Shut the Hell Up!

To start, my favorite movie is Dogma. Some of you may have heard of it. It was directed by Kevin Smith, who also played Silent Bob. Other principle actors in the film are Jason Mewes, Chris Rock, Alanis Morissette, Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, and George Carlin. The film is really disrespectful of the Catholic church. Before the film was even released to theatres, nasty letters were being written to Disney corporation, whose subsidiary, Miramax films, was slated to put out the film. (if you want to read them, go to http://viewaskew.com/dogma/hate/ ) Apparently some people got hold of unauthorized releases of early versions of the script and decided to attack Disney and its Miramax in general. WHY!?!? It's not their fucking problem! If you don't like the ideas contained in the movie, don't go see the movie! Worried your kids might see the movie and it will warp their fragile little minds? Goddammit, the way you people fuck around with your kid's psyches, they need a little radical outside input to get them back on track!

Another thing: apparently the fat fucks have revived their lawsuit against McDonald's (http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/01/26/fast.food.lawsuit.ap/index.html). This isn't mentioned in the article, but I heard on my radio this morning that someone is claiming that McDonald's restaurant puts "addictive substances" in their food, then lures the kids in while they're young with the little cheapo toys. Sounds like the tobacco companies, right? Only more devious.

Anyway, to get back on track, some of you who know me will attest that I am not exactly skinny. In fact, to put it plainly, I am fat. The thing is, I know I'm fat, but I also recognize that it's my fault. I don't' try to blame it on nicotine in the hamburgers or crack in the fries. It's my own goddamn problem, and I work to fix it, mainly by not eating at fast food places. Your problems are your own! If you are fat, take care of it yourself, dammit! Suing McDonald's won't solve anything, you stupid fat fuck!

Pissing in the Gene Pool

(This is really going to piss people off. I think I've hit the jackpot!)

Okay, to start off, here's a quick and mostly correct rundown of how genetic code (DNA) works with evolution. Your genetic code determines everything about your physical and mental being at the time of your birth, and for a little while afterward. Some parts of your body and personality are dictated by your environment and the choices you make later on, but such things as eye color are dictated by your genes. Evolution works by stripping out the specimens of a species who are not genetically viable, i.e., unable to survive long enough to pass on their faulty genes. Faulty genes can range from having bad eyesight to being absolutely freaking retarded. It used to be, if you couldn't get your own food, take care of yourself, etc., you would die. But modern civilization, with its strong desire that everyone deserves to live, is pissing in the gene pool.

What do I mean by that, you ask? Well, what we are doing is keeping the people who are not genetically viable alive long enough to give them a chance to pass on their genes. Now, there's nothing wrong with giving glasses to people with bad eyesight, or helping out a blind or deaf person. We can afford that kind of thing. What I worry about is the people who in no way could survive in the wild at the dawn of mankind, when even the strongest and brightest got snuffed on a regular basis. By giving the kid born without kidneys a transplant, we give him the chance, however slim, to pass on his kidneyless-ness to any children he might have.

Look people, it's real simple. It's all about natural selection. The kid who drinks a bottle of Drano doesn't live to pass on his stupidity gene to the next generation. The kid who stays out from under the cabinet, lives (maybe) to pass on his caution to the next generation. Now, I know there might not be "stupidity" or "caution" genes, but DNA isn't the only way to pass your intelligence (or lack thereof) to your kids.

I'm not saying we should have a Nazi-style eugenics program. We should try to solve our own problems. Not try to create some stupid "master race," since there's no such thing anyway. What we should do, it think about the consequences of our actions. We need to try and envision what the world might look like in 1000 years. Will it be better? Worse? Will technology, civilization, hell, even thought be slowed down because we let the non-viable specimens of our species pass on their problems to the next generation? Also, I'm not saying we should kill babies, although I do love a good dead baby joke. Killing a baby is possibly the sickest thing imaginable...Unless the poor kid might be better off dead, y'know?

Of course, that's just my opinion, I could be wrong.

So, it's official. The great lord of stupid has been inaugurated, and will spend another 4 years in the white house.

You know, when Bush ran for president in 2000, I supported him. He was my state governor, after all, and Gore appeared to be a emotionless robot. But now that we're well on our way to another Vietnam, I'm realizing....Our parents may have elected the final president of the United States. For every Iraqi killed in this oil war, 100 pick up their AK47's and become terrorists. The "war on terror" sure is working out well, eh?

A friend of mine has shown me several websites devoted entirely to dissent. The two best so far are www.bushflash.com and www.hategun.com. Enjoy them.

