Each day on the drive to and from work I often find myself indulged in ESPN radio (mike & mike, the Herd, the Blitz) listening to the endless gossip of what goes on in the sports world. Unfortunately we still have half a baseball season to talk about, but the one thing that really keeps coming full circle is Mr. Johnathan Football himself, Johnny Manziel. According to ESPN reporters, the guy is a regular in Vegas where he spends his off-season getting hammered drunk by the pool and raging with Drake and Bieber in the club at night. All the speculation is that this kid is ruining his career before it even started. I would argue that being is Cleveland is what is going to kill his career or that fact that he plays on a mediocre team with a receiver who is addicted to pot, which I'm not sure is even considered medically possible. To be perfectly honest, I couldn't give a shit about this guy, the fact he went to A&M is nauseating in the first place (and I'm not even a UT fan), but it's like people want this guy to fail so bad just to say that he couldn't cut it, and I ask why? Have you seen this guy on a field? Regardless of how I feel about him, there is no doubt he was the most electrifying player in college football for the past 2 years. I can't grasp why viewers wouldn't want to see that happen in the NFL. Is it fun watching Peyton Manning audible on the line for 35 seconds only so he can hit his tight end on a five yard dump pass? Or watching the Texans go three-and-out on every offensive drive because they haven't quite figured out that run, run, pass, punt isn't quite working. I mean honestly, the only two guys in the NFL who were truly exciting to watch them on each down was pre-dog fighting Michael Vick and Barry Sanders. They did things differently, they ran around; it was like watching street football. No plays, just pure athleticism and a natural gift to play the game, even it was different.
Quick side note, I am not saying I think Manziel is going to be the next Sanders or Vick, but he certainly has the capability to achieve that sort of excitement.
The next thing people keep talking about is what most people are talking about; his extracurricular activities. One thing I find funny is that people like Manziel and Gronkowski get ripped for partying, but guys like Antonio Cromartie, Willis Mcgahee, and Ray Lewis who have roughly 25 kids among the 3 with about 18 women, rarely every get reported! but a guy hits the club one night and is crucified for his antics. There are allegations the dude is snorting coke in the bathroom, smoking, and drinking. It's the fucking off-season! and even if he is supposed to be studying the Cleveland Browns shitty playbook (I hear they just took the plays from the Backyard Football Games, Pablo was a legend!) let's ask guys like Dion Sanders, Michael Irvin, and Lawrence Taylor how that went for them, oh? all 3 in the Hall of Fame? Ya don't say, hmmm, what did those three do in their spare time, oh that's right Lawrence Taylor snorted blow instead of drinking water on the sideline, and Prime Time and Irving were just 2 of almost the entire degenerate Dallas Cowboys team that dominated in the 90's. Guys did drugs all the time, gambled, paid for hookers, and anything else you could imagine that would now be considered "unprofessional". Jimmy Johnson was probably right next to them...okay that's a lie, but the truth is they got the job done when it mattered. At the time of these reports came out, Manziel was 3 months away from taking his first pre-season snap. My biggest thing is leave the guy alone. If you think he looks like a jackass then that's your thing, but how in the world can you predict someone's future career based on what they're doing three months before they even play. You can predict his failures on his size, team, mental capability, arm strength, but drinking in Las Vegas 3 months before he has to be doing anything will have zero outcome of his performances. I just think that for a guy that is supposed to start off as a backup people sure do expect a lot from him.
Thursday, July 17, 2014
Wednesday, July 2, 2014
World Cup Wrap Up for the USA
The United States have finally been halted in their World
Cup 2014 run with a 2-1 loss over Belgium. I was going to give it a little
longer to digest, but there is so much ignorance floating around all of media,
it’s disgusting. Let me just start off by saying, for all of those who are
upset by our 1-2-1 (W-L-D) record showing, claiming that we have taken a step
back since 2002 where we made the quarter-finals, you know nothing about the game
of soccer. The 2002 World Cup first and foremost is considered one of the most
corrupt and controversial WC of all-time. Secondly, both the 02’ and 14’ squad
were 1-1-1 going into the quarter-final. Thirdly, we got to play Mexico in the
quarter-final, a team we have played 1000 times, a team that we know their
style, players, etc…and not to discredit this year’s squad from not doing their
research, but the comfort level is there, the tactics have been played out in a
real game several times, and not to mention, even a young Belgium team is would
be considered favorites over any Mexican side (no offense, they just have more
qualities players playing in higher level leagues, and to be honest that could
be a whole different blog). Lastly, we had 2 kids (what up Donovan and Beasley)
leading our team with the help of Claudio Reyna and Brian McBride, the chances
or replicating something like that is equivalent to the Chicago Cubs winning
the World Series, the run that the US went on is considered one of the greatest
runs of all time because it was so unexpected. So please stop comparing apples
to oranges, it makes no sense, it is a whole different squad with a different
scenario.
As for the players performances there was a lot of
interesting things. Turns out I was both very right and very wrong on some of
my earlier predictions. I also want to touch on the Michael Bradley bashing
people, and let me start by saying, just shut the hell up. Michael Bradley did
have a rough tournament, but only because he was inconsistent. It seemed when
he made a mistake it was very visible, but he was also responsible for building
a lot of our goals up in which I don’t think he received enough credit for.
There is no one else on the team that you can play there, prior to this he was
Captain America for our team, but typical American fans, just bury him the
first chance when things didn’t go his way. Also, please people stop comparing
him to all the other great midfielders that were here. Yes, he is not Xavi,
Pirlo, Gerrard, or any of those guys, but even at his best no one compared him
to that. The guy didn’t crumble or step up to the spot light in which he was
under, which is unfortunate but I wouldn’t have ever second guessed my decision
to start him every game.
Some things I’m proud of:
DeAndre Yedlin: I liked this guy when he was a Akron, I wrote
before that I wanted to see this guy on the WC roster because of the qualities
he brings as an outside back/outside mid and I think he proved himself. I expect
DeAndre Yedlin as a major contributor on the national for possibly the next
decade pending he doesn’t get injured.
Fabian Johnson and Mix Diskerud: Another guy I loved, who
for me, was top 3 performers on the team this WC, it’s a shame he got injured
so early on in the Belgium game. As for Mix it’s too bad he didn’t see the
field but he is still young and I think he has a lot to offer.
Chris Wondolowski: I’m not actually proud of this, but it’s
the case of “I hate to say I told you so”. Guy gets subbed on, a forward who is
known for one thing, finishing. He’s never been recognized for his speed,
skill, passing, or defending. No, this guy was known for lurking around in the
box and putting opportunities away when they matter most. Not only did he have
a chance to send the US through to the next round (the most important one), not
only did he have an opportunity to silence his critics (me being a huge one),
and not only did he almost make Klinsmann look like a god damn genius, but he
an opportunity to stake his name in World Cup history with the most dramatic of
finishes in a WC game. Instead, Wondo probably would have felt better getting
shot in the knee caps at that moment. So as much as I feel for the guy, you got
put on the team to do one fucking job and you blew it. Never again…
Where I was completely wrong:
Jermaine Jones: This one is tough for me because truthfully
JJ was awful for a lot of games going into this WC which made me awfully
concerned about whether or not he should start or not. But my god did he prove
me wrong, and I happily admit I was wrong on that. He was an animal out there.
A true definition of a box-to-box midfielder he was incredible despite a broken
nose. So apologies to you sir, because you have drastically changed my mind, in
only 4 games, of what you’re capable of.
Kyle Beckerman: Again this one is tough because I have
always admitted that I love this guy, but the last time I wrote about the team
I stated I thought Beckerman was just outside the bubble of making the team,
but he was also brilliant in his own way. Beckerman is the equivalent of a
Claude Makalele’ or Roy Keane (not saying he is on their level by any means,
but same style of play). Guy gets stuck in everywhere, couldn’t give less of a
shit about going into the attack, and just holds down the midfield in order to
be the bridge between the forwards and defenders. JK’s biggest mistake, in my
opinion, had to be sitting him again Belgium.
Last couple of things, it is clear to me that the US is
heading in the right direction. We are a couple guys short of being dangerous.
We have some young guys that have not fully developed but are showing
potential, and we have a coach that seems more determined than ever to not only
grow the team, but to grow the sport in general. Oh, and did I mention that Tim
Howard is God and the US should consider building a gold statue of him right
next to the statue of liberty.
Friday, March 28, 2014
It's Right in Front of Your Eyes
The media hype now days is classic. All these "reporters" come out with these breaking stories trying to explain something as if nobody else had conceived this idea. On Yahoo! today, I stumbled upon an article that stated, "Whistle-blower at UNC calls out academic performances by athletes" (or something close to that). The article goes on to and gives an example of a written test by an athlete then noted that the paper received an A- when clearly it appeared to have been written by a 4th grader. So to the writers defense, the paper was dreadful, but the problem I have is the writer appears to be shocked by this, as if he is stunned that colleges help out their athletes, and what a crock it is that their entrance requirements are less than traditional undergraduate students. **News Flash**: The NCAA and college sports are as corrupt as the mafia!!
I mean honestly, if people think that colleges and universities treat athletes the same as other students, you've been living in a hole (unless you go to BYU, those guys do not fuck around). The majority, and I stress majority of athletes who attend top schools for top athletes (in the respected sports) couldn't give a shit about their academics. Are you shocked that the inner city kid who went to a high school with a 50% graduation rate, no family structure didn't take college seriously because he's 6'8", can shoot like Larry, and can take off from the free throw line? I can't believe he take his calculus I class more seriously...
Now the concern is that the school is allowing poor performance and pushing kids through. OF COURSE THEY ARE! these guys are bringing in millions of dollars worth of revenue to the school. The University of Texas has approximately 40,000 undergraduate students, do you think the school gives a damn how 150 (just a rough estimation of the football and basketball team rosters) students do academically? Fuck no! statistically those people are making zero difference for the school as a whole academically, but when recruits see that these guys are getting 3.5 + GPA's after going to school for 4 years, that looks real good, so why not help these guys out. The article went on to mention that some are concerned with the players reading and writing levels, stating that some of them were still on elementary levels of the two. What this guy didn't research (and I did) is that the United States as a whole, on average, only reads at a 7th grade level. So my argument to the writer is that these athletes who are constantly startling him, are actually almost at the national average.
I mean people need to get over this whole thing with college athletes. Yes they get help academically, yes they are only there to play sports, yes some of them are getting money on the side, or fully furnished apartments waiting for them when they get there their freshman year. People want to win, and these guys bring in more money than the entire school COMBINED.
Oh and don't believe me on the money thing? Quick solution to find that out. Explain to me how these guys that talk about how grateful they are for a scholarship cause they come from a single-parent household with 8 brothers and sisters in a low-income area, end up with two sleeves worth of tattoos? Unless they are hitting up the prison yards in their spare time to get this done for free, then they are probably getting some sort of compensation from a generous donor or rich alumni, which leads me to discuss why athletes do not deserve to be paid to play in college, but that's for a different time.
* In the second paragraph speaking about UT, I just used them as an example, I was not calling them out by any means.
**Sorry DII and DIII people, this has nothing to do with us athletes. I mean it might it some rare situation, but as far as I know going to a DIII school, the only payment I received was free subway on road trips, and a new uniform.
