a thin woman online, makes up stories about his past to give his pathetic life some heft, and thinks calling people fags somehow makes him sound ballsy and irreverent.