...because you are making me realize how stupid we have become as a society!
The more I have too much time on my hands, such as today when I don't have school, the more I realize how much less entertaining today's shows are. Now, for me to say this is entirely opinion because I am talking about when I happen to stop on a channel for a minute and see what show is on rather than watch the show in it's entirety (it's too painful to!).
I have a lot of gripes when it comes to this couch potato society that I am sadly apart of because there isn't anything to do at home because everybody is either working or in school. But anyways, there are somethings I would love to get rid of and here is the list:
Those Instinct phone commercials!- I am so sick about seeing this commercial and its brain dead theme. Sell a phone, not a pretend type of movie that intimidates a CW show. I especially hate how they have the audacity to compare love with free text messenger, I mean, seriously!
Viva Viagra commercials- I think most Americans wouldn't want to shout to the hills that they can keep it up again without dysfunctions, so why rip off such a great song made famous by Elvis to sing about a damn erection pill!
The new Burger King commercial- You know, the one that imitates Simon and Garfunkel in a sense with the one guy looking alittle bit like Napolean Dynomite. It's not funny and it makes me want to go to Wendy's instead...
That stupid Rock Band reality show on VH1 Classic- if we couldn't get any lower! I remember when VH1 had a competition called House Wars and it was a game show in which three respective house bands were judge on which band could do the best covers, but now we have this lame show to pick the ultimate "rock band" and I am talking about that crappy music simulator where some people take pride in pressing the right button combination instead of actually learning how to play the real instrument!
With that said, it's gotten too much nowadays, I could keep going on with many of the reality TV shows, but they are all the same: let's get a bunch of characters that look good and will probably be volatile and lets put them at some location and film them 24/7. We get it already!
This crap is making lean towards the old child times we had when we watched cartoons in the morning, cartoons around dinner time and before bed with being outside and hanging out with friends in between that. I feel like we are just lowering ourselves too much and it's almost Zombie like. I have a good book to recommend from the 50's that almost hits it spot on about today! It's called Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, check it out at a library and see for yourself!
We are relying too much on substitute materials when we should actually be able to do the actually activity instead! I just need to get that metal band together and I will be fine, I already play ice hockey so I get my exercise there, plus I am wanted to do other things that get me away from the idiot box and it's offshoot: the computer.
And to Sarah Palin: We are becoming more obese every day so stop calling fellow Americans Joe Six Pack you stupid twit! They are too busy watching TV to work out!
Ever since the day that I found the word "Agnostic" in the dictionary, I knew that was what I am when it comes to religion and the belief in God. I want to make clear what goes on in my head and what cause me to tick when every body else just doesn't see it.
Why do the good die young? It is a common question that I wonder about. Billy Joel sings a song called "Only the Good Die Young," but why, if God is suppose to love everybody, decides that the good ones die young? I remember back in senior year of high school (2007), out student body president, Ozzie Vargas, died when his buckle malfunctioned when he was going across a river on a zip line and he came crashing down into some rocks below. The ironic part of that story was where it happened: A religious camping retreat.
You know, if God truly exists, surly he would have killed off every scientist who stands up for evolution over Creationism, surly he would have killed those Nazi's who went into hiding for their hideous crimes against humanity, but no, He kills Ozzie Vargas, a committed Christian and student body president who spent a lot of time doing charitable things. Here is the WRAL article.
Now there are some people that, if there is a God, he got to them before they became old. Most notably being John Lennon. It isn't that shocking because Lennon had songs against religion and if you are into the history of music, you will remember that gaffe of a statement while in The Beatles that he said "we're bigger than Jesus now," and the lines "imagine there is no Heaven/ no Hell below us," and ultimately in another song of his he defiantly says "I don't believe in Jesus." I can understand if this was God's work because of those statements, but this was a man of peace who was killed by Mark David Chapman, a religious fanatic who took those two lines in "Imagine" so seriously that he ended up murdering John Lennon.
Do things happen by coincidence or is there a reason? This is the part that gets me thinking the hardest on whether or not there is some extraterrestrial-type spirit because of some events that have happened to my family recently. One being the death of my grandfather who I truly loved to death and was devastated when he passed away. When my mom went to bed that night after the funeral, she asked for a sign, she asked to be shown some deer in the morning in the yard to show that her father was safe and so she could feel secure knowing that he had a safe passage to the next life. Well, she did in fact see a deer the very next morning. My dad told me that she did that and what she told him when we went shopping the day of that morning. In all honestly, I feel happy about that sign and it does bring a different perspective when all you usually do is disbelieve anybody else say they received signs like that.
My grandfather was a man who was quietly religious. What I mean by quietly was that he never pressed any verses onto us and I knew that he read his pocket bible every night before bed. When he was in his last years and couldn't really do much except lay on the couch, my dad and I noticed he was reading some pamphlets called Our Daily Bread which was about how to prepare for the after, how you are to ready yourself for your journey from Earth to Heaven. I have a feeling I might be doing something similar to that in my later years...