***Girls, this also isn't for you. As big time of athletes as you may be, in all DI schools there is not one women's program who makes profit from their sports, and typically is floated by the men's biggest sport.
Wednesday, January 22, 2014
A Little bit of Everything
SENSELESS IN SEATTLE:
I think that Dani Alves first and foremost should have no business on that list, not to mention they toally disregarded the LB position as both Alves and Lahm play RB. If you compare those two, Lahm is twice the outside back that Alves is. I would have picked someone who made a difference for their team. Look at one of the defenders for Borussia or Juventus. Secondly, Ibrahimovic? are you kidding me, just because his goals shows up on the ESPN and what not, playing on the only recognizable team in the French league, which could be argued as one of the weaker countries to play in, he better be scoring 30+ goals a year. But guys like Robin Van Persie, or Luis Suarez aren't on that squad, it's a joke. Thiago Silva is highly overrated in my opinion, huge fan of Brazil, but there are 3 or 4 center backs I'd pick before him (Kompany, Vidic, Hummels, Chiellini (sp?)) just to name some. and finally two guys who I felt got snubbed, even though I see why it is difficult to put them in there is, Ozil and Bale. Ozil for Madrid last year was unbelievable and Bale literally carried Tottenham on his shoulders to even keep them remotely relevant in the EPL. Lastly, and somehow I am in the minority on this one, I think Franck Ribery is highly overrated as well. Statistically alone, last year Ribery had 16 goals and 23 assists in all competitions, and he was nominated for the 2013 Ballon d'Or, here are just a few guys who had better or equal stats as that, Juan Mata (21 goals and 29 assists), Eden Hazard (17 goals, 21 assists), Wayne Rooney (22 goals, 14 assists), and Mesut Ozil (16 goals, 35 assists). I know that is looking at stats alone, but if him winning competitions is what is separating him then they could have picked a few guys from Bayern, not to mention any of the guys I just mentioned could go there and do they same exact thing.
CAN YOU BELIEVE THE MLB IS A TOP 4 SPORT STILL??
Seriously, baseball has to be the worst ran sport in history. If you think baseball is America's past time, that's because your a boarder-line racist. The Hall of Fame voters have chosen to ostracize an entire generation of baseball due to suspected steroid use. What they didn't look at is that baseball had its highest ratings ever during that time (Thank you Mark McGwire, Sammy Sosa, and Barry Bonds). Instead they elected Greg Maddux, an 84 mph fastball pitcher who looks like Ferris Buehler's big brother. The biggest news right now is A-Rod again denying steroid use on a career that is falling apart at the seams. Oh, and the Yankees just signed a new Japanese pitcher that everyone will forget about as soon as opening day comes. On the plus side, the MLB has finally OK'd the use of replay...congratulations on that, only about decade behind on a technology update that will now make your game even slower, if that's even possible.
My new rules for baseball:
1. if the ball is hit out of the infield a player must be forced to attempt 2nd
2. if any player (with the exception of the 1st baseman) can field a grounder and jog over to 1st for the out before the runner gets there, it should be two outs.
3. anytime a player is HBP, as long as batters don't bring their bat with them, the pitcher better watch out, because it is fucking go time, clear the benches.
4. if a pitcher's routine takes longer than 15 seconds once the catcher throws it back to him, it is the equivalent of a balk. Stop touching your hat so god damn much, we know the heater is coming again, you're not fooling anyone.
Sometimes I honestly wonder why I even follow sports anymore....
Look, it is pretty straight forward that regardless of your education and the amount of time you spend slumming it with us civilians gives no right for Richard Sherman to act like he did. Blame it on the over-dramatized media, blame it on his adrenaline, blame it on the fact that Sherman just finished off arguably the greatest play of his career so far on his hyped up behavior, calling out individuals and sounding like an ass. Imagine two years ago, Tim Tebow making arguably the greatest play of his career since actually being allowed to start in the NFL, when he upset Pittsburgh in the first round of the playoffs by throwing a prayer down field to Demaryius Thomas, over the head of Ike Taylor for what truly was an incredible win. Now imagine the end of that game Tim Tebow running off the field to reporters and saying, "Ike Taylor runs like a little bitch, I knew all along I was going to keep targeting him cause I, Tim Tebow am the greatest QB of all time, ain't nobody stoppin' me now, with JC on my side and weak ass secondaries like Pittsburgh we're going on all the way!" But because he is a Stanford man and apparently spends a lot of time with the community all is at rest in Seattle. I cannot wait to see Andrew Luck's next post game interview after a big win.
HALFWAY THROUGH:
The NBA is approaching the All-Star break and the East has proven that they're about as good as PAC 12 basketball (with the exception of Miami and Indiana). Here is a couple of things I have noticed thus far...
1. Kevin Durant might finally win his first MVP and become the next Karl Malone of the NBA.
2. J.R. Smith finally convinced everyone that he is a horrendous basketball player who shoots his way through the boo's of the fans.
3. The Rockets need a new point guard, but I'd be afraid to do that because it seems every PG we trade away become superior on their team, take a look
A. Kyle Lowry: 16.5 PPG, 7.4 APG, 4.1 RPG, and 1.6 STLPG
B. Goran Dragic: 19.4 PPG, 6.0 APG, 3.4 RPG and 1.3 STLPG
Fuck... in all fairness Patrick Beverley has been looking better and better, despite the injury.
4. Blake Griffin might actually be getting good and I hate that...
5. Greg Popovich might be the greatest overall coach of all time (suck it Phil Jackson).
6. The media needs to cool their jets on the Miami Heat, as long as LeBron James is on that team, they will be in the finals again this year.
7. A new wave of big men are finally starting to get the respect they deserve, (LeMarcus Aldridge, Kevin Love, Anthony Davis, and DeMarcus Cousins)
GOALS, MONEY, AND TROPHY'S:
Manchester United are actually looking to make moves?? Juan Mata's arrival will be nice, but be overshadowed by The Red Devils woeful play so far this year. A Champion League spot this year is certainly still possible, I'm a believer, but it seems that I'm in the minority. Oh, and please, for the love of God, will someone please, I beg of you, please take Chris Smalling off of our hands, because honest to God I'd rather watch the game with 10 men on the field.
For whatever reason people keep suggesting the Arsenal is going to crumble faster than the Romans during the 2nd half of the season. The difference between the Gunners and everyone else? They don't drop points to teams they are supposed to beat, they win even when they are playing bad, and they are winning on the road (City better start taking notes). Chelsea is equally as dangerous, City has the best attack in the EPL, Liverpool will not make Champions League, and lastly, whoever you support, it seems that everyone is sort of pulling for Everton to turn heads throughout the season!
Neymar is turning out to be exactly who I thought he'd be. The next Robinho. I undersized, fancy-footed striker with good pace, who occasionally shows up to games and scores goals. The truth is, he's about 8-12 years late in the soccer world. There was a time and place where the Joga Bonita players were the real deal (Ronaldinho, Ronaldo, Cristiano Ronaldo (look how he used to play)) and the list could go on, but the footwork used to work, and don't get me wrong, it still does, but not like it used to. Even if you look at the best, Messi and Ronaldo, though their ability to beat players 1-v-1 is impeccable, it is done used speed and strength, small chops (Messi) and space. The step overs, flip flops, and spins have become less part of the game, which is Neymar's best attributes.
I hated the FIFA best XI: I posted this earlier and here is why:
CAN YOU BELIEVE THE MLB IS A TOP 4 SPORT STILL??
Seriously, baseball has to be the worst ran sport in history. If you think baseball is America's past time, that's because your a boarder-line racist. The Hall of Fame voters have chosen to ostracize an entire generation of baseball due to suspected steroid use. What they didn't look at is that baseball had its highest ratings ever during that time (Thank you Mark McGwire, Sammy Sosa, and Barry Bonds). Instead they elected Greg Maddux, an 84 mph fastball pitcher who looks like Ferris Buehler's big brother. The biggest news right now is A-Rod again denying steroid use on a career that is falling apart at the seams. Oh, and the Yankees just signed a new Japanese pitcher that everyone will forget about as soon as opening day comes. On the plus side, the MLB has finally OK'd the use of replay...congratulations on that, only about decade behind on a technology update that will now make your game even slower, if that's even possible.
My new rules for baseball:
1. if the ball is hit out of the infield a player must be forced to attempt 2nd
2. if any player (with the exception of the 1st baseman) can field a grounder and jog over to 1st for the out before the runner gets there, it should be two outs.
3. anytime a player is HBP, as long as batters don't bring their bat with them, the pitcher better watch out, because it is fucking go time, clear the benches.
4. if a pitcher's routine takes longer than 15 seconds once the catcher throws it back to him, it is the equivalent of a balk. Stop touching your hat so god damn much, we know the heater is coming again, you're not fooling anyone.
Sometimes I honestly wonder why I even follow sports anymore....
Friday, December 6, 2013
I think it's only appropriate that I decide to write something on the 2014 World Cup drawing on this thing after having quite the writing hiatus. Certainly many people were anticipating the draw, as we've seen a rise in interest of the US National team (along with soccer in general). The pre draw show was certainly interesting, a Brazilian Drake who looked oddly uncomfortable not only dancing but standing next to what had to have been the Brazilian Adel. Then there was some more dancing, a gorgeous host, and finally the representatives who would be assisting in the drawing.
Conspiracy theorist must have been in fits after seeing France and Brazil both put into relatively easy groups, and most spectators had to have been giddy about Spain and Netherlands going toe-to-toe in the first round. To me, it seemed there were two groups of death (even though most people tend to disagree), but England, Uruguay, Italy, and Costa Rica all in the same group? Uruguay and Italy are always contenders in the World Cup, Costa Rica have been in fine form, not to mention that both Uruguay and Costa Rica are location wise, more on home soil than previous World Cups. England on paper always look good, and despite their constant disappointment, you can never really count them out, nor can you not expect them to just roll over.
And wouldn't you know it, Jurgen Klinsmann and the boys have been thrown into the most recognized group-of-death, along with Germany, Ghana, and Cristiano Rona, I mean Portugal. The truth is when I first saw the groups I was instantly on the "we're fucked" train, but after giving it some thought, I believe that this uphill battle is certainly doable. Against Ghana, it's always a grudge match. Our record doesn't look so suave against them, but it's always well fought, not to mention they make quite the travel this time around. As for Portugal, you never know if they are going to show up. Ronaldo will certainly have all eyes on him, but history shows (with the exception of the Sweden games) that this tactic doesn't always work for them. He's IT for the team. They have other quality players but the tend not to utilize them; everything goes through CR7 and just as in qualifications, that doesn't always pan out, and again not to mention, Portugal better remember what happened to them in 2002. Germany will be the most difficult to play obviously, their whole team on paper is world class and their play proves it. The one perk that we have is we have German coach who was born and raised on German style soccer, and we also proved ourselves against a "bench warming" Germany team, but the one positive from that is we can match their style of play, just because it was different players, doesn't mean their style was all that different, in fact, it should be almost identical. It is up to JK now to pick the appropriate players (soon hopefully) and try and gel those (let's say about 15) players together, instead of allowing different guys to keep getting a shot on the team.
