| Out. |
[Jun. 28th, 2008|06:16 am] |
Get me out of this country.
I used to think everything would be ok once my generation became the adults and had leaders into power, anymore i'm not quite as sure. The things are now, it's terrifying.
A minor question. Think hard. Really hard.
If all the guns in America dispeared overnight, could you still function as a human tomorrow?
Don't answer too quickly, i know it is difficult...
Freedom is really lame. We think ourselves so high and mighty, and yet we have no real reason to. We have freedoms! Well, some.
Freedom to carry concealed weapons that can kill instantly from a decent range. Why is there such hypocrisy in this? You take an animal with a lot of potential (the human) and let go along its normal evolutionary course. Throughout time it betters itself by using the knowledge of the past and the technology of the present to advance itself. It took this country over 200 years to realize minorities were humans just like the rest of us, and some would still argue about that to this day. The way we advance, can't people notice this trend of advancement and want to further it even quicker? Then we could help other nations not be such capitalistic whores as we are currently and unite together, since, hell we are here together.
In a society of peace, where do the guns fit in? Doesn't anyone want to evolve? I get tired of hearing about people die, knowing how safe i am in my home in rural Ohio. The best way to show others that we mean business and want to evolve and join together is to set an example. Many other countries have gotten rid of handguns already (England, Japan) and why can't we follow them? Freedom.
You can on and on about what our "forefathers" wanted, this isn't the fucking 1800s. Times change, man...we no longer burn wiccans as witches anymore either. As we evolve our interlects and look around us more, we see things differently and some things we see as obsolete theories and throw them away. As advanced as our minds are now, why can't others see this too? Go back to my question above, can you get through tomorrow without a gun if no one else had one either?
It's freedom, the hero of the weak minded and conservative fools who fear socialism.
Freedom exists always, no matter what the government says or does not say. You are free to do whatever you want. The thing with freedom is, that it comes with consequences. Whatever i do, i may regret tomorrow. In a sense if you get rid of guns then, you aren't taking freedom away, merely a technology. A technology that could protect you, but could also harm you. This to me sounds like outdated technology that should be discarded.
But, we're still too weak as a whole to accept that, and we'd rather spend money than help others or improve ourselves. We're whores. I'm a whore, too, though i'm trying to remove many of the superficialities that plague modern man.
So, bring on the death, make us pity those who were shot in cold blood by other weak mofos but leave oh so wrapped in apathy that we merely shrug and say, "Man, the times are really fucked up."
Evolution will continue to crawl at a snail's pace, and i won't live long enough to see either the total destruction of man or man's rise into a higher being. I fucking hate that.
"Guns don't kill people, people kill people." Yeah, really? Well, the gun fucking helps.
Adios.
Edit: No i have started the fucking book yet. Though i probably will, i want to read Brothers Kamarazov by Dostoevsky as inspiration before i start. |
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| Counter-culture? Try counter human. |
[Jun. 23rd, 2008|07:24 am] |
Brief post today.
RIP George Carlin. You added more color to the world than a thousand shining rainbows. Conservatives may hate you, but at least you spoke for what you believed in.
On a side note, i gurantee your passing will mean shit to the media, and people who added nothing the world will continue to be glorified while you are left to rot on the back on the Entertainment section of the newspaper.
Cheers to you and your life, fellow anti-man. |
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| Split/Retread |
[May. 31st, 2008|12:59 am] |
| [ | Current Location |
| | North Carolina | ] |
| [ | I'm feelin'... |
| |  hungry | ] |
| [ | I'm currently listening to... |
| | Pfffft...what's good anymore... | ] |
This is the entrance to humanity's void. Seriously, it's here, in North Carolina (where i am currently vacationing with Alissa). You look and look for a trace of culture and personaliy in people and end up with a bunch of people who want to simply go to the beach and basically do nothing. I am not going to preach anything but i am going to warn those teetering on the edge of this life sucking strain: get some fucking variety or die boring. Try and experience somewhere new. The beach will always be there.
Life is a drain. Bombarded with the logic and lack thereof of humans is staggering, so much so that i sometimes feel like i'll never be able to keep up with it. I have sadly been watching more news recently and therefore i feel even FARTHER back about whats really going on the world. I miss my daily paper reading and internet news read. But alas, the media infuriate and depress me simultaniously, which is something of a feat and i feel a begrudging respect for anything that make those two emotions rise in me at the same time. I really hate this "election" coverage, and people in this country are too wrapped up in drama and suspense about Obama and Hillary that they can't even start thinking of an altenative. We have alot of people in this country and not one person is better than these two? Bullshit.
