So, I'm debating setting up my own domain name, and combining all of my various blogs into one central site. It'd be way easier to keep up with all of them, and make it easier for anyone remotely interested in reading the random and inane bullshit I write. I'm really serious about keeping up with the thoughts and whatnot. I'd also like to have a place less retarded than facebook to keep my art. It'd be cool if I could sell a piece of artwork some day, even though I've not really ever tried to sell one.
Anyways, I heard about this pretty neato little app for Apple that essentially blocks out all the internet bullshit, chat windows, google search etc. and let's you write in privacy. It's just a stripped down, basic black and green word processing app called Writeroom. It's pretty cool. I don't have Apple, so I tracked down a version of it for windows, called Dark Room, which can be downloaded here: dark-room
Also, I'm wondering what the fuck is a Lady Antebellum. So, this band/chick/musical group won some Grammy awards and whatnot, which is cool, I guess. I don't want to seem like a hater, but the song is pretty standard pop-country bubblegum type stuff. I guess that's what people are into. I don't get it. Aside from that, I'm confused about an Antebellum. Is she like Lady Period Before the War? Is she a type of bulldog?
Country music certainly isn't my thing. Having said that, I actually went and looked up the specifics about the name of this group. From Answers.com, "We got together, you know, as just songwriters. Became friends and started writing songs. And we wanted to put up a MySpace page. So we wanted to take pictures to put on MySpace to get people's attention, and we ended up going out outside of Nashville to this little town. It's this historic town called Franklin, Tennessee, and there's tons of antebellum homes with the columns, like, from Gone With the Wind. And we ended up in front of these houses, and Charles, the other lead singer in the group, he kind of looked back through the pictures and said, "Wow, that's a really beautiful antebellum home." And I said, "What does that mean?" I didn't know what it meant. But after he explained it to me, I was like, "Oh, yeah. It is. It's really pretty." And he goes, "Isn't that a cool word?" And then we just put a bunch of words in front of it, and "Lady" is what stuck. "
*Antebellum - Latin for, 'before the war'. In this case, specifically, the American Civil War.
Well, I don't know about you, but now that I have that useless fucking information, I feel so much better. I find it annoying how vacuous pop-culture is. Here's a group making music for, in my opinion, lonely housewives and sad 13 year old girls, doing nothing at all original or groundbreaking, being showered with adoration and praise. Now, I'm not a musician, and I'm sure they are very nice people, but to me, this is not good music. Yeah, but that's my opinion, I could be wrong. They could be really fucking amazing, right? I mean, who am I to judge?
Especially when you consider that this is light fare to me:
That was pretty shitty, right? I'm positive that there are people who will watch that video and think that my trash talk applies to Cannibal Corpse, too, in one shape or another. would I ever go to their message boards or forums and shit that out on their page? No. Not a chance. And that's because to me, What's even more annoying to me than pop-culture is the legion of mouthy, shitty cunts that spend their time TRASHING people who are successful. I understand that music, like art, film, comedy and the sort is so totally subjective. I get that. What I see and enjoy is in no way indicative of what's actually "good", whatever that even really means. I honestly think there is some definable quality in regards to skill or creativity, and that's fine to debate. Trashing someone who is hacky and mundane, or who rips off other people's creativity and hard work is understandable. To me though, coming out and just flaming someone for making an attempt to create something worthwhile in this world is a pretty transparent way of shitting on those with more courage or more opportunity than you. It's possible to make your opinion known, or criticize without just bagging on someone's blood, sweat and tears. Making the distinction between what you don't care for and what is actually bad is kind of important, you know, so you're not just a cunty bag of hot hate.
I think the same concept applies to the whole Justin Bieber thing. People spend so much time just FUCKING HATING this kid. I don't get it. I'd never listen to his music, and I would seriously never waste my time trashing his fans. Think about it: Who listens to Justin Bieber? Fucking 10 to 15 year old girls listen to Justin Bieber! Here's the kicker of the whole argument: I only ever heard of this kid because so many people talked shit about him. I don't know anything about the kid. I mean, he's some pretty, young, prepubescent white boy who is making really simple pop music that is marketed at young kids his age. The concept of making what is essentially a lab crafted marketing tool and passing it off as music disturbs the shit out of me, but to shit on some kid who is really just caught in a tornado of success that's been utterly thrust upon him seems to defeat the purpose. It seems like a lot of wasted time and energy to me. Couldn't you devote your Justin Bieber trolling time to something a bit more constructive? Maybe you could learn a skill instead of pissing on a teenager and his fans. I think it's ok to make your point about what you THINK, but it's important to remember that it's just your fucking opinion. In my opinion, Lady Gaga sucks, but I wouldn't ever attack HER as a person to make myself feel better about the shit life I live from the comfort of my warm basement bedroom. That shit is so fucking pathetic. Most people that talk shit on the internet would NEVER say half of what they say in real life, to a person they met on the street.
That's really what the internet is to me, at the bottom line; just a haven for weak, shitty people who spend their time attacking people for trying to do things they don't have the balls to do themselves. That sucks. The internet is such an amazing tool with so much potential, being wasted on all these fucking shitheads who can't create anything worth a hobo's shit break themselves.
Look around. Every video, blog, facebook update or anywhere people can freely leave their opinion is full of all this hateful, spiteful vitriol. It's an ocean of jag offs just stamping their balls on everything they disagree with. The internet is like one giant bar full of underage drunk minors who can't control the higher functions of their brains.
I guess what I'm trying to say is, while I don't like Lady Antebellum, and I think their music is garbage, that's just my opinion. At the end of the day, I don't know shit about shit, including the people involved with making the music. I'm totally entitled to my opinion, and you should be, too. Having said that, why is it difficult to respect other people's efforts and opinions? They have an audience and people that like them, so clearly they have talent and skill. Unless you have something constructive to add to the debate, shouldn't you maybe just shut the fuck up?
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