An astounding horrible idea relating to post-modernism. [Bad idea Series]

In relation to our post-modern studies, I've found something that ties in quite well. A film about NOT stealing video game software from the early nineties. Yes that sounds incredibly like a bad idea am I right? Not only is it a cheesy public service announcement, it's also done in a hip-hop format. Hip-Hop almost always uses sampling of audio, and in this case most obviously does. At one point they say that this stealing of programs could be the "end of the computer age". It's no wonder society as a whole sunk it's teeth into illegal downloading. Let's watch and see.

A new blog series: "When was this ever a good idea?"

There are far too many moments in my life that go un recorded. Times when i see something and say to myself.. WHO EVER THOUGHT THAT WAS A GOOD IDEA?



Not only does he pose on the cover of every Harlequin love novel imaginable, he apparently in 1993 got a record contract. From the first electronic drum beat of love.. You know this has to be great. The song doesn't include.. singing. It has fabio going on about how he wants to make love to you with 50 or so inuendos that make no sense after awhile. Lovely.

Enjoy.

Religion: A way to hate eachother differently.

Lets hear it for local hatemonger Eric Schumacher, a local pastor, Says

"Last June, a "500-year flood" ushered millions of gallons of water through eastern Iowa. In Cedar Rapids alone, more than 25,000 individuals were displaced in one day. Hundreds of millions of dollars in property damage was done.

The Flood of 2008 is arguably the most destructive disaster that the state of Iowa has seen -- at least, that is, until last Friday.

On April 3, the Iowa Supreme Court unanimously ruled that a state law limiting marriage to one man and one woman violates the equal protection clause of the Iowa Constitution. Licenses will be issued to homosexual couples April 27.

It is not hyperbole to say that this ruling has the potential to be the worst disaster to strike the state of Iowa."

What an asshat. I understand the whole right wing jesus freak attitude "Let's take some little parts of a book out of context and piece them together until they make my opinion sound right, and then spam it out to the masses" formula but denying the rights of others is no longer acceptable. It's not 1950 anymore. I'm glad they finally were able to understand that church and relgion are seperate entites. Homosexuality is love, of a different variety, but love none the less, and homosexuals are people too. I don't care what anyone says, people are born gay, no one would choose to be ostrocised and made of/hated by anyone. People can't choose their sexuality, much like you can't choose the color of your skin.

I totally took my pills today.

Feeeelin the downers.

Sweeeet.

Wanna know some killer lyrics?

"Oh

Oooh yeah

Ah

Ziggy played guitar,

jamming good with weird and gilly

And the spiders from mars.

he played it left hand

But made it too far

Became the special man, then we were ziggy's band

Ziggy really sang, screwed up eyes and screwed down hairdoo, Like some cat from japan, he could lick 'em by smiling

He could leave 'em to hang

They came on so loaded man, well hung and snow white tan.

So where were the spiders?

while the fly tried to break our balls

Just the beer light to guide us,

So we bitched about his fans and should we crush his sweet hands?

Ziggy played for time, jiving us that we were voodoo

The kids were just crass, he was the nazz

With god given ass

He took it all too far but boy could he play guitar.

Making love with his ego

Ziggy sucked up into his mind

Like a leper messiah

When the kids had killed the man i had to break up the band.

Oh yeah

Ooooooo

Ziggy played guitar. "

The other thing that's really awesome about this song is that the guitar tone is really classic sounding. It's kinda like Queen but a little more ballsy. Bowie totally rocks the high notes in this song too. I really like his rock and roll era opposed to the 80's synth pop stuff he's become a little more famous for. The Ziggy Stardust era of Bowie was much cooler in my opinion.

Good things never last.

ONE night.

That's the new name of the band; Sacred. No one liked Sonic Daze. I thought it had a good ring, but whatev.. I'm only lead guitar what does my opinion mean? haha, So uh, we're totally 80's rock-ish/metal-ish. We've been working on some crazy good material. I'm totally pumped for the show. The ONE night preformence features every single quality performence group in the school. Being the co-leader of Guitar Club, I've been in on it since it's creation. I'm really glad we auditioned people to a pretty high standard. I hate it when bands show up and aren't really good enough to play a gig but try anyway. I think it's about self respect more than anything ya know? I mean if I sound like shit I won't sit there and force people to listen to my bullshit for 20 minutes. There's a band that could stand to learn from this. That or play less SOAD covers. less to say they didn't quite make it in.

It hasn't all been perfect and clean. The rehersal schedule has been somewhat messed up. No one can seem to just print off 20 copies of a calander and tell us what's up. Then there was the totally spinal tap experience of having to hunt down a drum kit that we couldn't even use for a half an hour, and ofcourse I get yelled at for it. Then i'm working with a guy that's in two bands which are bothing playing this show. It seems to be hard for him to balance them at times, but he's doing a good job.

As for our setlist, it's going to be Run the Streets, Storm the Gates, When We Were Young, and Paranoid so far. We might have time for some other stuff but our drummer can't nail The Sword's: Freya, and we're on limited time. I'm kinda feeling mixed about that, but I can dig it.

Guitar Strings.

Guitar strings are the one part of your almight axe that aren't so indestructable. I mean you can shred it out for hours and hours but eventually those motherfuckers are going to snap right off. AND they're going to wait till you have a hard time getting new ones for sure. And forget about the rest of your night if you have a Floyd Rose trem with locking blocks. You're totally fucked then.

I think the guitar industry has a hold on the Guitar string market and makes them about as flimsy as possible. I mean they just want more money every time you snap them you gotta head out and blow 5 bucks on their PREMIUM STEEL blah blah. They could be weaving it out of tinfoil for all we know. I recently bought these Nickel super lights and THEY'RE SHIT. They cost half the price of normal strings and lasted a quarter as long.

Maybe this will help

I guess they raise the point that guitar strings are usually made out of high grade material, but I think there is totally something behind the idea that they make em weak on purpose. We live in a disposable evil capitalist system mannnnnn

And with that said.

peace.