Screamo Music

Alright, I have had it up to here (points to ceiling) with this new "screamo" music. It is pure shit in its highest concentration. It was probably the creation of some scene kid thinking "hey, I can attempt to play metal, add a whole bunch of angst and wear tight-ass jeans and I can start a trend." Unfortunately, he was right....

First off, all it ever talks about is how depressed they are or how much their life sucks. Do not believe this, they are all upper-middle class kids living in suburbia or in Williamsburg. They are a follower of the "scene" stereotype down to the point where "if your not with them, your against them." They also think they are "br00tal" so they like to scream like a grizzly bear on cocaine.

Second, they think they can play their instruments... but they cant. I have listened to a few songs by "popular" screamo bands such as Attack Attack, Confide, and Bring Me The Horizon(I swear to god I wanted to shoot myself after each and every song). All of these songs have the same recycled guitar tracks, drum beats, and angsty vocals. Also, what is this thing called a "breakdown"? Its like, the people decided not to play(thankfully) and the singer didn't get the memo. And to top it all off, the solos suck. I listen to REAL metal and Progressive so I know what a solo is but this... this is just pure shit. Its like the guitar player had an epileptic seizure and the resulting spasm was the solo.

And finally, the last point, ignorant people label it as metal. People who listen to other types of music hear a fast song with distorted guitars and automatically think it is metal. THIS IS NOT TRUE!!! If every fast paced song with distortion was metal, there would most likely be no other genres. Metal has a more classic sound with a deeper sounding guitar in which you can hear and underlying complex drum beat and bass line. This is usually accompanied by vocals that you can usually make out clearly. This does not hold true for most new bands who like to growl or what I like to call "the cannibal corpse." But it is acceptable. This does not hold true for ANY screamo song whatsoever.

So after reading this, if you still think that those aforementioned bands are "metal," then go slam your head into an industrial sized tuning fork and hopefully, if you do this enough times, your head will explode from the vibrations. Have a good day.

People on Rock Band Online

So I turn on my Xbox and decide "hey, I want to play Rock Band." So I do just that and realize that I don't want to just play by myself, I want to play with other people online. So I hit search and sure enough, theres at least one asshole who all he cares about is how much DLC (downloadable content) that he has. He would usually have a name like "421 + RB1 + Lego" or "562 DLC". Somehow, these people are always the leader and when they don't see people who have shelled out over $500 worth of Microsoft Points to buy all those songs, they go ballistic and kick everyone to make up for it.

Me personally, I have only 40 DLC songs and about 8 RBN songs plus the RB1 stuff, but I don't go around flaunting it. I wont kick people because they don't want to spend extra money on a game. I know how they feel, so I try not to be an asshole. And if you are reading this and you find yourself to be one of those people: please, do us all a favor and hit yourself repeatedly in the crotch until you realize how much of a douche bag you are.

What I hate

There are many things right now that I hate. Things that just grind your gears and make you mad. They are usually little things, things that have no real importance but just make you mad anyway. Like a pet peeve but not really a pet peeve you know?

Mine is when a series (no matter if it is a TV series, a series of books, an anime, etc.) has a very abrupt ending. Its like the studio ran out of money or ideas and just decided to end it. Recently, I've been reading a lot more manga than I usually do and Ive been picking out random manga to read. Almost all the time, Ill get a series that is really good to me and then suddenly, It'll be the last chapter and I'm left wondering what the fuck? A really good example is a series called Dual Arts. What I thought was halfway through the thing was actually the end. They finished off the manga right in the middle of the series providing nothing to follow up. Sometimes it is acceptable when they abruptly end a series and then make a sequel series to follow up but this one they didn't. It is very disappointing for the follower of that series to one day come home and realize that it has been finished halfway through the plot.

Kubit

So this year had its ups and its downs but that is not including the every day hilarity of my art 3H class period 6. Of all of my classes, this had to be my favorite not because of the subject but because of the things that went on in that class.

For starters, I will talk about the teacher herself: Mrs. Kubit.

Mrs. Kubit was a very odd woman. She had a reputation in the high school for being a mean teacher and making you hate art.... this was all true. She had many odd habits including always using the color purple, she liked to go on and on about her deaf (dumb and blind) daughter (who can play a mean pinball), and she would "help" you with your work yet what she did would most likely be the worst part on the piece. Even on my shitty artwork, hew "additions" would look like shit.

In addition to her horrible habits, she was also very rude, she was a hypocrite, and she would call me out for no reason. Every day, she would yell at me to stop talking for no reason even if I was sitting in my seat listening to my iPod. One time, she told my mother that I was "rude in class" and "very belligerent" even though I could have the entire class back me up that I wasnt.

Now, on to the more positive parts of the class.

Honestly, I can say this class was stacked in my favor. I had some good friends like Zach, Tatiana and Heru while there were other people like Janel, Matt and Andrew (AWW GWAH GWAH). I think Kubit hated us all.

And now, two words: Kubits bottle. For a few days, me, Matt and Andrew would hide her water bottle. Now, this would require some back story. During the course of the year, we noticed that Kubit would always have a Poland Spring bottle of water with her an she would constantly drink from it every five seconds. So I had the brilliant idea that hiding said water bottle would be very funny. At first, we blamed it on Mrs. Flynn but Kubit eventually figured out it was us and said she saw us on "cameras." Said cameras have yet to be found to this day...