Some guys that need to get the hell off the team and never be allowed to put on an American uniform again are guys like Edgar Castillo, Eric Wondolowski, Brad Davis (sorry dude), Will Bruin, Joe Corona, Kyle Beckerman (I like him, but not for the national team), Josh Gatt, Jose Torres or Onyewu. Sorry fellas, but either your too old, too slow, or just not good enough to be playing at this level. At the same time there are a couple of guys who need to be regularly playing for the team in order to gain confidence or mesh better with the team. Clarence Goodson, even though I feel iffy about him seem to play well during qualifications, and him and Omar Gonzalez could prove to be a solid pairing in the back. Mix Diskerud brings fantastic diversity to the team, maybe not necessarily as a starter, but certainly as a player getting time. Timothy Chandler, Steve Cherundolo and Fabian Johnson, once healthy could be factors, and the little Icelandic kid, Aaron Johannsson shows flashes of being very creative in the midfield, something we severely lack in the attack.
Other notable guys who haven't even been spoken of on the team are Eric Lichaj, who is lightning and spent his entire career over in England, DeAndre Yedlin, the left back for Seattle Sounders I think is fantastic and is more of a new age outside back who loves to get into the attack. Perhaps it's a little biased but I think Sarkodi of the Houston Dynamo is a very effective outside back (see ya Corey Ashe). I also like Benny Feilhaber (who has been recently called up), and as a side note, I'd love to see Brek Shea on the team, but only, and I mean ONLY as a super sub, never should he be standing on the pitch when the starting whistle blows.
These are just some things to think about, and this is who I think should be in our 23 man roster when we make way to Brazil.
GK Tim Howard
RB Steve Cherundolo
CB Omar Gonzalez
CB Omar Gonzalez
LB DeAndre Yedlin
CM Michael Bradley
CM Geoff Cameron
ACM Clint Dempsey (I'd argue that maybe Johannsson could play here)
ALM Landon Donovan
ARM Fabian Johnson
ST Jozy Altidore
Subs:
GK Brad Guzan
GK who gives a shit
DEF Erich Lichaj
DEF DeMarcus Beasley
DEF Matt Besler
MID Jermaine Jones
MID Brek Shea
MID Mix Diskerud
MID Benny Feilhaber
MID Alejando Bedoya
ST Eddie Johnson
ST/MID Aaron Johannsson
I know I mentioned Sarkodi, but oh well. Anyways, just my thoughts, and I believe we can pull this off!
Conspiracy theorist must have been in fits after seeing France and Brazil both put into relatively easy groups, and most spectators had to have been giddy about Spain and Netherlands going toe-to-toe in the first round. To me, it seemed there were two groups of death (even though most people tend to disagree), but England, Uruguay, Italy, and Costa Rica all in the same group? Uruguay and Italy are always contenders in the World Cup, Costa Rica have been in fine form, not to mention that both Uruguay and Costa Rica are location wise, more on home soil than previous World Cups. England on paper always look good, and despite their constant disappointment, you can never really count them out, nor can you not expect them to just roll over.
And wouldn't you know it, Jurgen Klinsmann and the boys have been thrown into the most recognized group-of-death, along with Germany, Ghana, and Cristiano Rona, I mean Portugal. The truth is when I first saw the groups I was instantly on the "we're fucked" train, but after giving it some thought, I believe that this uphill battle is certainly doable. Against Ghana, it's always a grudge match. Our record doesn't look so suave against them, but it's always well fought, not to mention they make quite the travel this time around. As for Portugal, you never know if they are going to show up. Ronaldo will certainly have all eyes on him, but history shows (with the exception of the Sweden games) that this tactic doesn't always work for them. He's IT for the team. They have other quality players but the tend not to utilize them; everything goes through CR7 and just as in qualifications, that doesn't always pan out, and again not to mention, Portugal better remember what happened to them in 2002. Germany will be the most difficult to play obviously, their whole team on paper is world class and their play proves it. The one perk that we have is we have German coach who was born and raised on German style soccer, and we also proved ourselves against a "bench warming" Germany team, but the one positive from that is we can match their style of play, just because it was different players, doesn't mean their style was all that different, in fact, it should be almost identical. It is up to JK now to pick the appropriate players (soon hopefully) and try and gel those (let's say about 15) players together, instead of allowing different guys to keep getting a shot on the team.
Some guys that need to get the hell off the team and never be allowed to put on an American uniform again are guys like Edgar Castillo, Eric Wondolowski, Brad Davis (sorry dude), Will Bruin, Joe Corona, Kyle Beckerman (I like him, but not for the national team), Josh Gatt, Jose Torres or Onyewu. Sorry fellas, but either your too old, too slow, or just not good enough to be playing at this level. At the same time there are a couple of guys who need to be regularly playing for the team in order to gain confidence or mesh better with the team. Clarence Goodson, even though I feel iffy about him seem to play well during qualifications, and him and Omar Gonzalez could prove to be a solid pairing in the back. Mix Diskerud brings fantastic diversity to the team, maybe not necessarily as a starter, but certainly as a player getting time. Timothy Chandler, Steve Cherundolo and Fabian Johnson, once healthy could be factors, and the little Icelandic kid, Aaron Johannsson shows flashes of being very creative in the midfield, something we severely lack in the attack.
Other notable guys who haven't even been spoken of on the team are Eric Lichaj, who is lightning and spent his entire career over in England, DeAndre Yedlin, the left back for Seattle Sounders I think is fantastic and is more of a new age outside back who loves to get into the attack. Perhaps it's a little biased but I think Sarkodi of the Houston Dynamo is a very effective outside back (see ya Corey Ashe). I also like Benny Feilhaber (who has been recently called up), and as a side note, I'd love to see Brek Shea on the team, but only, and I mean ONLY as a super sub, never should he be standing on the pitch when the starting whistle blows.
These are just some things to think about, and this is who I think should be in our 23 man roster when we make way to Brazil.
GK Tim Howard
RB Steve Cherundolo
CB Omar Gonzalez
CB Omar Gonzalez
LB DeAndre Yedlin
CM Michael Bradley
CM Geoff Cameron
ACM Clint Dempsey (I'd argue that maybe Johannsson could play here)
ALM Landon Donovan
ARM Fabian Johnson
ST Jozy Altidore
Subs:
GK Brad Guzan
GK who gives a shit
DEF Erich Lichaj
DEF DeMarcus Beasley
DEF Matt Besler
MID Jermaine Jones
MID Brek Shea
MID Mix Diskerud
MID Benny Feilhaber
MID Alejando Bedoya
ST Eddie Johnson
ST/MID Aaron Johannsson
I know I mentioned Sarkodi, but oh well. Anyways, just my thoughts, and I believe we can pull this off!
Wednesday, September 12, 2012
Invention for a lifetime.
I recently had a discussion with a friend of mine about the greatest invention of all time. There are all sorts of answers depending on your opinion. We can start with the original invention of fire, and to be fair to fire, at some point the creation of fire was ideally the greatest invention ever, unfortunately now, thanks to lighter's and matches (which is practically a dying invention as well), fire hardly seems something we are grateful for. Secondly, we have the wheel. The wheel seems like a great invention, but quite frankly isn't the invention of the second wheel more pertinent than the solo wheel. As the years progress there have certainly been some wonderful inventions that have helped all of mankind. Distilled alcohol should certainly be a candidate, with out it we would have never known Jesus could have turned water into it, and people would hate their lives more than they already do if not for the consumption of alcohol. But even then, as enjoyable as it may be, I'm not sure that alcohol hails numero uno. Planes, cars, and specifically boats, seem like the reason we have ended up on the western hemisphere, but as much as I'm thankful that Christopher Columbus was arguably the worst explorer to sail the sea's seeing he couldn't read a compass properly, that doesn't seem like the greatest invention to me either. In all seriousness, agriculture is definitely a close second. But the winner for me has got to be the printing press. Every bit of knowledge that we have possessed has been possible because we could read it from somewhere. All the technology that we have today had to be put on paper somewhere first, and if not for Mr. Johannes Gutenberg creation of the printing press, we would still be back in the dark ages.
Disagree? What are your thoughts?
Disagree? What are your thoughts?
Thursday, April 19, 2012
Parenting: If they make a Mistake...hit em'
Alright well I'm not a parent, but that doesn't mean that I'm not aware of the rights and wrong's of bringing up a child.
Nothing is more infuriating than being in a public place and witnessing a child get the hell beat out of them because they are "making a scene". To be fair, the only scene that is being made is watching a parent's inability to control your child with out having to wail on them. For all the people who believe that hitting your child is a proper way of teaching discipline let me ask you a couple of things. At your age, if someone were to hit you repeatedly because you weren't doing something right, would you still want to be near them, talk to them, or go to them when you have a problem? Unless your suffering from Stockholm Syndrome my guess is probably not. You say fuck that guy, and you never want to hang out with them anymore. So what do you think your child thinks? That you love them unconditionally still after you told them to go get "the belt"? All your doing when you hit a child for acting up is striking fear into them, not necessarily teaching them a lesson. You would think by now that people would have figured that out. Yet some people find that acting like a barbarian who has no other logic except force is the right way to handle things. Did you ever stop to think that your child has only been in the world for lets say, two or three years? and that maybe it's possible that they are not fully aware of what is right and what is wrong? If that were the case nobody would ever make anymore mistakes by the time we reach adulthood. Everyone makes the right decision, and nobody ever fucks up anymore because they should already know. From a logical standpoint, parents, if you make a mistake shouldn't someone be allowed to hit you? I mean you should know better by now right? Yet some people still insist on not listening to people when they are told specific instructions right? I say beat them. Beat them all for the their mistakes. The sad thing is they should actually know better by now because they older, more wise, and conscious of the decision's they make. Yet somehow when that happens that is considered assault. But when an innocent child is hit, it's called punishment or parenting.
"Well I was hit when I was a child and I turned out okay." That's awesome, you're called the exception. Even then, maybe your not even aware of the mental trauma that was ingrained into you, or maybe your not as close with your parents because of that.
Beating your kids is the easy way out of parenting, and often the result of built up anger that is taken out on your child rather than the culprit who initially pissed you off. Anyone can hit a kid, and it makes you look pathetic. Try hitting your spouse next time they don't do things right, or a stranger who is acting up in public and see how things go. I'll reiterate me point by telling you hitting children doesn't teach them lessons, it only teaches them fear. The reason they stop acting up is because they are scared of being hit, not understanding what they did was wrong. So maybe it's time for you to start growing up, rather than hitting someone who is trying to do the same thing.
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
To the Bottom of the Totem Pole we will go
http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fthechive.com%2F2012%2F04%2F18%2Fa-fascinatingly-disturbing-thought-video%2F&h=cAQHBVrKhAQF8CqwNP5gwTqTr49qvnQuwQbVuTvbcp-smLg
This link here will blow your mind. The idea in this video is well thought, creative, and incredibly intelligent. Astrophysicist, Neil Degrasse Tyson is the speaker in the video and he discusses the idea of how life could have been potentially created on earth because of mars. He further explains the idea of how human and chimpanzee relationship's are so very close (separated by only 1% by DNA), yet at the same time so far apart. Furthermore, Tyson goes on to discuss the idea of a being, or alien, that might only be 1% different than us, but in the continuing direction, and the scale or magnitude of their intelligence, and how much greater intellectually they would be compared to us. As he mentioned, think about it like a alien child or toddler being able to perform at the same intelligence level as Stephen Hawking. He describes this idea as fascinating, I describe it as fucking scary.