The other thing about the TV news is the hilarious sexist complaints made by Hillary supporters about the media and Obama supporters. Listen, its as easy as this: if you want to destroy ignorance (sexism or racism) educate. It's awfully hard for anyone who grows up around multiple races or with a firm understanding of minor differences but overall equality of the sexes. Shit, man, i didn't and i still turned out ok, but there are some people in my class who could have used that extra nudge of decency. Back to the complaint...if you think about it more, wouldn't it be a bigger sell for the Hillary camp to cry sexism and sight circumstancial and menial bullshit that is basically poppycock and and then say to the people of America "You see these mean sexist pigs! They just don't want a woman in charge!" Haha...can't you see now? When they get people to look their direction and sympathize with them they feel like they win. And then they probably cum in their pants, which is probably the closest thing any politician gets to human sexual satisfaction. Pricks.
It's amazing really...life. Some people choose to do nothing with it and think they are happy. Yet they still consume resources and take up space. Bill Hicks classified up as "a virus with legs" which is fairly accurate. We grow, multiply, conquer, and eventually die. But we gotta see the potential in us.
We met a few decent people down here in North Carolina but there's one who truly sticks out to me. We met, i believe his name was Mike, while checking out a renovated weather station because Alissa has an interest in weather.He came right us with information and kindness but didn't crowd us. He let us know the interesting history of the station and took us on a guided tour of the place, even taking us to places off-limits to people just coming in off the street. He did have to even show us any interest (the place was free to enter and look around, it's just a site right now) but he did. You may say he was bored, but i know different. He's just a good human. He, as Nietzsche would say, says 'yes' to life. I know i'm gushing alot about a single nice guy but seriously, its so unbelievably nice to come across someone who has an interest in knowledge and history and wants to impart that with kindness towards others. No money involved. I dunno, it was refreshing.
Karma is a wayward scorpion, it may come back to sting you or it may not. But with over 5000 years of human meddling, this earth will one day grow tired of us shitting on its face and on each other. We have some bad karma man, any step in the right direction is a good idea. I don't want to be a fucking virus with legs, i want to be an explorer of this world and of all of the interesting culture and stories told in it. I don't want others bullshit to bring me down. But although it does, we who say yes to life will someday find a way to make others say 'yes' as well.
Vacation is good. A little long and sometimes utterly TOO LONG. Car rides are the thing that is most bringin me down, as this family decides to sit in a car for about 4 hours roundtrip to get fruit smoothies. A little much no? At least Alissa and i are trying to find ways toget away. There's only so much we can find to do around this remote area but we managed to go putt-putting a few times, visited the Elizabethian Gardens to look at interesting flora, go various local shops, enjoy local seafood, go to a few museums, and fly our kites. I am however, looking forward to returning to Ohio (what a weird thing to say) as for some reason North Carolina depresses me more than Ohio does. Alissa thinks its the lack of green and i might have to agree, but also the lack of options. There is one road connecting all these islands and to go anywhere is a long and dull drive.
This is where i will end for now. The next entry in this may be to announce i've started a novel. Hopefully. Usually when i start things i like to see them through especially if i enjoy it.
Adios. |
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| Cultural Cancer |
[Mar. 20th, 2008|06:19 am] |
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I could go on about society's ills till i'm blue in the face. Instead, i'll let books speak for me. Start by reading "Animal Farm" by Orwell if you haven't already. It's good, and its short and the metaphor is as plain as can be. Also try reading Thoreau's "Walden" for some interesting counter views on consumerism and capatialism in general. It's a little boring and Thoreau is a bit pretentious at times, but still there are valid points in it. Next read Nietzche. Any and all. This is a basic intro to modern philosophy and pschology that many of the people in our country need. As Thoreau said in Walden (summerized) people not reading the classics are missing out on a goldmine of wisdom that can help them today.
Life really isn't too hard. So why is our culture obsessed with money? When this country was first starting out, there was a time of simplicity that has since go to the wayside in favor of consumerism and greed. People wanted to work the lands just to be able to eat that day. Immigrants came from other countries just to enjoy basic ammneities such as daily coffee or tea and freedom. Moreover, the landscape was still green and lush. The only reason we became so is that those who had power in this country early on used their means to procure more wealth and trade at the expense of others. Chinese and Irish immigrants were treated horribly, and of course everyone knows what they did with African Americans.
