My Geek Is Dead

PREDATORS came out today, and I don’t care.  The MACHETE trailer that debuted recently does nothing for me.  I never saw AVATAR.  I’m not excited for SCOTT PILGRIM VS. THE WORLD.

I played SUPER MARIO GALAXY for the first time today, and quit after 15 minutes because I was irritated with the whole thing, and when I stood up I felt dizzy from the retarded camera that never sits still in that game.  I can’t make it past a maximum half-an-hour of video game play.

As I mentioned in an earlier post, tabletop gaming isn’t really doing it for me, either.

I read Ain’t It Cool News.  I’m not excited for what those people are excited about.

Now, I still love film.  I’m very anxious to see INCEPTION, and I loved IRON MAN 2, so my appreciation of whiz-bang entertainment hasn’t completely dried up.  I just don’t get automatically excited for the things that somebody who has identified himself as a geek or nerd for much of his life is “supposed” to get excited about.

Whatever drove me to enjoy those things just isn’t in me anymore.  I don’t know why.  I just know that I don’t enjoy things at the same level that I used to, and nothing’s moved in to take their place, and that scares me.

Who killed my inner geek?