FUCK

I saw the movie "Fuck" tonight at the Independent Film Festival of Boston. It was a pretty solid movie. It is a documentary on the word "Fuck." It's not so much the origins that are discussed, as much as the controversy. It wasn't terrible nuanced, but very entertaining.


I was the perfect audience member for these reasons:
1) I am a profanity artisan. 2) It's an indie movie. 3) It's about free speech. 4) The late Hunter S. Thompson was in it. 5) One of my personal heroes, Lenny Bruce, was talked about in depth.

I understand that taboos are going to exist forever. People will be uncomfortable with a number of things that I say or you say. These are are individual ideas though. One man's "Fuck" is another man's "Goddamn." I use Fuck at least twenty times a day when ever I can, not because I'm illiterate or crass but because it's a word with like sixty homonyms. Those subtle shades are fun to pick out and use. My newest use since moving up to Boston is "fahking." It's my piss poor Boston accent impression. As in "Those fahkin' Sawx blew it again."

Right. I love the word. But you probably already knew that. The taboo idea got me thinking on the ride home from the theater though. I know I have personal taboo words that freak me out. I don't like to hear about terminal illnesses. Cancer, despite being my birth sign, freaks me out. I don't like to think about and hearing it will most likely force me to do so. So then, why does "Fuck" bother people? Perhaps they have sexual issues and bringing that up makes them feel uncomfortable. Do you have any taboo words that you don't like to hear besides the usual ones? If so please comment.

Drew Carey had a funny line in the movie, he was saying that there should be a movie called "Cunt." I can get behind that. Probably my second favorite "obscene" word. I don't particularly like to use it for the conventional female anatomy use. It's best used as a descriptive insult. What a cunt! Cunty Bastard. That cunt just cut me off. What a bunch a fahkin' cunts. I basically stole it from British/Scottish/Irish vernacular and adopted it for my own use. I just love the way it sounds especially in a nice dirty Scottish accent where it almost sounds like Coont, with extra emphasis on the "T." Cun-T.

So if you get a chance to see this movie, do so. Take your parents to see it. Especially if they are conservative. If they take issue to the word or some images in the movie (it's pretty graphic), then you a conversation point. I know I don't talk to my fuckin' parents enough.

Fuck, Cunt, Anal, Asshole, Shit, Balls, Dick, Pussy, Whore, Piss, Tits, Cocksucker.


By the by, I'm still fucking not smoking. And it still fucking sucks. Balls.