Ranty McGee
To start off the new year, I feel like getting some things out of my cranium and out to you folks.
To start, a few reasons why I don't listen to radio if I can help it.
1) I live in the boonies. This means that there's crap radio.
1b) Crap radio consists of mostly country music, two bad rock stations, two top 40 stations, "oldies" (read: disco and other assorted crap), and maybe a classic rock station if I drive west enough for Lansing or south enough for Detroit.
2) Oldies music is now classic rock and disco. What happened to Motown, and Elvis, and the Beatles? If I wanted Bob Segar and Steve Miller or the BeeGees, I'd be on a different station. Except, I don't want the BeeGees. Or Bob Segar. Maaaaybe Steve Miller.
3) I have strong feelings for country music. They are "heartily against" and "PLEASE NO I'M BEGGING YOU."
4) Rock stations, with the sometimes-exception of 89X (which I don't get unless I go south of Flint) are terrible. It's all bad gawth Hot Topic music and old metal and Nirvana. One station, if I remember correctly, had a program segment devoted entirely to Metallica. Give me something GOOD dammit!
5) I haven't listened to a Top 40 station of my own volition for more than a song or two since I was in middle school and discovered that good music isn't always played on the radio. It's too full of crappy rap and club music sampling what had been perfectly good songs that are all about taking off your clothes and grinding against the nearest person (unless you happen to be a guy and the nearest person is also a guy. Now if you're a chick and it's another chick, you are highly encouraged).
6) If I'm listening to a music station, the only thing I want to hear besidesthe MUSIC is you telling me WHAT SAID MUSIC IS. No commercials, no radio shows blathering on about "News of the Weird" or some local idiot or the feud between Rosie O'Donnell and Donald Trump. Commercials? Those are out too, kthx.
That's why I'm so glad that I have a new iPod and why I was glad that my CD player still worked after Pinkie went swimming in apple juice.
I've been seeing previews for this new film, Alpha Dog. According to the tiny blurb on IMDb, it's about a drug dealer who was the youngest person ever on the FBI's most wanted list.
Here are the reasons why I will not be seeing this film. Ever.
A) Justin Timberlake.
A1) Justin Timberlake acting ghetto.
B) Bruce Willis's hair. At least they give you warnings in the previews that it looks bad. John Lithgow in Dreamgirls was a horrid (yet kind of hilarious) surprise.
C) That stupid chick from Mean Girls says "That's hot." *cringe*
D) One person is credited as "'Dance Bitch' Girl."
E) The main guy character from The Girl Next Door is playing Bruce Willis's son. Their last name? Truelove.
F) The guy who played Connor (Angel's son) on Angel is also in it. *second cringe*
To the reviewer at the Flint Journal who said that only 8-year-olds would enjoy Night at the Museum and their parents would have to sit through it and would probably only enjoy slight parts: Screw you, poopface. I loved it, my mother loved it, and don't say I'm biased because I have the attention span and sense of humor of an 8-year-old and I'm going to be working in a museum someday.
Last semester was the Semester of Doom. I came through it and didn't fail it. This semester is the
Semester of Breakdowns
Mon/Wed
HST 392 (History of the Holocaust, aka The Reason I Will Be Depressed all Semester), 8:30-9:50am (north campus)
HST 480 (Senior Seminar, "Your Grandparents War: The Causes, Conduct and Consequences of World War II: An American Perspective," and The Reason Why I Will Hate Those Afternoons because it's with Vieth), 12:40-2pm (north campus)
HST 454 (Indigenous Peoples and Encounter: 900-1815), 6-7:20pm (north campus)
Tues
AL 494 (Museum Exhibitions: Theory & Development), 12:40-3:30pm (the reason why I couldn't get into an interesting or relevant seminar)
Thurs
AL 498 (Learning in Museums), 12:40-3:30pm (the other reason for not being in a different seminar)
Why was/is everyone up in arms about the ideas in The Da Vinci Code? It wasn't even that good of a book. Good theories, decent amount of fact-looking blurbs to back them up, but it was like he was trying to hard to sound right when he was WRITING FICTION. Maybe it's just me and how I can't understand how a woman could travel thousands of miles from Israel to Gaul/France while pregnant and probably without very much protection (unless, y'know, you count having the Grandchild of God growing inside you) and probably mostly on foot. And why it mattered so much since the bloodline would have been either extremely diluted or very screwed up, depending on how often the Merovingians married into the family to keep the line pure. As always, I am also mad at the movie for being stupid as far as casting went. Brown's character description, at least of Sophie, were actually vaguely important to the storyline and, while I love Audrey Tautou, redheaded she is not.
