Update on my life

Well, I have been in California for almost a week now and I must say that this state is all that it is built up to be. I do have some complaints though. NOBODY smokes here in California. I walk the sidewalks of San Jose and never see anyone puffing. My cousins tell me that southern California is worse. There are actually some towns in South Cali that have banned smoking outdoors within their township limits. My cousin Sue told me about some guy who owned a company that told his workers they could not smoke within a 10 mile radius from the office headquarters!!! That rule was shot down in court, thank god, but you see what I am faced with here. Cigarettes are so cheap here!! I'm paying $3.67 for a pack of Parliamant Lights and Marlboros are even cheaper!!
The bars here are fucking sweet. Very pricey, but they just seem....cleaner than back east. There's a hell of a lot of Mexicans here. Every sign here in San Jose is written both English and Spanish. I'm working for my cousins' mobile technology company. They have me selling cell phones in their store right now, but soon I'm going to move into the press release department and use some of my education. Their store is a licensed Sprint dealer so I'm gonna be getting a brand new phone for free. Here's a link to the two phones I'm deciding on. Any input from you guys would be appreciated because I love both phones equally.

Sprint's Razor-like phone

Sprint's mp3 phone

People just seem more laid back here out west and in less of a hurry than back east. The women are much easier to talk to. The few times I've been in bars, they actually started talking to me. I could get used to this. Well, that's enough for now. When something exciting happens, I'll write it down. Later fags!



Tags: California

Quiz

A friend passed along to me a new quiz called the Hitler vs. Coulter Quiz. Given quotes, you are supposed to decide which person said it. Enjoy.

Here's the quiz.

Tags: Politics, Hitler, & Coulter

Texting

Today's conversation over text messaging with my youngest sibling:

Me: Bitch
Him: Cum guzzeling whore
Me: Its too bad mom missed you with the coat hanger
Him: Ok that was good i might just cry

Credit is due to Depressed Writer for teaching me one of the best insults ever.

Tags: Texting, Coat Hanger & Insults

Amendment

With the House of Representatives recent passing of an amendment to the Constitution that would ban flag burning and further reduce our civil liberties, especially our freedom of speech, I would like to revisit an entry that I wrote almost one year ago when this was in the news.

Link

Tags: Politics, Congress, Flag Burning, & Free Speech

ECUADOR BABY!!!!

Oh FUCK YEAH!!!!!! Ecuador is advancing to the next round of the World Cup!!! First place in group A with our goal differential better than Germany. All we have to do is tie Germany next game and we advance as a number one seed and we bypass likely group B winner England. Although with the way Ecuador is playing, we would beat England. I think I'm going to North Jersey tonight to celebrate in some Ecuadorian bars.
ECUADOR! ECUADOR! ECUADOR! ECUADOR!

Tags: Ecuador

Jesus doesn't hold a candle to Clark Kent!

I caught this little tidbit on cnn.com and thought it warranted commentary as only I can provide. I'm gonna cut and paste the opening couple of paragraphs and provide the link below for the full article if anyone is interested.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/Movies/06/14/film.supermanchristfigure.ap/index.html


LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- First there were the gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
Now, for many Christian moviegoers comes another gospel.
As the hype machine shifts into high gear for the upcoming release of "Superman Returns," some are reading deeply into the film whose hero returns from a deathlike absence to play savior to the world.
"It is so on the nose that anyone who has not caught on that Superman is a Christ figure, you think, 'Who else could it be referring to?' " said Steve Skelton, who wrote a book examining parallels between Superman and Christ.


I really don't think the creators of the second best superhero made him into christ, considering that Jerome Seigel and Joseph Shuster were BOTH JEWISH!!!! This article gets even better:

Some have also seen the hero as a gay icon, forced to live a double life with his super-self in the closet. A recent edition of the gay magazine "The Advocate" even asked on its cover, "How gay is Superman?"

