With a week off from work for the holidays, I have been netflixing and chilling (actually subtract the chilling) extra hard. (No I am NOT watching Bird Box) I do however, enjoy a good documentary. First up, “The World According to Dick Cheney.” This is an old documentary but since I am planning to see “Vice” within the next couple of days I thought I’d brush up on my Cheney Veep Snapple facts. The truth is, I didn’t know any of the facts. I never cared much about politics prior to events occurring in the recent years, and although I’ve heard that Cheney was a savage, I wasn’t aware of this while it was happening so this was a very eye opening movie for me. Now I understand why he was the most powerful Vice President in American history. Here’s what I know, President Bush was NOT running the show. President Bush was in the dark when it came to VERY important issues that arose after the tragedy of 9/11. Dick Cheney was wheeling and dealing and LIEING without the President’s knowledge. We went to war in IRAQ because of fake intel that Cheney provided to congress in order for them to approve us going to war. I always knew that the fight should have NEVER been in IRAQ, but what I didn’t know is that we wouldn’t have even been there if it wasn’t for Cheney. Let’s talk about surveillance. ILLEGAL surveillance. Bush didn’t put it in place. Cheney did because…. terrorists. Never mind that non terroristic Americans were being watched.  Never mind that when it came time to renew the surveillance program and the Justice Department refused to sign off on it because IT WAS ILLEGAL. Cheney decided to run with it anyway, and told Bush about it after the fact and that was only because he didn’t have a choice as ish was about to hit the fan. Let’s talk about torture. According to Cheney, simulating drowning does NOT constitute torture in his book. NUFF said. When asked if he had to do it all again would he do anything differently the answer was a confident no. SAVAGE. At least he owns it. (Kanye shrug) Now when I go to see “Vice” I will have an excellent point of reference. I’m not a fan of Christian Bale but the way he has transformed into this man is really remarkable and if this movie is anything like “The Big Short” it should prove to be very entertaining. I will report back.

Next up was Netflix’s “The American Meme.” This documentary left me feeling sick. I knew that social media fame whoring was bad but damn. Let’s be honest, I think we all want to be noticed in some capacity. Social media has made it possible for a person to become infamous over night. One woman named Brittany Furlan, was a Vine superstar. She did sketches and played different characters but from I saw from the documentary NONE of what she did was funny. She always wanted to be on the stage and after she tried to break away from her Vine persona and get REAL acting work, she found that jobs were not forthcoming. Wanna know why? Because talent on the innerwebz does NOT equate to talent in the real world. Paris Hilton was another person the film focused on. Aside from being rich, this chick adds NOTHING to the world, yet people were and still do follow her every move. She talks about being embarrassed about a sex tape that came out and hearing the sounds of paparazzi even when they’re not there. Boo *bleeping* hoo! She has turned her “misfortunes” into an empire which actually laid the ground work for another no talent hack who has done the exact same thing. There’s another guy who goes by “The Slut Whisperer” ( I can’t make this shit up) he actually could have put his talent in the arts to use but when he became an innerweb sensation by pouring champagne on scantily clad “ladies” and taking pictures of them he decided to run with that instead. He gets paid to party and he blackouts on the regular but is sad because when he wakes up in the morning, he wakes up alone. I know this review sounds snarky but this documentary is asking for you to feel bad for these people and I just… can’t. These people sold their souls for followers because it was easy and they got paid for it. So forgive me if I don’t shed a tear. I just realized this was a RANT!! Ha!

What are you guys watching? For the record I don’t watch anything scary because I am a wimp. That is all.