Saturday, January 30, 2010

Fifth Annual Terententen Lord of the Rings Festival

5th! A week from today. Febtober 6th, 2010.

I'm Currently Watching: Tennis: Australia Open, Women's Final

Thursday, January 28, 2010

I Hate Politics

I hate politics and the politicians that come with them. Government is a necessary evil but this country is in bad shape and the people that can make a difference are simply scum. Everyone knows the saying "There's no such thing as an honest politician." but we hear it and yet we still allow it. Good stuff.

I grew up in a strong Democratic household so I've always considered myself a staunch Democrat. However, after this last year, I find myself questioning why. The Democrats had a full year of being in complete control to get this health care bill passed and yet they couldn't even come together amongst themselves and get it done. That's disgusting. The health care bill wasn't my first priority but if your President makes it his, get it done and move on to get something else done. No excuses. What were they worried about? Losing their seats? Losing their majority? Well congratulations. You guys missed out on the #1 item on the Democratic agenda, look like ineffective fools AND managed to lose your majority at the same time. I'm completely embarrassed by my party.

On the other hand, that doesn't mean I'm going to run out and become a Republican. I'm far from that. I feel I'm more liberal than conservative and I don't believe in screwing the little man. It seems to me that most successful people have gotten to where they are not by hard work but by being jerks and stepping on the little man all the way up the ladder. We don't need to continue that trend. It also angers me that Republicans are always clamoring for smaller government yet they are the first people to try and take away the rights of the people and justifying it by shoving their beliefs down everyone's throats.

So yeah, I don't know what to do at this point but if the Democratic party doesn't change, it's gonna get harder and harder to just pull the blue lever just because. It's all so frustrating. Here's good politics for you. Last night during the State of the Union address, Obama made a statement about aiding businesses that stop outsourcing jobs to other countries and actually keep jobs in America. Then they pan to the leaders of this country and there was a HUGE amount of people that didn't even stand up and clap for this. They actually looked disgruntled. S-O-B. I couldn't believe it. I'm not sure if anything in my life has made me more sick than that moment. Democrat or Republican, I don't care who they were. They should all be out of office TODAY. Anyone have a list of those people so I make sure I never vote for them for anything? Who are they representing? All this talk the last year of creating jobs to save the economy and yet more and more jobs are leaving this country every day. Everyone wants to make themselves richer and save their friends and big business. No one could give a crap about this country or anyone else. How long can they actually believe in this trickle down garbage? The money stays at the top and if the little man is lucky, his job won't be sent over to Asia. Good luck.

Also, how do we not have term limits yet? People need careers but staying in one place for too long just doesn't work. It's not acceptable when these politicians do anything possible to keep their careers; Even if that means being completely worthless. So many people are struggling to get by in this country that they just don't have the time and energy to pay attention to political issues. Also, unfortunately, I'm gonna go out on a limb and say there are a lot of stupid people walking this Earth. This just allows these guys to skate by on name alone. How can this change happen though? How do you get people to create laws that will write themselves out of a job after 4...8...12 years? Regardless, it was nice knowing you (probably not), hope you got something meaningful accomplished.

Have I said politicians are scum? I looked up the current salary (2010) for rank-and-file members of the House and Senate and that number is $174,000 a year. $174,000 a year! Who can't live comfortably on that? If you're not interested in that amount of money, get out of politics. Go run a business. Don't do both. These guys who are heavily involved with these interest groups should be out of office. We know they're getting money from these people, we say it's not alright, we let it continue.

I talk a lot but I'm not a great orator... I've had this blog for many years but I'm not a great writer... I also may be a little lazy from time to time. Just like every man, I also look out for myself a little too much. Humans are flawed. That's the nature of the beast. However, I do know that for $174,000 a year I'd be more than happy to not be a scumbag and do what's right. I lied when I said I never felt sicker in my life than last night. Every time I realize that nothing will ever change in this country, that sickness in my stomach just grows stronger.

