Entertainment Options?

jacktenofhearts · 2016-02-05T23:59:34+00:00

-- Find ways to spend idle time that are essentially producing something and not just consuming media content. Now, producing something will generally require some sort of focused brain activity, so if your goal is to relax before bed, it may be tough to do that right after you run a bunch of 2x4s through a table saw. But my point is, you may be limiting yourself if you ask yourself, "what kind of entertainment media do you suggest I consume to relax?" Do you need to always consume entertainment media to relax?

-- You seem like the person who really likes to deconstruct the media content you consume. You used the word "assimilate," so you're not the kind of person that just skims through one of our prereq books and "gets the general idea." You probably pause, think about it, maybe even make notes like you're studying. All good things. But it may be a good idea to train yourself to detach a bit. You don't need to mentally finger-fuck everything you see like an autistic person. Among other things those are mental cycles you could be spending analyzing other things in your life, like, for example, your actual interactions and experiences.

To give an example, I finally got around to see Mad Max Fury Road. Incredible fucking movie. Regardless of the feminist themes, or whatever got everyone at Red Pill enraged last summer, it had the tightest, concise narrative drive of a movie I've seen in a long time. Compare that movie to the first Matrix movie, actually, which while a solid movie essentially didn't get past the exposition until nearly 45 minutes into the movie, and needed a whole "Morpheus monologues about how shit went down" to die everything together. Mad Max essentially had zero dialogue committed to exposition, and yet everything that happened had more than enough context, with respective to the narrative, to make sense.

The camerawork in the action scenes was also incredibly tight, it was pretty much of the opposite of the "herky-jerky" bullshit editing you typically see in Michael Bay Movies. Did it have messages about female empowerment, and demonstrated men as disposable bodies, and blahblahblah? Yeah, maybe. Am I going to spend a lot of time mentally hand-wringing about the macro-society implications of this movie's popularity? No.

-- In general I think fictional media is actually going in the right direction. The most Blue Pill bullshit TV shows that come to mind, IMO, were "Mad About You," "Everybody Loves Raymond," and "King of Queens," all of which were off the air by early 2000s. Or recall the whole "metrosexual" trend. I could get into what I really think are fucked up macro-society problems for young men, such as "zero-tolerance bullying," which is nice in theory but impossible to enforce. My point is, that stuff is fucking up our young men in the US way more than "Grey's Anatomy." So if you think you're somehow endorsing the Blue Pill agenda by watching "Curb Your Enthusiasm," again, maybe stop mentally finger-fucking everything into "Red = Good, Blue = Bad" and just enjoy entertainment for what it is.

il-est-ressuscite · 2016-02-05T16:15:16+00:00

Here is what I do for home entertainment

Reading

ASOIAF (currently)
Ready Player One (Currently)
Military History
US History

Non Electronic

Writing
Lifting
Home Projects
Fucking
Slightly obsess over masculinity's decline and the role I can play to bring it back.

Electronic

Blogging
Playing Spyro Drunk on the PS3 with wife
Photography
Paint Night (watch Bob Ross on Hulu while wife and I paint on our kid's mini easels)
Watching 'Ghost Shows' Ghost Hunters, etc.
Watch the fuck out of Drunk History

james_bell · 2016-02-05T18:18:14+00:00

The wife and I have been watching House. The lead guy doesn't give a shit about anything but the truth. He's rude and a complete asshole, never gives praise and yet everyone thinks he's a rockstar. There's only a couple of females on the show and both would jump his bones in seconds if he asked, instead he hires pros to service him.

whinemoreplease · 2016-02-06T09:00:55+00:00

billions

Scurvemuch · 2016-02-05T16:21:06+00:00

If you want to read relatively relaxing books, with some masculine characters, I suggest Robert Heinlien, David Webber, Tom Kratsman, John Ringo.

While all fictions, several of these guys are former military, have a good dynamic in their writing, and have great reference sources to masculine themes within their books.

