My First Pointless Blog on Blogspot! [also known as Sleep & Entertainment]

Occasionally I like to just post a blog and ramble on about what is going on in my life and whatever happens to come to mine! It may end up having a point, it may not. There may end up being some part of it worth reading, there may not. As the title of this blog states, this is my first time to do this on Blogspot! Not like anyone reads this... YET!

For those of you who may not know, I work in production at a local television station. I don't think anyone who works in production has a "normal" work schedule... but some get it worse than others. I am one of those people. 2am to 8am Monday through Friday! When I say 2am Monday... you probably would consider that to be Sunday night. As you might have guessed, this all makes for a very strange sleeping schedule. I really don't think it is all that terrible. The worst part is getting off of work at 8am. For real, what is there to do?! Most people I would do anything with are still sleeping, going to work, or going to school. Even a large percentage of stores are still closed. So, on a normal day I just end up coming home. A normal thinking person would assume that this is no problem, I just go home until there is something to do or the stores open. Well there are two problems with this. First of all, try working a strange schedule like this for a while, once you get home, you aren't going to want to get back out. The second problem, which has become the bigger problem, is gas prices! I like 30 minutes from just about anywhere I would go to do anything. It is getting harder and harder to take that drive and spend that money just because I am bored. Ready for me to get to the conclusion? Well there isn't one. Like I said at the beginning, I am just rambling.

I did go shopping yesterday and bought three new sources of entertainment! One in each of the basic forms! Printed media, recorded sound, and film! In other words, a new book... well... graphic novel, a new CD, and a new DVD. So far, I have watched the movie and listened to the CD a few times. I have been impressed with both. I will more than likely get to the graphic novel tomorrow... and I already know it will be amazing. So, are you asking yourself what I got? I know you are! So, here you go...

Here is my total nerdness coming out. My addiction as of recently has been graphic novels. Basically a long comic book or series of comics all put together in one book. I know that as soon as soon I mentioned comic books, I probably lost the one person who may have been reading this.

As much as I read comics lately, there are few that I will actually spend my money on. Why buy when you can just sit in book s a million and read them?! This is one of the few that I will actually buy. Try to imagine this... Marvel super heroes... as zombies! What more could you ask for? Add in a sense of humor and it is all complete. Dead Days was recently put out. It is basicly a collection of all the comics that led up to the Marvel Zombies and Marvel Zombies vs. The Army of Darkness comics. I guess you could say it is the prequel to Marvel Zombies. I will be reading this in the next day or two, but I can already tell you that it is going to be great!

I would recommend this and any other of the Marvel Zombies comics to anyone who is a fan of zombies or Marvel comics. Just a fan of Zombies? Check out the Walking Dead series of graphic novels. I have purchases the first 7 of them and am now just waiting for the 8th one.

Now to the new CD that I got yesterday! Ask anyone what they remember Rivers Cuomo of Weezer looking like and they will probably mention his thick rimmed glasses and rather nerdy look. Need some examples? Ok, click these links to see pictures: [Example 1] [Example 2] [Example 3] [Example 4] Ok, remember now?
Now to get to why I am talking about how he looks. As is obvious by the cover of the new album, he has a very different look now. Cowboy hat, western cut shirt with pearl snaps, gnarly mustache, and hair flipping out in the back. This is in no way saying the new album has a country sound to it... it is simply just that strange and random. Oh, and did I mention his GNARLY MUSTACHE?

To be honest here, I have never been much of a Weezer fan before. I had heard them on the radio and that was about it. I didn't even know that I had two of their other albums on my iPod until I went to upload this one. I don't even know why I payed money for this album... but I am glad I did. I have not stopped listening to it yet. It has gotten stuck in my head and I can't get it out. From what I have read online about it, they have tried some new things that they have not done before. They have switch instruments on some songs and different people from the band are singing too. A few of the tracks have the same kind of sound as their old stuff that I remember, but the rest... well... it is different. Track 2, The Greatest Man That Ever Lived (Variations on a Shaker Hymn), is by far the strangest track on the album. I don't even know how to describe it, so I will just give you a quote from their bass player Scott Shriner, "The song 'The Greatest Man That Ever Lived' is a masterpiece that includes ten different styles of music based around a common theme." It is very interesting indeed.

So, I have basically written all of this to say that I throughly enjoy the album. Will you enjoy it if you were a big fan of old Weezer music? I really can't tell you that... but at least check it out!

I really don't have much to say about this one. I had heard a lot of good stuff about it, but just never gotten around to seeing it. Target had it for ten dollars so I thought "why not!?"

Another comedy by the guys that brought us the oh so amazing Shaun of the Dead. Yay for funny British guys!

Fan of Shaun of the Dead? Watch this.
Fan of comedies? Watch this.
Fan of cop movies? Maybe watch this... but only of you also like Shaun of the Dead or Comedies.

Ok, I think that is all I have to talk about in this blog.
THE END.

"The Most Hated Family in America"

Today, like usual, I was bored and messing around on MySpace. I saw where Dan of PlayRadioPlay! had posted a bulletin titled "New blog post! (About Westboro Baptist Church)." This bulletin linked you to the new blog Dan had written, entitled "Fred Phelps is a big dumb meany (and he doesn’t deserve to wear a cowboy hat)." I have previously read about and also blogged about Westboro Baptist Church, so I knew some about it. What he had posted that I thought was so interesting was a documentary filmed for The BBC. Normally I would sit and type what I think about this situation, but at the moment, I am at a loss for words on how to describe how disgusted these people make me. So, if you know about Westboro or don't care to learn more and just want to watch the documentary, skip to the bottom of the post, but if you wish to know a little before watching, I am going to post some information I got off of Wikipedia.com about the church....

