Society climbing out the crapper

Ok, I've been fed up about this for some years because...if it's not in one form of media, it's another. But........what's with the lack of creativity, or even quality and things these days?? For instance, a few years ago, it seemed the world of Hollywood was just hell bent on making remakes of movies. There would be no problem with it....if the remakes were better, but most of the times they aren't. Or how sketch comedy shows like Saturday Night Live and Mad TV are just gut-bustingly unfunny. It's like something drastically happened to these shows to where, they came back for new seasons in 2004ish....and the comedy left with all the class A comedic actors. Although SNL did have a few good ones, it was nothing like the time before (and Keenan Thompson......not funny...makin black people look bad lol.) Mad Tv sucks so bad now, it's getting canceled. And now music......WTF!!!!!! From 1999 on back, music was AMAZING! A good number of my favorite bands and artist are pre 2000 people. Why? Because newer music is just simply unimpressive. Now, granteed, there are some new artist and bands that are amazing (ie Alicia Keys, Trivium, The Killers, Corinne Bailey Rae, Kanye West, The Game, Avenged Sevenfold, Three Days Grace, ect) but the list is short. One day I was talking to a friend and we thought, some newer artists that are amazingly big now, in the 90's would be one hit wonders. Even some of the MANY one-hit wonders from the 90's are waaaaaay better then most of the new people today.

And I gotta say now, to a friend of mine...The Fray.....they aren't bad....they just offended me lol.

Alot of what I see today in music, is the return of many old bands. Like, a few years ago, Motley Crue made a comeback (Saints of Los Angeles is a sweet song). The members of Rage Against The Machine and the singer from Sound Garden formed Audio Slave. The members of Guns N Roses and the singer from Stone Temple Pilots formed Velvet Revolver, in fact now, Stone Temple Pilots reunited...even Guns N Roses came out with Chinese Democracy (although it took 15 years). Bruce Dickinson came back to Iron Maiden in 2000 and they've been the strongest they've ever been since then.

Now.........what in gods name is up with reality tv???!?! Like, survivor I can handle, real world that's cool, but where'd this explosion of these shows come from??? Especially the dating ones....pointless. Make a fool of yourself on national television for no reason at all, makes no sense. Now, I can understand doin it ONCE. In the UK, they normally get a idea for a GREAT show and only do one season of it, maybe two. Why? Is it because they can't come up with new ideas? No, because they are more smarter and creative then us as a whole. But it's to keep TV fresh constantly, because seriously.....reality TV....it's getting very lame and recycled.
Some shows just need to learn when to end. (Like Power Rangers...just.......just stop)

But, amongst all the crap there's hope.

Let's talk movies. Have you seen Dark Knight????? Sure Batman has been around for decades, but that movie is the best i've ever seen Batman...period. What about Iron Man??? The was the first superhero movie that I was actually stunned by because it was so good. Seth Rogen....comedic genius! If his name is on something....I'm gonna cry from laughing. Tropic Thunder....the funniest movie EVER!! V for Vendetta (although previously a comic book) I love it.

I've said my piece about music lol.

And let's hit up Television. Despite this growing popularity of reality television...which just.........just moves me, there are still great shows. Shows like The Office, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, House (apparently), 30 Rock, Arrested Development (one of the greatest shows ever). Adult Swim, Disney and Nick have some sweet cartoons. There are plenty of good shows NOW but.......we really need to find a way to just.......lower the number of reality shows...seriously.

nothing we can do but hope more quality music, movies and tv, emerge from the darkness and into the light.

battle of family

.......*sigh*......why is it, that people just find the need to drag me into their battles? I mean, if it's a close friend or a spose or something of the sort, where I could clearly say "I'm on your side completely, because you are 100% right without a doubt. But, when it comes down to a fight between family, things get a little complicated. Needless to say, in certain arguments, like this one today, the sides are clear, the motives may may not be, but the ultimate goal is. But this is where the work......"conflict of intrest" comes to play. Do I pick the side who's intentions may be great, but motives may not be entirly in the pure, that give me problems many a many times again. Or do I pick the side that what drop a dime for me any given second, but may be wrong? Not to sound like I feel I'm the center of the universe, but when it comes to this it ends up being......what side is better for ME to go with. Should I go with none? Should I stay neautral like Switzerland? Should I sit back amongst the mind games and fighting, stayin quiet and sippin on a pina colada...(or a bull fighter lol)? As far as my best intrest goes......that might be the better choice no? How can to sides be upset with one if one picks no side at all?

