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"Lose your hood?"
I'm always intrigued by people outside
the business who say that they 'hate'
it. There's never any real substance
to their view point, just a lot of misdirected
anger. There's obviously some kind of
resentment among "mainstream"
entertainers, the kind of
anger that can only come from liberal,
hyper emotional elitists. Don't misunderstand,
I'm very much in favor of discriminating
taste; well though out, understood,
logical choices and view points.
A friend of mine (I guess we're friends,
but that's more of me being too nice
of a person) said that he hated wrestling
because "people think it's real".
Now this is coming from a person who's
never been in the ring, never bumped,
never
bled, and has absolutely no respect
for the business. He is a student at
a 100% performing arts college in Winston-Salem
(and it's an excellent school, in terms
of teaching the specific crafts they
teach), and is stuck in this liberal,
feel it don't think it, mind set.
That seems to be the attitude among
a lot of persons in the entertainment
community. The
idea is so bigoted, and hateful, that
it just shows how ridiculous and non-factual
liberal
America is. These people who claim to
want everyone to do whatever they want,
without
persecution, but want to dictate every
part how you do it.
It also is very evident to me that
it's not 'dislike' as much as it is
jealousy, to want to have an audience
that does believe. I can appreciate
the fact that they are weighed down
by this chip on their shoulder that
grows larger every day.
Outside of the ring, one facet of my
life is very involved in the theater,
as an actor and as a writer. If I wrote,
or acted in something, it might be 'art',
but I'm just a normal guy (kind of),
who's been given certain gifts, and
I try to respect that. My initial goal
that I sat out with was to make something;
if that something is 'art' then okay,
but I'm interested in the product, not
the frills.
These characters (that hate wrestling)
have to be "artists". Not
that they wouldn't be,
but that having other people think that
they're 'serious artists' is more important
than the
product. Whether they're writers, dancers,
actors, singers, whatever they are,
they have
to attach unnessesary labels, because
by themselves they're "just not
enough".
If the solution was as easy as taking
drugs, being in trouble with the law,
participating part in lewd sexual behavior,
then we could all be "real artists",
or on Sports Center. And even the idea
that this group of devients is dictating
what is correct and what is incorrect
is so beyond all reasonable explanation.
I'm sure there are some guys out there
who think that's what the big stars
do, so they
engage in it, pretending to be big time.
But that's a path to ruin, and we're
better than
that.
We're performers, we entertain people
all over the world. People invite us
into there
homes, they pay money every week to
watch us, whether that's in armory's,
high schools or coliseum's. They come
to see us because we are real people.
We'll talk to them, give
them autographs, whatever it is, we'll
do it. This does get under my skin a
little, no
point in lying.... I just believe that
it's unacceptable to allow that train
of thought to
continue.
We're performers, we're athletes, we're
a family.
Take care,
JML
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