Life is like...

a box set of horror movies.

You start watching them, and for a while they scare you. They make you jump, they surprise you with who the killer is and they are thoroughly enjoyable.

Then after a while, you start catching on to all the tricks. You know that when the scary music plays, they're going to try and scare you. But you also know that only half of the time it will be the killer, the other half it will be someone or something totally benign. You catch on to the misdirection, you start paying attention to subtle little hints and all that and soon enough no horror movie can scare or surprise you anymore.

Sure, every now and then they do something extremely clever and catch you off balance. You get a little shocked but you don't physically jump, it's all inside of you.

So, right now I feel like I'm in a movie theater, watching a horror movie. All these people around me keep getting tricked by the same old tricks, the tricks I saw coming a mile away. They never know who the killer is, but I can tell about 45 minutes in, assuming they don't pull some bullshit like My Bloody Valentine with the blatant, yet blatantly retarded misdirection.

These people are kind of irritating me, always so shocked when everything unfolds even though it was all right there in their face to begin with.

Then there are movies like SAW. Movies where they used the same old tricks so I thought I saw right through all their bullshit. Yet, at the end, they fucking GOT me. They suckered me in like they knew I thought I knew everything from the jump and laughed when my jaw hit the floor.

Gotta be careful and watch out for those movies.

Out.