On another note, I was wondering whether a violent or non-violent revolution would be preferred. I expect a strong response for non-violent, but you people need to remember, sometimes the only possible answer is blood and gunpowder.

"Make your life a friction to the machine." -Thoreau

Jesus and Anime, Oil and Sand

I thought it couldn't be done. I figured, "the Internet is so large and full of stupid people. I'll never find it no matter how long I look."

But I did. I found it. I found the Ultimate Nexus of Internet Stupidity.

Bullshit, you say. That's impossible. Well, it's not. Thanks to the amazingly observant Somethingawful.com, I have found something called the 'Christian Anime Alliance.'

Really. No lie. www.christiananime.net, if you think your stomach can handle it. I got slightly sick at the small sample on somethingawful, but I couldn't stop looking at it. It's like a car wreck between a school bus, and a nursing home van. These people claim to be 'waging a war against hentai' (heh...good luck) while using images of Alucard for their ID pics. Have they not even read/seen Hellsing? That is possibly the bloodiest, most violent thing I have ever seen (needless to say, I love it), and I am realtively new to the anime/manga world. Maybe they justify it throught the overstory of Hellsing Agency protecting the Protestant Church and Iscariot protecting the Vatican. Then again, maybe they're just freaking stupid. I have a good mind to join their forums and just mess with their pitiful little minds.

As time passes and I add more and more posts, you will learn that I hate many things. But most of all, I hate hate hate religion. Religion was invented by man to help him explain the world around him. Greek and Roman mythology is fundamentally no different from modern religion in that they were all created to give people ways to understand that which they found inexplicable in the world around them. Since we have now explained most of these things, why do humans still cling to religion? And yes, I know most modern religion has nothing to do with explaining the world, but still...we no longer need it! And why is there enough religion to start wars, but not enough to instill peace? Huh? Can you explain why all the religions that go to war against each other preach non-violence? By the way, the current wars in the middle east are not over terrorism. They are over two things. First is oil, obviously. Second: The current regime in control of our country is trying to turn the US into more of a theocracy (rule by religion) than it already is. So, our good, mostly christian rulers feed the rest of us some really convincing bullshit about some retarded 'war on terror,' to make the non-christians stand in line like good little zombie slaves while they kick the shit out of the mostly Islamic middle east. They can quench their thirst for holy war and steal some oil in the process. And here's a warning: when they decide they are finished in the middle east, or realize they aren't going to make any progress (just more terrorists), or just run out of oil, I bet they bring the war here. They'll just make it subtle and hope we don't notice as they build the camps.

(This was originally meant to be me bitching about these christian anime alliance losers. Sorry I got off track, but I decided I was having more fun slamming the govt.)

Illusions of Control

Remember I said something about an idea in my last post? Well, I thought about the topic, and realized that that was way to offensive even for me. Really, it was pure evil. So, I'm gonna wait a while, think about it, and post it if I decide it's worth the risk.

Anyway...

I was thinking about control today. Not like an XBox control, but the control we claim to have over each other. After some though I came to the tenative conclusion that most control is an illusion. This would mean that if we see past the illusion, no one could truly control us except ourselves. Sounds like an ideal existence, right? Total freedom, except of course from death. That's the only form of control I cannot see as illusory by any stretch of imagination.

But most of us will have real trouble seeing beyond the greater illusions. I don't like to brag, but I've already gotten past the illusions of religion and government. However, I'm having a lot of trouble getting any further. Religion and government are minor illusion, despite the fact that almost everyone encounters them in some form several times a day. The really huge illusions of control are the ones put upon us by the people we are around every day. Our friends, teachers, and parents (I'm working on that illusion now) hold more control over us than anyone else, because we interact directly with them every day. I would say that the strongest illusions are set on us by our friends, especially those of the opposite sex (or whatever). We generally disregard our teachers unless we come across one who really has something intelligent to say. Most of us are too independent to listen to our parents, and some of us are in open rebellion against them. But our friends are masters of illusion.

What we generally forget, though, is that we are also putting illusions on others. Some people learn to fine-tune their illusions verrrrry carefully. These people become expert manipulators of the emotions, opinions, and social lives of those around them. Manipulators may not necessarilly be highly intelligent, all they need is charisma. Example: we may all hate his memory, but when you get down to it, Adolf Hilter was an expert manipulator. He was charming, charismatic, and a good speaker. Even to the end when he was messed up on pills most of the time, and maybe also suffering from Parkinson's disease, he was brilliantly manipulating the Nazis, Europe, and the whole world. He might have even succeded in world domination if he had not come up against other charismatic leaders such as Stalin (who was charming even if he was a Commie bastard), Churchill, and Roosevelt.

