Published on Saturday March 31, 2007 .
Sweet Jesus, I just spent a lot of money to go see a dude who, five years ago I would have laughed at the notion of seeing for free. Kim’s got me straight trippin (boo). I admit it, I’m excited to see Morrissey, but I am more excited to be able to be dah man and buy Kim tickets to her all-time favorite artist ever (that she’s never seen in concert).
The prices don’t seem all that crazy to me (40 bucks each). I was more offended that they charged 15 bucks to have UPS ship them to me in an envelope (and 11.50 for a “convenience fee”).
Looking at his tour date listing, the change in size between the venues Morrissey is playing in up north and the ones down here is sort of odd. He’s playing Madison Square Garden one night, and then the Wolf Trap in Vienna, VA the next date. I have no idea how many fans he has here in Hampton Roads. Since I have started to really get into Morrissey’s music I have been really taken back by the diversity among his most loyal fans– they are everywhere and they are not easy to peg down. Norfolk can be kind of a redneck city (I imagine a greater turnout for the Insane Clown Posse show that’s coming up) but PETA being headquartered here will make a difference– but how much of one? I really don’t what to expect; a Norva half-filled with Norfolk’s hipster bunny-huggers or a gang of sweaty dudes hugging each other and screaming along to “There is A Light That Never Goes Out.” I must say, I am really hoping for that latter.
Published on Wednesday March 28, 2007 .
Even though this site was originally created on my (now deceased) G4 Powerbook.. I noticed today that it looks like garbage in Safari. Mostly font related issues, but, as I don’t have a Mac anymore and so many of my homies do, I have no real way of fixing this problem but it does need to be fixed. Someone let me know if anything looks totally busted in Safari and I will do my best to fix it..
What is kind of funny is how this site was developed originally on a PowerPC-based Mac using Safari, then I was forced to use a Dell notebook after my Powerbook ate it, and now I am typing this post from my new AMD64 ‘Buntu Box. I’ve spanned three operating systems and coincidentally three hardware architectures since I started this non-stop forum for bitching and complaining.
Of course, no one thinks that cool but me. Off to the Nerdery with me!!
Note: This post contains unnecessarily harsh and profane language. This post is not intended to be read by Moms or potential employers who get curious about my e-mail address after seeing it on my resume.
- Fuck Gray’s Anatomy - First of all, I would rather bleed to death than be operated on by these whiny adultering yuppie idiots. Why are you making out in the closet?? Aren’t there lives to save somewhere in your fucking hospital? How can they constantly be in competition with one another when, not one of them is fucking doing anything but bitching about their relationships and cheating on their significant others? People watch this show and really think it’s more realistic than General Hospital.
- Fuck A Call Center Help Desk Job - If I ever get a job working for call center support for an ISP or OEM, shoot me in the back on the head with a .38, because my life is surely over and I am a zombie. Seriously, I would have to punch myself in the crotch between every tedious, meandering call if I worked for Cox Communications, just so I could feel…. something. I will run cable, I will wire manage, I will blow dust out of keyboards, I will do the dirtiest job you can name in the IT field.. but I will take my own life before I work in a call center.
- Fuck Hip-Hop - I have been listening to a lot of old rap artists lately, particularly KRS-One and Eric B & Rakim, and FUCK, I am so mad at how much hip-hop just really really sucks right now. How did we get from
“The stage is a cage, the mic is a third rail.”
to
“I’m hot cuz I’m fly, you ain’t cuz you not.”
????? HOW!?!? I don’t want to believe that black people are dumb enough to fall for the obvious SCAM that mainstream hip-hop has become but it’s so goddamn OBVIOUS that I have no choice but to believe it, and therefor transitively conclude that I must be a complete bigot. Let’s get something straight: African-Americans are responsible for all of the greatest music in the history of America. Period. Now record labels are making me feel like a racist asshole because they release dogshit like “This is Why I’m Hot” and I think Black America is stupid for buying it. I guess it’s nice to see more intelligent artists out there who are building a market from hip-hop’s ashes. I just wish I could convince more people to realize that The Roots are to Hip-Hop what Dave Matthews is to Rock music. Oh yeah, by the way…
- Fuck Rock Music - White folks aren’t any more tasteful when it comes to their music purchases. We keep sucking off the egos of Starbucks phonies like John Mayer and Joss Stone, neutered super-groups made up of members of groundbreaking bands, or cookie-cutter rock clones (Recap: In the 90’s we started with Pearl Jam then came Stone Temple Pilots, a year later or two later there was Collective Soul, followed by Creed, and then Nickelback and soon we’ll have the musical equivalent of that retarded Michael Keaton in Multiplicity UPDATE 7/12/07: It’s Finger 11). Here’s some Homework: Try figure out how we got from At The Drive-In to Fall Out Boy. **EXTRA CREDIT** Explain to me what the hell happened to the Red Hot Chili Peppers. The good news here is that, even moreso than hip-hop, there are some highly accessible alternatives to the outrageously out of touch rock music on the radio but the bottom line is that you have to work twice as hard to find good music these days, so hard that by the time you’ve finished spreading the word about the awesome indie bands you’ve read about in Vice Magazine, you feel too hip to be counted among the fans and you’ve moved onto something else just in time for the band to break up.
- Fuck Virginia Drivers - I have lived here my whole life and I cannot understand what the hell is wrong with you people. It is not your responsibility to let the merging traffic into the right hand lane, it is their responsibility to merge. You maintain your speed, and they, God willing, use the acceleration lane to merge with traffic. This does not mean the acceleration lane traffic comes to a dead stop and waits for someone traveling in the right hand lane to let them in, which, I repeat, is not their responsibility. Also, traffic in the tunnels would be a moot issue, if you would just. fucking. drive.
- Fuck People Who Complain About Virginia Drivers - Blame the Navy, man, don’t blame me. 3/4 of these shitty drivers are from somewhere else anyway. Unknown Fact: The US Navy recruits all of the worst drivers of the United States and drops them here. Then they put them out to see for six months so they forget how to drive completely then bring them back. Totally weird experiment the Pentagon is doing, I think. Not only are they bad drivers, but they like to buy fast muscle cars and then let their 17 year old girlfriends drive them around while they are out to sea. Yeah I’m not even making that last one up. Granby High School was sponsored by USS Peugot Sound, which was nice of them because I think half of the girls in my graduating class were banging sailors… in their freshman year