I'm Still Alive

i wrote this a year or 2 ago, but i still like it

Despite the good
For I am blessed
I thank God
I'm still alive

I do what I'm told
I do it well
So I thank God
I'm still alive

I try my hardest
So little recognition
But I thank God
I'm still alive

I empty all of me
Yet still taken for granted
But I thank God
I'm still alive

Mentally, physically drained
Feeling the pain
But I thank God
I'm still alive

Despite the bad
I am blessed
That's why I thank God
I'm still alive

LMAO!!! So funny and so true

Professor wikipedia



You can't lie.....this is true lol.

Anything you can do, they can't do at all

I've been talking to a few colleges and friends, and this topic keeps popping up "Things that are easy to accomplish for some, and outrageously difficult for others". First and foremost I must say to my noOb, I am so proud of you and it touches my heart that you accredit me to your success. Anyways, in a conversation with my teacher he said "People like art, not neccesarily because it's good, but because unlike like us, they do not have the skills to recreat it." Even in music the same applies. People are impressed and love music because they can't play it (and it's pleasing...sometimes).
This struck intense thought into my head of past things I just couldn't understand. Like, how many times have you seen some kid driving a car for the first time and all of their friends that dont drive are just amazed, simply blown away. But then an older person would think "this must be a new driver" critiquing their driving. Or a young teenager draws a picture and showd it to their friends and they think it's the most amazing thing they've seen. But when they show it to an accomplished artist they get a simple "cool" or a forced "this is good". Some kid that's been playing guitar for a year can play a song, and people that arent musicians are just blown away. But if a tenured musician or just an overall better guitarist walks by, they wont even turn their heads to acknowledge them.
But somebody may ask, why is that? Is it just because they're rude and stuck-up? The answer is no. People are impressed by what they can't do. If that same guitarist walked by the likes of Joe Satriani, John Petrucci, BB King, Eric Clapton Yngwie Malmsteen and other guitar greats, they would stop and listen. Not just because they are good, but because they can accomplish something they can't. If that artist went to the Getty, and saw paints by Michealangelo and other art greats, they pause and gaze in amazement. Not because they are good, but because they cannot accomplish that. If a chef eats something Wolfgang Puk cooked, they're blown away, because they can't accomplish the quality of cooking that he can. A bodybuilder can walk into the gym and see a guy whole lifts more then him and is blown away and already formulated a list of questions. Why? Because that person is on a level that he has yet to reach.
SO, I now see that, some people arent impressed by certain things, not because they don't like it, but because they can do it. So, next time I hear another artist say "impressive" or a musician say "WOW, that sounds sick" I'm gonna take that to heart.

Pull me through

Racing the track
Stuck in the back
And now stuck for eternity

Blowing my mind
I'm out of time
5 Minutes left was all I need

Inconvenience to you
Imma try to pull through
Please wait help is on the way

Stuck in a bind
I grip and I grind
Till friendship pulls me through

master of my mind, slave to my heart

Have you ever...felt some way about someone but were to....not scared, but unsure about what the outcome would be if you reveiled this....this feeling u have. Like, you're not unsure because you're a pansy, infact you're the direct oposite, but because you are afraid of the uncertain. Afraid of ruining a good thing. Not that your scared of rejection, but rejection from this person. My mind is sayin don't do it but my heart grows heavy. I'm the master of my mind.......but a slave to my heart. So the question remains, do I listen to whom I am ruler.....or to the one who rules me?

this bugs me a bit

So, why is it that, when we cleeearly see that we need to fix something, and dub it unimportant, just to have it bite us in the arse? Like, today my tire poped flat on the freeway today and yesterday I said to myself ".....I should get that fixed asap" but no....I didn't. MISTAKE!!! It didn't help that my jack was broken from a few months back so I was stranded. But, I will say, friendship is a strong thing. One of my friends (she knows who she is, and if she reads this, I just wanna say I really appretiate you) came and save my behind. I couldn't help but think, how many other people could I have called just to be turned down, told they were to busy for somebody they call a friend. The same person that bailed me out wrote something of friendship. How many people WOULD'VE done that for me? So today, I think I know one more person I can call my friend. I am forever in debt to you my friend.