I'm currently watching: Conspiracy Theory With Jesse Ventura - Big Brother

Labels: What the hell

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Sunday, January 24, 2010

How do you rate yourself?

It seems like nowadays we live in a world where everything needs to be judged. Everything needs a definitive number on where they stand. There have always been ordered lists of top stuff but it seems like in the last decade our lives have been overrun with giving everything a rating. It used to just be ratings for TV and radio but now the power is in our hands. We must be important. Did it start with "Hot or Not" where we actually found ourselves sitting at our computers for what seemed like hours rating random people on whether they were acceptable to sleep with or not? Was there something before? For years now I've been rating music in my iTunes library. Oh, how I put so much effort into making sure I don't hurt these songs' feelings. Better get it right... everything's at stake. My radio playlist will thank me later. And I constantly find myself changing my ratings to make sure I have the playlist perfectly tweaked to hear exactly what I want when I just don't know what it is that I want. Less importantly, in the last couple years, Flixter has us rating movies the same way, except with Flixster there isn't even any reward when we rate stuff. It's just so my friends will know how I feel about something. Last week I signed up for Netflix. It's not intertwined with Flixster so I'm finding myself re-rating the same movies I have already rated before except now there's a reward. Netflix will tell me what I want to see. So how do you guys rate your stuff? Everything's a 5 star system so I'm always trying to find the best way to go. Netflix says the following:

star - Hated it
stars - Didn't Like It
stars - Liked It
stars - Really Liked It
stars - Loved It

But where's the "It's Just OK" rating? I've been watching movies all weekend and I didn't necessarily "Like" all of them but I don't want to go as far as saying that I "Didn't Like" them. Half stars might help but too many options might just confuse things more. So I'm now using 3 stars for "It's Just OK" and 4 stars for "Liked It". I need to stop putting so much pressure on those 5 star items. 5 stars can no longer mean god status. It just means I "Really, Really Like" something. I sure hope Netflix will forgive me.

I'm currently watching: NFL Football: AFC Championship: New York Jets at Indianapolis Colts

Labels: That's Life

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Thursday, January 21, 2010

I'm With Coco

In honor of Conan O'Brien's extremely unfortunate last night on the Tonight Show, I feel like I should show my support on Terententen. I'm already eagerly awaiting his return to television which will apparently be in September some time. I can't see someone not picking him up. I've been a fan since ~1995. I remember racing home from the boardwalk every night during the Summer to catch Letterman and then switching over to Late Night with Conan O'Brien wishing he was on CBS and not having to switch the channel. It would have been so much cooler if the 2 best late night hosts were just on back to back. I remember watching the Comedy Central replays every afternoon during my senior year of college and being pissed off when they just weren't on anymore. And more recently, when Conan went to the Tonight Show, although I couldn't stay up, I started DVR'ing the shows and watching during dinner the next day. 16 years of Conan and NBC could have probably had 16 more. Instead they go and blow it for a few more years of old man Leno and his boring excuse for a show. I enjoy Jimmy Fallon's show as well. I just hope they don't screw him over like they're doing Conan. Oh well. Conan will land on his feet. He's too great not to. Screw you NBC. I don't care if I'm watching The Office on you as I type this up. I'll never consciously buy any product that advertises on your airwaves. Maybe not because I hate you but because I'm cheap. Regardless, I'm With Coco.

I'm currently watching: The Office

Labels: Television

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Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Jimmy Fallon - Pants on the Floor

I quit watching American Idol this year. I don't like Ellen and I did not like Kara last year. Plus I hated the fact that every person I thought had talent, or was real "smart", never really made it through. I didn't like any finalists last year. I also really like having a million hours of extra time not spent watching American Idol each week. Anyway, even without watching Idol this year, it was hard to avoid this "Pants on the Ground" craze. It's everywhere. I don't find the humor in it. It's so staged it's ridiculous. But what I did like was Jimmy Fallon as Neil Young covering Pants on the Ground. His impression is spot on. Fallon is just like Conan when he was starting out. The show just needs some time to find its legs.

I'm currently watching: Modern Family

Labels: Hilarious

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