In a perfect scenario, yes, the idea of super cool aliens hovering down and telling us about all the greatest questions, and teaching us all the unanswered things we are still trying to learn would be totally cool. At the same time though, these martians could be the naughty kid who hovers over ants with a magnifying glass. If that were the case things wouldn't even be fair. Your most intelligent thought, whether it was an attacking or defensive strategy would be a joke to them. They would laugh and then murder you dead. Our military would be blown to smithereens in a matter of seconds. Not even John Rambo would be able to fight this battle, and he fought of the entire country of Vietnam in an hour and half. To make matters worse, imagine if they were not violent creatures, yet still obtained the 1% greater intelligence than humans. Do you have any idea how demoralizing that would be! Any time you came of with a cool idea, a funny joke, or a cool drinking game...they would be able to one up you right away! Human's would have to be pumped full of Prozac just so that they could make it through the day with out offing themselves. The confidence levels of even the most arrogant pricks would be submerged in an pool of much greater intelligence. God only knows if they were more athletic. There would have to be segregated sports among species. Alien slam dunk contest's would have to be held outside so their vertical wouldn't be limited to the roof, and football fields would have to be 400 yards long. Michael Jordan in his prime would have looked like Luke Walton, Pele' like This year's Andy Carroll, Tiger Woods like John Daly, and Mia Hamm like...every other women athlete? Anyways, the point is we would be the laughing stock of society, and there would be nothing fun about meeting these new species from across the universe. The idea is marvelous and Respect to Mr. Neil Tyson for his eagerness to find these soul suckers, but I prefer to live in a universe where we are the only intelligent being.
This link here will blow your mind. The idea in this video is well thought, creative, and incredibly intelligent. Astrophysicist, Neil Degrasse Tyson is the speaker in the video and he discusses the idea of how life could have been potentially created on earth because of mars. He further explains the idea of how human and chimpanzee relationship's are so very close (separated by only 1% by DNA), yet at the same time so far apart. Furthermore, Tyson goes on to discuss the idea of a being, or alien, that might only be 1% different than us, but in the continuing direction, and the scale or magnitude of their intelligence, and how much greater intellectually they would be compared to us. As he mentioned, think about it like a alien child or toddler being able to perform at the same intelligence level as Stephen Hawking. He describes this idea as fascinating, I describe it as fucking scary.
In a perfect scenario, yes, the idea of super cool aliens hovering down and telling us about all the greatest questions, and teaching us all the unanswered things we are still trying to learn would be totally cool. At the same time though, these martians could be the naughty kid who hovers over ants with a magnifying glass. If that were the case things wouldn't even be fair. Your most intelligent thought, whether it was an attacking or defensive strategy would be a joke to them. They would laugh and then murder you dead. Our military would be blown to smithereens in a matter of seconds. Not even John Rambo would be able to fight this battle, and he fought of the entire country of Vietnam in an hour and half. To make matters worse, imagine if they were not violent creatures, yet still obtained the 1% greater intelligence than humans. Do you have any idea how demoralizing that would be! Any time you came of with a cool idea, a funny joke, or a cool drinking game...they would be able to one up you right away! Human's would have to be pumped full of Prozac just so that they could make it through the day with out offing themselves. The confidence levels of even the most arrogant pricks would be submerged in an pool of much greater intelligence. God only knows if they were more athletic. There would have to be segregated sports among species. Alien slam dunk contest's would have to be held outside so their vertical wouldn't be limited to the roof, and football fields would have to be 400 yards long. Michael Jordan in his prime would have looked like Luke Walton, Pele' like This year's Andy Carroll, Tiger Woods like John Daly, and Mia Hamm like...every other women athlete? Anyways, the point is we would be the laughing stock of society, and there would be nothing fun about meeting these new species from across the universe. The idea is marvelous and Respect to Mr. Neil Tyson for his eagerness to find these soul suckers, but I prefer to live in a universe where we are the only intelligent being.
Monday, April 9, 2012
The New Orleans Saints
Last week, the New Orleans Saints speculation of a bounty scandal were busted wide open with an exclusive "motivational speech" from coach Gregg Williams. Now, there is no doubt that some of the things he said were pretty fucked up, but I spent some time thinking about this whole thing, and though I don't agree with my own thoughts, I do find it interesting way of looking at it.
The bounty scandal, for those who don't know, was a set up in the New Orleans organization where coaches were paying players to injure certain players on the field. You take Tom Brady out of the game, here is 15,000 bucks, simple as that. The way I see it, the way that analyst and media portray and word the bounty scandal that was taking place influences viewers to see it in a negative light. To me, I don't agree with it, especially after hearing the speech and everything, I think it's obviously frowned upon to tell someone to go after someone with previous concussions, or attack someones ACL. However, I believe that it is only morally wrong that the Saints did this, not necessarily legally wrong and this is why...
The New Orleans Saints were top 9th in the league for penalty yards according to ESPN, which seems bad, but the majority of those came from the offensive side of the ball. Secondly, I tried to find players who got suspended but found nothing on players from New Orleans being suspended specifically for dirty hits on players. Which raises the original question, is the bounty scandal more immoral than illegal? Think about it, that's like suspending players for doing their job too well. They're not getting flagged during the game for illegal hits, yet now they are in trouble for hitting guys legally as hard as they can, but isn't that supposed to be their job in the first place? Now, someone is paying them small amounts of money (compared to the salary they make) to give them incentive to play as hard as they can on every down. If they were getting in fights, and stomping on people's heads in between plays and stuff then this whole thing would be illegal and immoral, but it seems to me that the Saints are just playing the sport like they are supposed to, unfortunately, because it is a contact sport guys do get injured. But them getting paid extra money out of pocket for doing their job doesn't seem illegal, just simply frowned upon. It's not taking money away from the NFL, and it's a crafty and dark way of keeping guys motivated.
I'm not saying that I agree with this thought at all, but I do find it interesting the way the media is portraying the entire "bountygate" thing. It seems to me like video taping practices, anyone who acts like James Harrison, or steroids should be taken more seriously than this, according to how I thought about it. What do you think?
The bounty scandal, for those who don't know, was a set up in the New Orleans organization where coaches were paying players to injure certain players on the field. You take Tom Brady out of the game, here is 15,000 bucks, simple as that. The way I see it, the way that analyst and media portray and word the bounty scandal that was taking place influences viewers to see it in a negative light. To me, I don't agree with it, especially after hearing the speech and everything, I think it's obviously frowned upon to tell someone to go after someone with previous concussions, or attack someones ACL. However, I believe that it is only morally wrong that the Saints did this, not necessarily legally wrong and this is why...
The New Orleans Saints were top 9th in the league for penalty yards according to ESPN, which seems bad, but the majority of those came from the offensive side of the ball. Secondly, I tried to find players who got suspended but found nothing on players from New Orleans being suspended specifically for dirty hits on players. Which raises the original question, is the bounty scandal more immoral than illegal? Think about it, that's like suspending players for doing their job too well. They're not getting flagged during the game for illegal hits, yet now they are in trouble for hitting guys legally as hard as they can, but isn't that supposed to be their job in the first place? Now, someone is paying them small amounts of money (compared to the salary they make) to give them incentive to play as hard as they can on every down. If they were getting in fights, and stomping on people's heads in between plays and stuff then this whole thing would be illegal and immoral, but it seems to me that the Saints are just playing the sport like they are supposed to, unfortunately, because it is a contact sport guys do get injured. But them getting paid extra money out of pocket for doing their job doesn't seem illegal, just simply frowned upon. It's not taking money away from the NFL, and it's a crafty and dark way of keeping guys motivated.
I'm not saying that I agree with this thought at all, but I do find it interesting the way the media is portraying the entire "bountygate" thing. It seems to me like video taping practices, anyone who acts like James Harrison, or steroids should be taken more seriously than this, according to how I thought about it. What do you think?
Thursday, April 5, 2012
Here's a guy...
I know right now that the NFL talks are all about the bounty scandal, Andrew Luck, RG3, and Peyton Manning in Denver now, but one story recently popped up that sort of made headlines, but didn't quite as much as an impact as it should have. I'm talking about LSU's top defensive back, Morris Claiborne. There is no doubt that Morris Claiborne is a beast, and that he will probably go top 10 in the NFL draft this year. That sounds great right? Well, little fun fact is that this guy managed to score a gentleman's 4 on the Wunderlich test this year. For those of you who don't know what this test is let me explain: Basically the Wunderlich test is a 50 question test that test's basic knowledge...sort of like an IQ test, but for dumb people. The average score for the NFL is a 24, and the national American average is a 26 or 27. This guy, Mr. Claiborne made a fucking 4 on the test. You wanna know what kind of question's are on this test. Here you go:
What number comes next in the number sequence:
8 4 2 1 1/2 1/4 ...
What is the ninth month in a standard calendar year?
assuming the first two sentences are true, what is the third one?
all baseball player's wear hats. all boys play baseball. all boys wear hats
A pad of paper cost 40 cents. You need to buy 4 pads of paper. How much money do you need to purchase 4 pads or paper?
There are several more obviously, but I can assure you that no question gets much harder than that. According to the test, a score of 10 is just considered literate. He got a 4! I knew Vince Young was retarded, and he got a 6! that's like getting a 100 point test back from a teacher and realizing that you got an 8 (12 for Young). Fuck the average person could probably be given a blank scantron, no test, blindly mark 50 answers and score higher than a 4.
So this simple Jack, is now going to be filthy rich when that retard can probably barely spell his name. I mean honestly, do you really think that Morris actually had the grades in high school to get into LSU in the first place? Then receive a full scholarship where he doesn't have to pay a dime, actually attend class and graduate with a degree! He scored a fucking 4 on the Wunderlich test. I know that doesn't justify who you are, but come one man, how did this guy even operate day to day, let alone play football. It has to be incredibly embarrassing for him, that is if he can even comprehend that people are laughing at him. But the frustrating thing is, he never paid for college, probably got paid extra money while he was there. I mean let's face it, I'm fairly certain that almost every school does that shit. Then he received a degree (probably in a major he isn't even aware exists). Finally, like I said, this guy is going to make millions. It's bullshit. I mean in the end, he will probably lose all of that money, because just like every other retarded athlete. This is the end. I mean need I say more...okay one last time, a fucking 4 out of 50. May God help us all.
What number comes next in the number sequence:
8 4 2 1 1/2 1/4 ...
What is the ninth month in a standard calendar year?
assuming the first two sentences are true, what is the third one?
all baseball player's wear hats. all boys play baseball. all boys wear hats
A pad of paper cost 40 cents. You need to buy 4 pads of paper. How much money do you need to purchase 4 pads or paper?
There are several more obviously, but I can assure you that no question gets much harder than that. According to the test, a score of 10 is just considered literate. He got a 4! I knew Vince Young was retarded, and he got a 6! that's like getting a 100 point test back from a teacher and realizing that you got an 8 (12 for Young). Fuck the average person could probably be given a blank scantron, no test, blindly mark 50 answers and score higher than a 4.
