As I promised before, a rant on how much I hate summer.

When I talk to a lot of my friends on why they love summer the first answer I usually get is “no school” well that’s a pretty good fucking excuse when you are in school, but then it’s not the summer you are looking forward to, it’s the vacation. When you get older and graduate from school this reason will be totally pointless as you’ll be working and not doing shit all with your summer.

Another reason I commonly get is that it’s warm out. Well shit, I hate heat. When it’s cold you can always put on a jacket or an extra sweater. What the hell are you supposed to do when you are sweating your ass off and you are already naked. You can’t fucking rip off your skin. Hell, you can probably turn on your AC and say “damn, it’s so cold in my house” but remember how much you’re paying for that. In the winter I never have my heating on, why should I have my AC on in the summer?

Bugs are another reason I hate summer. I am lying down on my bed and all I hear is Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz. Mosquitoes flying around your face and biting you all over. Then you scratch yourself and you look like an idiot. Flies, spiders, ants walking all over your food. Yeah there spray to protect yourself but it doesn’t fucking work. They still land on you and fucking bite you. Yeah great!

Cancer has been a really hot topic lately. And guess what, the sun casts it’s UV rays on you like you are popcorn in a microwave. Yeah great, I don’t wanna fucking turn red and peel like an onion. You know, because that’s really attractive.

In short:
1) Pointless
2) Too hot
3) Insects
4) Cancer

You probably have watched Batman: Dark Knight once or maybe even twice. You are probably aware of the quote “Why so serious?” I am tired of seeing this everywhere, this was not so good of a line anyways. The movie had countless of other brilliant lines such as “it’s simple, kill, the Batman.” Dispite the fact that on the internet, the second line exploded, the first line is very popular with those who watched the movie don’t know a thing about the internet.

I have lately been out a lot and I have seen people wearing that shirt and it’s quite stupid. You are not funny for wearing something like that. Nor are you giving money to the dead Joker. Why so serious? I will tell you why, because that line fucking sucks.

Speaking of the dead Joker, why the hell do people think that he did just a good role in the movie. Most people can’t say he did a bad job because they are reminded of his death and then feel bad about it. Notice how sales of music/movies go up when the main character or musician die? Hell, you are not supporting them anymore, buying movies that the person starred in does not subsititute honoring their death and going to their funeral.

Another point is people who think Dark Knight is the best movie ever made. Hell, it was a good movie but it isn’t the best movie ever. While it’s fresh in your memory so you might remember it nicely. Rewatch some of the older “best movies ever” such as Starwars or Shawshank Redemption and you will change your mind about Dark Knight. While it might be the best movie of the year, it’s not the greatest movie of all time and it will never be.

So this summer I have stayed up a lot of late nights. No harm done since I just wake up at about noon and just get on with the rest of the day. However there comes a time where you just have to wake up a little earlier because you have to take care of a few things.

Now, yesterday I had to wake up at 8AM to do somethings and it was no problem getting up with an alarm that’s annoying as hell. But by the time I got home in the afternoon I was so tired that I just wanted to fall asleep, so I did. I woke up it was about 11PM and I just carried on with what I was doing before I went to sleep, and that was play Counter Strike. Well, remembering at I had to wake up at 7AM the next day I decided to get some sleep. Sadly, I was already well enough rested so I just stayed up. It is now 6AM, I am not tired now but I sure as hell will be in a few hours.

And all this because of summer. A season where we become so lazy that when we have to get back into our usual routine we basically can’t handle it. This is another reason why summer sucks, I will rant about summer some time soon. It’s a subject I feel I need to cover.

Countless of times you probably heard the saying “Now, for a limited time only” and you go out and rush to buy something. Hell, we’ve all done it at one point, but doesn’t it piss you off when they don’t give you that warning?

Here in Canada it is terrible! We don’t even have Cherry Coke here anymore. What the hell? I loved it! The reason for this is probably the lack of consumer demand which is why we don’t have Pepsi Blue anymore. But I think that Pepsi Blue and Cherry Coke are completely different. One tastes terrible, and another one tastes awesome. However, why is it that the companies fail to offer the same products they do in the States, than they do in Canada.

It doesn’t stop at food though, as we all know the Playstation 3 has had a terrible launch according to some. While the price point was incredibly high and it was hard as hell to find one I found it a pretty good launch. Due to the low amount of sales on the 20GB model, they stopped producing it and started focusing on the 60GB. Now, the 60GB is the best model to date. It has got 4 USB ports, WIFI, hardware backwards compatibility, and that ever so sexy silver accent. However, it seems Sony decided that backwards compatibility is not needed so they decided to ditch it. For the people who waited to get a PS3, they got shafted, they lost 2 USB ports and the backwards compatibility. Why? Presumably it’s due to market research.

It was done pretty poorly if you ask me. Sure, I don’t need a PS3 to play my PS2/PSone games as I have all three consoles. However, I do not feel like plugging in a PS2 each time I want to play an older game. It seems that other users think differently, but I am also sure that this turns lots of people off who were thinking of getting a PS3. While it is great to evaluate current users and see what they want, you should also take in account of future users.

All that without any warning or anything. At least for promotions they notify you that it’s for a limited time only. Not tell you that “these are the final specs” and then change them on you. On the other hand I guess you also have to look at this in the eyes of a retailer. A store may not want 20 different flavours of Coke on their shelf if only 7 of them sell well. But as far as technology goes it should keep going forward. While I am not saying that the VHS should still be around I do think that DVDs should work in Bluray players (which they do currently) and I do believe PS2 games should work on a PS3. Dang it Sony, I hope you do bring backwards compatibility back.

Too Long Didn’t Read: It sucks when shit disappears off the shelves without notice.

Ever since my friend decided to get a record player I have seen countless really bad album covers. Now I know graphic design wasn’t so easy then as it is now, but if you can’t have a graphic designer, an artist should be sufficient. No?

Enter the world of vinyls, where you have the best and the worst album art ever created. Browsing thrift stores for cheap records we have came across a lot of art. The first one I am going to criticize is an album called “You Don’t Have To Be Jewish”

The title alone is a joke, that added with the photograph attached to it makes even Chad Kroeger not wanting to look at it.

Now we have an album that I do not know the name of due to a language barrier. There are two pictures of it however

I haven’t seen such a rad looking Muslim since I watched “Tunak Tunak Tun“

Stinkers aside, some have been really good. Recently I have gotten into an artist called Roger Dean. He was the guy who created most of the “Yes” covers. If you could remember all the way back to the 70s , you could remember how awesome they looked.

Seeing something like that can be a shining beacon of hope. Not only is it a beautiful album cover, but it’s Asia. Steve Howe will definitely amaze you with his crazy guitar playing skills. If you enjoy that Asia cover you should definitely check out Roger Dean’s other work.

Fast forward to today, and you do not have so many terrible album covers. Sure, some are really cheesy, but nothing really horrible. A quick Google search of “Worst Album Covers” will probably give you some musicians you have never heard of. Either way, most of these albums are 80s or before and are vinyls. However, with that you also don’t have anything that amazing. With the age of digital downloads, album art is virtually non-important. Marketing the album is no longer about making it look good, but rather making the band look appealing or making the music mainstream.

With today’s music scene, if it isn’t about losing your girl, your life sucking, or how much shit you can afford then you won’t hear of it. Example: Swedish Basshunter vs English Basshunter.

I could go on ranting about music forever, but I guess I will keep it there.
Too Long Did Not Read: Album art used to vary in amazing and terrible, now it’s all mediocre.