Whats next?

So i was randomly thinking of how television shows seem to be much more offensive and over the edge these days compared to television programs in the past. Now I am a firm believer in Ecclesiastes 1:9 (NIV) which says "What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun." However it seems like television shows are now becoming more vulgar. for example look at old shows such as "The 3 Stooges" or "The Simpsons". When i was growing up i was never allowed to watch the Simpsons due to the explicit content, however now i watch shows like South Park or Family Guy and it doesnt even seem to compare!

I feel like in this new era, we have this attitude that everything is ok and censcorship is being stripped away. South Park had an episode that was so offensive to Muslims that the creators actually received death threats from Muslim extremists! I agree with Ecclesiastes in which there is nothing new under the sun, however this generation seems to be much more open to offensive and vulgar material.

I am in no way condemning these types of shows, I love South Park so much i'm getting a tattoo of it! however there is no doubt that the material now-a-days is much more offensive and open about it. I just found it interesting how each new show that comes out seem to take things to the next level, and i wonder what is next?!

Selling Out

So for a little background on my music tastes and opinions. I am a big fan of heavy music. that includes genres such as hardcore, deathcore, metal, deathmetal, and so on and so forth. Instead of trying to figure out what category a certain band would belong to i got into the habit of labeling them all as "heavy". Some bands that I love and put into this category are the Acacia Strain, Emmure, the Ghost Inside, and For the Fallen Dreams. I don't really expect most people to be familiar with these bands, which is one reason i love them. I obviously enjoy the music very much, theres nothing better to me then fast speeding drums alongside melodic heavy guitar rifts, and of course the intense scream-singing, stir till frothy. However another big part of my love for this type of music comes from the fact that most of these bands aren't popular or well known. These bands have a love for the music and that is the drive behind creating it. there's no real money for bands within this "heavy" genre (for the most part!), which i highly respect.

One band that i Used to listen to, A Day to Remember, has really dissapointed me with their latest album. ADTR had, in my opinion, three very good albums. however their newest album was a total sell out! they went from their own unique heavy style to the now popular "pop-punkish" genre for the sole reason to get on the radio. I was really upset after listening to their new album and felt betrayed by a band i used to love. maybe i am being a little dramatic, but i have a strong love for music, especially this genre. When a band goes from making music for the love of it, to making it for things such as radio, money, or fame I feel like a child has been murdered somewhere in the world.

Hate It

So all of this new technology in the last couple decades has really affected the ways in which we communicate with eachother. we now have things such as internet (email, facebook, IM, etc.), cell phones, and we even have phones and computers in our cars now! Our culture is definately a rushed and busy one, however these new tools seem to make our lives even more fast paced. If im at work and my ever-so convenient cell phone starts going off with text messages, i will actually get stressed and feel rushed and aggrivated it. I got so annoyed that i turned my cell phone off for an entire month at one point.

It seems as though this new technology is changing communication for the worse. people are so used to texting, IM'ing, Facebooking, whatever to talk with other human beings. Many people today seem sleezy to me because of these new "great" tools. I will have face-to-face conversations with people where they will try to talk to me (usually interrupted multiple times because that person is texting), however they just don't seem to know how to! I feel like it could get to the point where people won't even know how to communicate face-to-face anymore!

When i walk into a room and everyone is staring and tapping their phones it kills me! I always joke and ask if everyones texting eachother, but on a serious note this looks so pathetic. I feel like that is not the way things should be. People need to be confrontational, and uncomfortable, and fight, and just LIVE! In reality ill see people argue, and then bitch and moan about it to the world through facebook.

All these things i see coming from this new technology really turns me away from it. When i hear people talking about facebook, especially drama, it makes me want to teleport over and throw their computer out the window.

Old School!

So I work right on the bridgewater campus at a department called Central & Receiving. Although we drive around campus during work hours delivering/picking up/ and moving things, we work out of a warehouse. Our warehouse is tucked away in the back of campus by the campus police. In our warehouse we have a second floor loft area where there is a tv and some furniture, which is a common place for us workers to relax during our lunch break.

During the summer we all work monday through friday, which can be stressful. this summer however i brought my old Nintendo 64 console and put it up in the loft. now most of our lunch breaks are spent with our workcrew upstairs yelling and throwing controllers and getting may too competetive in games such as Mario Kart or Super Smash Brothers! which is totally sweet!

I played the N64 when i was a kid and its so fun now getting to play it again! playing these old games with my whole work crew helps us blow steam from busy days. it always brings me back to when i was a kid getting all excited over these games. its crazy how listening to a song, or watching a movie, or playing a game can bring us back to the past.

News..

I have to say i absolutely can't stand the media and the news channels on television. I work nights at a coffee shop and we have a T.V. which is constantly on popular news channels. I'm sure this would be a huge topic to cover but it has been aggravating me lately. Mostly having to do with enduring nights at work with the T.V. on.

I feel like a lot of the "news" that is on television is garbage! i hate hearing about celebrities lives and other stupid things. Then certain events will drag on, for example Tiger Woods. People just seem to eat up and love this type of 'Entertainment' news. Hate It. I do like to read the newspaper, partly for the crossword aha

Maybe i'm just a negative person and don't care about whats going on in the world. but the news just bugs me.

"Pearl Harbor was a wittle sneaky, we can all be a little sneaky sometimes"

Wow its so appropriate how last week's new South Park episode relates to chapter 4 on stereotyping!! First of all i thought the new episode, 'City Sushi', to be absolutely hilarious! I am a big fan of South Park and watch the new episodes every week as they come out and i have to say City Sushi, or pronounced with a stereotypical Asian accent- Shitty Sushi, is my favorite episode in the newest season.

The episode, like most, is split into different stories. one half of the story is about the Chinese owner of a restaurant called City Wok (Shitty Wok), against the new Japanese owner of City Sushi. the episode pokes fun at many stereotypes about Asian people including emphasis on the characters sharp looking eyes. throughout the episode stereotypes on Asian speech is constantly made fun of. a Chinese man argues with a Japanese man and gets to the point where the characters even taunt each other for not speaking clear English! (incredibly funny)

One of the big stereotypes i noticed when i re-watched the episode was about Japanese people committing suicide. This actually happens in the episode when the Japanese man finds out that the Chinese man was a white man the whole time with multiple personalities order. The Japanese man jumps off a building and even yells "Oh No! this is racial stereotype!" as he is falling to his death.

Again i found the episode incredibly funny especially when the Chinese man makes a reference to Pearl Harbor (As in the title). When i started reading chapter 4 i had to re-watch the episode to pay attention to all the racial stereotypes, which was ok with me.

Charlie Sheen..

..is the man!! but seriously i think Sheen is incredibly funny and is mocking the media by his ridiculous reactions in interviews. What i think is really funny is how people react to it and swarm all over the story and now Sheen is practically famous. I never thought Two and a Half Men was funny at all, but i really like Sheen in Scary Movie 3.

A month or two ago i watched the creators of South Park, Trey Parker and Matt Stone, on the David Letterman show. throughout the whole show they constantly were making references to Sheen and drugs. They refered to times in which they were on drugs and doing stupid things to sheening, Which i found absolutely hilarious!

As dumb as it sounds i love how Sheen did something so stupid and exploaded it through the media. I really hope Trey and Matt make a Charlie Sheen southpark episode! I have been waiting and hoping for that every week as the new episodes come out, haha