So this simple Jack, is now going to be filthy rich when that retard can probably barely spell his name. I mean honestly, do you really think that Morris actually had the grades in high school to get into LSU in the first place? Then receive a full scholarship where he doesn't have to pay a dime, actually attend class and graduate with a degree! He scored a fucking 4 on the Wunderlich test. I know that doesn't justify who you are, but come one man, how did this guy even operate day to day, let alone play football. It has to be incredibly embarrassing for him, that is if he can even comprehend that people are laughing at him. But the frustrating thing is, he never paid for college, probably got paid extra money while he was there. I mean let's face it, I'm fairly certain that almost every school does that shit. Then he received a degree (probably in a major he isn't even aware exists). Finally, like I said, this guy is going to make millions. It's bullshit. I mean in the end, he will probably lose all of that money, because just like every other retarded athlete. This is the end. I mean need I say more...okay one last time, a fucking 4 out of 50. May God help us all.
Thursday, March 29, 2012
Curiosity meets Cool
The title speaks for itself, I'm curious about a lot of things that people deem as cool or they love because a lot of it doesn't quite make sense to me...
Right now in Houston the weather is already getting increasingly hotter and it is only March. Now obviously there is some biased to this, but I never understand why people say that they love the cold weather. But when people are discussing where they might be going on a summer trip or spring break, people always reference how much they love cold weather. What is fun about pasty skin and a weathered look? Does anybody realize how many ugly people live up north because they have seen one too many harsh winter's? I can only assume that girls say they love the cold so that they have a reason to cover up their hideous bodies, and guy's say it so they have an excuse to wear a NorthFace jacket and pretend that their cool. Everybody can go lay out on the beach and enjoy the sun, but nobody ever talks about how they laid out on the snow to catch some cold. Lastly, for all the people that love to ski and snowboard because they say they are really good at it, basically what they are telling you is their family has a fuck load of money to spend on their child so they think they can play a "sport". If skiing and snowboarding were actually sports, black people would be playing and they would be better than all the rich white kids.
Another big, hip and cool thing that people do is openly express their love for independent movies. Donnie Darko for instance was a really a movie that tried really hard to create a story with a bunny, crashing airplanes, an actual brother and sister, Seth Rogen (yes, he plays a small role in that movie), people dying, a cool theme song, and tried to say that all created some twisted and beautiful story. For all you hipsters who claim that Donnie Darko is one of your favorite movies either are trying too hard to be different, or you have a horrible taste in movies. The same can go for movies like Napoleon Dynamite, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, The Royal Tenenbaums, and The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (R.I.P Heath). Those movies have horrible stories that people try to manipulate in order to make them cool, like they have some different train of thought that nobody else understands and therefore they feel superior because they spent 12 dollars to go see a shitty movie nobody else would.
The next thing I can assure you is that listening to country doesn't prove that you're a tough guy who isn't afraid to show a little emotion because you like the slow songs too. all it shows is that you like the sound of a dull guitar and lyrics that a 5th grader can write. Which brings me to the next topic, because this happens often in country music. Talking with an exaggerated southern drawl like your a "cowboy" isn't by any means cool or sexy. It's uneducated and fucking annoying. If you want to be part of a backwoods, inbred community, go to Kentucky or West Virginia. You can join the five other farmers left in America who still wear cowboy hats, have 4 teeth, think Blue Collar Comedy Tour is hilarious and argue there is no difference between their wife and cousin. Even further than that, if you enjoy talking like you grew up in "the hood" is equally unappreciated. That was moderately cool in the 90's and early 2000's, but then again so were tall T's, and grills. It sounds terrible, and certainly if that is the sort of thing your're into, then either you need to need to purchase Rosetta Stone's English CD pack, or Hooked on Phonics for those who feel Rosetta Stone is a little out of their league still.
Lastly, and I have already touched on this multiple times in previous blogs, and this sort of concludes the entire point of this blog by suggesting to be yourself, and not to try to be something your not. But don't support something you don't truly believe in, it drives me fucking crazy. Like all the people who really and truly devoted themselves to the Kony 2012 movement, was that fun for a whole week? Did you feel like you were part of a revolutionary movement? Or all the people who claim they support breast cancer. Do you really do something to try and help, or do you just like wearing a wristband that says 'boobs' on it? Nothing is worse than pretending to support something you don't cause you think people will think you are some sort of humanitarian.
I conclude by apologizing to those who truly do enjoy being ugly and cold, a shitty taste in movies, or a permanent speech impediment. I'm not knocking you, but I do feel bad for you. Lastly, to those who really do support movement and do something to help I thank you, because I probably don't make enough of an effort to do something. But here is a little fun fact, The guy who started the Kony movement? Claimed that he gained just over a million dollars and kept 900k in order to "further the movement". He isn't the only one, all those donation companies or movements, usually only send 10% of the money that is sent over there. So think about it next time you decide where your sending your money
Right now in Houston the weather is already getting increasingly hotter and it is only March. Now obviously there is some biased to this, but I never understand why people say that they love the cold weather. But when people are discussing where they might be going on a summer trip or spring break, people always reference how much they love cold weather. What is fun about pasty skin and a weathered look? Does anybody realize how many ugly people live up north because they have seen one too many harsh winter's? I can only assume that girls say they love the cold so that they have a reason to cover up their hideous bodies, and guy's say it so they have an excuse to wear a NorthFace jacket and pretend that their cool. Everybody can go lay out on the beach and enjoy the sun, but nobody ever talks about how they laid out on the snow to catch some cold. Lastly, for all the people that love to ski and snowboard because they say they are really good at it, basically what they are telling you is their family has a fuck load of money to spend on their child so they think they can play a "sport". If skiing and snowboarding were actually sports, black people would be playing and they would be better than all the rich white kids.
Another big, hip and cool thing that people do is openly express their love for independent movies. Donnie Darko for instance was a really a movie that tried really hard to create a story with a bunny, crashing airplanes, an actual brother and sister, Seth Rogen (yes, he plays a small role in that movie), people dying, a cool theme song, and tried to say that all created some twisted and beautiful story. For all you hipsters who claim that Donnie Darko is one of your favorite movies either are trying too hard to be different, or you have a horrible taste in movies. The same can go for movies like Napoleon Dynamite, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, The Royal Tenenbaums, and The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (R.I.P Heath). Those movies have horrible stories that people try to manipulate in order to make them cool, like they have some different train of thought that nobody else understands and therefore they feel superior because they spent 12 dollars to go see a shitty movie nobody else would.
The next thing I can assure you is that listening to country doesn't prove that you're a tough guy who isn't afraid to show a little emotion because you like the slow songs too. all it shows is that you like the sound of a dull guitar and lyrics that a 5th grader can write. Which brings me to the next topic, because this happens often in country music. Talking with an exaggerated southern drawl like your a "cowboy" isn't by any means cool or sexy. It's uneducated and fucking annoying. If you want to be part of a backwoods, inbred community, go to Kentucky or West Virginia. You can join the five other farmers left in America who still wear cowboy hats, have 4 teeth, think Blue Collar Comedy Tour is hilarious and argue there is no difference between their wife and cousin. Even further than that, if you enjoy talking like you grew up in "the hood" is equally unappreciated. That was moderately cool in the 90's and early 2000's, but then again so were tall T's, and grills. It sounds terrible, and certainly if that is the sort of thing your're into, then either you need to need to purchase Rosetta Stone's English CD pack, or Hooked on Phonics for those who feel Rosetta Stone is a little out of their league still.
Lastly, and I have already touched on this multiple times in previous blogs, and this sort of concludes the entire point of this blog by suggesting to be yourself, and not to try to be something your not. But don't support something you don't truly believe in, it drives me fucking crazy. Like all the people who really and truly devoted themselves to the Kony 2012 movement, was that fun for a whole week? Did you feel like you were part of a revolutionary movement? Or all the people who claim they support breast cancer. Do you really do something to try and help, or do you just like wearing a wristband that says 'boobs' on it? Nothing is worse than pretending to support something you don't cause you think people will think you are some sort of humanitarian.
I conclude by apologizing to those who truly do enjoy being ugly and cold, a shitty taste in movies, or a permanent speech impediment. I'm not knocking you, but I do feel bad for you. Lastly, to those who really do support movement and do something to help I thank you, because I probably don't make enough of an effort to do something. But here is a little fun fact, The guy who started the Kony movement? Claimed that he gained just over a million dollars and kept 900k in order to "further the movement". He isn't the only one, all those donation companies or movements, usually only send 10% of the money that is sent over there. So think about it next time you decide where your sending your money
Friday, March 23, 2012
These are "Those" People
There was recently an article posted on Yahoo! that just proves how fucking retarded some people can be. The title of the article itself just proves this schmuck is a complete douche, "First Person: How to earn $100,000 and Still Feel Poor". This lady, Laura Cone, writes a short piece about how his family of 4 is "struggling" to make ends meet on a $100,000 salary, and how that might be the new minimum wage in America. First things first, this woman's writing sucked and all she did was get on a giant soap box, complain about everything (and who's surprised) financially, and attempt to throw a huge pity party for herself assuming that people might actually feel for her. She goes on to mention that she spends 1,000/month on groceries (I'm assuming she does the grocery shopping), but what she would really like is to eat at a 4 star restaurant every night, and that her two kids are going to community college, but what would be great is to be struggling to send them to an Ivy League school. Then she completes her job of looking like a total ass by saying they bought their son a new car to deliver pizza, and that they save 10% of their income for their saving investments. Oh yeah, they also carry no debt.
All this shows is how some people just can't manage their money, or let alone appreciate when they've got a good thing going. This ungrateful whore just so happen to makes her "pathetic" life public by somehow getting it on Yahoo!. The only defense to Laura is that there are so many people that live above their means and then complain that the economy is in ruins, or they don't understand how they aren't making ends meet, basically what she would like to do to her family. The sad thing is this happens all the time. People try to buy huge houses and new cars that they clearly can't afford, so instead of making them look like rich, they just look pathetic. It's like those people's houses you walk into that are really big, but when you walk inside there is three pieces of furniture and all white walls. Or the single lady on a low salary with 4 kids decides to drop 5 grand on breast implants, why? Oh cause it made her feel better about herself. All these sort of awesome decision's that people realize how fucking stupid they actually are.
To be honest the biggest problem I have with this whole thing is how pathetic this Laura Cone sounds. Here she is not struggling or poor, but maybe just unhappy. Maybe she has an ugly husband, or her kids are destine to amount to nothing. Regardless of what the problem is, from what I read I can only assume she wants her next 5 years to look like this...Buy a huge house with expensive cars and live like money is no problem, a year after that have the house foreclosed so all your rich neighbors can see, get the car repossessed at your soon to be foreclosed house where you make a huge scene, begging and crying for them not to take it, later to only discover your husband is cheating on you because you clearly care more about what others think than he does, you can't grocery shop properly and instead of using your natural instincts and cooking, you ate out every day and tipped 35% because it makes you look important, and now single and poor, you realize that maybe the way you were living 5 or 6 years prior to that wasn't actually as bad as it seemed.
