Three music related posts in a row, I must be feeling really creative.

So I’ve been told after I posted my last blog “all you listen to is Power Metal.” Yes, that’s true, I listen to a lot of power metal. But at least my music collection has nearly complete discographies! I have fucked around with a lot of iPods and I am sick of seeing people only have 2 or 3 songs by a particular artist. As I mentioned before, I hate the age of “singles” because a band releases a full album, and you only get ONE song instead of them all! Here I have a screenshot of my music collection

Yes, you do see a lot of Helloween, but when organized by title it is all clean and nice. About three years back I got told “you don’t have alot of songs on your iPod (they were looking at artists at the time.) Bullshit, I have more than you, except I have discographies instead of just one song. So I have 80 songs under one band instead of just one. I actually then looked through their iPods and saw this:
Greenday
Green Day
Gob
G.O.B
System of a Down
System of the down
SOAD

Well that’s why my iPod doesn’t look like it has a lot of stuff, it doesn’t fucking have duplicates. Take the fucking time to organize your iPod instead of having it a mess. I will admit it again, I do not have a large variety of music. But the music on my computer/PSP/MP3 Player is shit I want to listen to. I don’t ‘hold’ music for a friend “you’d be suprised how much times I heard that excuse for asking why a person has a certain song.

On a slightly related note, why do people have 80GB iPods when they don’t even use it as a portable HDD? To watch movies they say, I say have fun watching your movies on a 1 inch screen.

There we go, I have reached 60 blog posts. that’s about 6 months of bloggin. I feel like a true hipster fuck now. Upcoming blog posts include today’s music industry and being “random.” I’m going to bed now.

Being a bastard who listens to music a shit ton, I would classify myself as knowing a lot about music. I hate a lot of genres and the list of stuff I like is actually quite limited. So why the fuck do people say “I listen to everything.” I will just say it right here, no you fucking don’t. Below are some genres you probably never heard of
Power Metal
Symphonic Metal
Speed Metal
J-Pop
Progressive
Jazz Fusion
Neo-classical
Celtic
Alternative Folk Rock
Baroque
…etc

I could go on for hours. But listening random music genres did not make me this way. Most commonly, when I hear people say “I listen to everything” they mean everything on the radio, because they don’t know that any other music exists. Singles, and hit music is created for the majority of the public to like it. It follows a simple formula which is repeated throughout most of the songs out there. So when you say you enjoy the song on the top40 I have to say NO SHIT, YOU’RE SUPPOSED TO LIKE IT.

What’s even worse is when people say “I listen to everything, except country.” Bullshit, you listen to Nickleback. Now fuck off.

Look above, after sending my iPod in for repairs back in 2006/2007 I started getting emails from Apple such as “GET THE PERFECT GIFT” and so on. The last one I got was “get your Valentine an iPod nano.” Great job fuckwhats, I did that last year when you sent me the same email. Shit, everyone I know already has an iPod, why the hell do they need a second one? Below is an example of what will probably happen if I give someone an iPod for Valentines Day.

Her: “Oh Matt you got me an iPod, that’s so sweet of you.”
While meanwhile she’s thinking “fuck, he got me an iPod last year, and my parents got me one for Christmas, what do I say to not hurt his feelings?”
Me: “Don’t mention it.”
Her: “Here, I got you this”
You open it, and it’s a fucking iPod.

Great, let us all give iPods to ourselves so we can have multiples and trade them like Pokemon cards. Fuck you for ruining my Christmas Apple.

No you are not going crazy, this month is going terribly for me in terms of blogging and finding new shit to complain about. I could go into politics but I don’t feel like being a hipster fuck who listens to Rage Against To Machine and writes anarchy all over my school work.

With that out of the way I can actually write about something now. Recently I started receiving telemarketing calls from “scammers.” While normally this wouldn’t be a bad thing because I don’t even use a home phone. I got the calls on my cell, and cell numbers are supposed to be kept private.

Today I watched the news and they said something about being able to buy the numbers on the Do Not Call List from the Canadian Radio Commission themselves. And it is true. For just 55 dollars I can get all the phone numbers in the GTA listed under the Do Not Call List. This is supposed to be so I know who not to call, but I of course will use to to make money and harass you.

The DNCL is flawed in every way possible. First of all, it’s a law that only effects calls made from Canada from legitimate companies. Meaning telemarketers can still call you from the US, Europe or India. While you can still track them down, international affairs take a while to process. If the guys were in Canada they’d probably be fined right now. But since they called me from the US, it will take a little longer.

Self improvement is a very important part of society. Humans feel the need to always make themselves better or make themselves feel superior to others. If someone’s life sucks they usually get drawn to alcohol and drugs. After getting ‘addicted’ they cause harm to their loved ones and then drink more when the family leaves them. It’s a cycle that keeps going and doesn’t stop.

Well have no fear, Alcoholic Anonymous is here to fucking save your ass. A self-help group concept is pretty stupid if you ask me. Why make a group of something that can only be cured by your OWN actions. If you think that is stupid, adding the fact that you need a help of a god to be cured is just retarded.

Below is the 12 step of getting rid of alcholism.
1. Admit we are powerless over alcohol, that it has made our lives unmanageable
2. Believe that a ‘higher power’ can restore us to sanity
3. Make a decision to turn our lives over to the care of the power
4. Made a “moral inventory” of ourselves
5. Admit to the power, ourselves, others the exact nature of our wrongs
6. We ready ourselves to have the power remove these defects
7. Humbly ask the power to remove our shortcomings
8. Make a list of all persons we harmed, and be willing to make amends to them
9. Make all possible amends, except those that would injure them.
10. Continue to make a personal inventory
11. Pray and meditate to improve our contact with the power.
12. Carry this message to other alcholics

So what we have here is this something that looks like this
Alcoholic -> Go To Group -> Sign Up for Church -> Tell people who are alcoholic to go to group
Just another fucking way to fill up the pews and make money from the collection basket if you ask me. And if you don’t see what’s wrong with this concept then you are obviously retarded or oblivious to what your religion does. Alcoholics Anonymous is not the only group that does this, there’s an anti-drug group that brings people to Scientology and many other groups that do this as well.

Why the fuck do you have to include religion inorder to make someone a better person? The 12 step program can be easily cut down into this.
1. Realize what you are doing is wrong
2. Apologize to those you harmed
3. Refrain from alcohol.

Three steps with the exact same fucking thing minus changing your faith.