Yesterday

Yesterday
It all seemed so easy
our life decay
our leaders deceiving
World in disarray
And there is no hope left
No there is no hope left
Yes we have no hope left

Yesterday
Wish things could be different
No other way?
World constantly crumbles
Live in disarray
Since we have no hope left
No there is no hope left
Why is there no hope left?

Yesterday
We lived for yesterday
We'd die for yesterday
And now it's gone

Yesterday
We lived for yesterday
We long for yesterday
And now it's gone

skillz

i can't help but post this....i'm a fan of my work

the question that stumped them all

There comes a time in everyone's life where they stop and ask "what is the meaning of life?" or even a more personal "what is my purpose in life". Isn't that the ultimate question, the meaning of our lives. For instance, was Jimi Hendrix's purpose in life to become successful OR to inspire generation upon generation of guitarist and an entire music genre. Did he have to die to fulfill that?? Was every victim of A.I.D.S purposes in life to contract the disease, die, and build up in numbers only to eventually, one day, push scientist to find a cure? Did my grandfather live 12 years after he was diagnosed his doctor said he could die within six months just to show me to never loose my faith in God? Did a friendly conversation with a complete stranger stop him/her (or even yourself) from committing suicide? Was that person to live and become or help somebody become an inspirational figure? Is it 5 billion peoples purpose in life to do nothing of great importance but just stay out the way of those 1 billion people that will? Was it the mother of Barack Obama's purpose to give birth to him, so he could become president and put hope in a crumbling country and in the hearts of mankind, and to let the world know that anything is possible (and that America isn't racist)? Was the purpose of all those failed musicians, writers, actors/actresses, etc to make room for the ones that would make an impact? I can't help but think that......some people can't look past their failures and loses, although to them it may be bad or horrific even, but what if from that misfortune came success for somebody else? Will people as a whole ever be able to look past that?

I Am Darkness

just for the record....i'm not crazy


Darkness comes from the inside
It was always here
Darkness shielded by light
but that light now turned Grey

Evil thoughts consumed in darkness
running wild like a shark in sea
Lust for death and anger consumes
As the soul just drifts away

Can darkness truly miss the light
or did it part ways just of spite
it's this darkness that makes the world spin
my new world overcome with sin

so angry but i feel so good
adrenaline rushing thru my veins
hands shaking with that thirst of blood
a thirst that must be quenched with flood

My mind is black, my vision blurry
Primal instinct acts quick, in a hurry
Lust for death and anger consumes
as the light drifts away

Why must pain have initial hurt
but in the end be so good
DIE DIE MY DARLING DIE
life no longer thou my rose glasses

why must sin feel so good
so much more freeing the life in light
freedom to do without regret nor sarrow
freedom to do wildest desire

darkness is darkness is
it's what I've been longing for
it's what I've been craving for
darkness is darkness is
darkness is me

New years bolg.....3 weeks late

Well, another year has past..........but this one was a year truly not wasted. From actually accomplishing a few New Years Resolutions, to just growing up in general, I think I've gone a long way.
I'm grateful for all the people God placed in my life, both new and old, friend or enemy, for every interaction gives me a new lesson, not matter how small or big, it helps at shape to my character.
But all-in-all, this year has helped me learn more about myself. I've come to terms with the flaws I have.....and learned to embrace the pain in my soul.......because, it's the way you handle pain that makes u a man.
I'd love to bare my heart a little more but for once, i have a few things to hide. lol. But I will say this, despite so far I've come, I still have long roads ahead. I just thank the people that help me grow into a man, because without them, i'd still be at page one. I especially thank the people that restored my faith in mankind. Especially one person in particular, even tho i haven't known her that long, and she may not realize it, but she helped mend my shattered heart. Many thanks to that person.
So, all-in-all, this was a pretty awesome year. Like i said before, I still have ways to go, but maaaaan, I'm on a roll. I can't wait to see what 2009 has instore for me.