What's important to realize is that this Laura Cone lady needs to stop being a little bitch and realize that they've got a good thing going. I would love to find a job that makes 100k a year, and I think almost anyone would, so I end this with a big fuck you Laura Cone, value what's good in life, and learn how to spend your money better.
p.s here is this abomination of an article http://finance.yahoo.com/news/first-person-earn-more-100-000-still-feel-151200753.html
All this shows is how some people just can't manage their money, or let alone appreciate when they've got a good thing going. This ungrateful whore just so happen to makes her "pathetic" life public by somehow getting it on Yahoo!. The only defense to Laura is that there are so many people that live above their means and then complain that the economy is in ruins, or they don't understand how they aren't making ends meet, basically what she would like to do to her family. The sad thing is this happens all the time. People try to buy huge houses and new cars that they clearly can't afford, so instead of making them look like rich, they just look pathetic. It's like those people's houses you walk into that are really big, but when you walk inside there is three pieces of furniture and all white walls. Or the single lady on a low salary with 4 kids decides to drop 5 grand on breast implants, why? Oh cause it made her feel better about herself. All these sort of awesome decision's that people realize how fucking stupid they actually are.
To be honest the biggest problem I have with this whole thing is how pathetic this Laura Cone sounds. Here she is not struggling or poor, but maybe just unhappy. Maybe she has an ugly husband, or her kids are destine to amount to nothing. Regardless of what the problem is, from what I read I can only assume she wants her next 5 years to look like this...Buy a huge house with expensive cars and live like money is no problem, a year after that have the house foreclosed so all your rich neighbors can see, get the car repossessed at your soon to be foreclosed house where you make a huge scene, begging and crying for them not to take it, later to only discover your husband is cheating on you because you clearly care more about what others think than he does, you can't grocery shop properly and instead of using your natural instincts and cooking, you ate out every day and tipped 35% because it makes you look important, and now single and poor, you realize that maybe the way you were living 5 or 6 years prior to that wasn't actually as bad as it seemed.
What's important to realize is that this Laura Cone lady needs to stop being a little bitch and realize that they've got a good thing going. I would love to find a job that makes 100k a year, and I think almost anyone would, so I end this with a big fuck you Laura Cone, value what's good in life, and learn how to spend your money better.
p.s here is this abomination of an article http://finance.yahoo.com/news/first-person-earn-more-100-000-still-feel-151200753.html
Friday, March 9, 2012
Everyone Wants to Help
Ah...the idea of mass hysteria is great. One person creates a video and all the sudden everyone claims they're a fucking humanitarian. I'm talking about this new video created in efforts to stop a man by the name of Joseph Kony. I'm not knocking the video at all, in fact I agree it's a good thing, we need to kill this motherfucker. But when everyone start's to think that they are Mother Teresa because they can update their status's over their phone showing how much they care, then I think we are really missing the point here.
Facebook is a funny thing when it comes to these sort of events. We read one thing and all of the sudden people are philosophers with these deep and sentimental wall posts about how much they give a fuck about this new global issue. Like after watching a 30 minute video they have become enlightened and blessed with all these moral ideals. The truth is that most of these people who have all the sudden become "concerned", really cared about nothing outside their own little lives, let alone Africa, but the idea of joining in in a mass concern for the well-being of other's makes them feel like they are actually making a difference in the world.
Because of this people trying to make light of the situation, and as a result of this new found wisdom by all you newly created globally cultured people, y'all are jumping their nuts, preaching to them about the seriousness of the whole situation as if you just got back from a one man John Rambo mission through Uganda. This is called mass hysteria. It is very common not only in efforts to help the world, but even something as small as a sports team winning a championship game. That's why for instance when the Chicago Blackhawks won the Stanley Cup people were rioting in the streets. I'm talking about common people who work a 9 to 5, setting cars on fire and flipping them. That is mass hysteria, people acting or performing out of the ordinary because one or a few people start something. It's like a false epidemic. That's how this is working right now and lately comments on Facebook have been too funny. There are guys and girls posting this video and then commenting below them with these inspiring words like they are fucking Aristotle, when really all they know is about 30 minutes of information that they were completely oblivious to before that.
So before everyone gets all hyped up thinking they are making a difference by posting a video let me hit you with a little knowledge, you're not. And for all you funny people who are making a joke out of this...well it's a little soon I suppose, plus nothing makes you look like more of a douche than a failed joke via Facebook. So instead of falling into the hysteria, why don't we let the people who actually do know what's going on take care of things.
Facebook is a funny thing when it comes to these sort of events. We read one thing and all of the sudden people are philosophers with these deep and sentimental wall posts about how much they give a fuck about this new global issue. Like after watching a 30 minute video they have become enlightened and blessed with all these moral ideals. The truth is that most of these people who have all the sudden become "concerned", really cared about nothing outside their own little lives, let alone Africa, but the idea of joining in in a mass concern for the well-being of other's makes them feel like they are actually making a difference in the world.
Because of this people trying to make light of the situation, and as a result of this new found wisdom by all you newly created globally cultured people, y'all are jumping their nuts, preaching to them about the seriousness of the whole situation as if you just got back from a one man John Rambo mission through Uganda. This is called mass hysteria. It is very common not only in efforts to help the world, but even something as small as a sports team winning a championship game. That's why for instance when the Chicago Blackhawks won the Stanley Cup people were rioting in the streets. I'm talking about common people who work a 9 to 5, setting cars on fire and flipping them. That is mass hysteria, people acting or performing out of the ordinary because one or a few people start something. It's like a false epidemic. That's how this is working right now and lately comments on Facebook have been too funny. There are guys and girls posting this video and then commenting below them with these inspiring words like they are fucking Aristotle, when really all they know is about 30 minutes of information that they were completely oblivious to before that.
So before everyone gets all hyped up thinking they are making a difference by posting a video let me hit you with a little knowledge, you're not. And for all you funny people who are making a joke out of this...well it's a little soon I suppose, plus nothing makes you look like more of a douche than a failed joke via Facebook. So instead of falling into the hysteria, why don't we let the people who actually do know what's going on take care of things.
Tuesday, March 6, 2012
Just a Quick Thought
This will be short, but I was listening to the radio this morning and Marilyn Manson's cover of Sweet Dreams came on. I'm not really a Manson fan, but I do enjoy that song...gotta love the 80's. But after the song ended I was thinking...isn't Marilyn Manson basically the male version of Lady Gaga? Though it is difficult to compare fame, even though Manson has quite the cult following, Both artists are very similar in their antics. They both dress in ways that turn heads, their on stage performances or both bizarre but somewhat intriguing, and the majority of their interviews they are quoted as saying something borderline controversial. In the scheme of things, they are both incredibly intelligent people, who's ideologies of fame is to stand against the norm, and use their "way out in left-field" persona's create the image that the public views them as. Think about it.
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
I want a Trophy for Losing
Ah competition, one of the building blocks for how society came to be. competition is what makes people strive to be the best that they can be, and if you come up short, then you need to work harder to be the best. Now, of course right now if I worked as hard as possibly could to try and be a NFL running back that would never happen, I mean certain goals have to be limited. In school, if you try really hard and make good grades you will be first in your class, winning. This whole concept is great! It's what keeps society strong, and it is what keeps people pushing other people to be better at everything they do. This is all sounds perfect right? Well for some reason the new generation of parents and children are seeing things a little differently...
In school now there is a policy called "No Child Left Behind", which in simple terms is, a new order movement that basically prevents a child from failing a grade. Why did they do this? Well, it seems that parents said their children would be embarrassed if their child failed a grade, and would be behind all of their friends. So from now on, you can literally sit in class all day, with nothing in your hand, never participate, never do homework, and after 13 years of public schooling...you will have a diploma in your hands that you probably can't even read. These are the kids getting into college. Why? well since their parents didn't give a fuck about them, and they're equally as stupid, the government realized, hey they don't make a lot of money, let us help their retard child pay for school! That way everybody wins. Because nobody would want to be embarrassed because they don't do well in school...no instead even if you are smart, you still wind up in the same spot as all the dumb kids. Competition. Erased.
In youth sports or camps, all children have to win some sort of award or trophy at the end of the season or camp. So when I have a beached whale roll onto the soccer field, cries, bitches, and sweats too much after three minutes of playing, I have to give him a trophy for "best personality" in the group. If he doesn't get an award, he would be sad and even more fat because the other kids won an award and he didn't...so what happens? Mommy bitches that we were too hard on her fat fuck child, and he has every right to win something that the other kids do. So from now on, no matter how bad you suck at something you win an award so you can feel like a winner. If this worked in real life, everyone would be the CEO of their companies right? I mean if Ernie get's promoted I want to too. It's not fair that he got promoted and I didn't. At some schools, children are discouraged from playing games like tag, or sports. Why? Oh well because that same fat kid who sucked at soccer camp, he can never tag anyone on the playground which in turns leads to his mommy coming to the rescue again. Lastly, a high school cheer leading coach in a near by area was fired for calling the girls on his team "heffer's" which apparently is slang for a cow or something. In an uproar their parents came to the school and got the man fired. He got fired for a word. One single word. The man has a wife and kid's and now will probably never work in the school system again. I saw what the girls looked like, and to be honest they probably could have thrown up after a few meals. I wish I only got called a heffer when I played sports.
I could go on forever about how pathetic society is getting with competitive nature. Even when I was in school, you failed, you stay in the grade. If you lost you were the loser. When you applied for college, if you're grades and SAT aren't good enough, you're not going. Now, everyone has to be a winner in some way, nobody wants to get their feelings hurt, or told they can't do that. Nobody wants anybody to be better than the other person because that's embarrassing to the person who isn't as good.
The point is we need competition. Competition still exist in the real world where things matter. We have a bunch of children running around who have never lost, never heard a cuss word, had everything handed to them, and are probably still breast feeding in high school. Parents need to find their backbone and children need to sack up. Don't make life a military school, but it's time to cut the cord people.
In school now there is a policy called "No Child Left Behind", which in simple terms is, a new order movement that basically prevents a child from failing a grade. Why did they do this? Well, it seems that parents said their children would be embarrassed if their child failed a grade, and would be behind all of their friends. So from now on, you can literally sit in class all day, with nothing in your hand, never participate, never do homework, and after 13 years of public schooling...you will have a diploma in your hands that you probably can't even read. These are the kids getting into college. Why? well since their parents didn't give a fuck about them, and they're equally as stupid, the government realized, hey they don't make a lot of money, let us help their retard child pay for school! That way everybody wins. Because nobody would want to be embarrassed because they don't do well in school...no instead even if you are smart, you still wind up in the same spot as all the dumb kids. Competition. Erased.
In youth sports or camps, all children have to win some sort of award or trophy at the end of the season or camp. So when I have a beached whale roll onto the soccer field, cries, bitches, and sweats too much after three minutes of playing, I have to give him a trophy for "best personality" in the group. If he doesn't get an award, he would be sad and even more fat because the other kids won an award and he didn't...so what happens? Mommy bitches that we were too hard on her fat fuck child, and he has every right to win something that the other kids do. So from now on, no matter how bad you suck at something you win an award so you can feel like a winner. If this worked in real life, everyone would be the CEO of their companies right? I mean if Ernie get's promoted I want to too. It's not fair that he got promoted and I didn't. At some schools, children are discouraged from playing games like tag, or sports. Why? Oh well because that same fat kid who sucked at soccer camp, he can never tag anyone on the playground which in turns leads to his mommy coming to the rescue again. Lastly, a high school cheer leading coach in a near by area was fired for calling the girls on his team "heffer's" which apparently is slang for a cow or something. In an uproar their parents came to the school and got the man fired. He got fired for a word. One single word. The man has a wife and kid's and now will probably never work in the school system again. I saw what the girls looked like, and to be honest they probably could have thrown up after a few meals. I wish I only got called a heffer when I played sports.
