The More Life Changes...
* Jonathan Marx RP for C07.
::Marx and Jacobs are walking down the street in Princeton, across from the Nassau Inn on a dark and gloomy rainy day::
JONATHAN MARX: As an educated man who has went through a lot in his lifetime, you would think that I, of all people, would know that eventually, everything has to come to an end.
BRANDON JACOBS: It is the ever repeating cycle of life.
JONATHAN MARX: Some things are so engrained into society or are so vibrant and full of life though, it can deceive you. You take them for granted like the sun rising in the morning or the birds returning in the spring. Sometimes life is kind enough to give you a warning and brace you for what is coming. But other times, life is a bitch and knocks you right on ground onto your keister.
BRANDON JACOBS: God is sort of like Mike Tyson in his prime, when he smells blood, he doesn't let up and goes for the kill.
JONATHAN MARX: He doesn't always seem like this kind and benevolent entity. Lately he has becoming across all Old Testament. Taking no prisoners. This has been a long week with the cancellation of All of My Children and One Life to Live, along with the retirement of greatest heel of the 00s in Edge. I know that soap operas have a stigma to them, but it has been a bond between multiple generations of women. My grandmother watched it, my mother started watching them as a girl when she got a case of the chicken pox, and then she passed on her addiction to me as a young boy.
BRANDON JACOBS: You've always been a sucker for a good story.
JONATHAN MARX: In what other medium do you get new stories on a daily basis, Monday through Friday, all year long? It takes a lot of creativity for a show to last over forty years on a daily basis for that long. Most of the shows in primetime are lucky to be on just over twenty times a season and with commercials, most thirty minute shows have been knocked down to twenty minutes of actual material and hour long shows are barely over the forty minute mark and they are done by mid May and then you have to wait until all the way to September for everything to start back up again.
BRANDON JACOBS: I still stand by what I've repeatedly said, we live in the microwave generation and the attention span of the masses is getting shorter and shorter. If you ask them to follow a show or sport twice a week, their eyes glaze over and they become over whelmed. That is why the NFL does so well, it is only sixteen weeks long and they only play one game a week and UFC, they make it even easier, the only show you need to see from them is the one PPV every month.
JONATHAN MARX: When I was a little kid, I had an insatiable thirst to books, culture, and knowledge because I felt you could learn a lot about life by studying the current world around you and its past. If I had my way, I would have stayed in college for ever taking courses in any and everything that interested me. I sort of sense that most days, I'm alone and people like myself are a dying breed.
BRANDON JACOBS: Michael Montgomery sure does think so. He thinks the reign of Marx is coming to an end.
JONATHAN MARX: I've had a lot of my mind lately. The old Marx spirit hasn't been what it used to be. The events of the last six months have made me much more serious and I'm learning how to walk all over again in an unfamiliar pair of shoes. As a wrestler though, I'm as great as I have ever been, hell, I'm even better because of the benefit of experience. I'm starting to put it all together and the best way to show the world I'm back is to go out there and beat Michael Montgomery. He can call his self magnificent all he wants, telling people repeatedly that he is great, but I go out there winning titles and actually proving it, letting other people speak for me.
FTB