I'm going to go watch The Meaning of Life and shut up now.
To start, a few reasons why I don't listen to radio if I can help it.
1) I live in the boonies. This means that there's crap radio.
1b) Crap radio consists of mostly country music, two bad rock stations, two top 40 stations, "oldies" (read: disco and other assorted crap), and maybe a classic rock station if I drive west enough for Lansing or south enough for Detroit.
2) Oldies music is now classic rock and disco. What happened to Motown, and Elvis, and the Beatles? If I wanted Bob Segar and Steve Miller or the BeeGees, I'd be on a different station. Except, I don't want the BeeGees. Or Bob Segar. Maaaaybe Steve Miller.
3) I have strong feelings for country music. They are "heartily against" and "PLEASE NO I'M BEGGING YOU."
4) Rock stations, with the sometimes-exception of 89X (which I don't get unless I go south of Flint) are terrible. It's all bad gawth Hot Topic music and old metal and Nirvana. One station, if I remember correctly, had a program segment devoted entirely to Metallica. Give me something GOOD dammit!
5) I haven't listened to a Top 40 station of my own volition for more than a song or two since I was in middle school and discovered that good music isn't always played on the radio. It's too full of crappy rap and club music sampling what had been perfectly good songs that are all about taking off your clothes and grinding against the nearest person (unless you happen to be a guy and the nearest person is also a guy. Now if you're a chick and it's another chick, you are highly encouraged).
6) If I'm listening to a music station, the only thing I want to hear besidesthe MUSIC is you telling me WHAT SAID MUSIC IS. No commercials, no radio shows blathering on about "News of the Weird" or some local idiot or the feud between Rosie O'Donnell and Donald Trump. Commercials? Those are out too, kthx.
That's why I'm so glad that I have a new iPod and why I was glad that my CD player still worked after Pinkie went swimming in apple juice.
I've been seeing previews for this new film, Alpha Dog. According to the tiny blurb on IMDb, it's about a drug dealer who was the youngest person ever on the FBI's most wanted list.
Here are the reasons why I will not be seeing this film. Ever.
A) Justin Timberlake.
A1) Justin Timberlake acting ghetto.
B) Bruce Willis's hair. At least they give you warnings in the previews that it looks bad. John Lithgow in Dreamgirls was a horrid (yet kind of hilarious) surprise.
C) That stupid chick from Mean Girls says "That's hot." *cringe*
D) One person is credited as "'Dance Bitch' Girl."
E) The main guy character from The Girl Next Door is playing Bruce Willis's son. Their last name? Truelove.
F) The guy who played Connor (Angel's son) on Angel is also in it. *second cringe*
To the reviewer at the Flint Journal who said that only 8-year-olds would enjoy Night at the Museum and their parents would have to sit through it and would probably only enjoy slight parts: Screw you, poopface. I loved it, my mother loved it, and don't say I'm biased because I have the attention span and sense of humor of an 8-year-old and I'm going to be working in a museum someday.
Last semester was the Semester of Doom. I came through it and didn't fail it. This semester is the
Semester of Breakdowns
Mon/Wed
HST 392 (History of the Holocaust, aka The Reason I Will Be Depressed all Semester), 8:30-9:50am (north campus)
HST 480 (Senior Seminar, "Your Grandparents War: The Causes, Conduct and Consequences of World War II: An American Perspective," and The Reason Why I Will Hate Those Afternoons because it's with Vieth), 12:40-2pm (north campus)
HST 454 (Indigenous Peoples and Encounter: 900-1815), 6-7:20pm (north campus)
Tues
AL 494 (Museum Exhibitions: Theory & Development), 12:40-3:30pm (the reason why I couldn't get into an interesting or relevant seminar)
Thurs
AL 498 (Learning in Museums), 12:40-3:30pm (the other reason for not being in a different seminar)
Why was/is everyone up in arms about the ideas in The Da Vinci Code? It wasn't even that good of a book. Good theories, decent amount of fact-looking blurbs to back them up, but it was like he was trying to hard to sound right when he was WRITING FICTION. Maybe it's just me and how I can't understand how a woman could travel thousands of miles from Israel to Gaul/France while pregnant and probably without very much protection (unless, y'know, you count having the Grandchild of God growing inside you) and probably mostly on foot. And why it mattered so much since the bloodline would have been either extremely diluted or very screwed up, depending on how often the Merovingians married into the family to keep the line pure. As always, I am also mad at the movie for being stupid as far as casting went. Brown's character description, at least of Sophie, were actually vaguely important to the storyline and, while I love Audrey Tautou, redheaded she is not.
I'm going to go watch The Meaning of Life and shut up now.