The fact is that this country was not born of freedom. It was born of greed and has been getting worse as time and technology moves on. Truth be told, we do have a good amount of freedom, but this freedom is basically consumer freedom, not human freedom. You can't go fishing without a license. You can't smoke indoors anymore. You can't vote for who is the most appropriate representitive to lead, but rather whoever raises the most money and lies the best in one of two parties. You can worship whatever you choose, but stray from the "majority" and you face osticizion from the rest (as well as the fact that the majority of laws were made from this religion). You can't get married in most states because you were born differently than others and you find members of the same sex to be preferrable. This isn't freedom.
This is a mediocre culture that's centered on control and greed. Capitalism shouldn't be this bad. These rich CEOs should be giving money away to others to help them start their own businesses or try and perfect their services rather than fill their own pocketbooks.
This is our country. Our culture and our government are both centered on one fundamental element: greed.
On an upper, i want to try and write a novel this summer. I can't say i will do it, but i want to try. I've had this idea for a novel for about a year running around in my head and i want to try to convey it if possible. But, as Stephen King says, "The hardest part about writing a book is beginning."
(Note, not a big fan of Stephen King just the Dark Tower series)
Adios. |
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| Delusions and the Deluded |
[Mar. 5th, 2008|08:08 am] |
| [ | I'm feelin'... |
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| | Mer. | ] |
I don't post to this very much anymore. In fact, this is my first of the year. The reason is basically that i don't need an outlet for stress very much, i seem to be facing less and less of it and the stress i do face, i seem to be meeting head on and tackling myself. But anyway.
So, what's up?
In dealing with politics and politicians, one must come to understand that one is dealing with lies, liars, and narcisism. As far as this year's election is concerned, there isn't anything to hate (since, as i write this, Mike Huckabee has no chance to be our next president) but there is plenty to fear. Liberals want to keep raising the minimum wage yearly and give us more taxes (well, at least Obama does, Hilary's plan seems to need excess money as well but who knows) while conservatives want us to "finish the job" in Iraq and then "deal with Iran." These, to me, are the negatives for each side and my concerns. Everyone has their strong points, though to me the liberal points are stronger, and everyone knows the game they play.
The nuiances of this election seem to float in the air for everyone to see; A white woman vs. a black man; A military-happy, experienced POW. The whole white vs. black thing should be nonsense and thrown out immediately, though you have to figure many African Americans would prefer to see Obama in office (which actually isn't the case, two famous African-American political writers writers: Thomas Sewell, and another whose name escapes me at the moment, Walter-something, seem to warn about the possibility of a president Obama) and many women would prefer Hillary (which seems to be the case as far as feminists are concerned, i remember reading of a group attacking some editor of a magazine for being pro-Obama). But really, if you need to put you vote simply into one of those categories, you simply shouldn't be voting. Despite what doctors say stupidity really is contageous, so keep your sexist, racist ideas to yourself.
I like what i read about Obama but also he seems to be THE ONLY person that the mass media adores, which frightens me as well. One conservative writer says Obama is selling snake oil. Someone get that kid a medal, he's figured out the most obvious thing in the world: a politician is saying things he/she has no intention of going through with. GASP! You think Hillary will really go through with everything she says and save the "rust belt"? You think McCain can keep troops in Iraq and find a peaceful happy solution for all, especially with a Democrat-led House? Snake oil is the bread and butter of ALL politicians, not just the "good ones." But back on Obama, i'd like to think he'd at least TRY and help this country out and that's why i'd support him most. With the least exposure to corruption, he must at least have some part of him that wants to help the little guy left. Hillary, i've read various corruption stories and other small things (threatens, ect.) that she made when Bill was president that just make me look at her and see a career politician, and very little humanity left. I see her as someone who would rather play chess to win the game than to enjoy the game, or in other words, she wants to be president, period. She doesn't want to help you, and though she may go through with some or many of her plans she won't do it to help you but rather help her career. Though, i would vote for her over McCain.
