Is everyone else as sick and tired as I am of this Elian Gonzalez bullshit? On one hand we've got the government who wants to send him back, just cause they don't want to piss off Castro. Then you've got the people who want him to stay cause they're so damn uptight about communism. Me? I personally don't give a flying fuck where he ends up, but why the hell don't they let the damn kid choose where he wants to go? You're gonna force him to go back to Cuba even if he doesn't want to? Or make him stay if he doesn't want to? In other words, the only person that matters in this whole thing has absolutely no say in what happens. Everyone's got their opinions on this thing, but no one's asking the kid where HE wants to go. It's the same thing that happens in divorce cases. The court decides who gets custody of the kids. Shouldn't the kids themselves have a say in the matter? I know if my parents had gotten divorced when I was a kid and I was forced to stay with the parent I didn't want to, I'd make sure I made someone's life a living hell till things got set straight. And what sickens me the most about this thing is how engrossed in it the American public is. They've got nothing better to do than sit on their fat asses in front of the tv waiting for the latest bit of bullshit information they're to be fed by the mainstream media. Puh...go read a book or something. Now I'm getting off topic and letting my bitterness toward tv and the media show through, so I'm done.
I was sitting in the barber shop today reading the paper...and there was a review of the books by pro wrestlers The Rock and Mankind. Since I have alot of respect for wrestlers, and I've read and enjoyed Mankind's book, I figured I'd read it..hoping the writer would do the review impartially, with no bias towards pro wrestling. Alas, I could only hope that was true. First off, you can find the very same article right here. Alot of it is really irrelevent, but there were a few parts that pissed me off...I'll reply to those here.
I hope you're sitting down while reading this. OK, I'll just come right out and say it:
In these two best-selling WWF wrestling bios, by Mick "Mankind" Foley and Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, both men freely admit that professional wrestling is fake! Promoters decide who's going to win before the match even starts!
Duh....that's been a well-known fact for a good 10 years now.
OK, a little joke there
Golly gee willickers that was funny.
So what about these books? Let me put it this way. Most of these wrestlers are guys who couldn't cut it in the NFL. Similarly, nobody was chasing after these people to star in television shows, movies or on the stage. So they are not really athletes, nor do they qualify as actors.
So? Plenty of pro athletes who made it in their respective sports couldn't make it in wrestling. But you wouldn't know anything about that, would you? It doesn't help your agenda to bring wrestling down a notch or two. And you say they aren't athletes. If you stick one of the most conditioned pro athletes in a wrestling ring, they wouldn't last 5 minutes with a pro wrestler. And even if they did last, they would be regretting it when they could barely move the next day.
Would you be surprised if I told you these wrestlers are not real big in the writing department either? I'll go ahead and say it: I've read better autobiographies than these. However, none of the other books had as many pictures, or such large type, or were printed on that brite-white typing paper the way these two books are. So they have that going for them.
Well, it's no secret that wrestling fans aren't going to be the biggest market for book publishers. Your pompous ass makes it sound like it should be Charles Dickens we're reading here. It's meant to be enjoyable to read, not a chore or homework assignment.
What we have here are incredibly well-paid human cartoon characters turned authors. Personally, had I known there was such an opening, such a job description and it paid that well, I might have applied for it myself.
No you wouldn't. You're too good for wrestling, remember?
Mick Foley, the author of "Have a Nice Day" who began his career as Cactus Jack, wrote his own book. No co-author there. If you don't believe me, or him, go on and read it. He talks about his life. His injuries. In fact, he talks a lot about his injuries. This guy has taken more spills than Evel Knievel. He lost more of an ear than Evander Holyfield did to Mike Tyson. And this is in a fake sport. Excuse me, sports-entertainment. Imagine if it was real.
Ok. So you say it's fake? What, did he take a knife and cut his own ear off in the middle of the match? Let me rip your ear off if it's fake. I'm sure you won't miss it...you'll be too busy bitching about wrestling.
