First and foremost, I would like to thank Louise for putting my mind at rest. My friend recently sent me a song that didn’t have an artist, and it was driving me nuts! I told Louise about it and sent her the song, and within moments she managed to figure out it was Teresa Teng – Thousands of Words. Louise, you’re a genius, and I will buy you drinks when I get to Hong Kong!
Anyway, this went onto a conversation about organizing music, and I must say, I’m quite particular about the way my music is named. You gotta capitalize the right parts of the title; artists “featured” in the song, don’t appear under the “artist” column, but in the title, i.e. Forgot About Dre (feat. Eminem); classical songs should be named in this format: Composer: Song Title, with the artist being written like: Conductor; Orchestra; and for the love of God, please give me the right title. I once downloaded a song called Teenage Wasteland by The Who, and it wasn’t until last year that I realized the song was actually called Baba GanoushBaba O’Riley (too much food from the Middle East for Redford, thanks to Felix for the correction). Bastards! I felt so scrubby.
Everyone who uploads should follow a system for renaming songs. I don’t think people realize how ugly it looks to have a song come up on the iPod completely wrong or with one word uncapitalized. It drives me nuts that I can’t change it until I get home, and that is if I remember it too. With this in mind, I now know why the MLA guys (or any other body of people that decide how things should be sourced in essays) must feel when they come up with all these seemingly stupid ass rules. In the footnote, the Author’s name is written with the first name going first, but in the Bibliography, the surname comes first, and in the footnote, you use commas, not periods, and ARGH EAT SHIT AND DIE ALREADY! Ahem, but yes, I now understand how they must feel about stuff like this.
I remember buying In Between Dreams in first year and playing that CD to death on my iPod. At one point my top 5 were from him, then my Coldplay songs started to take over. Anyway, while cleaning my room today I came across the CD (I hear you pervs snickering, and you’re sick. Sick!), and decided to give it another listen. It’s soooo mellow, but it’s what I’m in the mood for these days. It’s weird the phases I go through on my playlist, about a week ago I was going for the more rock sounding songs, and now I’m into the acoustic stuff, so my “Recently Added” list on iTunes is equal parts AC/DC and Jack Johnson. Hmmm.
These days I find that I start a lot of books but rarely finish them. They just don’t captivate me that much anymore. I will, however, finish any Sandman graphic novel any day, at any time, in one sitting. Not just because it’s a graphic novel, but because it is so friggin’ good, interesting.
I’ve been going through my shelf to see if there are any books out there that intrigue me enough to actually get me from start-to-finish but none really come to mind. The closest one might be Umberto Eco’s Foucault’s Pendulum, and that’s only because it’s a ridiculously hard read and I want to finish it just out of spite.
There’s also Summerland by Michael Chabon, which is on the other end of the spectrum and should be a breeze to read, but I’m not really in the mood for that book. Ack! What to do, what to do…
I just read this article from The Star called “Atheists grapple with Christmas“, which is about a new book coming out, a collection of articles written by atheists about how they deal with Christmas. What?! Deal with Christmas? I never really felt that strongly about Christmas as an atheist to boycott the event, or to celebrate the Big Bang instead by listening to white noise on the radio as Simon Singh suggests (jokingly, I hope, because that sounds like the lamest idea since this one*). What is Christmas now? It’s apparently too commercial for some Christians, but, too Christian for others.
I don’t get it. I’m an atheist and I’ve never really taken it that seriously. I thought that was the point of it! There’s a quote in there about how Trottier wants to “stay true to his principles” and not celebrate Christmas. There’s only ONE fucking principle as an atheist, and you don’t have to believe in God to buy presents. Unbelievable.
*I would like a non-Christian cape for Christmas. Thank you.
The point of Demotivational Posters is to parody those motivational posters that you might see in your office. It works if you actually parody it, like this guy:
But those are quite rare these days. Online, you’ll more likely find these ones:
McPimpin’? This is more like a caption, than a demotivational poster. Yes, the car is ridiculous, but what is the point of making it into a poster? Once again, it’s not funny. The picture itself would have done well enough on its own.
And if you want to see just how bad this trend has become, just check out this comic from My Apokalips:
Pretty funny right? Now, check out what this assclown did to it:
1) It’s not demotivational.
2) It’s not funny.
3) It ruins the joke.
I hate them. And it’s absolutely terrible when people combine two unfunny things, like LOLCats and these posters:
Is there a way we can stop this? Chuck Norris jokes (and all further incarnations, technically, they started out as Vin Diesel jokes) need to go as well, especially the new Sue Sylvester jokes going around. The words “win”, “fail”, and “epic” must be also used in moderation, because I’m tired of everything I see online being described with three fucking words, when only one of them is actually an adjective.
But alas, I don’t know what I’m doing here. I can’t stop the Internet. It’s just weird to me how a place can be both a beacon, and a desolate wasteland, for creativity.