McCain is obsolete. His methods appeal only to those over the age of 40 or 50 because his is the way the world was. Military force alone won't resolve issues. Death does not solve death, silly man, it only creates more death. We as a race must evolve our ideas of how to go about things while looking back at our mistakes. Vietnam is one of the saddest mistakes in our history. Even if you believe the line the government gave us (which is complete an utter bullshit, read A People's History of the United States, by Howard Zinn): 'Americans died to "prevent communism" in Vietnam,' you still run into the fact that Americans died for no real reason at all. Governments come and go according to the will of the people; when people die, they're good for good, man. It's easy to ok something when you aren't part of it and its even easier to delude yourself in thinking that you are making a difference in the way the world works by killing others. Killing breeds hatred and hatred feeds the stove of desire, hence the reason so many Islamic people desire to kill us. This is simple Darwinian bullshit, but it's also the damn truth. So, McCain, do your really think sending more troops into Iraq to kill or be killed will solve that country's problems and send out a positive peace message? True peace will only be obtained when every person in every country erases the hate from their hearts toward their fellow human based on religion or race. How hard is it to see that we're all in this together? But until that day, let us try and soothe their hatred with words and offers, not violence and opression.
In this respect, i have finished writing for now. I dream of a day a man or woman steps forward that is not a politician and who really wants to better our country and our world. I probably will not live to see it, but who knows, miracles happen. Hell, George W. got elected twice... |
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| I am apparently Anti-American |
[Aug. 13th, 2007|06:28 am] |
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The thing that brings me here today is an article i read in my local newspaper last night at work. It's an editorial by Bill O'Reilly, a VERY right-wing news analyst and writer for Fox News. Now, i've never been a fan of him at all, mostly just an indifference. I think most of his views are more comical than they are practical and to be honest, he's a liar. He touts that he doesn't spin anything, yet then turns around and spins anything he doesn't like or anything than can get him more press. But hey, America is full of worse opinions than his so i never bothered with him. Then along comes this article, which is not only hilarious, but so amazingly idiotic he should win some kind of prize. So i found it online and would like to discuss and rebuke his silly points. His post is in bold, my retort is in normal text.
(taken from his website billoreilly.com, all copyrights are his, yada yada)
The Bourne Buffoonery
When "The Simpsons" movie turns out to be more realistic than "The Bourne Ultimatum," you know something is up. Nevertheless, the thriller is a big hit, proving once again that film audiences now want live action cartoons rather than crisp, realistic films like "The Ipcress File" or "The French Connection."
Right off the bat, this sarcasm doesn't work. In no way is the Simpsons anywhere close to reality, and thats what makes it good. And as far as reality goes, didn't the French Connection have a long European chase scene in it, just like Bourne? So, what you're really saying is that movies that YOU like have reality and other movies don't. Ok, as long as we're on the same page now.
For those of you not familiar with the Bourne series, Matt Damon plays a CIA agent who becomes involved in the "Program" (as in get with the). This sinister plan results in Damon being brainwashed, making him a lean, mean killing machine with no personal memories. Thus, he can murder without conscience, kind of like what Hollywood producers often do to scripts.
Anyway, Damon runs around beating up four guys at a time and eluding authorities all over the world. However, he turns on the CIA, so they must kill him. But they can't since Matt is Clint Eastwood and Sean Connery times 10. Plus, he has Julia Stiles helping him. No way the CIA has a chance.
There is nothing mentioned about "the Program", so your ensuing joke falls flat there. It's a CIA operation called Treadstone. Did you even pay attention or watch this movie? Also, Matt Damon's character is not brainwashed, he did everything voluntarily. Torture is not brainwashing. They handed him a gun, and he did what he was told to do.
As far as Bourne having inhuman ability you seem to be off-base here too. Could he save his girlfriend? No. Could he save that reporter? No. Does he escape unscathed? No, he is injured for most of the movie, one way or another.
But this is just an uninformed, idiotic movie review. Until...
I knew this movie was trouble when I read the reviews. Almost all the critics liked it. The only way American movie critics would like a violent car chase film like this was if it bashed the USA, which, of course, it does.
The CIA guys are bad, bad, bad. And just to make sure Indonesian and Pakistani audiences get the picture, the CIA chief issues his evil orders with the American flag clearly seen on his desk. No language barrier here, no sir. The U.S. intelligence agencies are fiendish enterprises that want to hurt Matt Damon and actually force Julia Stiles to cut her own hair. How could they?
