Dreamers Never Live.

It's seems as if many people go through their lives looking for a type of manufactured "movie-love". Americans want that picture perfect storybook romance that exists in Hollywood, the advertising industry, and mainstream music.

It was a nice to surprise when I picked up Chuck Klosterman's, "Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs" and the very first chapter dealt with this type of "movie-love" many people are looking for.

I think this ultimately ties in with the ill-conceived notion of the "American Dream." There is an overwhelming sense of entitlement in America. As Tim Kasher of Cursive describes it; dream cars, dream houses, dream jobs and dream spouses. We are so busy dreaming of a picture perfect life that we expecte to be handed to us. By that logic, what we are essentially left is just our dreams and the need for more. Don't think, just do.

"The main problem with mass media is that it makes it impossible to fall in love with any acumen of normalcy. There is no 'normal', because everybody is being twisted by the same sources simultaneously."

Coldplay songs deliver an amorphous, irrefutable interpretation of how being in love is supposed to feel, and people find themselves wanting that feeling for real....He's just pouring fabricated emotions over four gloomy guitar chords, and it ends up sounding like love..

You can't compare your relationship with the playful couple who lives next door, because they're probably modeling themselves after Chandler Drive and Monica Geller. Real people are actively trying to live like fake people, so real people are no less fake."