An excuse for why this page looks like shit... Oh, tough one. Because I felt the need to counterbalance the increasingly complex shitware of increasingly excessive companies with an even more simplistic style. No sensory overload here.
07/07/04 -
forgive me, god, for i have sinned. i went against my beliefs, my rights, and told overcontrolling paranoid record companies that it's okay to bypass laws that protect customers' freedom to duplicate their own legally acquired property for backup purposes. yeah, i went ahead and bought the velvet revolver album: one of the industry's first proactive attempts to royally screw us over with their shitty copy protection, still-insane prices, and no obvious indication that you're being fucked (but the system requirements in fine print on the back are a dead giveaway if you can read them.) and really, this isn't too terribly bad because the copy protection sucks. i'm in the process of copying the whole cd as i write this. but come on, we all know that's not the point. the thing that pisses me off is that record labels actually think that they have the right to tell me what i can and can't do with my own property. oh, and they don't even bother to tell me that they're restricting my actions until after i buy it. meanwhile, the clueless white-haired men in congress are debating the idea of making p2p file sharing illegal based on the figures presented to them by the record companies, because we all know that clueless white-haired men never bother to get some first-hand experience with what they're legislating before they fuck our rights up. of course, neither the corporations nor the government that they control can understand why the hell people don't wanna pay $20 for something that they may have been lucky enough to hear one thirteenth of, but only if the people trying to control our tastes at mtv decided that we're worthy of hearing it. so everybody seems to overlook that virtually all p2p services display bitrate for audio and that it would be a simple matter to filter out all audio files with a bitrate anywhere near cd-quality and render file sharing totally useless for anything but sampling music before you buy it. and record executives fail to realize that this would actually mean a far greater profit for them. after all, people aren't hesitent to pay a decent price for something that they know they like. but we are talking about clueless white-haired men, and i guess you can't blame them for the people in their state being stupid enough to allow stupid white men to rule the country.
listening to: headspace by velvet revolver
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03/30/04 -
i'm tired of people whining about racism, complaining about inequality, claiming that they're being descriminated against. guess what? racism is natural. an ape runs from a man whether or not it's ever seen that particular person before; it could be instinctive, it could be communicated from parent to child. whatever it is, it's true. in this way, it's natural for people to have these same instincts.
oh, but we're humans. we should be able to overcome our primal instincts and show that we're somehow more than animals and get to know each person individually. yes, i agree. that would be much more characteristic of an advanced being such as a human. i should definitely take time to get to know all of the 900 people at my school one-on-one. before fucking up a country in the name of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, the president should get to know how every single one of the 6,416,423,843 people living on this planet feel about a war. it would be wonderfully democratic, wouldn't it? what a perfect world that would be. but even if all of those people were given only half of a second to talk, a person would live their entire life from birth to death before they were done. not to mention that at least another billion will be stuck on our festering hellhole before that time is up. so guess what? generalizations are practical. racism is a generalization. racism, though you may not like it, is a practical thing. so if you're offended, deal with it. because if you're anything like me, you'd much rather be offended every now and then than talk to every single cuban immigrant who crosses the border on an inflated plastic bag.
listening to: all along the watchtower by jimi hendrix
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03/27/04 -
donald trump is a class-a asshole. no, he's never offended me. he's never hurt anyone i know. he's not an asshole in the typical sense of the word. he's more of a cheap-ass eccentric pamela anderson-marrying asshole. this dude is a total retard. he's one of the most goddamn famous rich people today. for the love of god, everybody in america knows his name, half watch his show, and a fourth call him "the donald." and he can't even afford some rogaine or a decent hair coloring.
let's look at his history. this guy somehow managed to become fucking rich overnight, blew it all, declared bankruptcy, and now he's rich as hell all over again. was he really poor? i doubt he was really that low on money, he just wanted all of his creditors off of his back. all the "you'll never be able to get a credit card again" shit that goes along with bankruptcy doesn't really matter when you're more rich than half of the population of the US combined.
and come on, the guy's a fag. have you ever seen his show? when he says "you're fired" he does this queer hand motion where he points at the person with his whole hand all of a sudden like it's a scorpion's tail. what's up with that?
listening to: iris by goo goo dolls
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03/12/04 -
cnn headline news has a truly fitting name. they report on only top-priority news stories that deserve my full attention. that's exactly why i saw a segment about important new words. it seems that cnn finds it important to educate the hopelessly out-of-touch people who actually watch cnn headline news that "gili" was a horrendous movie by jennifer lopez, or that "extreme makeover" is a makeover that's extreme. you'd think that with a name that actually has the word headline in it, you'd find something worth hearing reported on the network.
cnn headline news had another story today that i felt truly worthy of my attention: eggs are on tour around russia. yes, my friends, eggs. normal, out-of-a-chicken's-ass eggs that were bought by a billionaire are booked solid for months to be toured around all of russia, and to be viewed by the russian people. apparently, the russians have no real celebrities to base their lives on. and the integrity of the human spirit worsens still.
listening: amber by 311
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02/09/04 -
so i got up the latest version of this site running. even more simplistic than the last. 'cause really, what's the point in excess when it only makes you seem excessive?
the real purpose of a redesigned site it to mark a new attitude toward this weblog. rather than having a page devoted to silly childish dramas like my old one (which, despite the stupidity, i tried to make universally valid), the point of this one is really to write observations about politics, society, religion, or whatever. not to mention making myself seem a little less of a fag than my old one did. unfortunately, i seem to have forgotten the rants i wanted to put here.
this site is still under construction. coming in a few days (maybe tonight; i dunno) are a few things i've written, my playlist, and a variety of links.
listening: maria by rage against the machine
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