the Blues

Is this the New Year or just another night?
Is this the new fear or just another fright?
Is this the new tear or just another desperation?
Is this the finger or just another fist?
Is this the kingdom or just a hit n' miss?
A misdirection, most in all this desperation

Is this what they call freedom?
Is this what you call pain?
Is this what they call discontented fame?
It'll be a day like this one
When the world caves in

I'm singing this one like a broken piece of glass
From broken arms and broken noses in the back
Is this the New Year or just another desperation?

You push until you're shoving
You bend until you break
Till you stand on the broken fields where your fathers lay

Is nothing here worth saving,
Is no one here at all?
Is there any net left that could break our fall?
It'll be a day like this one
When the sky falls down and the hungry and poor and deserted are found
Are you discontented? Have you been pushing hard?
Have you been through and down this broken house of cards?

Is there nothing left now?
Nothing left to sing
Are there any left who haven't kissed the enemy?
Is this the New Year or just another desperation?
Does justice ever find you, do the wicked never lose?
Is there any honest song to sing besides these blues?

And nothing is okay
Till the world caves in
Until the world caves in.

Stretching Ass Dancing

Hi there! It's been quite some time since I put anything on here, but I'm back. I'll keep it short while I get myself back into it.

Anyway, I tend to keep pretty odd hours, which means that I end up watching a lot of infomercials. You name it, I've seen it several dozen times, and I gotta give 'em credit, those things are certainly entertaining. My personal favorite is "Ronco's Showtime Knife Set." But the other day I saw a new one, a fitness video infomercial. Normally I skip over those, but this one was particularly intriguing. It interested me not because of what they were doing, or the T&A, but rather the name. What was this piece of shit called? "Yoga Booty Ballet." That's funny!

The infomercial featured all of the typical workout video conventions, y'know, bunch of hot skinny white chicks in leotards dancin' around and twisting themselves into somewhat suggestive poses. That's not what was funny. What was funny was throughout the whole thing, they keep using the word "booty." These old white chicks are just spitting it out like it's something they've been saying their whole life, except that they obviously don't fully grasp the connotations of the word. Apparently they think that "booty" refers to the buttocks, which, to be fair, it does, however, what they clearly fail to understand is that "booty" does NOT just indicate your ass, but carries with it the suggestion of something you DO with it. This is both hilarious and somewhat disgusting to me.

Perhaps it's just the latent racist in me, but I'm sorry, white people need to TALK LIKE WHITE PEOPLE. I don't ever need to hear some vacuous suburban white chick throwing around words like, "booty," "bling," or anything ending in "-izzle." To all you people who do this, clearly nobody else has the heart to tell you, but YOU SOUND LIKE AN ASSHOLE. Eminem doesn't even talk like that! Because he has enough respect for the culture to not mock it in such a way.

And I'm not just talking ebonics here, either. Am I the only person in the world who thinks that evening news anchors sound crazy when they pronounce Latin names and countries with an accent? They're speaking in perfect neutral Midwestern Amercian English right up until they get to "Nicaragua," then they suddenly turn into Cheech Marin? That just cracks me up.

Bottom line, you people know who you are, and you need to knock that shit off right fucking now. Not for my sake, but for your own, because you sound ridiculous and you're embarrassing yourself. Just so you know.

Uh, yeah, so that's pretty much all I got right now, but I'll be back soon with something else. Until then, take it easy out there, people.

Actually, scratch that last part. Fuck you! And go to Hell!

Like A Burden

So the big tabloid news this week is that Madonna just came back from Africa with a new adoptee named "David." This is fantastic news. This is just fucking thrilling. This is so fucking great, first Bradgelina and now Madonna, and next guess who? That's right, Britney fucking Spears wants in on this club too! What a fucking surprise!!!

Look everyone, I understand and completely support the practice of rich, overpriviledged, clueless fucking Americans adopting "underpriviledged" and poverty-destined foreign children and bringing them to the good 'ol USA to provide them a life of relative luxury they would never even DREAM of in their home of origin, but this is starting to turn into some kind of fucked-up celebrity fad and that is NOT cool. Not by a longshot.

Granted, I appreciate and admire that these people have big enough hearts and wallets to do this kind of thing, if I were a children-inclined kind of person I would certainly go that route instead of producing an unneeded rugrat of my own, HOWEVER it seems to me that an African baby is just this year's "must-have celebrity accessory" and that is just plain wrong. It serves only their own pathetic selfish needs for recognition and media attention, and that is just plain sad that these people are so addicted to cameras in their face while taking a shit that they have to go so far as Africa and adopt one of these pathetic and VERY needy children to get it.

I mean, let's face it, while Bradgelina may be in the prime of [their] careers, Madonna and Britney are clearly well past their golden years and are obviously only seeking attention. I will grant them some reprieve if they actually end up taking GOOD and responsible care of these children, but the point I am eventually trying to make is that AFRICA IS NOT A FUCKING PET STORE.

Really man, you can't go to Africa or China or god knows where else, take a look around, see a cute, poor baby and say, "Can I keep him? Can I keep him? Huh? Huh?!" That is just not fucking kosher. Again, I admire and appreciate them for wanting to take in one of these otherwise "destined-to-carry-an-AK-someday" children, but somehow I question their ultimate motives for doing so. And really, do you REALLY think that Bradgelina or Madonna or Britney are going to be the ones who ultimately end up caring for these children? Somehow I doubt it. These kids' REAL caregivers are going to be named something more like "Yolanda" or "Maria." I'm not being racist here(okay, maybe I am, but you get my point), but seriously, do you REALLY believe that Madonna or Britney are actually the primary caregivers of even their OWN children?! Again, somehow I doubt it.

Seriously people, if you genuinely DO have the heart and resources to take in one of these otherwise doomed children, I certainly encourage you to do so, but my point is DON'T do it for yourself, do it for those kids, because they genuinely need it, and there are precious little, TOO little people who are willing to take on that particular challenge and there really should be. All of you who are pushing out your own little pathetic fucking rugrats are only doing the rest of us a disservice, because there are SO many more children who are already born who need your love and support. Really man, the LAST thing we need on this planet are MORE fucking people. Let's take care of who we've already got until we decide to make more.