Not only has he recently spit out some rather awesome semi-spontaneous poetry lately in these interviews he's been doing, but more importatnly he's being honest about who he is. He's actually telling the truth and it is making the media feel uncomfortable. How can he be so brazen? Instead of taking the usual celebrity tactic of denying everything and not discussing personal things in specific ways or letting a publicist guide your public responses, Sheen comes out firing; admitting that he has been smoking crack and having wild runs with drugs and porn stars that he said would put Sinatra, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards to shame. He comes out brandishing a wild ego that yet at the same time seems reasonably justified. If you were making other people millions of dollars and you yourself as the highest paid star in all of television were making about two million per episode, you'd probably have a gunned up ego too. Let's be real here. To my way of thinking it's much more fucking annoying when celebrities try to act just like normal people. You know how they sometimes claim in an interview or talk show or whereever, "I'm really just an ordinary person." Sheen is saying, 'you go be ordinary. I'm going to be my wildly wreckless, passionate, loving, risk-taking moneymaker, star-self.' Why deny who you are?
From my perspective there is something noble and enthralling about embracing the the 'true you', something great about refusing for better or worse to live life in the middle.
Though I barely ever watched his silly show, I find him a more fascinating creature these days then ever before. At one point he says, "I'm an f-18 and I'm winning." Who wants to live life in the middle anyways? As Sheen said, "That's where you get slaughtered. That's where you get embarrassed in front of the prom queen."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4Iz0p0E_RY
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