We have a game night at home, mixed in with "sexual favor" things for the "looser" to do. All in good fun.

I try to find primary sources for historical things as most current books are flavored based principally on the bias of the author.

What do you enjoy, or could enjoy, that is active? writing , painting, playing music, re enactment ( if you are into that) ?

where does your mind go?

stonewall1979 · 2016-02-05T20:14:38+00:00

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mrpCamper · 2016-02-05T22:26:22+00:00

How could no one have mentioned the Gilmore Girls?

midlifedick · 2016-02-07T02:36:32+00:00

Hemingway

Cam_Winston21 · 2016-02-05T16:27:21+00:00

There are few, if any, shows with strong & righteous fathers, any more. Blue Bloods (CBS) has Tom Selleck as a strong police commish with ethics & spiritual grounding. Last Man Standing (ABC comedy) has Tim Allen as a strong conservative father leading a house full of women, albeit both sides are presented pretty equally (Allen is one of the few open conservatives in Hollywood) so I wouldn't say RP, but it does show how each side is in constant battle as opposed to today's norm of complete acquiescence towards feminism.

Was Frank Barone (the dad of Raymond, the bluest beta I can recall) the last true alpha on TV?

bio9 · 2016-02-05T17:05:48+00:00

Anything by KJ Parker

Working my way through the new Star Wars storyline. Disney wiped clean the old canon.

Rory Miller is good if you are into self defense and martial arts. His books on violence are fantastic...yes that's light reading for me

JL Bourne. His zombie apocalypse books are awesome.

Dalton Fury. It's the pen name for an ex delta force his military fiction books are brilliant.

il-est-ressuscite · 2016-02-05T18:10:34+00:00

I think non-fiction is the best but if you are looking for entertainment I think you can find it in:

1) Anything written by Don Delillo 2) Patrick O'Brien's Master & Commander series 3) Grahame Greene - Third Man, The Quiet American, Our Man in Havana are particularly good 4) Anything by Martin Amis

Let me put in a plug for Fermat's Enigma by Simon Singh. It isn't fiction but it's a great story.

opening_eyes · 2016-02-05T18:25:28+00:00

I borrowed the whole james bond box set from my in laws. I have been watch it while folding laundry. Also podcasts during chores/driving : bill burr is fantastic, and there are hundreds of them archived.

aurelius_shrugs · 2016-02-05T18:55:23+00:00

I can't recommend the Black Phillip show with Patrice O'Neal enough. The man is redpill to the bone and a hell of a comedian. His co-host, Dante Nero, has a podcast called Beige Phillip. Check it out.

don_pel · 2016-02-05T20:00:09+00:00

Watch sons of anarchy. Really entertaining RP series

cj_aubrey · 2016-02-05T20:59:08+00:00

If I lift late at night it keeps me up, but I can do cardio without causing insomnia. I do martial arts drills and related activities. Also, at night when everything is quiet is the perfect time to meditate.

BluepillProfessor · 2016-02-06T20:01:49+00:00

ADVANCED READING LIST

also List of Manly Hobbies

and

How to hobby

BluepillProfessor · 2016-02-06T20:06:26+00:00

For light reading I read Star Trek novels but usually go for Cosmology and Quantum Physics of Consciousness or Anthropology/Development of intelligence works. Currently I am reading "Cosmic Coincidences" (how the laws of nature are so precisely fine tuned there is either an infinite number of universes or somebody planned all of this and "Last Ape Standing" (how humans killed, replaced, starved and ate all our competitors- as many as 28 human species except us).

So I wouldn't necessarily go with light, mindless reading after you read TRP. I find some harder works clear my mind from despair at the blue pill world.

Light TV with RP philosophy? Hmm, Al Bundy and Married With Children? Not good masculine in a good way but it is the closest we get.

