Rappers and Bones

Rappers are one of my least favourite kinds of people when it comes to the media; they portray themselves as gangsters, pimps and man-whores, and what's worse is that they are made to seem cool because of this! They, and the people who fund them, are giving the idea to young people (i.e. anyone under my age of 21) that being a criminal is cool as long as you're rich.

This is wrong; being a criminal is cool as long as you are intelligent about it! The criminals which are actually cool are the ones that don't just commit crimes to get money, girls and cars; The Joker, Lex Luthor, Batman, Kingpin, Magneto, John Travolta and Halle Berry in Swordfish, Jigsaw, Prince Arthas and Kerrigan.

Kids, I know you're listening. If you want to find cool criminals/villains then you should turn to geekery!

On a related note, I'd have a lot less of a problem with rappers if more of them were like Timbaland. Bless him, he seems to have fun in everything he does and cannot suppress what seems to be a bubbly and joyful personality. If you seem him in his, Justin Timberlake's and Nelly Furtado's videos then you'll see that he just can't help but have fun. That's a decent role model, I say, if children cannot get on board with geekery.

This bring me along to another media constant; incredibly thin women. I hate really thin women; I have a bit of an issue with the internals of the human body anyway but, putting that aside, women under a certain size just aren't attractive. I do not want to see all the bones on a woman's back, espescially not every ten second on television!

It's not attractive. To those kids who haven't left already after my villain tirade I say DO NOT think that you need to be a size 4 to be sexy. It is not attractive to have the same size body at 20 that you had at 12! Eat, for the love of Cthulhu, eat!

I'm honestly beginning to think that there are a few women and a couple of sadistic men at the top of the advertising industry that are both forcing models to starve themselves and making women and young girls feel terrible about their body shapes.

Now, I don't want to be hypocritical here; if you feel comfortable in a size 6 body, then whip-crack away. I just don't think that the majority of women on adverts should be less than a size 12, mostly because it makes most women feel terrible and partially because seeing a woman's shoulder blades and ribs every twenty seconds is horrible.

Join me again next time kids!

Should I be worried?

Whilst playing Pokemon Emerald today I had the following series of messages;

Foe's LUVDISC uses ATTRACT.
GARDEVOIR falls for foe's ATTRACT.
GARDEVOIR is in love with foe's LUVDISC.
GARDEVOIR uses PSYCHIC.
It's a critical hit!
Foe's LUVDISC has fainted.

...?

It's a kind of ennui...

Well, I've finished another draft of my novel. I was happy, but now I've gone quite down hill over the whole thing. I don't know... it's just strange. I loved what I had written, but now I'm scared.

Scared that I'm just stupid to have tried writing... scared that I'm not good enough... scared that the novel isn't good enough...

I've kind of lost my impetus to keep writing, despite the fact that I start a job soon and I'll not have anywhere near this much free time. I am forcing myself to keep up to the deadlines that Font will impose when the site is up and working, but apart from that I... I don't know.

I think I'm just worried about what people are going to say when they read the novel. I've never been able to handle failure well (yeah, I know, how the hell can I not have learned to cope with failure when I'm a man?!), and I'd feel like a failure if people over-criticised the work.

Then again, I might feel like a failure if they don't fall in love instantly with the novel and beg me to write more. I'm just that stupid!

It's been affecting other parts of my life; I'm just feeling very down, and I've been unfairly taking it out on my girlfriend. Hopefully this little bit of ranting will help.

Ennui is a good word for how I'm feeling, but I can't let it get to me anymore. Need to pull myself up by my own bootstraps, as it were. Not that I've worn proper boots since middle school...

Beaten by a banana and peanut butter

I am a big fan of Bruce Campbell, and on his website he talks about how he was in an advert for Old Spice recently. Unfortunately the link on his site involved you downloading the advert, and I just couldn't be bothered with that so I headed over to YouTube to watch it.

It was quite amusing, and very Bruce, but that's not really why I'm posting. I'm posting becase of one of the related videos that came up. It was ominously titled Peanut Butter, The Atheist's Nightmare.

I decided to watch it, but couldn't carry on after about half of it. It basically claims that evolution is wrong because peanut butter, or anything for that matter, does not spontaneously create life when subjected to the normal levels of background heat and light experienced in a supermarket.

As if this wasn't bad enough, the Christians have found another way to scare non-believers; the Banana!

That's right; because a banana doesn't squirt you in the face when you open it, and because it curves towards the face, God must exist.

My life, my philosophies, everything I am is a lie. All because those crafty Christians thwarted my theories with peanut butter and a banana...

Some bitching

One of my biggest bugbears is when an artist/group user their name as part of their song. This mostly happens in rap, thought Beyonce and Shakira proved that it can happen anywhere, to anyone, at any time.
It just annoys me so much because it's lazy songwriting! "What do we do here, man?" "I know! We'll use our band/artist's name!" "Yeah! That's completely original, and it's sending a message. Because, that's who we/they are!"

Bah.

Then again, a lot of my kind of music has some terrible lyrics as well. Disturbed even use their name in their song Dropping Plates. That doesn't make it right, though.
In fact, it's worse because Disturbed should know better!

Well, here's the site..

Basically, this is me being quite happy that the site is now up and working.

Wahoo!