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My Heros Have Always Been Cowboys
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My Heros Have Always Been Cowboys The World According To GAP... My heros have always been cowboys...... so sang Willie Nelson, and I can understand the sentiment completely. MY heros weren't nessesarily cowboys, but they WERE... real men. Men like Ernest Borgnine, Charles Bronson, Robert Mitchum, Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Lee Marvin, Jack Palance, Lee VanCleef... and others of that caliber. These were men that you would never... EVER want pissed off at you. Ernest Borgnine in "The Emporer Of The North" was one of the meanest characters you'll ever see on film. Robert Mitchum in "Cape Fear" WAS someone to be feared! Lee VanCleef [who went to my high-school] was a bad-ass in and out of the movies. Remember Kirk Douglas in "The Vikings"? Charles Bronson... what a class act! Jack Palance's smile is enough to make your balls tighten up. These were men... REAL men! And they were my heros. Still are... as Willie says. Other actors of note that weren't QUITE in their catagory but were still real men were... Steve McQueen, Robet DeNiro, Clint Eastwood, Jack Nickleson, Robert Duval, Al Pachino, Bruce Dern, Robert Redford, Dustin Hoffman, Humphrey Bogart, Dennis Hopper... And we mustn't leave out Gregory Peck. TOTAL class! Not a tough guy, but a man of his word! Who do we have today as heros? They seem to be not much more than pretty-boys anymore. Leonardo DiCaprio? Please! Tom Cruise? Johnny Depp? I admit that they're pretty, but real men? I think not. Yes, we've always had our Rock Hudsons, Mongomery Cliffs, and James Deans, but they were the exception, not the rule. You may mention Arnold Shwarzenegger, Sylvestor Stallone, Steven Segal, or Vin Diesel, but they still don't fit the bill. Oh, they're built alright. I'll give them THAT! But they're just "Hollywood" tough guys. They can fight 12 men at once and win. Right! There wasn't any of that silly stuff, back then. The times they are a-changing. But I'm not sure I like the change much. In fact... I know I don't. I miss my heros. Maybe once we tire of these pretty-boys, the real men will come back. I think I'll wait.  |
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That's nice of you to say. . I've been here since 2005 and had tons of posts, but I ended up deleting over half of them and then hiding most of the rest. . I'm only going to keep a few showing anymore. Thanks. . 
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fun blog..thx for posting.
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Goddess, Me too! Me too!
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Real men are still my heroes...without question  Just a little food for thought............. If you really want to be happy, nobody can stop you... {=}
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Red, You are so right. I think it may take another whole generation.
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Oral, That's true. Heros can be found many places. And Fathers are often overlooked.
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1/11/2008 6:48 pm |
Sometimes we look for our heroes in the wrong places......When i was younger, yeah i liked the mitchums and douglases, and lancasters.... Now im older, and I look back at how my Dad worked so hard and provided for us... and I say HE was a hero... sadly its only now that hes no longer here I realise it. That sad, gap I do like your posts. OralAdventure evolved and misunderstood 
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Lusty, Bruce Willis... maybe.  But Jackie Chan?  There's more to being a man than being able to fight 12 guys at once!
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well, not to complain about your choices, but Bruce Willis has to be listed in there somewhere...definately not a pretty boy......and what would a hero list be without everyone's hero...Jackie Chan???...
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MM, You can ROPE?  Uh-oh!  I better grease up!  I DID mention Clint Eastwood! But I put him in the second catagory. Maybe he DOES belong in the first. He's not quite as mean as YOU, but he's tough, alright!
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BTW........ Rowdy Yates is my kinda of cowboy... remember him????????? a gentle man by the name of Clint Eastwood... 'feelin lucky punk??"
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Hey do I know you? you who wants a pic of me in the bathtub, drinking margaritas and fantasizing about hot gulf breezes?? you lil snit I will spank yer ass....... remember I have a rope, and faintly remember how to calf rope a running man at fifty paces.......... if you think my memory is that bad... It Aint! ! ! ~~smiles sweetly~~ tender huggles.... my sweet hunny bunny ...m
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Purple, But there's nothing to them. Most of them grew up rich spoiled kids and basically still are. They know nothing about life's struggles.... but they ARE cute!
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I like those pretty boys....LOL Pull My Fucking Hair! 
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Plumpkins, Sean Connery belongs in the second group, I think. But Anthony Quinn maybe belongs in the first. THERE was a man! When I wrote this I tried to think of who I admired, but of course I couldn't think of them all. Thanks!
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Polly, The second group is nice, too. Maybbe not as "tough" as the first, but still real men.
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Shy, I know what you mean. How sad!
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Huny, Yeah, Robert Mitchum was a GOOD one! Almost makes me wish I was a girl... but not quite!
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Honni, Isn't it sad that there aren't any like that now? The movies are where we get our first inspirations. I'm not really familiar with Bono. But heros can be found anywhere, I guess.
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Silver, You're right, Bronson was a man! He was tough, he had street smarts, and the guy just had a certain "class" to him. No, he wasn't pretty to look at... at first. But his "beauty" shown through!
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Have to agree with you on this one...if ever I was a damsel in distress(stop laughing) and /or the world beeded saving..and I saw a pretty boy come running..nope..I would have nice eye candy but would die laughing or do it my own self...
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Be a role model for what you're 'waiting' for, goob. 
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