just nate – code is poetry, life is code

So I was talking to a friend at work the other day and he mentioned that I should check out this movie called “Y tu mamá también.” He said it was one of the best films he had ever seen. So I added the movie to my netflix queue, bumped it up close to the top, and forgot about it.

Today when I went to get the mail (which I neglected for most of the weekend), I discovered that “Y tu mamá también” was sitting in my mailbox. We had just finished band practice and I was on my way to visit my Mom. I thought, “hey, a cool foreign flick, at the recommendation of a friend – how can I go wrong?” Lots of ways, that’s how.

Red flag number 1: the movie starts out with two sex scenes between two different teenage couples. No seriously, it starts that way.

The movie was practically an elevated porno – a bit more plot than necessary, and some cool scenic shots, but plenty of sex scenes, just without the money shots. Remember when Titanic came out, and we all discovered that Kate Winslet had great tits and that Leonardo DiCaprio might be able to act? Well, sitting through that movie in a movie theater with my Mom was when I discovered how uncomfortable it felt to watch a sex scene with your Mom sitting next to you. Yeah, so “y tu mamá también” has like 10 sex scenes.

I guess if I can sit through 10 sex scenes with my Mom I can pretty much get through anything…except maybe a three-hour block of church.

As the evidence grows, I find myself being drawn more and more toward the odd eating habits of the vegans, or at least toward vegetarianism. I don’t know if I’ll ever give up eggs and cheese. Here are a few of the things pushing my hand.

1. I don’t really like meat that much. Eating meat sort of makes me sick. In fact, most of the time when I am eating some place, I choose something with a lesser portion of meat.
2. Animal cruelty is heightened by the full-blown industrialization of animal farming. The animals aren’t treated like living things anymore. I feel like I have a moral obligation to protest for the voiceless. One of the best ways to protest a product you no longer like is to stop buying it.
3. Eating meat is starting to get dangerous. No, seriously. Do you really want something that was injected with steroids and lived in squalid conditions during the short term of its entire depressed life inside of you? Do you really want mercury and weird hormones in your blood stream? Of course, I also drink alcohol and smoke hookah and other things (ahem), so this argument seems less genuine.

I’ve always thought of vegans as being downright insane. Now I don’t know what to think.

5:15:53 PM P. Smith: Are you writing an essay to someone?
5:15:53 PM Nate Smith: no
5:15:59 PM Nate Smith: sorta
5:16:00 PM P. Smith: are too
5:16:04 PM Nate Smith: my fucking buddy
5:16:10 PM P. Smith: wow
5:16:20 PM P. Smith: I don’t want to know anymore
5:16:25 PM Nate Smith: my buddy who is a fucker
5:16:37 PM P. Smith: that still sounds bad
5:16:45 PM Nate Smith: he’s going through serious shit, and doesn’t know how to handle it

You really have to be careful how you word things, or people will get the wrong idea.