For all you non red meat eating because you think its healthy....HIPPIES....perhaps you wont know what im talking about...for those of you who are the more rare....the better.....you will. seems like going to bed with a a nice piece of beef in your belly...gives you more clarity on your dreams......or nightmares. i guess you could say....im a bit of a seer. psychic if you will.....a couples years ago...i saw the writing on the wall...reality tv shows had consumed the mindless viewer....shows like who wants to be a millionaire where they intentionally get stupid people on there and ask them random questions about who wore the red hat in annie get you gun.....our society...was making a turn...for the worst......that turn for the worst...became.....the new mtv....i hate you. you are the sole reason my little sisters are matierialistic...and shallow...its not their fault...they weren't given a choice....there is no alternative...there is no underground anymore.... the kids are fucked....taking back sunday and girls like boys are not the underground....you actually call that shit punk...its not even pop punk....its hot topic....its bullshit. im not going to sit here while writing yet another poignant and prophetic essay on why im better than most people and am actually more self actualized than most.....before i admit i did watch mtv. i pose this question....were we....like the kids today....just too caught up in the mainstream....with bands like veruca salt....better than ezra....catherine wheel.... belly..... Mathew sweet....sebadoh..etc..etc..etc......or where those band legit? i think they were. ive never been so anti mainstream....ive always given them the benefit of the doubt....if its good music its good music...90s alternative was good. punk was punk....not punk because myspace was around...not so simple to start bands....and if you did have a band..it was hard to get out of your city...so your local scene was pretty rad....so rad....that bands from other scenes used to call bands on the phone and ask if they wanted to trade shows....the market wasnt so over saturated with shitty bands.....sure....the scene was more tight knit back then....maybe more pretentious....but i t was a scene...now people use the word scene to describe how someone looks....image has completely replaced talent....its not about the quality of your music....its about being indie as fuck...or emo...long hair...boots...leather jacket....unisex jeans....bright colors......so...where does the induviduality come from being a musician anymore... image has become so important because mtv told us it was...they told us if we are going to listen to punk rock...lets dress in designer punk clothes while doing it... lets go get our hair colored by a pro at the salon....lets go to hot topic and buy a 30 dollar band t shirt..(ever noticed they all look the same now?) sure....i sound fucking pathetic don't i...complaining about all this shit when at the end of the day...maybe im a hypocrite for listening to new country...not just the punk./indie/alt.....but country music makes no bones about what they are. they are designed to have singers...and songwriters..and studio musicians and big tours...it was always like that...even when hank Williams and George jones were around.....most country artists don't write their songs....that way it always been. but alternative music hasn't always sucked this bad. i.e. the 80s and 90s. now the music we listen to on the fox has been compromised but about 10-20 of the same producers who in a skull and bones scret meeting got together and said...lets make a formula for shitty music...we need to perpetuate the eddie vetter voice as a much as possible...we need to make sure we keep puddle of mudd/ limp biscuit style songs on the radio...we need catchy mindless hooks like daughtry....and all the songs in general need to sound the same....one would think with all this jock rock and general bullshit....when a band comes along like the hive or the strokes...they would do better than just marginal success....well...perhaps its their respective record label not wanting to put that much money in paying the radio stations to play them (payola anyone?) or maybe its these bands actually have integrity.... i was recently...just this morning actually watching vh1 classic and saw that you can buy tickets to co on a cruise with bands like three doors down..finger eleven....and some other bands of that caliber that the bands of phoenix hill just love to emulate....and i was thinking about a couple things....first off...anyone who would go on this cruise....would probably goto phoenix hill because the music is good....and they really don't truly like music......they like what the rock star dj's on the fox tell them to like...the ones who sound like they are so cool....till you see them in person..bald on the top with long hair like fucking poison and motley crue are gonna get big again and they were so cutting edge for having long hair. there are the chicks that wear cowboy hats and have their belly buttons pierced...they would go....only to try to tune (aka bone) one of the members of those bands. there are the guys who would go to try to tune the girls who are trying to tune the band members....and so on and so on...then there is the people who are on some sort of new program with jefferson county corrections where their punishment is to go and listen to these bands and serve all the douche band coronas and bud lights. and the occasional shot of cheap tequila.
