First, we need some context, which is funny:

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For for this to be hilarious, just add Usher.

I can’t stop laughing!

Back in the day, music made you want to live. Take Black Sabbath in 1970 (40 effin’ years ago). Just watch them play. Nobody is this intense anymore :

Now what do we have to covet? Music that does the opposite; make you want to slit your own wrists:

Where have we gone wrong? I’m not one who only listens to rock (as a matter of fact, I’ve been on a classical kick lately), but just look at the sheer energy of a young Ozzy Osbourne in Paris. They sat down and wrote this themselves. Nobody has the balls to write like this anymore! No company wants to pay or promote people who write like this anymore! Nobody wants to buy good music anymore!

This is where you say “Touché, Andrew”, and I say “I know…and I’m just as guilty”. Guys, let’s make an effort to buy music that deserves the money, ok?

On a tangent, Bill Hicks said it best:

See I think drugs have done some good things for us, I really do, and if you don’t believe drugs have done good things for us, do me a favor: go home tonight and take all your albums, all your tapes, and all your cds and burn ‘em. ’cause you know the musicians who made all that great music that’s enhanced your lives throughout the years…. rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrreal fuckin’ high on drugs.

After her first appearance on this site, Heidi’s been making some pretty great MS Paint art. I decided to post some once in a while. Here’s her latest creation:

BIRDY NAM NAM – THE PARACHUTE ENDING from Steve Scott on Vimeo.

I was reading comments on a neat article on Slashdot, and I clicked a link on the sig of an insightful commenter. To my pleasure, I had discovered a short film called Death To The Tinman:




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I want to respond to some of the (awesome) comments recently left, but I don’t have much time at the moment. I have tons of work on the go, a banquet to attend, a fundraiser and I need to find a way to squeeze in some time to celebrate my 23rd orbit around the sun.

So without further ado, I give you a distraction:

This is one of my alltime fave youtube videos (skip to 3:45 for the best part)