This movie is not againist the United States personally, genius. Do you EVEN KNOW WHAT THE CIA DOES?? Pretty much what is shown in this movie, though to a lesser degree. Foreign blackmail, harassment, and murder (yes, murder...NOT neutralize...i hate that word) And it's supported by this government. If you really think this movie bashes America, you need to first look at what part of America it is bashing. Maybe it's a part that needs to be tweaked a little. And uh, the CIA really isn't even attacked by the movie. It's mostly attacking A COUPLE OF HIGHER UP PEOPLE WHO WORK THERE! For god's sake, can't you see the difference?
Finally for this, the CIA doesn't make Julia Stiles cut he hair. THe threat on her life does. I think that's a little more relevant.
Actually, both Mr. Damon and Ms. Stiles don't have to do much acting. Damon does work for the far-left MoveOn organization and is on record as requesting the Bush daughters serve in Iraq.
The actor also told the Idaho Statesman that the CIA's use of water boarding is an erosion of our American values.
Guess what? There's a water boarding scene in the flick. What a coincidence!
Stiles is also down with the far left. On a cable program she explained why she missed a MoveOn event by saying: "I was afraid that Bill O'Reilly would come with a shotgun at my front door and shoot me for being unpatriotic."
Look it up if you don't believe me.
I just checked out MoveOn.org. It seems like a basic civil rights website. I'm guessing you simply don't like it because it's progressive (or far-left). It's also a nonprofit organization. It seems like all they do is try to spread their fundamentals about civics to people, and try to send a voice to Congress about their opinions.
As for the water-boarding thing, i couldn't find anything about it on the company's website. Maybe they included the scene in the movie because that's what the CIA does! Hahaha..what a coincidence! As for Stiles' comment about you, it's called a sense of humor.
In the Bourne movie there are no shotguns to frighten Stiles, but plenty of automatic weapons fired at U.S. intelligence agents, not by al Qaeda, but by American Matt Damon. As the casualty count rose, I kept thinking about all those disability payments we taxpayers would have to pick up.
Mer? Where did Al Qaeda come from? Seriously? You're just using a "scary name" to frighten Americans. Disgusting.
The only people that died were CIA agents and one reporter. I personally don't think that's so big of a loss to cry about disability
Now, all of this is harmless nonsense to those of us who understand the hero and villain business, and realize the simplistic bias that permeates Hollywood. But to impressionable audiences, the anti-American theme could resonate.
The director of the movie, Paul Greengrass, told the Times of London that he purposely tapped into the mistrust the world has of the USA. In my opinion, Mr. Greengrass has used his skills as a filmmaker to create a slick propaganda package that will make him millions of dollars. And standing between Mr. Greengrass and real-life terrorists who would slit his throat are, of course, real-life American intelligence people.
In the end, the America-haters will love "The Bourne Ultimatum" and apolitical others may enjoy the action and carnage. The movie is a perfect storm of misguided ideology, silly plotting and absurd conclusions. In other words, it's a blockbuster.
COPYRIGHT 2007 BillOReilly.com.
What a dramatic finish. You can sum up these last paragraphs with "In the end, this movie is Anti-American and therefore not good".
And now i ask, what makes this movie anti-American? Is it the the fact that you think the movie degrades the CIA, or the fact that two of the actors share different beliefs than you do? Cause that's all you're working with here.
Calling the movie a propoganda machine is beyond hilarious to me. It's a MOVIE. The CIA in general aren't the "bad guys", it's a smart part of that. You're the one turning this into propoganda. Yes, the director tapped into the world's mistrust of the United States, so what? In the end, it'a a story about Bourne, who just wants to survive and get revenge. You are confusing reality with fantasy. Fantasy has elements of the real world obivously, but puts a twist on it. There is nothing anti-American here.
And now, Mr. O'Reilly your column is reduced to an uninformed, pathetic movie criticism. Along the lines of: "I don't like this movie because i think it's unrealistic and unpatriotic". I think you really want to be THE critic of the world, and make everyone follow your shoddy opinions, and that's a damn shame, because they're laughable.
I'll leave you with a little quote that you might like, Mr O'Reilly.
"Critics are people that watch a battle from high above, and then come down and shoot the survivors".
-Ernest Hemingway |
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| Free floating hostility |
[Jun. 11th, 2007|06:50 am] |
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Yeah, whatever. Haven't wrote because...i dunno, laziness. Schools been out for about 4 weeks now, so i have no good reason.
