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Matt Lanter posing during photo shoot for the show “Manhunt, search for the next male model”, which aired on Bravo.

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Matt Lanter in Heroes as football stud and serial rapist Brody Mitchum.

It is no secret that I am obsessed with Heroes. Last nights episode, although a tad rushed to meet next weeks finale (thanks to the writer’s strike), was still as riveting as ever.

After the show, I was browsing when I came across some information I was unaware of. The hot football rapist named Brody Mitchum was played by a mega cutie named Matt Lanter. Matt, apparently made his television debut on the Bravo channel’s “Manhunt, search for the next male model”.

In the first scene of this show, which I had never seen before every one of the contestants were told to strip to their underwear and then ridiculed. I already thought he was the cutest of the bunch, but when the ridicule came to him, they told him that he was FAT?!

I have made it a mission to track down video of this opening scene so that I may post it on here.

I was born and raised in Odessa, Texas (the city highlighted in the hit television series “Heroes” on NBC), and I attended and graduated from Permian high school (of “Friday Night Lights” book and movie fame).

After seeing the portrayals of my former home, (although “Friday Night Lights” is an accurate depiction of the culture and mindset of that region, and the movie was an aesthetic bulls-eye with good character development) I still feel that these portrayals are glamorizing the city that I grew up in.

Although most current West Texas residents claim they love the Permian Basin (as it is often referred), I have a much different story to tell.

There are three religions in West Texas.

1. Conservative Evangelical

2. Football

3. Oil (Petroleum)

I was not understood, well integrated, or even creatively or intellectually nurtured here. I continue to have deep resentments toward that region and that community. Due to that resentment, I created a video that I think communicates the frustration, humiliation, and feelings of disgust and depression that I experienced during my child hood there.

 

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An abandoned building in Odessa, Texas.

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For a time it was the oldest theater in Odessa.
Although, I have not been by there in many years, I think it has been torn down.