What is most frustrating is the book's chronological style. You get that "Then in the fourth grade ..." kind of tedium. All I really wanted to know about was what the name "Mankind" meant, and what was the source of his costume, the leather mask and the untucked white shirt and tie. I had to read all the way through page 377 to find out. Talk about punishment.
You fucking idiot. If that's all you wanted to know, all you had to do was spend 5 minutes on the internet....why the fuck did you read the whole book? And what do you expect other than a 'chronological style'? When I read a biography, I expect it to go in the order that the persons life went. Ok, let's do everything out of order and confuse everyone...that makes sense.
And here's the local angle: Mankind has a deadly hold he calls the Mandible Claw. He subdues opponents by sticking two fingers under their tongues and pressing on a nerve, which incapacitates them. If you're wondering why they don't just bite his fingers off, WWF head Vince McMahon had the same question. Answer? They just don't.
God damn this guy's a moron. How the hell did his editor let him publish this. Why don't they bit his fingers off? You answered your own damn question in the same paragraph. "..and pressing on a nerve, which incapacitates them." INCAPACITATES them. AKA, they can't MOVE. Darrhh. Was that really that hard to figure out?
Political satirist Barry Crimmins says that what is wrong with America today is that people think wrestling is real and war is fake. I have to agree.
I have to agree that you're a closed-minded asshole. Wrestling is not fake...tell that to people who have broken necks or backs or limbs in the ring. It's scripted. Movies and TV shows are scripted as well, so what's the difference? In fact, movies and TV shows are more predictable than wrestling is....so why not take your personal vendetta against wrestling against TV as well? Oh wait, you're a closed-minded, ignorant, elitist idiot...that's why.
Just the other day I was enjoying some of my favorite alcoholic beverages when I decided to give a visit to the new porn shop in town. Well, I get there and there's a fucking sign on the door that says 21 and over only. I'm beginning to think the law in our town for porn is 21 and over. Which got me to thinking how fucking stupid some laws are...especially when you're between 18 and 21. You can't go to a porn shop and buy porn, yet you can go to a strip club and see the real thing. If you want to kill someone you can buy a gun....If you want to kill yourself slowly you can buy cigarettes...you can take your own life and others lives in your hands by driving....you can have a say in government by voting...you can be forced to die for your fucking country.....you can do all that..yet you can't buy alcohol. You think that stuff gets me going, don't even get me started on the subject of legalization of marijuana.
I'm sure you've all seen it on the news in your town before. A young teen, usually a girl, meets a guy, usually anywhere from 25-60 years old, and agrees to meet him for sex...and the rest is history so to speak. Well, there was a news piece here the other day about that very same topic. Everything was all fine and dandy till they interviewed this one father who was saying (to paraphrase) he "didn't want that happening to his kids" and "this can't keep going on the way it is....the net needs to be regulated somehow so this doesn't happen again....something needs to be done." Fuck you, you incompetent fuck. Sure it needs to be stopped from happening again...but if it does happen to your kid, it's no one's fault but your own. Watch your fucking kids when they're on the net...or at the very least use a keystroke logger and then look it over after they're done...that's what I'd do. Now is that so difficult? Don't get me wrong, I think child molesters and violent sex crime offenders should have their balls cut off (I'm fucking serious), but stop trying to lay blame somewhere else and take the responsibility of raising your own fucking kids for once. There should be a law that you have to pass some kind of test before you're allowed to have kids.
One day I was bored and flipping through the channels. I get to BET and there's a football game on...between two all-black colleges of course. That really got me thinking about double standards in America....and led to this rant. What if someone tried to start a whites only school? They'd be called racist every way imaginable. So why are black people allowed to do it? Because they're a minority? So? Latin people are a minority. Asian-Americans are a minority. I don't see them with their own colleges (at least that I know of.) Don't get me wrong, I'm not racist by any stretch of the imagination....but that really makes you think...at least it makes me think...maybe it makes perfect sense to you. Another double standard that gets on my nerves is how males and females are treated differently when it comes to sex. A chick fucks around alot and she's considered a whore. A guy fucks around alot and he's the man...he's "cool"...he's fucking admired. .....Why? What is the difference between between guys and chicks that says they should behave differently when it comes to sex? I'm dumbfounded, really.