What is it about special interest groups looking to adopt pop culture mythology and spin it in a favorable way suited to them? It's not just Superman, it's everything. He-Man is supposedly an allegory of homosexuality (same thing, a man forced to lead a double life, keeping it secret from his Dad). The Smurfs are supposedly communists living under the iron fist of capitalism (Gargamel). Scooby Doo is pro-marijuana propoganda (although that one is SO blatant, i'm pretty sure there's merit to it). There's also Super Mario Brothers which allegedly promotes and anti-italian agenda (stereotypical Italians as plumbers and one of the many creatures are called 'goombas'). Sidenote here: there is definitely something drugged about super mario brothers - you eat mushrooms, all the wild colors, the trippy duck/turtle monsters, and you are saving princess toadstool after all. You can apply these theories to any pop culture phenomenon. This is actually kind of fun to write about. Have any of you guys heard wild theories about popular cartoons, etc? I'd like to hear some more.



Tags: Superman

Damien

Born on 6/6/06 weighing in at 6 pounds and 6 ounces - six days after being induced, a couple in the UK named their child Damien in honor of their favorite movie - The Omen.

Full story here.

Tags: Satan & The Omen

Noah

Tags: Noah, Religion, & Joe Rogan

Great rock albums

So I was watching television at 3 AM this morning because I have nothing better to do and while scrolling through my 600 channels (I love digital cable), I saw that TOMMY was about to start. For those of you who don't know, TOMMY is the Who's greatest accomplishment. A rock opera. The whole album is the story of one boy who witnesses his parents murder a man and he becomes deaf, blind, and mute because of that trauma. The story follows him as he learns to play pinball, becomes a celebrity, becomes cured of his ailments, becomes an international celebrity, starts a religious cult, and then becomes a nbody again after hie followers revolt against him. Pete Townsend, who wrote almost the entire thing, states that Tommy is an anti-organized religion story. I had never seen the movie so I decided to watch the whole thign and it cleared up a lot of questions about it, like who the hell is the acid queen and why was that song necessary. It's quite a trippy movie and while wathcing it, I was wishing I had some pot with me. The movie starred Ann Margaret (who was quite the major hottie in the 70's), Jack Nicholson, Tina Turner, Eric Clapton, Elton John, and all the members of the Who, with lead singer Roger Daltry playing Tommy. Afterw atching the movie I wikipedie'd it juyst for the hell of it and the entry mantioned that TOMMY was listed as the 96th greatest album on Rolling Stone's top 500 list. So curiosity hit me and I checked the list out and here are the top ten rock albums according to Rolling Stone:

1. Sgt. Pepper - The Beatles
2. Pet Sounds - The Beach Boys
3. Revolver - The Beatles
4. Highway 61 Revisited - Bob Dylan
5. Rubber Soul - The Beatles
6. What's Going On - Marvin Gaye
7. Exile on Main Street - The Rolling Stones
8. London Calling - The Clash
9. Blonde on Blonde - Bob Dylan
10. The White Album - The Beatles

http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/5938174/the_rs_500_greatest_albums_of_all_time/

Now it's hard to argue with Sgt Pepper at number one, so I won't even try. What I do have beef with is that the Beatles have 4 albums in the top ten. The Beatles are a LEGENDARY band, but let's make some room for others. Where's the Zeppelin and the Floyd in the top ten? Are they saying that spending a record 800 consecutive weeks in the top 500 billboard charts doesn't warrant Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon a top ten ranking? Back to the Beatles, Abbey Road is a much better album than Rubber Soul and the White Album. Springsteen's opus, Born to Run, is number 18, which is right about where I'd put it also. But The Clash in the top ten?! I know a few songs by them, but I don't think of the Clash and think legends. The Sex Pistols are still the gold standard by which punk should be measured (with the Ramones a VERY close second). And I don't see any Who in the top ten either. You don't get much more iconic than the Who. If not Tommy, then maybe's Who's Next as their top album. Rolling Stone magazine needs to get over their masturbatory love of Dylan and the Beatles and recognize other Legends.


Tags: Rock Music