Flathatter45 · 2016-02-07T02:52:36+00:00

I understand what you mean. TV and movies look totally different now.. but I find a lot of movies and authors I used to like, I like even more. Heinlein is still great for sci fi. I always liked Ray Bradbury and still do. Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle as well. Any Mike Hammer book by Micky Spillane. "I The Jury" is a classic if you like crime/ detective genre. For movies. "El Dorado" is one of my favorite westerns. Robert Mitchum's performance was one of his best, IMHO.

bogeyd6 · 2016-02-08T16:36:28+00:00

This post actually made me chuckle just a tad. I read generally about 100-200 non-fiction books per year. Give or take. I just finished Glass Cage Automation and Us. Currently I am reading "In a Sun Burned Country" as I am trying to finish all of Bill Brysons books by June. Get on goodreads and start keeping track of your progress.

My Entertainment:

Home Projects
Reading
Brewing Beer
Flying a Cessna
Playing with my child

We keep electronics to the bare minimum in my house.

apreotea · 2016-02-08T17:20:39+00:00

I've just started to read the Philip Marlowe books by Raymond Chandler, with the first being "The Big Sleep."

I am highly entertained, the worldbuilding and writing gets me to start understanding why a lot of older guys are into hardboiled fiction.

Highly recommend!

stonepimpletilists · 2016-02-05T18:24:13+00:00

Minecraft with the spouse, put on a Noam Chomsky/thomas barnett lecture, lift, go out for ramen, dog walk to the park, fuck, catch up with old friends across the country.

Though it's mostly routine right now, until the spring

Oh and for reading, the manosphere isn't short of material. Ianwood has a lot, Nietzsche right now, and my guilty pleasure, reading about the navy fucking up in the news.

Couple of guys just got arrested in Japan for drugs, guess taking out the beer machine wasn't working as intended after all. Few other things from the coast, but they are under wraps right now

aurelius_shrugs · 2016-02-05T18:55:23+00:00

I can't recommend the Black Phillip show with Patrice O'Neal enough. The man is redpill to the bone and a hell of a comedian. His co-host, Dante Nero, has a podcast called Beige Phillip. Check it out.

Kosmoknots · 2016-02-08T05:12:19+00:00

Movies from South Korea and Asia typically have half the feminism bullshit , and twice the action and excitement. Start with the raid redemption.

Spellgage · 2016-02-08T13:40:23+00:00

Read literature that will cultivate your skill with metaphor, especially sexual metaphor. Start with something easy like the Song of Songs in the Bible. The book is about two betrothed lovers telling each other how thoroughly they're going to bang each other. Some of the metaphors are raunchy and obvious, like this one from the groom:

How beautiful and pleasant you are,

O loved one, with all your delights!

Your stature is like a palm tree,

and your breasts are like its clusters.

I say I will climb the palm tree

and lay hold of its fruit.

Others are more subtle but just as dirty.

You should also read Shakespeare. His metaphors are also wonderfully vivid and raunchy. Start with "The Taming of the Shrew," where you will find these lines:

Katharina: Asses are made to bear, and so are you.

Petruchio: Women are made to bear, and so are you.

and:

Petruchio: Come, come, you wasp; i' faith, you are too angry.

Katharina: If I be waspish, best beware my sting.

Petruchio: My remedy is then, to pluck it out.

Katharina: Ay, if the fool could find it where it lies.

Petruchio: Who knows not where a wasp does wear his sting? In his tail.

Katharina: In his tongue.

Petruchio: Whose tongue?

Katharina: Yours, if you talk of tails: and so farewell.

Petruchio: What, with my tongue in your tail? nay, come again, Good Kate; I am a gentleman.

Get into this mode of thinking so that you can turn practically anything into a clever sexual pun, which will add to your Game.

Title	Entertainment Options?
Author	stonewall1979
Upvotes	7
Comments	33
Date	February 5, 2016 4:06 PM UTC (10 years ago)
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