I could go on forever about how pathetic society is getting with competitive nature. Even when I was in school, you failed, you stay in the grade. If you lost you were the loser. When you applied for college, if you're grades and SAT aren't good enough, you're not going. Now, everyone has to be a winner in some way, nobody wants to get their feelings hurt, or told they can't do that. Nobody wants anybody to be better than the other person because that's embarrassing to the person who isn't as good.
The point is we need competition. Competition still exist in the real world where things matter. We have a bunch of children running around who have never lost, never heard a cuss word, had everything handed to them, and are probably still breast feeding in high school. Parents need to find their backbone and children need to sack up. Don't make life a military school, but it's time to cut the cord people.
Women in Sports
Dear God, please stop letting women participate in men's sports. It is not empowering or fun anymore, quite frankly it's a little embarrassing...
The reason I'm talking about this is because I accidentally saw highlights of the Daytona 500 last night. Now let me get one thing straight...NASCAR isn't really a sport, in fact, not even remotely close. "Dude you don't realize how hard that is.." I know that they sweat a lot, and you have to have good forearm strength to hold a wheel in one position for 500 laps. Anyone can drink a lot of water and work out their forearms, that's not being an athlete, that's being a guy at any age 14 plus. Not to mention it's boring as fuck. So with that being said, the retards that run this NASCAR organization decided that they were going to do something really smart to boost ratings...throw the media a little curve ball, and by God did it work. They decided to let a women get into the driver's seat of a car and compete...To make matter's worse, all the inbred people are hooping and hollering because they think she is smoking hot, when the truth is I'm not seeing it? Regardless of looks the person I'm talking about is Danica Patrick, the lady who defying odds by racing with the big boys....or something like that...
Every single race that's coming up, I have to hear a five minute segment on Danica about how, this is her year to be one of the best; and this race she has the best chance ever. Why do people keep saying this? The fact is she has been racing in what is equivalent to the minor leagues for most of her racing career, never won a NASCAR race, or even come remotely close. What this really boils down to is, people need to stop comparing women to men when it comes to sports. I promise women are fantastic at a bunch of things...for instance, I firmly believe that a women would make a better president than a man, and I also believe that women cope better in a high stress jobs. On top of that, I am completely okay with women's right, and all the equality so on and so forth. But, please quit comparing men and women's sports, because that is one thing that will never ever be equal.
Anika Sorenstam (however you spell it) tried to join the PGA...sucked. Danica Patrick has already been talked about...still fucking sucks. There have been a couple Asian golfers that tried to play PGA...sucked. If you take the best women in any sport, and play them against the best man in that respected sport...the man will win 100% of the time. For the sake of the argument, I'm just staying in America (minus Nadal)...so, Lisa Leslie vs Michael Jordan, Landon Donovan vs Mia Hamm, Serena Williams vs Rafael Nadal, whoever is the best golfer right now vs Tiger Woods. I would love to hear anyone's argument that any of these women could beat any of these guys in a game of one on one!
There is nothing special about a girl playing among men when they suck...if any of those girls were winning something it would be different, but any women can get out there and play with men and get their ass kicked. Yet, somehow people find this inspirational, and stepping stone for women in sports. What is inspirational about taking last all the time? That just means for some reason women can sign up for men's sports and it's cool, but if a man ever did that, they would be ostracized. I'll conclude this by saying that if women were as good at sports as men were, the WNBA wouldn't be dying organization, the WPS wouldn't be starting up again for like the 5th time, and there would be professional softball or volleyball. For the record Danica Patrick took an embarrassing 38th place at this year's Daytona 500, plus look at this video of her crashing...why the fuck did she take her hands off the wheel during the crash to grab her head? she has a fucking helmet on!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5K1CpII2yJM
p.s I apologize to some who might be offended by this...but I'm not trying to be rude or sexist, I'm simply just pointing out something that is truthful.
The reason I'm talking about this is because I accidentally saw highlights of the Daytona 500 last night. Now let me get one thing straight...NASCAR isn't really a sport, in fact, not even remotely close. "Dude you don't realize how hard that is.." I know that they sweat a lot, and you have to have good forearm strength to hold a wheel in one position for 500 laps. Anyone can drink a lot of water and work out their forearms, that's not being an athlete, that's being a guy at any age 14 plus. Not to mention it's boring as fuck. So with that being said, the retards that run this NASCAR organization decided that they were going to do something really smart to boost ratings...throw the media a little curve ball, and by God did it work. They decided to let a women get into the driver's seat of a car and compete...To make matter's worse, all the inbred people are hooping and hollering because they think she is smoking hot, when the truth is I'm not seeing it? Regardless of looks the person I'm talking about is Danica Patrick, the lady who defying odds by racing with the big boys....or something like that...
Every single race that's coming up, I have to hear a five minute segment on Danica about how, this is her year to be one of the best; and this race she has the best chance ever. Why do people keep saying this? The fact is she has been racing in what is equivalent to the minor leagues for most of her racing career, never won a NASCAR race, or even come remotely close. What this really boils down to is, people need to stop comparing women to men when it comes to sports. I promise women are fantastic at a bunch of things...for instance, I firmly believe that a women would make a better president than a man, and I also believe that women cope better in a high stress jobs. On top of that, I am completely okay with women's right, and all the equality so on and so forth. But, please quit comparing men and women's sports, because that is one thing that will never ever be equal.
Anika Sorenstam (however you spell it) tried to join the PGA...sucked. Danica Patrick has already been talked about...still fucking sucks. There have been a couple Asian golfers that tried to play PGA...sucked. If you take the best women in any sport, and play them against the best man in that respected sport...the man will win 100% of the time. For the sake of the argument, I'm just staying in America (minus Nadal)...so, Lisa Leslie vs Michael Jordan, Landon Donovan vs Mia Hamm, Serena Williams vs Rafael Nadal, whoever is the best golfer right now vs Tiger Woods. I would love to hear anyone's argument that any of these women could beat any of these guys in a game of one on one!
There is nothing special about a girl playing among men when they suck...if any of those girls were winning something it would be different, but any women can get out there and play with men and get their ass kicked. Yet, somehow people find this inspirational, and stepping stone for women in sports. What is inspirational about taking last all the time? That just means for some reason women can sign up for men's sports and it's cool, but if a man ever did that, they would be ostracized. I'll conclude this by saying that if women were as good at sports as men were, the WNBA wouldn't be dying organization, the WPS wouldn't be starting up again for like the 5th time, and there would be professional softball or volleyball. For the record Danica Patrick took an embarrassing 38th place at this year's Daytona 500, plus look at this video of her crashing...why the fuck did she take her hands off the wheel during the crash to grab her head? she has a fucking helmet on!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5K1CpII2yJM
p.s I apologize to some who might be offended by this...but I'm not trying to be rude or sexist, I'm simply just pointing out something that is truthful.
Monday, February 27, 2012
Get Over it
There are so many bands that are incredibly popular right now that should not be getting the recognition that they are getting. I'm not saying their bad...well I kind of am, but I'm not comparing these people to people who are incredibly awful, but just so happened to hit a fad wave, and now their superstars (i.e. Justin Bieber). These are bands who continue to be popular for some reason, when in reality they are not as good as people make them out to be.
1.) The Foo Fighters - Sure after Kurt Cobain blew his brains out Dave Grohl abandon ship to start a new project. The Foo Fighters have maybe two good songs at best, but other than that, every single song that becomes popular by them is the exact same. A 7 minute song, that starts off with a nice beat, they play the chorus once, then have a 2 minute long bridge, followed by the band just raging and Dave singing as loud as he can the same thing over and over (Listen to the song "The Pretender" and you have heard at least 25 other Foo Fighter songs). Every year though they somehow are this huge rock band with a "new" sound.
2.) Taylor Swift - how the fuck does she keep winning awards in country! she is not a country singer! All of her songs are driven for frat boys who think it's cool to listen to her, and girls to say they can relate to all of her songs. Their horrible love or break up songs, that again all sound the same.
3.) Green Day - Green Day used to be the bee's knees way back in the early 90's, but then stardom struck and they became one of the biggest sellout bands I have ever seen. They used to be very punk rock, like on the 'Dookie' album (which is one of the greatest album names ever might I add) and for some reason lately all of their songs are these political embedded songs (Minority), that people sing to and don't even realize what the fuck they're singing about.
4.) Lady Gaga and Nikki Minaj - These two women need to be in prison for identity theft. Lady Gaga is America's new Madonna, she isn't doing anything new...Gaga just managed slip herself right into the role where everyone thinks she is super artistic, and an "actual" artist for how she acts, but in reality she just does everything Madonna did. Nikki Minaj is even worse because at least Lady Gaga is somewhat talented. Nikki Minaj completely stole Lil Kim and Da Brat's identity. The only problem is is she can't rap. She just uses that disgusting deep voice of hers, and raps about dirty things, and all the sudden people think she is fucking brilliant. Well, if they knew something about music, they would know that the original two already did that shit.
5.) Any band who sounds like Nickelback, 3 Days Grace, or Breaking Benjamin - Dear God, somehow these bands have made themselves famous by being awesome metal bands, but the truth is, not only do they all sound the exact same, but there music is horrible. I mean seriously, I'm almost certain that no of them writes their own music, all of the guys in the band can play, but not that well, just enough to create music. Anyone can distort an amplifier and strum a guitar. It is so bad, yet on the rock radio station, these bands are fucking playing one after another. 10 years, Papa Roach, Evan's Blue, Chevelle, all are basically the same band with a different name. Jesus Christ how I hope this fad dies out.
Lastly, I encourage everyone to try and listen to new things instead of what you hear on the radio. There are so many awesome bands that are out there that don't make it on the radio. All genre's of music (except country), and as for rap music, I suggest going back to old school shit from the 80's & 90's like Wu Tang Clan, N.W.A, Big L, and all the other guys who actually rapped. The same can be said for old rock, but fuck, stay away from these bands that are so shallow and disappointing.
1.) The Foo Fighters - Sure after Kurt Cobain blew his brains out Dave Grohl abandon ship to start a new project. The Foo Fighters have maybe two good songs at best, but other than that, every single song that becomes popular by them is the exact same. A 7 minute song, that starts off with a nice beat, they play the chorus once, then have a 2 minute long bridge, followed by the band just raging and Dave singing as loud as he can the same thing over and over (Listen to the song "The Pretender" and you have heard at least 25 other Foo Fighter songs). Every year though they somehow are this huge rock band with a "new" sound.
2.) Taylor Swift - how the fuck does she keep winning awards in country! she is not a country singer! All of her songs are driven for frat boys who think it's cool to listen to her, and girls to say they can relate to all of her songs. Their horrible love or break up songs, that again all sound the same.
3.) Green Day - Green Day used to be the bee's knees way back in the early 90's, but then stardom struck and they became one of the biggest sellout bands I have ever seen. They used to be very punk rock, like on the 'Dookie' album (which is one of the greatest album names ever might I add) and for some reason lately all of their songs are these political embedded songs (Minority), that people sing to and don't even realize what the fuck they're singing about.