Roanoke:
I personally had a good time there. It's a really pretty, really GREEN city thats actually kinda small. We didn't get to see the zoo we wanted to because of weather, but otherwise we had a good time. Ate good food, two good resturants. one of them was a Habachi (sp i think) House with good Japanese food. Went to a place called Dixie Caverns, which i could talk alot about, but it'd probably end up being boring to most people, so i'll just say it was pretty neat inside the caverns to see the dank, dark rock embeddiments. Attached to the Dixie Caverns place was a really cool antique shop that me and Alissa went through. We bought a Lucky Cat, chicken salt and pepper shakers, and i got a sorta lame dragon on a glass ball. Haha. Roanoke was a relaxing, beautiful small city that we both enjoyed and its good for someplace different for a night or two.
North Carolina:
Was fun, but i run out of stuff to do at the beach. And the pool wasn't heated. The best times i had were playing pool with Alissa and riding on the motor boat to the Ghost Town we checked out. Seriously, it was alot of fun riding on that boat and the subsequent off road vehicles we took once on land. The town itself was a little disapointing. There wasn't much of the original left, and what there was wasn't overly interesting. Even the cemetary was ho-hum. It was kinda neat though, and a once in a lifetime thing so i had fun, but i wished the town itself was a bit more...interesting. We also went kayaking in the bay, which i'm not very good at but alissa and i tried. We'd do ok, then argue for a minute when the boat got off course a little, then be lagging because we're complaining and not rowing. Later, we just lagged cause we were tired as hell, and i got a damn blister and had to row awkwardly. We went out to eat twice, we were originally just gonna go once, and i don't remember exactly what made us go another night. It was great food both places, and i finally got to eat steamed peal and eat shrimp. I haven't done that since the last time i was in Florida, which was probably 7-9 years ago. Alissa's mom cooked the rest of the week, and she's a pretty good cook. Overall it was fun, but ran a little long. I think i would found more stuff to do if it was just me and Alissa, but we did alot of stuff looking back, just some stuff (Ghost Town, fighting with mosquitos, kayaking for 5 miles) ran over.
Tried to watch a Ghost Hunter show our last night at the house in NC, but we both fell asleep 4 of the 7 hours into it. Plus we had to leave the next day. The show was kinda interesting but poorly put together because they'd show the team that was in the haunted prison for 8-10 minutes, then cut to some dippy British dude talking about nothing for 30 minutes (It would go British guy intro, Ghost Team, British guy outro, Comercial, British guy giving an unimportant and uninteresting history about parts or people of the prison, Comercial, ect). I think we saw an hour to an hour fifteen minutes of actual Ghost Hunting in the 4 hours we watched. The most interesting part were the webcams which we were checking out while watching. We some crazy shit there. Overall, the show felt very "put on". Plus, they making a bigass deal about Al Capone, Al Capone; they even had had a camera right outside his cell. Al Capone didn't even goddam die there, we wasn't even in the prison very long.
New Sonata Arctica CD:
Sucks. Bad. It hurts me to think about, cause they are one of the few things i can still listen to frequently. It doesn't even sound like them. I don't even know what the fuck it sounds like. The only decent song is the closing ballad, which is all piano, and the bonus track, which GASP actually sounds like them. Pretty sad a BONUS TRACK is better than anything on the actual CD. I don't feel like talking about it anymore, it annoys me too much.
I realize that some people are just mad. I am one of them. I will never accept anything (except Alissa) fully, and i judge harshly and critique frequently. I don't care either. That's just the way I am. I almost kind of like it. It's not even a holier than thou syndrome, its more like...everything has something wrong with it. Which is true. There's nothing pure anymore. Music isn't pure, movies aren't pure, cities aren't pure, and people certainly aren't pure. I guess i'm so impossibly picky, that purity in things is what i try and reach for, and i enjoy the purity i can find, and critique the rest. If thats wrong, to just take whats good in things and leave the rest, well, then i guess i am wrong. But at least i can enjoy myself while living.
New Pirates movie:
Lame. Nonsense. They took what the original was (fun, adventurous, sensible) and completely threw that shit out the window. Granted it was pretty to watch and sometimes funny, the plot and the way it was presented was absolute nonsense. Calypso? Oh, please. People returning from the dead? Lame lame lame! Oh we can bring the one dead pirate and Johnny Depp back but everyone else? Nahh. Lame! So lame... i am sorry, but that is like a 6th grader writing a fantasy novel. This series went the way of the Matrix. Good original, shitty sequels, right down to the nonsense they tried slip in and make it "deep". Yeah, it might have been pretty, but pretty things aren't always good.