I'm sure you're all familiar with the Family Values tour. It was the one reason Limp Bizkit and Orgy are now MTV's bitches, with millions of screeching teenybopper fans that either like them cause they want to be cool, or cause they think Jay and/or Fred are hot. Family Values is the only reason they became so popular....all the wannabe Korn fans saw them open for Korn and you know the rest. Don't get me wrong, I do like Korn, Limp Bizkit and Orgy, but that's beside the point. Anyway, what pisses me off and really scares me is that one of my top 5 bands is on this year's Family Values; System of a Down. Sure, I want them to be successful and make money....but if all of these damn Korn fans latch onto System and they're on TRL every day, I will fucking snap. I will drive myself up to New York, break into the MTV studios, kick everyone out of there except Carson. Tie him up and throw him in the corner for now. Then I'll pull out my sniper rifle, and slowly pick off each and every one of those morons that stand outside the studio screaming every day*. Then I'll go to town on Carson...I won't go into details, but let's just say it involves a pineapple, handcuffs, rubber gloves, a whip and a jar of vegemite. After that, If you still don't know how much I hate MTV, you need help.
*ok, maybe I wouldn't...but someone should.
No rant here. I just want to share with you people two very very good articles that show how evil record companies are. They're long, but trust me, you need to read them.
The Problem With Music by Steve Albini
A Chance to Break the Pop Stranglehold by Neil Strauss
I'm just waiting for it to happen. It's happened before and it's bound to happen to me again. What am I talking about? People turning me in or my account getting cancelled because of mp3's. I'm just waiting for someone from a record label to see my mp3's and force me to "cease and desist." What they seem to miss, not only about my site, but about mp3's in general is that mp3's are helping them. I use them to promote the cd's....not to take away money from the record labels....even though they deserve to be ripped off after all the years of ripping us off. They're so fucking blind, they're refusing free promotion. All they see is that there's something to do with THEIR music, and they're not making money off of it, therefore it's illegal. This world would be a lot better place if it wasn't for major record labels.
This doesn't even qualify as a rant, and it's very short. But anyway, recently 9 skydivers were killed when their plane crashed. ........... Am I the only one that sees how fucked up that is? Why the FUCK didn't they jump out of the plane before it hit the ground?!?! Even if they were rather low, jumping out of the plane and breaking a leg or two is certainly better than going up in a ball of flame don't you think? I just can't comprehend some things I guess.
Here's something I never really understood. Why you would want to smoke. I've spent most of my life thinking about this....waking up in the middle of the night listening to your dad hack up a lung, and you puking in the car because your father refuses to wait a half hour to light up again...these things will do that to you. And I hear smokers come up with all these fucked up responses for why they smoke...
"I'm going to die sometime anyway, so what's the difference?"
I'll tell you what the difference is. The difference is dying a calm, quiet, peaceful death when you're 80, or dying a painfully excruciating death when you're 50 (looking like you're 80), sitting in a hospital bed asking the nurse to give you some more morphine because of the pain from the lung cancer. I think I'd rather take the former rather than the latter.
"But who says you're going to live to be 80? Maybe you'll get hit by a car tomorrow"
Maybe I will. But that's no excuse to increase my chances of dying a premature death.
"But it calms me and relieves stress"
And there's no other ways of relieving stress or calming yourself? I bet you'll be wishing you had put up with that stress when you're laying in that hospital bed.
"You say people shouldn't speak their mind on things they know nothing about. Well, you know nothing about smoking"
Well you know nothing about me. I smoked for a year and a half when i was about 14. Why? Because I wanted to be cool. That's the reason most people start smoking...when they're teenagers and want to seem cool. You gotta give credit to the cigarette industry...marketing geniuses. Why did I quit? Because I realized I was addicted and couldn't go without it. I'm sorry, but I didn't like having to depend on shredded plants wrapped up in paper to get me through the day. Also, my father has smoked for 30 years. Having him pass out at the dinner table because he was coughing so damn hard really wakes you up to how fucking idiotic smoking is. Really, if you have any other reasons why you smoke, e-mail me....I've got something to shoot down anything you can throw at me.
