Friday, May 28, 2010

Going country and the dolphins making me cry

It has been noted that country fans are now the only people buying records. With this revelation, artists* like Darius rucker** Jessica Simpson*** and my jewel have all taken a dumbing down approach to songwriting (or in Jessica simpson's case....song selection). The idea is to fall in line and sound more like everyone else in an attempt to regain relevance. What you would imagine would happen is the community would see this as an insincere attempt to cash in....especially if you check the jewel timeline and see her first failed attempt at reinventing herself as a bimbo pop artist (0304 era). Fortunately for them, country radio and fans embrace turning minor celebrities to the dark side. Darius rucker is currently opening for one of the top guys in the biz (whatever a brad paisley is) and Jessica simpson's parlayed a successful country album into another awful reality show.
So what we've learned from this is if your career in music has gone to shit, you have two options....go country or collaborate with timbaland. Ask Chris Cornell how that one worked out for him.

*I use that term loosely.
**who before that tried his hand at selling burger king chicken sandwiches
***who tried a shitty reality show and a few shorty movies before coming back to shorty music

Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Life without windows and toilets

I was thinking alot about mega man today. Do those guys just sit in
rooms with no windows and one door waiting for him to come kill them?
If air man kills mega man, does he call heat man to tell him to go
about his life or does heatman just sit in that room until he
eventually dies? Where's the bathroom? How does snake man take a shit?
If they want to leave their themed domain to hang out with dr. Wiley,
do they have to fight their way out from all the bomb bats or angry
indestructible slinky monsters....or are they all friends? Henchmen?
Bodyguards? Are they PROTECTING him from mega man (who, lets be
honest...is invading their home) or is their common goal just to get
him there and make him dead? If he teleports to these locations upon
his own free will, why doesn't he just go teleport into dr. Wiley's
bedroom? Is mega man's goal just absolute destruction of all robots
except him?

How does he extract bad guys' powers? Is he pulling it out of their
ass? Doesn't his original form compared to some of his upgrades prove
what a superior engineer Wiley is to dr. Light? Is that what this is
all about? Is mega man busting up wiley's shit cause light's jealous?
Those platform rockets could come in handy.

It's really just a fluke that he makes it through all those bosses.
Ultimately, he's a gay little boy in spandex wearing a bike helmet and
an arm cannon. It seems a tremendous waste of time to wait around in
an empty room to fight him.....especially with no window.

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