The Great Mind that is.... Alan Garner, The One Man Wolf Pack.

If you haven't seen The hangover, this post is stuffed full with spoilers. Read at your own risk!

"I'd like to say something that I've prepared tonight....Hello. How about that ride in? I guess that's why they call it Sin City. Ha, ha, ha.

You guys might not know this, but I consider myself a one man wolf pack. But, when my sister brought Doug home, I knew he was one of my own. And the wolf pack grew by one. So there were two... two of us in the wolf pack. I was alone first in the pack. And then Doug joined in later.

And six months ago when Doug introduced me to you guys, I thought, 'Wait a second! Could it be true?' And now I know for sure. I just added two more guys to my wolf pack.

Four of us wolves running around the desert together in Las Vegas, looking for strippers and cocaine. So tonight I make a toast.....Blood Brothers!"

Alan Garner as played by Zach Galifianakis
in the 2009 film, The Hangover.

Are these the words of a sad, disturbed, goofballish psychopath, or the brilliant musings of a great, misunderstood mind? I'd like to vote for the later.

It is very easy to take in the character of Alan from the comedic masterpiece film called,The Hangover, and misjudge him as simply some sort of social misfit who's oddities may seem to lean toward pure dangerous and disturbing behavior.

But, lets try and forget about the suggested court order that keeps him 200 feet away from schools and Chucky Cheese restaurants. Lets sweep under the rug of the fact that he secretly drugged his fellow bachelor party buddies with roofies.....that he thought was Ecstasy. Lets turn a cheek to his belief that "enjoying one's self" on an airplane is perfectly normal behavior. Now let's look at Alan as a man living in his own world and grabbing it by the nards.

Simply put, Alan is living life on his own terms. He's shunning the establishment while experimenting with social culture. He looks at life very simplistically and doesn't care what others think. Actually, he's quite oblivious to how we so called "normal" folk view the world around us.

His simpleton, child like behavior should be cheered on rather than feared. Heck, if most of us were judged by our child like behavior, we'd all be round up and trhown into the rubber room. How many of us that are in our 40's still play video games, still read comic books, still have boatloads of action figures in our bedrooms, still weep in the loneliness of the dark cold nights..........um............

Ya know, I better quit this whole Alan argument right here and now. Besides I had no idea where I was going to go with this post anyway. So much for a healthy free writing exercise.


On to some quick little notes of geekdom before I wrap this puppy up.

I have gotten a new / used car after a reh-tard slammed into the back end of my old car who I named Shirley. I have considered naming the new one Dita since I'd kind of like to stay with the whole sexy, counter culture iconic goth chick theme. We'll see if this sticks.

I'm still wonderfully plodding through about 4 to 5 video games and haven't even gotten to Mass Effect 2 yet. But, rest assured I'll get to it at some point.

Some of my favorite shows are in full swing on the old boob-tube. 24, Lost and Chuck are all looking pretty fab this season.

What am I currently listening to? You always seem to ask that. I just picked up "Mechanize" by the newly reformed Fear Factory. It's as heavy as a madre fracker!!! It's also has some nice doses of industrialized melody thown in there. A must have for headbangers!

I'm going to call it here, kids. I have to grab a bite then prep to go out and see my buddy, Mr. Salty, play in one of the many bands he winds up in tonight.

Until next time, god bless all of the Alan's of the world and stay vertical.

Zangz.