If one can become an expert manipulator, he is probably going to go very far in life. Bu the more I watch those manipulators around me, the more I begin to think that manipulation is not a learned skill. It is something you have to be born with. The normal people (in respect to control) among us may scratch the surface, but we will never reach the depth of control the experts find so naturally.

Nothing of Interest

I know I said something about a rant on the "videogames cause violence" bullshit. Then at school I had a really great idea that I may outline tomorrow. I intended to use it today, but then I started using google search again...I never learn....and discovered some rather disturbing trends.

Trend 1: Hentai images of non-human characters.
If you ever have the opportunity to use the google image search engine, you will discover that it will turn up large amounts of pornographic material. I don't really mind; I've seen it turn up the same images so many times that I just tune it out. But today I was looking for pics of an obscure (or at least it seems obscure to me) RPG called Xenosaga. One of the main players in the game is a female android named KOS-MOS. I can see, and have seen, many hentai images of human characters but this is the first time I have ever seen a nonhuman. And it was the wierd tentacle thing, too. Kinda creepy.

Trend 2: Fan art and cosplay outnumbering official images.
Now, I know I've slammed both these groups before. I probably will again, because I hate them so much. But when I go to search for images of Rikku from X2 to add to my files and find more cosplay and fan art than actual images from the game, I go beyond 'pissed.' I go beyond 'enraged.' I go into full overdrive rampage mode. Seriously, these people are lucky that they mostly live in Japan. I'm no tsure I could ever go to a convention for fear of going ballistic and ripping into some poor fool. By the way, I may bitch about these cosplay people, but I just got a copy of Final Fantasy VIII, and I would kill for a gunblade.

So basically, I want two things out of you people, if you can help.
1. A better image search engine than Google.
2. Good walkthroughs for FF VIII and Xenosaga
3. A gunblade. Preferably with a Casull .454 for the handle and a live blade. (when used in refrence to a blade, 'live' means 'sharp enough to cut your throat.' YOu should know that.)

Any help will be appreciated. If you don't have my email, just leave me a comment.

Moderators in all Society

Heh heh heh. I just read an old issue of Time magazine that was published right after the Columbine "tragedy." Apparently the four main causes of the incident were The Matrix, Doom, Marilyn Manson, and Rammstein.

Bullshit, bullshit, bullshit.

I can see where Manson's so called "music" may make somone who hears it want to kill themselves, but not unload on clasmates.
As far as I know, neither of those kids spoke German, so they probably had no idea what the Rammstein lyrics actually meant. Jesus, I've had two and a half years of German class and I've got no clue. As far as Doom goes, I personally think of it more as a catharsis than a videogame. I'd rather kill a cyberdemon than something that's actually alive, you know? The Matrix. Okay, I can see where this might have had an effect. I watch it a lot, and I can see how somone could identify with Neo and the rebels in general. But they would have to be seriously messed up, to the point where people would notice and have them get help.

You want to know why I think these kids went nuts with
sawed-off shotguns and frappucino-bottle bombs? Give me a minute, and I'll tell you. This world, and American society in particular, are really, seriously fucked up. Look who we elect to public offices!The man holding the most power in this nation (or so they say) has trouble prononcing 'nuclear' for christ's sake! Look at the way we treat each other! No one has any respect for anyone else unless they work their ass off to earn it! We are all guilty! You, me, our parents, our friends, all of us.

But there are always a few malcontents who respect everyone until given reason not to. These are the people who gravitate freely between cliques and never seem to have any enemies. But they have the hardest time of any of us. At some point they look around at the way people act all the time, and know, "This is bullshit! Complete, utter bullshit!," while the rest of us blindly accept it as 'society.' And when they look around and realize this, they become what I call mediators. They begin to try to fix the situation. Some have moderate success, and continue to change things for the better. Others fail and simply give up, and become like the rest of us.

You know why a kid will knife a fellow student because he accidentally scuffed a new pair of white shoes? You know why everybody is fighting, killing, suing, and generally screwing everybody else?

You know why two kids shoot up their high school?

I'll tell you what I think: we are running out of mediators.

Of course, that's just my opinion, I could be wrong.

(This started off as a rant about the bullshit "videogames cause violence" theory, but I went off on a totally unrelated tangent. I bet that happens a lot in this blog as time goes by. Maybe you'll get my original entry tomorrow.)

Put Down the Pencil and Get a Life

Okay, I have been pushed beyond the point of no return. I will no longer remain calm and collected on this subject. The flow of crappy fan art really, really needs to stop. Now.

