Basses

I've recently taken up the bass guitar because it was the only popular instrument that I haven't tried. I have also found out that I like much more than any other instruments I have tried. In my playing I have noticed a large amount of people have a large arsenal of bass related jokes most of which point to it's inability to easily be heard in songs. They then proceed to go on a spree of never-ending jokes about how the bass is not important at all and how the bassist is the "loser" of the band. First off, let me set all you self-worshipping Guitar Hero playing fascists straight. The next time that you are able to pry your frail, un-callused fingers away from your oh-so-difficult, color coordinated version of "Through The Fire And Flames" go to your computer and pull up your favorite song on iTunes or Windows Media Player. Then find that song without a bass part in it. I guarantee you it will sound horrible. Second, try taking up an actual instrument. If you can play a sequence of colored circles in sucession then you have some musical talent. Try the drums, guitar, or bass. If you don't want all the spotlight of a regular guitar, rythm guitar is always an option.

Texting

I haven't put out a new blog in while because I was fine with the way things had been running. Nothing was out of the ordinary. The President was being C avg. like always and the country is slipping into more oil problems, but besides that everything seemed to be fine. Until I was on my usual morning commute when my friend started talking about texting. This was pretty early in the morning so I was already quite tired and didn't feel like hearing AIM speak for 30 minutes so I started on a tirade about how texting is for people who have money but don't want to spend it on 30 seconds talking on the phone but would rather spend it on trying to break the world text record and come fairly close only to have their finger cramp up and have it in a splint for 3 weeks while they whine to their friend about all they can do now is type at 15 words per minute on their phone where as before they were doing 50 words per minute. It is people like this that really chew on my curtains, if you know what I mean. People with cell phones are the thriving race in this community at this time and anyone without a cellphone I considered unclean. Therefore they must be run out of town to live with the wolves. And as fun as that would be it can't be like that. Though cellphones are a convenient little gadget people have taken it a little too far. Camera-phones, phones with keyboards, radioactive phones, Swiss phones (they don't work). I respect the iPhone for trying mainly because I like Mac but more importantly it is all of those things I previously mentioned just by having a touch screen. It is much easier to use than having 23 and a half different ways to flip your phone so it can do different things. Now, I love technology and can figure out how something works just by looking at it but it is a overwhelming when a phone is a phone, a calculator, a computer, a word processor, mapquest.com, youtube.com, and a Lamborghini Diablo all in one. If the phone companies want to impress me I want a phone that can be a communist ruler for Cuba. Only then will I be happy. One last thing, stop putting texting acronyms into everyday speech. Things like "lol", "lmao", and "omg" need to stop. Now.

The Dollar

The Dollar or just simply "$", legal currency of the United States, and at this very moment in time is 2 to 1 with the Euro or "€", legal currency of Europe and the Pound or "£", legal currency of the United Kingdom. The dollar, being the 1, is essentially "crap". Now on the lines that I am a stupid American a care only for myself and my own problems I would personally like to congratulate the UK and Europe for their good economy, however, their political leaders aren't totally oblivious to everything that goes on around them. Now, I understand that George W. Bush (the current US president) is under a lot of stress and it is hard to be president, but if it was really that hard he would have dropped out of the race against John Kerry (2004). We are in a war that was over 1 year ago and we are still fighting it. People are dying and the government is letting them throw their lives away for a resource that can easily be replaced. Electricity, solar, wind, ethanol, hydrogen, ect. they all work and are all possible. The only problem is they all cost a lot of money and people, including myself, don't want to pay more for taxes, but, if it meanse sparing the lives of another 4,000 Americans and several from other places (too many to list) it is worth the cost and if the war is over the economy will bounce back and we won't have to pay so much. The Iraqis have had enough and their government is stable enough to where we can leave and they will be OK, a little shakey at first, but they will be fine later. Terrorist threat has always been there and always will be. We may have cut it down in the Middle East, but it still goes on. Lets put and end to the bloodshed, parentless children, and continuous anger. It is over, pull out. Medic. Done.

Myspace

I have a confession to make. I am one of the possible three people on this planet who has a burning hatred for Myspace.com. It isn't so much that it is the number one accumalatory spot anywhere to find a stalker/pedophile/schlut-for-money that will actually obsessively sit outside of your house in a white truck with "not stalking you" spray-painted on it by his creepy trucker friend, Ted so much as it is that it somehow seems to seep its way into every conversation people have with one another. You could be having an intelligent conversation with someone about absolutely nothing (and yes, by the way, it is possible) and right when the argument starts to tip in your favor they will, out-of-the-blue, ask if you have a Myspace and if so what it is. My retort to such a blasphemic remark would usually be to spin around and punch the offender in the face, but since they are not educated in the way of the Myspace hate I proceed to explain it to them with excruciating detail and then I punch them in the face for making me explain myself. Next time you are out on the street count how many times you hear Myspace.com, I can almost guarantee it will be in the low "teens". Which conveniently brings me to my next point. It is taking over people's lives like some kind of horrible drug or evil reincarnation of Hitler. Do people have nothing better to do then to sit at their computers and type pages of crap no one will ever read? Unfortunately, they don't. It is understandable that restaurant owners have Myspaces fr their establishment as a marketing scheme, but people that don't have jobs are sitting in their homes running up the bill so that they can not pay it and get evicted from their homes and live in a box in the back of an alley with a hobo named Steve who will, on a daily basis, try to sell your right foot to people for crack. Myspace will die one day and on that glorious I will be there will some nachos and some marshmallows to roast s'mores over its burning remains. Yum. The day of reckoning has come. Have at the beast that hath poisoned our water supply and delivered a plague unto our houses. Even if it hasn't done that yet it will. Wait and see.