The Most Hated Family in America is a TV documentary written and presented by the BBC's Louis Theroux about the family at the heart of the Westboro Baptist Church.

At the heart of the documentary is the Westboro Baptist Church (WBC), a U.S. church group headed by Fred Phelps and based in Topeka, Kansas. It runs the website GodHatesFags.com, and GodHatesAmerica.com, and other websites expressing condemnation of homosexuals, Roman Catholics, Muslims, Jews, Sweden, Ireland, Canada, and other groups. The organization is monitored by the Anti-Defamation League, and classified as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center. The group has achieved national notoriety in recent years due to its picketing of funeral processions of US soldiers killed in action in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The church bases its work around the belief expressed by its best known slogan and the address of its primary website, "God hates fags", and expresses the opinion, based on its Biblical interpretation, that nearly every tragedy in the world is God's punishment for homosexuality – specifically society's increasing tolerance and acceptance of gay, lesbian, and bisexual people. It maintains that God hates homosexuals above all other kinds of "sinners" and that homosexuality should be a capital crime.

Louis Theroux stated that the Phelpses are the most extreme people he has ever met. In an interview on the BBC website, Theroux gave his opinion on the teachings of Fred Phelps.

"I think that the pastor is not a very nice person. I think he's an angry person who's twisted the Bible and picked and chosen verses that support his anger, that sort of justify his anger, and he's instilled that in his children and they've passed it on to their children. Although the second and third generation are by and large quite nice people from what I saw, they still live under the influence of their Gramps."

Apart from their hateful protests, Theroux found them to be quite kind.

"It shows you what strange avenues the religious impulse can take you down. I think another part of the answer is that parts of the Christian Bible are pretty weird. There's a lot of weird stuff in there and when you take that and you add this angry, domineering kind of a father figure, which is Gramps, and you add that he has sort of separated them off from other people, other families and driven them to achieve a lot, and he was kind of a charismatic guy, and still is up to a point. He was a very verbal, very persuasive, an extremely compelling speaker. All these things added together combined to make a powerful influence."

After Fred Phelps viewed the film, he preached a sermon in April 2007 attacking Theroux, calling him "Screwy Louis" and a "jackass." [listen to Fred Phelps' sermon by clicking here]

"The Most Hated Family in America"

BEWARE! Ignorance runs wild among us.

I was looking at the news on AOL moments ago and I decided to check out the earthquake that happened in China last night to get an update on what was going on. I think the first paragraph said it all...

"BEIJING (May 12) -- One of the worst earthquakes in decades struck central China on Monday, killing nearly 9,000 people, trapping about 900 students under the rubble of their school and causing a toxic chemical leak, state media reported."

Unfortunately, the story it's self isn't what I found to be the most disturbing part. That honor is left for the people who had left comments about the earthquake on the page to share with the world what they thought.

"Any country that eats thier own dogs for dinner had it coming."

"Great and painful tragedy.
Get smart, God is angry.
Return to Him with good deeds and love."

"THAT IS WHAT CHINA GETS AFTER ALL THE HORRIFIC THINGS THEY DO TO ANIMALS.......THROWING THEM IN BOILING WATER AND RIPPING THEIR SKIN OFF WHILE THEY ARE STILL ALIVE.....SLOWLING CLUBBING THEM TO DEATH AND LEAVING THEM THEIR TO DIE A SLOW HORRIBLE BLOODY DEATH.....AND SO ON.
CHINA IS A DISGRACE"

"Well, they been trying to kill us, our kids and our pets for years now! It's karma baby.
If not for the children I wouldn't care one bit."

"You need to get rid of your televisions and celphones and video games and magazines and everything else in your life that fills your heart with lies.
Technology is SATAN'S TOOL and he relishes filling you with false gods.
REDEMPTION FAST APPROACHES AND ONLY THE DEVOUT WILL SURVIVE HIS MAJESTY'S JUDGEMENT!!!!!!!!!!!!"

These are only a sample of what people are saying. Comments were being added so quickly that I stopped looking because I couldn't keep up. I am not saying that maybe this really is some "anger of God" thing, I am not saying it isn't, but I don't think that posting your opinion in an angry manner on a news story about THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE DEAD is the right way to let people know what you believe. Ok, this people are all dead because they live in a Godless country? I don't see the people saying these things going out to try to change this.

What I find to be even worse than people using the death of thousands to shove God down people's throats are the people who say that China deserves this because of eating dogs and such?! COME ON! You may not think it is right, but in case you didn't notice, different people groups have different beliefs when it comes to things like this. In America, we happen to have dogs as pets. Ok, that is how we do things. In other places, they have to eat what they can get, and that happens to be dogs. THEY ARE ALL ANIMALS! To us they are pets, to them they are food. How much of the American way of life is looked down upon by other counties? Hindus find cows to be holy, but we still eat them! How many other countries find the rampant promiscuity of our society to be just as bad, if not even worse that China eating dogs? I DO! Do I think that God should send some disaster or something to show us the error of our ways? No, because that wouldn't change a thing for anyone. Wake up people.

End rant.

Hello Blogspot.

So, I have created another blog. I have been using Xanga for years and thought that it was about time to reach out to another blogging site because Xanga seems to slowly be dying. I really didn't know it was possible for it to die more than it already had. I have nothing specific that I am going to use this page for. I may post about music, maybe movie, maybe just what is going on it my life. I can't even guarantee you that I will be the one writing everything on this page, I may just copy it from other sites if it is something cool. To be honest, I may never even post on it. I have a bad habit of tying out long blogs and then I just never seem to post them. Whatever. I have joined the world of Blogspot. Wait... or is it called Blogger? The individual urls are Blogspot, but the main page is Blogger. Whatever. I am here.

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