Things That Have Been On My Mind, or “The F-Bomb”

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.

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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
    bril­liance like “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.” NO REALLY, HOW!?!? I don’t want to believe that hip hop fans 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…
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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

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  • Yo, I heard it’s said the rev­o­lu­tion won’t be tele­vised
    But in the land of milk and honey there’s a date you gotta sell it by
    Oth­er­wise it just expires and spoils
    And these folks jump out the pot when the water too hot
    Cause the fire boils inside
    You go to church to find you some reli­gion
    And all you hear is con­nivin’ and gos­sip and con­tra­dic­tion and
    You try to vote and par­tic­i­pate in the gov­ern­ment
    And the muh’fuckin’ Democ­rats is actin’ like Repub­li­cans
    You join an orga­ni­za­tion that know black his­tory
    But ask them how they plan to make money and it’s a mys­tery
    Lookin’ for the rem­edy but you can’t see what’s hurtin’ you
    The revolution’s here, the rev­o­lu­tion is personal

    –Talib Kweli

  • Unfor­tu­nately, peo­ple aren’t buy­ing Talib Kweli either. I have a Talib Kweli and Hi-Tek t-shirt from 6 years ago…when I wear it peo­ple still ask me who he is. You can quote it until you’re blue in the face and I can wear the shirt until the words fade off, but peo­ple still won’t care. They will still buy shitty music like “this is why I’m hot” and “walk it out” because they don’t want to think about what they are lis­ten­ing to.

  • I’m gonna have to agree with you for the most part on the hip-hop por­tion of your post. Now, agree to dis­agree on your label­ing of The Roots.

    Given that The Roots VERY rarely make it to my ears that often because I find the pro­duc­tion of their albums very lack­lus­ter and shoddy. Nowa­days it’s hard to get a good edge on a group unless you see them live. Record­ing indus­tries and stu­dios are pro­duc­ing “fronts” of musi­cians who HAVE no tal­ent and pawn­ing them off as if they do — only to be let down when you go to see them live.

    I say this because I saw The Roots a few weeks back and I was blown away. The per­for­mance was incred­i­ble, the qual­ity of the music was amaz­ing and the energy was too much for the venue — hon­estly. It was by far one of the best shows I’ve seen in a while.

    Now, if we could only get the cor­po­rate execs out of the equa­tion and start hear­ing music as it needs to be heard non-commercialized level and free of the weighted down over-production that comes with it, we could start ana­lyz­ing artists more clearly.

    But that just may be wish­ful thinking.

  • See­ing the Roots live is exactly what for­mu­lated my opin­ion. I was bored. This was back in 99–00.

  • But the point I tried to make in the post is that I don’t think Rock music is any bet­ter off than hip-hop if you go solely by what is on the radio.. I don’t know what the cur­rent fuss is about Mod­est Mouse, peo­ple really think that’s the hot new shit– maybe it’s just me, Luke– but Johnny Marr can’t even make that band sound good. From what I have heard of their early albums, their best work is far behind them.

    The rea­son there is prob­a­bly more of a focus on the “hip-hop is dead” obser­va­tion is likely due to the fact that there is a place for indie rock bands in main­stream Amer­i­can media and the only mass media atten­tion given to qual­ity under­ground hip-hop is when MF Doom gets the occa­sional bump on the Car­toon Net­work. That, and also the fact that rock and roll died back in 1978, some­where in Illinois.

  • who said any­thing about Mod­est Mouse?

  • Speak­ing of fuck hip hop…Li’l Wayne is on the cover of XXL Mag­a­zine wear­ing a t-shirt that reads “I AM HIP HOP”. Yes, that’s right, Li’l Wayne.

  • any­one with the han­dle “Li’l” should reeval­u­ate their life.

  • Even Bow Wow dropped the Li’l from his name. Any­way, I heard Li’l Wayne was “flam­boy­ant” if you know what I mean. I can’t even imag­ine what a Cash Money Mil­lion­aires gay porn scene would look like…dreds, iced out grills, and man sex. Scary.

  • What about Lil Brudder?

  • Oh.. what does “I’m Throwed” mean?