Recently someone left a little nugget of joy in my guestbook. And now, I must simply rip it apart. Proceed with the verbal raping...
HI I only came into this site so that I could find the lyrics to the song nookie and i am glad that u had it
So, in other words you're a teenybopper sheep who only listens to what MTV says you should. Oh, and anyone who types "u" instead of "you" needs to be anally raped. It's not cool, and it's not quicker.
but I think that u suck for saying that BSB suck or saying that they don't make their own music. First of all they do make their own music and it is much better then gay KORNS!!!
They don't make their own music! They have someone write most of their songs for them, then they have someone mix some cheap music, while BSB sing over it. I seem to recall in an interview on TRL that one of them said about the new album "yeah, it's really cool cause we got to write a few songs ourselves." Now tell me there's not something wrong with that. I actually feel somewhat sorry for people like BSB and Britney Spears and such...because they're fucking puppets....just used to make the rich richer, and then they're thrown away when they're not needed anymore.
I like Limp Bizket well only one of his songs.
His? There's more than one person in Limp Bizkit you fucking dolt.
But otherwise I hate them!!!
I'll bet anything that you haven't even heard any of their songs other than Faith and Nookie. I fail to see how anyone can only like one song by a band, but hate everything else. It's not like it's all that different from the rest of their shit....it's the same fucking band.
So I was wondering do u ever watch TRL(Total Request Live)
Only if I'm extremely bored....and because I like to laugh at all the screaming teenyboppers and wannabes that are out on the street.
because if u do then u would know that BSB are always #1
So? New Kids on the Block were #1 in 89. Titanic was the #1 movie last year. Does that mean they're good? No. Simply because something is popular doesn't mean it's good....in fact, it's usually the opposite, seeing how most Americans are idiots.
and they always will be no matter what u or anybody else says.
Uh huh....let's see you say that in a year when no one gives a shit about anyone who's popular right now...especially BSB.
BYE!!!!lol Remewmber BSB is #1!!! any questions then e-mail me. LOL!!!
The only question I have is this: were you dropped on your head, or maybe someone rolled a shopping cart over your head when you were a child? And do you realize how fucking gay "LOL!!!" is? You should be a cheerleader, you fit the mold perfectly.
In my last rant I said "don't get me started on the Columbine shootings." Well, too bad...I've had enough of this shit. What those two jerk-offs did was fucking cowardly, and I feel sorry for the families of the people who got killed (well, except for that chick who stood up when they asked if anyone believes in Jesus, or however it went), but what the fuck do you expect? We live in a society where your social class, how you dress, what sports you play, and whether or not you're attractive dictate whether you're popular and hailed or ridiculed and humiliated in high school. And don't think it stops after high school either. And as long as we live in a society like this, things like this will keep happening. But the media doesn't want to report that, because the American people don't like to hear the truth about themselves, and it's not a good story...so what do they do? They find scapegoats. Movies. Video games. The internet. Music. The NRA (remember people, guns don't kill people, morons kill people). The list goes on. I'm a huge fan of violent movies, violent video games, the internet of course, Marilyn Manson, KMFDM, Rammstein...and you know what? I haven't killed anybody yet....hell, I haven't even given anyone a beating, even though I'd like to sometimes. Another reason why I fucking despise the media....they'll do anything for a story and a buck.
You wanna know something that pisses me off? The stupidity of the people who run this country's schools. I recently read an article in the paper about how schools are banning backpacks because of the Columbine shootings (don't even get me started on that subject). My school was one of the first ones to do it like 5 years ago when i was a sophomore...no matter what argument we came up with, the administration would come up with another lame excuse. Here's what one of the many asses at my old high school said in that article...
"Charles Larsuel, assistant principal at Alliance High School, said the school's policy is aimed at preventing students from concealing weapons or any other restricted items such as pagers, CD players and cellular phones."
