Jul/083
Birthday
It was my birthday yesterday. Yay. I'm another year older! I got some gifts cards to Magiannos (or they can be used at On The Border, Macaroni Grill, or Chilis) so I was pretty happy! I love Magiannos, On The Border, and Macaroni Grill. Chilis is good but I would rather go to one of the other ones. On The Border has THE best frozen margaritas. Love them. I got a PSP game too (Star Wars Battlefront: Renegade Squadron).
After work I basically chilled at home, and around 10 pm I went to Nifty Fifties for fries and a milkshake. It was really nice.
Jul/082
iPhone rant
Well it looks like the masses of losers with nothing else to do with their time were camped out to buy a piece of technology that will be obsolete in six months. Who the hell sleeps out on a sidewalk for a cell phone? Seriously! It's a cell phone. It's not a limited edition or collector's item, and within a year they will be throwing it away (hopefully recycling it!) So what's the point? Will owning that phone and paying the service fee going to change their life for the better? Will they be curing cancer with it and solving the environmental crisis we are facing? No. They will most likely be on Myspace, looking for YouTube videos, and emailing pictures of their asses to their buddies.
Do they really have nothing else to do? Did these people take a day off of work to wait in line? Do they work at all? These people need to be studied.
Are they that insecure and think they are special because they have one of the first of MILLIONS of cell phones to be manufactured and purchased? Do they get a prize for having one of the first ones? Does your penis grow by an inch if you buy iPhone? Will 'the ladies' throw themselves at you?
Another question is who is going to know that they were the 18th person to buy one? Do they get a tshirt? The biggest question is WHO CARES? Who are they trying to impress? Their Dungeons and Dragons buddies? The people at work? Their mom? "Mom, I'm calling you from the latest iPhone! Yay I'm a man now! (lowers voice) Yes I would like meatloaf for dinner... MOM! I'm out with the guys. Okay can you pick me up at 10? There is a Star Trek marathon coming on."
If I was going to get one I would wait at least three months. Don't these people remember how Apple dropped the price on the first version of the iPhone? All these morons started crying to their moms about how they should get a refund and how it's not fair. That's the price you pay sucker! Suck it up! Wipe your nose on the sleeve of your Star Trek shirt, curl back up in your race car bed, and get back to watching Captain Kirk making it with a green alien lady. I know that's what I am going to do...
Jul/085
Feeling old… music
I was pretty excited the other day. I was talking to my 18 year old neice about music and I told her that I am really into Wolfmother. She didn't know who they were, and for a moment I felt young and hip. Then she rattled off the names of five different bands that I had never heard of and that feeling was gone.
So much of the music today is disposable. Here today, gone tomorrow. Especially all the rap. I mean, one day the rapper is everywhere and then you never hear about them again. I'm not complaining; I would be happy if it all went away. I can't imagine that anyone will be listening to it ten years from now. So much of it is SO BAD.
There are some newer bands that I follow, and some bands that I have liked since the 80's. There is so much music to listen to that the old stuff gets forgotten. If I don't have it on my Ipod it rarely gets listened to. It's not convenient to carry around a portable cd player and dozens of cds. I did that at one point but not anymore! And I don't have time to sit and rip all of my cds to my Ipod. (I could conceivably bring them to work and do it a little each day.) So I decided to bring an old cd to work each day to listen to it. Yesterday it was The Best of Blondie, today it's Danzig and CCR Chronicle. I had forgotten how much I like the first Danzig cd. I haven't heard it in years.