4.) Lady Gaga and Nikki Minaj - These two women need to be in prison for identity theft. Lady Gaga is America's new Madonna, she isn't doing anything new...Gaga just managed slip herself right into the role where everyone thinks she is super artistic, and an "actual" artist for how she acts, but in reality she just does everything Madonna did. Nikki Minaj is even worse because at least Lady Gaga is somewhat talented. Nikki Minaj completely stole Lil Kim and Da Brat's identity. The only problem is is she can't rap. She just uses that disgusting deep voice of hers, and raps about dirty things, and all the sudden people think she is fucking brilliant. Well, if they knew something about music, they would know that the original two already did that shit.
5.) Any band who sounds like Nickelback, 3 Days Grace, or Breaking Benjamin - Dear God, somehow these bands have made themselves famous by being awesome metal bands, but the truth is, not only do they all sound the exact same, but there music is horrible. I mean seriously, I'm almost certain that no of them writes their own music, all of the guys in the band can play, but not that well, just enough to create music. Anyone can distort an amplifier and strum a guitar. It is so bad, yet on the rock radio station, these bands are fucking playing one after another. 10 years, Papa Roach, Evan's Blue, Chevelle, all are basically the same band with a different name. Jesus Christ how I hope this fad dies out.
Lastly, I encourage everyone to try and listen to new things instead of what you hear on the radio. There are so many awesome bands that are out there that don't make it on the radio. All genre's of music (except country), and as for rap music, I suggest going back to old school shit from the 80's & 90's like Wu Tang Clan, N.W.A, Big L, and all the other guys who actually rapped. The same can be said for old rock, but fuck, stay away from these bands that are so shallow and disappointing.
A Life in Movies
The 84th annual Academy Awards just wrapped up, and besides Billy Crystal being a dick...the show was pretty good. I thought the people who won each award were deserving. I love movies, I try to watch all different types of movies, the good ones, the bad ones, funny or sad ones, they all can be great in their own way. But for several movies, I can't help to think what it would be like if certain situation's were real.
Thrillers and scary movies tend to be the worst about this. My question is, when something that crazy or fucking scary happens to you, how in the hell do you come back from something like that! I mean honestly, take a movie like Transformers or more recently Paranormal Activity 3. If a situation actually did happen like it does in Transformers, how the hell do you lead a normal life after that, not to mention you have the greatest story topper ever. That movie takes place in like a week, what the hell would you do the next week. Can you walk up to one of your buddies or co-workers and be like, "you will not fucking believe what happened to me last week.." Then casually precede to tell him how you had rockets being shot at you by 30 foot tall space robots, who were blowing the entire city to smithereens. If someone were to come up and tell you that with a straight face, it would probably be pretty tough to be like "oh nice, well I just sat around watching football all weekend, you know, pretty laid back." No that is impossible! Not to mention that the person who had that wild weekend would probably be traumatized for the rest of their life. You can even walk down the street anymore with out having some sort of Vietnam flashback. To make matters worse, how about a scary movie? All the paranormal movies scared the shit out of me. Especially in the movie theaters where the sound makes everything 20x worse. In the third one, there are survivors (I promise that doesn't really ruin the movie for those who haven't seen it), so for those survivors, how do you go day to day with out pure anxiety every time you walk into a house. Like, "I got dragged down the fucking stair case last night by something demonic...it was crazy, but after that I made spaghetti for the family, then watched The Big Bang Theory." No, that happens once and you're done for, there will never be another time in your life where you don't try to sprint your ass up the stairs in fear for your life, it just doesn't happen.
I'm trying to avoid the obvious question's that people ask when watching epic films, like "how did they survive that" or "why don't they just run away". I get those questions, but it's fucking Hollywood, do you know how boring a movie would be if in a scary movie someone just got in their car and drove 100 miles away. I think I have made my point. But I think one thing that is interesting is in comedy movies, and how often the funny parts are derived from certain people getting injured. In Old School (one of my favorites) Will Ferrell gets shot with a dart, and burnt in a ring of fire. Granted, in the movie it was damn hilarious, but if that actually happened in real life...probably not so funny. No man wants to get a swift kick to the balls, yet when they show it in movies it is so funny. I find that interesting that comedies have the ability to make serious situations funny, or injuries seem enjoyable. In reality, those situations are only funny on the big screen, not so much in real life.
These are just fun questions to think about, but the truth is I don't really care one way or another. The fact that a movie can draw you in, and make you believe, want, and think is what makes any movie so enjoyable
Thursday, February 23, 2012
Surviving the Apocalypse
Right now one of my favorite shows on TV is The Walking Dead, if you don't watch it I would suggest catching the fuck up because it is a really good show. But....if you are unfamiliar I will give you the quick run down. Basically what has happened is there is a group of people that are followed on the show, who have survived a zombie apocalypse and are now fighting for survival, and looking for a way out. There is a lot more that goes into it, but I figure that you can paint your own picture. After watching this for quite some time...I have thought to myself, could I survive a zombie apocalypse with the skills and knowledge that I have possessed over the years? I think it's an interesting question and I also believe that a lot of people have thought the same question. If it were me, this is what I would do...
Just assuming that I had a bit of time to prepare...not even a lot, but maybe a news flash that said people were getting their faces ripped off by other people run for your fucking life, so that maybe I had a couple hours to brace myself I would start like this. First and foremost, the obvious things...try to gather with my close friends and family, get as many guns and weapons as possible. Then I would go rob the fuck out a liquor store, followed by a gun store so we could further equip ourselves. Tell everyone to get in a car, pack as much as they can, head to the nearest Sam's Club, and start my fortress there.
Sam's Club would be the perfect fort! it can hold several people, they have a shit load of food, beds, clothing, literally just about whatever you need. Not to mention that place is big enough to where if shit goes down, you can still make a run for it. For the record, just because it can hold a lot of people...doesn't necessarily mean I would just let any schmuck into the place. I figure once we have the place boarded up and secure, that if people come knocking that they would have to pass qualifications first. If you're fat, automatically out. Not only are you a liability for when we have to run, but you take up a lot of space, and you eat too much, sorry. As for all the women, it depends honestly...you have to promise to only hold/shoot a weapon if you have shot a gun at least 3 times before, and you have to swear on your life that in any situation you will never...and I mean never, drive. We can't afford to making careless mistakes like that, and letting a woman hop in that driver seat is doomed for failure. For everyone else rules vary, if you're wearing Ed Hardy, or Affliction...no, if you can't bring anything positive to the group...no, ginger...no, and if you still dodge all of those problems...then you're probably good. After that a couple rules goes as following...don't be a hero, but also don't be a pussy, live by the motto "he who runs lives to fight another day", which basically means if you're scared get the fuck out of there. Shoot anything dead, and for goodness sake's don't accidentally shoot somebody in the group, that's why I won't have a gun, a pistol at most, but I'm skiddish in certain situation's. I'd prefer to be a leader who carries a beat stick around. These are just some of the simple and basic rules that are required if you want to make it through the zombie infestation.
In my head I have a vision that I would survive a zombie apocalypse. I think I also take into consideration that zombie's could only lightly jog at best, rather than the one's on 28 Days Later, who can sprint like a mother fucker. In the end, if things did get too bad...that's why my second order of business was to rob a liquor store, I would have one last hurrah, get wasted, grab the biggest guns I could find, and charge into the battlefield.
p.s there is a tool called the fubar, it is a real thing, and after heavy persuasion from one of my former professors...I am convinced that this is the greatest tool besides a firearm to kill a zombie.
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
We're all Drunks
Happy Fat Tuesday everybody. Actually I don't really give a shit, because the truth is despite this originally being an eve to a religious event, Mardi Gras turned into a place where people make bad decisions, get wasted, and under aged girls sign up for Girls Gone Wild and make even worse decisions. Again though, I don't really give a shit because if people wanted to, they could do this everyday! There are a million reason's why people drink..and they don't need some stupid holiday to let them be able to. Even now, these are legitimate reason's why I drink, and I know that most people feel the same.
- Had a hard day
- Had a long day
- Had a tough practice
- It's Thursday, which means it's almost Friday...so it's practically the weekend
- It's Wednesday...it's hump day! half way through the week
- Monday's you drink because it's Monday and it's the start of the week
- Tuesday's because your still trying to get over how shitty Monday was
- The weekends are a given...
- Cause you're bored
- Because your mad, sad, glad, confused, frustrated, pissed, annoyed, or any other shallow emotion you can feel
- The weather is either too hot, cold, windy, rainy, snowy (a word?), or any other thing mother nature hands us, so you might as well stay inside and booze.
- Playing video games
- Because we won our game this weekend
- Because we lost our game this weekend
- Everyone else is doing it?
- A holiday is coming up, and your fixing to go on a family vacation so you want to party with your friends before you leave
- A holiday is coming up, and your fixing to go home from school, so you want to party with your friends before y'all ride in the car together to go back home.
- (For two answers directly above) Party when you arrive back in your own town, or when you make your return
- Cause you hate your life
- Because your girlfriend/boyfriend broke up with you
- Because you got a good grade on a test
- Lastly, and my favorite because people have said this so many times!..."I'm drinking tonight because I have a lot of shit I need to take care of that's coming up pretty soon, and I'm not sure when is the next time I'm going to get to party like this.."
The list could go on forever. The truth is, is that for some reason some people have to make an excuse for why they are drinking, when the truth is everyone just likes to get a little fucked up from time to time, and I can't blame them. From now on just grab a beer to grab a beer...no excuses. Just simply because you're trying to catch a little buzz before you do it all over again the next day.
- Had a hard day
- Had a long day
- Had a tough practice
- It's Thursday, which means it's almost Friday...so it's practically the weekend
- It's Wednesday...it's hump day! half way through the week
- Monday's you drink because it's Monday and it's the start of the week
- Tuesday's because your still trying to get over how shitty Monday was
- The weekends are a given...
- Cause you're bored
- Because your mad, sad, glad, confused, frustrated, pissed, annoyed, or any other shallow emotion you can feel
- The weather is either too hot, cold, windy, rainy, snowy (a word?), or any other thing mother nature hands us, so you might as well stay inside and booze.
- Playing video games
- Because we won our game this weekend
- Because we lost our game this weekend
- Everyone else is doing it?
- A holiday is coming up, and your fixing to go on a family vacation so you want to party with your friends before you leave
- A holiday is coming up, and your fixing to go home from school, so you want to party with your friends before y'all ride in the car together to go back home.
- (For two answers directly above) Party when you arrive back in your own town, or when you make your return
- Cause you hate your life
- Because your girlfriend/boyfriend broke up with you
- Because you got a good grade on a test
- Lastly, and my favorite because people have said this so many times!..."I'm drinking tonight because I have a lot of shit I need to take care of that's coming up pretty soon, and I'm not sure when is the next time I'm going to get to party like this.."
The list could go on forever. The truth is, is that for some reason some people have to make an excuse for why they are drinking, when the truth is everyone just likes to get a little fucked up from time to time, and I can't blame them. From now on just grab a beer to grab a beer...no excuses. Just simply because you're trying to catch a little buzz before you do it all over again the next day.
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