Some fan art is excellent. I have seen some very impressive sketches of various characters from games/anime/manga/movies etc., and when I see good art, I recognize it. But, when I see these horrible drawings that do nothing but degrade the focus of the image, I begin to get pissed beyond belief.

If you want to see what I mean, go to google image search and type in "fan art". I did as, research for this. Some of it's good. Some of it is fucking awesome. But I had to stop at page 5 because I was afraid that if I saw any more crappy drawings of Rikku, I would involuntarily put a fist through my monitor. Also, some of it was cosplay and you know how I feel about that.

Look, I understand that the people who make these shitty drawings (at least I hope these are freehand sketches because if someone out there is dumb enough to screw up a tracing that bad, the human race is in some deep shit) do it to try to show how much they love the subject, but please, spare us. Keep the drawings on your bedroom wall. Turned toward the wall. Don't put them on the internet because someone crueler than I will find them and send you very mean emails.

See, the problem with the crappy fan art people is that they are so infatuated with the game and their own supposed "talent," that they cannot recognize how bad these drawings really are. If they really liked the game, they would at least not share them. It's really disrespectful to the game and its creators to put that stuff out into cyberspace. I know they have a right. But I have a right to send them cruel, expletive-filled, hyper-critical email. I refrain from exercising that right. Can't they restrain from putting their crap into the rest of the world?

I myself went on a fan art kick the first time I saw Jurassic Park. This was before I read the book and realized that the movie was a slice of shit pie. I made these terrible drawings of Velociraptors and Tyrannosaurs. But I recognized even then that I am not an artist of creatures and people. I can draw landscapes and weapons fairly well, but ask me for a drawing of Seras Victoria and I'll just look at you and laugh until snot comes spraying out of my nose. Then I'll laugh at you a little more because, hey, who doesn't laugh at an idiot covered in snot?

So I guess what I'm trying to say is, think before you put your fan art online. Take the images to a friend who knows the source material, and ask for an honest opinion. If they say it's good, put it out. The rest of us might want to see it. If not, just put it somewhere where you can enjoy it yourself, isn't that what art is all about?

Of course, that's just my opinion. I could be wrong.

Posing to the Beat

Two things I'm really getting tired of: Musical posers and crappy bands trying to cover good songs.

"Musical Poser" is a term I made up (I think) to describe somone who A)Listens to music to try to look cool or B)wears the logo or shirt of a band because that particular band is popular. I don't know many around here who fall into cateogry B, but there are several category A posers in my high school. Here I specifically mean the people who used to listen to good music-Pink Floyd, Rush, Metallica, and the like-but suddenly start listening to 'a perfect circle' and 'good charlotte' (gag). They claim to really like it, but when you watch them listen to the music, they get this expression, I think unconciously, of extreme boredom and distaste. They are always eager to talk about the good music when their "new music buddies" aren't around. You quickly realize that they really don't like the music. The usual reasons for the change are either they think they are in love with someone who likes that music, or are trying to work their way into the 'in' crowd. I can almost understand the first one. But if you want to impress a girl, don't change your music. That is as much a part of you as your personality or your opinions. Be more polite, work out a little, I don't know, but never change who you are on account of some girl, no matter who she is. And if you leave your old friends to get into the 'in' crowd, you are a stupid piece of shit and should be put out of your misery.

Second complaint: bad covers.
Okay, first off, both Korn and Limp Bizkit (did I spell that right?) are all right-sometimes. I don't buy their cd's but I do watch MTV(play more vidoes, dammit! "the real world" is played out!) and VH1 from time to time. Also, some of my friends like Korn and try to get me to listen to it. It's not bad, but I think I'll stick to Rush. Anyway, a while back I heard that Limp Bizkit, or maybe it was just Durst, had done a cover of "Behind Blue Eyes," which is a really good Who song, as you (should) know. So I found a website where I could watch the video without downloading it. I started it up, watched it, went to bed, and cried myself to sleep. It ws awful. If you disagree, you probably never heard the original or are too stupid to make a comparison.

So, anyway, today I was in my theatre tech class when somone mentioned that Korn had covered "Another Brick in the Wall" by Pink Floyd (duh). A classmate happened to have it on him, so I asked if I could give it a listen, see if it was any good.

It was good enough to make me nauseous. Seriously, it was awful. I think I died a little inside.
Final word: All I'm trying to say here is, you can make a cover if you get permission, go ahead. But before you release it, play it for some fans of the original song. If they like it, release it and you probably won't piss anyone off. If they shriek, vomit, convulse, and/or die....think it over. I know you're going to release it anyway, since most modern music is just about the money, but think it over first.

Of course, that's just my opinion, I could be wrong.