New Kamelot CD tomorrow, but i'm not expecting anything from it, though i will go buy it. Maybe if i don't give a shit, it won't let me down as much if it sucks.
Probably...not. Gone. |
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| Still Coming |
[May. 1st, 2007|12:13 pm] |
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The Roanoke vacation is still coming, i have to survive a few final days of school first.
Love you Alissa!
Bwaha. |
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| Zombie Lobsters |
[Apr. 23rd, 2007|07:33 am] |
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| | Earshot (no, really!) | ] |
To say many things have happened since my last writing would be an understatement. I'll try and keep it condensed.
Alissa and I went to 2 concerts recently, VAST and Type O Negative. VAST was pretty good, of course the opening bands were terrible except for this one solo guy, and when VAST came on, Alissa actually seemed awake this time, tired yet awake. I thought we threw out his voice recently cause it sounded like he was struggling to do the best he could but something was holding him back, but still it was a good show. A short encore and little to no crowd interaction, it seemed like he didn't want to be there. That's ok, it was a pretty decent show. And HOLY CRAP did he ever balloon up and change his image. This is Jon Crosby circa Music for People-
He is now like 60 lbs heavier and has a shaved head...and looked kinda worn out. Ouch. I hope he feels better. Well, whatever it takes to write good music!
Type O should have been a great show. Two things made it mediocre (neither the bands fault). One, we had shitty shitty seats and hand to stand up in aisle in the balcony to have a decent view, and people kept walking in front and between us. Two...the base was way too loud and the mic was too low. It was so hard to hear what Pete was singing and it was too bad too, cause they were jammin'. They didn't miss a note. So that really dampered our evening. On the upside, only two opening bands, neither or which really offended me.
So yeah, our shows were soso. It was great for me to finally see these bands i enjoy, but it wasn't perfect experiences. I wish Alissa has been more awake for the Sonata Arctica show. It was probably my favorite show i have seen because the sound system was good, the band was perfect and the singing was spot on. It was such a good show. If the new CD is very good, i want to see them again when they tour. And, for the first time in my life, i wanna try and be front row. Just to experience it once. I usually like a medium vantage point, but if i go to see them again soon, yep, front and center. At least i will try.
I just hope Dark Arena doesn't open for them again...
Hmm..i wonder when the new CD comes out.
(checks CDNOW.com)
Holy crap! Less than a month away! That's effin' awesome. I can't wait till May 22nd. I thought it was gonna be in summer or something. Well, the new Type O CD ended up being pretty good, so if this one's good, it'll be a good year for me.
I also realized that i very much want to see Filter if Richard Patrick makes another CD with them. I really think he's a good songwriter and has released sound good stuff. I am hoping he doesn't stay with that side project (Army of Anyone) for too long.
If i get to see Filter, Cheap Trick and Queensryche before all those bands are defunct, i will be happy. I've got to see a bunch of band i liked. Nine Inch Nails, before Reznor went totally south, Type O despite the crappy sound system, VAST despite a few small blips, Incubus when they still played some songs from SCIENCE, and Sonata Arctica, who were incredible.
Music is good. I wish i wasn't so picky.
I am going to update about our trip to Roanoke and some other things tomorrow or the next day. Gone. |
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| Not Much, Amigo |
[Mar. 20th, 2007|01:21 pm] |
| [ | I'm feelin'... |
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| | Type O Negative-Dead Again | ] |
...Is the answer to what's new since my last post. Here's a quick rundown.
-Dropped a class whee. Great Books is for suckas
-Got new Type O Negative CD. It's pretty good. Better on 2nd listen.
-No free time (wait, thats not new)
-Going to 2 shows within a week; VAST on March 30th, Type O on April 6th
-As far as i know, still going to Minnesota 13th-16th. Alissa is trying to cancel it, but i don't think the hotel will let her.
-Been eating out alot with Alissa
-Found like 6 new audiobooks online. Bonus. (History of Russia, Ancient battles, Crusades, ect.)
-Sleeping little
-Hating work because a self-indulgent, narcissitic, narc prick works with me.
-Eating too much
Thats about it. Gotta jam, and take this test. Wooha...gone. |
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