{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Work Sucks","description":"We\u2019re living in a period some have called The Great Resignation. Or are we quiet quitting now? While this hostility toward work feels radical, we\u2019ve been here before. As Blink-182 said in their 1999 song "All the Small Things": Work sucks. Several movies of 1999 follow almost the same character with the same problem: A mid-level, white-collar, white man is bored and dissatisfied with his corporate life; only a radical jolt to his system can force him to wake up and see everything with new eyes.  In "Fight Club," that shock comes in the form of a soap-selling maniac named Tyler Durden. For "American Beauty\u2019s" middle-aged, married protagonist, it\u2019s feeling sexual desire for his teenage daughter\u2019s best friend. And in "The Matrix," a programmer-by-day, hacker-by-night named Thomas Anderson takes a little red pill.    1999 FOREVER\u2019S theme song is \u201cIn the Freezer\u201d by Sophie Strauss To support 1999 FOREVER, you can subscribe, leave a rating and a review, and tell all your friends how much you like it. To see episode moodboards, behind-the-scenes photos, videos and more, follow me on Instagram @dahliabalcazar.    Sources: Alan Ball, American Beauty, 1999. Eula Biss, Having and Being Had, 2020.  Anne Helen Peterson, Can\u2019t Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation, 2020.  Brian Raftery, Best. Movie. Year. Ever.: How 1999 Blew Up the Big Screen, 2019.  Miya Tokumitsu, Do What You Love And Other Lies About Success and Happiness, 2015. Vauhini Vara, \u201cAmazon Has Transformed the Geography of Wealth and Power,\u201d The Atlantic, 2021. ","author_name":"1999 FOREVER","author_url":"https:\/\/sites.libsyn.com\/442833","html":"