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For the last year or so I have been meaning to find a copy of Relevant Magazine. But every time I think about it I am either in an airport book store or on the way to work in the morning. Today I actually found it online (duh!). You would think that I would have thought of finding it online sooner, but I am just a little behind the power curve with some things.

Here is an excerpt from one of the articles about the movie "Funny Ha Ha" written and directed by Andrew Bujalski. The article questions the type of young adult produced by our current culture and worldviews.

Here is one of my favorite quotes:

The characters in his movies stumble over language, feeling the need to qualify or immediately retract every statement they make. They’ve been educated on the power (and misuse) of language to the point that when they have something on their minds they’re too cautious or unsure to verbalize it. Instead they fill their speech with placeholders such as “like” and “um.” Their talk is dotted with awkward pauses, mispronunciations and verbatim repetitions of what someone else just said. The result is an increasing inability to say what they mean and mean what they say—or say anything at all, for that matter.

Here is the rest of the article. Are his films are seen as a barometer of our culture of the postmodern generation? (I guess that is to be seen, but they sure sound like it to me)