Chu The Cud

Recently, I watched the Andrew McCarthy documentary, Brats and wasn’t impressed. The trailer was more exciting.

Then I find out he wrote a book a few years ago about the same subject. For a person upset by the original article in the New York Magazine that created the term, “Brat Pack” in the mid eighties, he certainly has been using it in recent times to keep himself relevant.

The problem is he blames the article and term Brat Pack for his inability to get work as an actor post 1980’s rather than he was a one trick pony, alcoholic, pothead and not very good at the craft.

He says he was thrown out of NYU and talks about never going to class but rather preferred smoking weed and watching the Rockford Files. Did he ever go back to classes in his craft? He should be happy for the career he actually had.

In the original article the documentary is based, one of the New York–based actors in St. Elmo’s Fire, a co-star says of Andrew, “He plays all his roles with too much of the same intensity. I don’t think he’ll make it.” And that’s the only time Andrew McCarthy’s name is mentioned, toward the end.

Many others from the “Brat Pack”moniker still had flourishing careers post 1980’s and continue to. He should rejoice that he was included with actors as, Robert Downey Jr., Sean Penn, Tom Cruise, Matthew Broderick, Demi Moore and Nicolas Cage. But he doesn’t seem to and just comes off envious and needy.

I was a teenager when the “Brat Pack” films began and remember them fondly. I introduced my kids to them and still watch them today.

As a movie goer and fan of these films, I was expecting more from this documentary and was disappointed with it. It seemed to be more about him.

Maybe that is Andrew McCarthy’s problem. Humility isn’t easy for some.

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The universe is not controlled by any preconceived theories or expectations made by humans.

It operates independently and is vast by any conception and can destroy us at a moment notice at anytime.

The notion of human power has no bearing on the universe.

Those that think they are king are merely fools to believe so.

Those who think they are Gods are even more delusional.

The universe operates according to its own laws and principles, indifferent to human constructs.

We have no conception of its rules and fundamentals.

Only that in which we believe we see through the murky looking glass made of shifting sand.

Do we understand the intricacies of the hazardous force of radiation on our survival?

The universe is a force created within our psyche. As we are just cogs.

Not a slight insight but that which we are told by our science.

We are given time to live, by the universe.

We know nothing.

Be grateful and say thank you.

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If I say, close your eyes and picture a rose, what do you see?

The rose you conjure up isn’t going to look like the rose I imagine.

Whether it be color or size, long stem or short, thorny or not, the choice becomes yours.

This is your mind at work, creating a perspective personal to you.

We are not all the same.

A unique snowflake falling from the sky is like no other.

However, when it melts, it becomes a reflection of what it is.

A grain of sand is unique to itself.

However on a beach of sand, it blends in.

Cognitive richness adds depth and complexity to our personal experiences and interpretations.

This only applies when one realizes there is always much to learn and incorporates it into their daily lives by excepting their own transparency.

Be curious and open minded to others perspectives.

Something just might click and become fulfilling, leading to something incredibly satisfying.

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As you move toward the light, many may try to pull you back into the darkness. Like a vine that wraps around its victim to pull it down and away from the light.

You must stay strong and keep growing upward. Breaking the grip of the vine.

Light is fuel. Soak it up.

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