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… That’s Homer Simpson people, not the philosipher. It’s Friday night and as usual there’s crap on TV. With that thought I can’t help but be drawn to watching the Simpsons when there’s nothing else on.
I can remember when the show started, the year was 1988, it was on a Sunday night, and there were no repeats of it on TV. Then there was 21 Jump Street with Jonhy Depp on afterwards. Ah how it was to be young. Then the focus was on Bart, and he was a role model fo so many of us. Now more than 10 years later, it’s Homer and it has grown with the children who watched it. Now I’m surprised they get away with promoting it as a kids program. Homer is a bumbling idiot that so many of us find hillarious.
His outtake on life and it’s lack of seriousness has us in fits of laughter. I find however I’m a tad sad to remember so many of his lines or from which episode they are from (even if I can never remember the name of it). The favourite ones being Wacking Day (Homer going Ninja), the recent British one (”You cured our prostitutes with Hugh Grant…”) and the film festival one (the belch is classic). Anyway I will bring you more on the Philosophy of Homer next week.

PS for those of you who noticed my fubar’d link on the home page et al… I’ll sort it later, can’t upload at the moment

Another day, another disturbing dream. Why do dreams effect us so much I wonder. I mean you’ve got the hypothetical dream, like “I dream of owning a Pagani Zonda” then there are the ones that are so vivid you wake up spooked in the morning. Perhaps I should have been a shrink or something.

Anyway, I got stuck watching TV again last night (out of sheer boredom and something to do), however as I had veto over the remote last night I managed to catch a really interesting documentary on Samurai on National Geographic. It was a really interesting program, covering the philosophy of Bushido. I found it some what inspiring. Although I have found in general that Japanese philosophy is very interesting. Respect being the key thing in Japanese society. Why can’t it be like that here? Honor, respect and inner calm, what a wonderful philosophy to live by, the tale of the 42 Ronin for example was something that you wouldn’t find in the western world. The more I hear about things like Samurai, Ninja and Geisha, the more I want to know about Japanese culture as a whole.