CRS
Chandler, Arizona, United States

There's an old saying. If you don't want someone to join a crowd, you ask them, "If everyone were jumping off of a cliff, would you?" Well, I have. So my answer would be "Yes". True story.
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Monday, July 05, 2004

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THE GOOD

Music on the radio I don't mean to alarm you, but-- and this might not last long-- radio actually is exciting again. No, not just tolerable, exciting, dammit. A few months ago, really, really cruddy, whiney, annoying emo music was ruling alternative radio, and it seemed like it was going to stay like that for the forseeable future. But then suddenly The White Stripes are radio darlings, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs are being played more than the new Puddle of Mudd, and since when the hell did Muse start getting played? Throw in heavy rotation for Modest Mouse, The Shins, The Von Bondies, The Killers, Jet, and a ton of other really great bands on top of that list, and it creates a world-- some sort of alternative universe-- where radio is actually exciting again. Pardon my enthusiasm, but when was the last time you turned on the radio and listened for more than a half hour and liked most of what you heard?

Ren & Stimpy action figures I know some people were really overly upset about the whole "gay" thing on Spike TV's attempt at ressurrecting Ren & Stimpy. I personally never caught it since I didn't have cable, but I honestly don't think it would've bothered me seeing as how they're a cat and a freaking dog. No matter what, though, no matter what, even if Spike TV's relaunch utterly ruined Ren & Stimpy for you forever, you can't pretend you wouldn't want a plastic Mr. Horse with which to do your best "No sir, I don't like it" impersonation.

The new Street Fighter 2 Toys from SOTA Actually, there were some really kick-ass SF2 toys introduced back in like, 1999 from JAKKs, and those were a smidge better than these, but really, one can't get enough Street Fighter 2 merchandise, can one? Especially when all one wants is more Chun Li toys to play with, and the SOTA ones are pretty darned good.

Aqua Teen Hunger Force DVD If you've never caught Aqua Teen Hunger Force on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim it's a bit difficult to describe, because unlike most other conventional animated shows like The Simpsons, The Family Guy, or even Invader Zim, the animation budget is so low there's no real action and only the barist semblence of a plot. In fact, there aren't even all that many gags in the conventional sense: most of the show's humor comes from the interaction of the characters, which mostly comes down to Master Shake being a total asshole, Meatwad being a sweet-natured but naive near-retard, and Frylock having to put up with them because, though a genius, he's a giant, floating carton of fries. So really, describing it kinda sells it short. Suffice it to say it's random, surreal, a great parody of bad 80's cartoons, and just fricking hilarious; you should buy it if you're a fan of "the funny"

Invader Zim DVD I've seen all the episodes already because we downloaded them over a year ago, but it's still great to be able to have them on DVD (and for such a low price!), and to be able to see them in picture-perfect quality. Looking at them again, I still think the shocking part of Invader Zim wasn't that it was cancelled by Nickelodeon, but that it was ever picked up in the first place. It's been a long time since Ren & Stimpy was on the air, folks, and even that show Nick didn't seem to like too much. But at least Ren & Stimpy's main character was just psychotic-- Zim, on the other hand, is bona fide evil, and how're you going to try and program it on a station that has Rugrats and that one cartoon about little kids that are extreme skaters?


THE BAD

Sydney I don't really know what to write here, except that I know a girl named Lori, and her daughter, Sydney, is living her last days, and I would like for her to be in your thoughts before she goes.

The Worship of Ronald Reagan's corpse Because I wasn't updating my page at the time, you got to escape my annoyance over Reagan's death when it happened, but the fact that it's not current news never stops me from a tirade. Look, when the man died, he was ninety three freaking years old. I understand that he was a great man to a lot of people, and in fact, he was the most important man in the entire world for eight entire years. So I understand that the media would spend some time covering his death. But the entire week-long media blackout of otherwise perfectly neccesary news to cover the death of an extremely old man was not only freaking unneccesary, it bordered on ghoulish. I mean, did we really need a federal day of rememberence in honor of a dead ninety-three year old man? Am I the only one that felt like this event was used politically as a bit of dog-wagging? You know, whip up the whole country into a patriotic, tear-jerked fervor to ignore all sorts of real life shit, like the burgeoning Abu Ghairab incidents? Did we really need to get my wife's pay check a day later, did I really need to not get any mail, did I really need to not see any other interesting news because an old man died? He lived longer than American life expectancy! This was not a damned tragedy! If he was killed when he was shot in the eighties, that would've been a tragedy. But he outlived most Americans! And the fact that magazines had 16-page tributes to him two days later seemed as if they'd had their articles written months in advance. One more thing before I shut up about this: Ronald Reagan did not single handedly destroy communism! The citizens of communist countries who'd had enough of the crap kinda had a helping hand in it too, you know!

Avril Lavigne Listen, I don't care that she writes her own songs, I don't care how much or how little punk she is, I don't care about how much she's shaking things up, all I know is Avril Lavigne fucking annoys me. At least Britney Spears doesn't pretend she isn't vapid and useless, and at least she doesn't pick fights with really easy pop targets like Avril does with Hillary Duff. Also, she's not punk, not even a little, and she's not skater, either.

Missing Entries You know what sucks? I actually got several readers really excited about my reintroduction, and were happy I was starting over again. They wanted fresh, new words and ramblings. Then I stop updating three days later. Now I don't think anybody is reading this anymore. So I really am starting anew. Blargh.

Right-wing reaction to Farenheit 9/11 You know, I don't recall anyone ever starting up websites and "grassroots" efforts to stop the lies and bullshit from books by Ann Coulter, Sean Hannity, and Bill O'Reilly. Turnabout's fair play, assholes.
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with love from CRS @ 6:46 PM 

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