Now I do think a lot of things happen out of pure coincidence and not because of reason.
Here is a video that makes me think of how I truly feel about religion: (If you are religious and do not want to hear the song, the words are on the screen, so you can just mute it and read the words)
XTC- "Dear God"
If you are reading this, do something for me, don't pray for me, let me be the one that finds my answers, I don't need the extra help and maybe I have found my answers but I will not know until I grow older and wiser.
Yes, you read that right, it's time to change and become a more positive person (while still having my calm and collected nothing to worry about when it comes to deadlines demeanor). I just having been liking I am with myself in recent days and I know that I can't be how I have been in the past year. The more I sat in that bonus room at night all alone the more I thought that I should be doing more outside with friends or do more things with my family instead of being some type of recluse. I am done with being bound by my own shackles. It's time to hang out with my friends more often, to not be in the bonus room too much, unless i'm with friends, and MOST importantly, time to find someone to call my girlfriend!
Yesterday, for example, I hung out with my friend Heather and her father and we went to the mall to help her look for boots for Halloween. Okay, so it wasn't that fun, but it was not as if we were going to the mall with her mother or else I would have hung myself! Anyways, we went out to Garner and went through this corn maze and it was actually fun! I didn't want to do it originally, but I was satisfied. Wonder where some other mazes are, this one was at Ken's Nursery. Finally, we went to Buffalo Wild Wings for dinner. During that time, Heather and I played this trivia game while eating against other people in the restaurant and we won one of the games by a good margin! The funny part is that Harry got boneless chicken wings with hot sauce on them and he was feeling it pretty badly!
And today I am going golfing with my dad and Harry over at Lakeshore and my other friends, Rick and Joe, are coming over to hang out at my house tomorrow. So overall, I think things are looking up for me!
Almost sleepy time for me, so I feel like showing you guys some music I have been listening to lately (no Jessica, I am not copying you, was thinking about doing this for a long time, haha).
Here it goes:
John Lennon- "I'm Losing You" featuring Rick Nielsen and Bun E. Carlos of Cheap Trick and Tony Levin of King Crimson on bass.
Well I do not really know on where to start with this post. I haven't posted in awhile because I was busy with school and work and only had time to sporadically post. But now, I only have school to worry about because I have been laid off from work (three weeks ago I was told I was being let go, but they gave me to October 10th.) and if I was still working, I would be working on my Rock Music History right now so I can do the quiz and midterm before tomorrow because work would take up much of the day, but as you see, I do not have work anymore. Work was a love-hate relationship honestly. I mean, I loved working there. The people where great and it was a unique job for me to do that was out of the norm for people our age, plus it paid well. The hate part came from doing certain tasks at work like the doggie stations; nobody likes to drive around with trash bags full of dog crap around. The good thing is that everybody at worked liked me and they want me to come to the next apartment social this Tuesday and they even let me keep my gate key for once I am able to drive that I can go to the fitness center and work out. Atleast I get one more check and it should be a good one!
I know there are plenty of positives to being out of a job. The main one is that I can focus fully on school and I really need to considering my GPA at the end of last year was not great at all. I remember my senior year of high school that in the semester that I had my temporary job for the Halloween time that I had straight A's and the next semester it was A's and B's, the best best academic year I ever had! Then I got a job, tried working four out of the five days and going to class full time and I had a pretty crappy year. Another positive is that I can sleep in more and stay up later and have more time with my friends. I believe that with no more money flow from the job, that I will not do midnight bolwing as much as I use to.
Finally, I think I am starting to not like being home alone for weekends. The reason being that I can't really do much here and I am not the one to take advantage of my parents by having a massive party. I did have a friend over who I haven't hung out with in a long time and I did go have dinner at the Tangerine Cafe so I could get out of the house, but other than that, I haven't done much. If I only could drive, then I would be golden!
Speaking of cars, congratulations to my mom as she just won a 2008 Mustang! She won a prize to go to Lowe's Motor Speedway with one other person (my father of course) and watch the Nationwide Series race, the Sprint Cup race, some other things fans couldn't do, a lap around the track with Carl Edwards, and at the end of everything was a chance to win a Mustang. In order for her to win it, she had to have the right key in order to start up the car, and she was the one with the key!
Ok, so I thought I didn't have much to write about and I guess I did. Let's see how long it takes to make a another post.
A blog about events of a life from one person's point of view. Every once in awhile there will be personal rants about opposite views and what I think is somewhat slanting how we, as humans, think about things going on in the world and why we close up on some of the most liberating things.
I am 20 years old, originally from Niagara Falls, Ontario, but I have spent the majority of my life in North Carolina, but I have also lived in Arizona for four years. I want to be a history teacher, so lets hope for the best!
