In addition to that last post

The idea of having a skill set that you need from HIGHSCHOOL to get into a postsecondary course is just fucking retarded. That’s an academic aspect that is designed on the basis of you knowing what you want to spend the rest of your life doing at GRADE TEN. What the fuck is that? That’s another reason people seem so unhappy with their jobs. They did what they wanted to do in HIGHSCHOOL but by the time they matured and figured out what they really wanted to do with their lives they got shitcanned by the system and were left with the alternatives (in their minds) of jobs based on what they did in highschool. And from there their only options are A: go to adult learning institutions to spend a bunch of time getting the credits they need for the college/uni course they want or B: give up and get a job that they’re presently qualified for. This is problematic because option A requires them to waste even more time sitting in a classroom essentially re-doing highschool and B requires them to sacrifice (in most cases that I’ve found) their happiness to get a real job and work towards retirement.

IN SUMMATION

I can tell you right now that Highschool (grade 10) me and Present day me are two very different people with two very different ambitions. Setting kids up for their futures in this sort of way is very cruel and unfair. 

What part of any of that seems like a working system to you?

There are a lot of posts going around facebook/twitter/tumblr etc about postsecondary education…

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My aristocratic views on alcohol

Fruity drinks are for kids who have to get someone else to buy it for them because they

• hate the taste of alcohol
• are 12 years old
• haven’t learned to be good at life

Drinks like Scotch on the rocks, Martinis (Vodka and Vermouth, none of this flavoured bullshit), Boilermakers, special coffees, any “Russians” (black, white, etc) or Godfathers 

are for

• Real Men
• Hemingway
• People who can actually appreciate alcohol
• My dad
• His dad
• Not lame 12 year old cabinboys
• Anyone who existed from the beginning of the 1st world war to the end of the 2nd world war

So there.

Terry Fox Run is coming up

While there are many people still suffering, there’s also a lot of people who’ve been cancer-free for upwards of 3 years who just don’t know what else to do. It’s like instead of curing cancer, Cancer took over and they’ve become their illness; it’s all they seem to know.

You’ve been cured!……3 years ago.

It’s been almost 4 years since I ran my brother over with a van, and we don’t go to a Toyota dealership every year to celebrate how close he was to death. You know what we do? He goes to school with a titanium rod in his leg, sits in class, goes to the washroom, has lunch, more class, plays music, and comes home. Then we have dinner, maybe call each other a faggot or something and he does homework.

I wake up, go to work, come home, eat, have a beer, play guitar and then play Xbox.

I almost killed my brother. We got over it. We make jokes about it when it’s brought up at family gatherings. But that’s the most we’ll talk about it (aside from this post)

Point is, if everybody just spent their time dwelling on what a close call it was, you wouldn’t get anywhere.

This is all copied from my other blog to aid my point/dig my hole deeper.

I honestly hate saying this, but I feel like once it’s out here, it’ll be out of me for good. Cancer is an industry. Think about that. If we cure cancer, imagine how many people will be out of a job. My father had colon cancer, and he’s better now. I’m not saying that gives me more of a right to say this than anyone else, but it at least made me somewhat more understanding of the cancer fundraising industry.

Another controversial post: LGBT

If we really wanted solidarity and unification with things such as LGBT we wouldn’t use such phrases as “we’re here, we’re queer, get used to it.”

First off, I still think the phrases “queer” and “dyke” are offensive. I don’t like saying them, and I don’t like it when others use them. Secondly, I think it’s much more productive if instead of identifying yourself as gay, bi, pan, whatever, why not identify yourself as someone who pays taxes, or someone who is a huge James Dean fan. Wearing it on your sleeve isn’t demanding acceptance. It’s demanding that everyone else Identifies you as [Gay, bi, pan, trans, etc]. That’s not perpetuating a better tomorrow.

Personally, the Pride Parade is, in my opinion, a bad idea. Mainly because of the bias in newspapers. Most of the coverage you see in the papers about Pride week is pictures of what essentially look like The Village People; a lot of stripper cops dancing and making out, essentially Mardi Gras in Amsterdam. Now, I know you’ll probably retort with “But that’s just what the papers are making you see, it’s not actually JUST that.” Well, that very well may be. But what if we just don’t all fuck in the streets to begin with and not give the papers that opportunity to “misinterpret” the essence of the parade.

There are heinous hate crimes committed. I won’t lie. And it’s fucking disgusting. But the same people who commit these crimes, these terrible fucking people, will see what the newspapers print and they’re not going to think “OMG that’s so cute! why don’t we hang out with them more?!” They’re going to think “fuckin’ queers goddammit shit piss what the fuck is that shit on my streets?!” And perpetuate the cycle.

I’m sorry the most I can really do is tear down this event. I know it’s important to a lot of people, but I just don’t believe it’s terribly effective at striving for equality. On the direct topic of equality, In Toronto there is an LGBT radio station, and one (that I’ve seen) lgbt newspaper. Now, the rest of the populace don’t have papers or stations geared towards a %100 hetero demographic. There was an instance in history where another segregated demographic had these sort of ‘walled off’ institutions. They had their own spots on busses, their own drinking fountains, their own bathrooms, etc. That was because it was something imposed on them by an outside, discriminatory force. Determined to segregate and discriminate against this one group of people.

And now you, the LGBT, are setting up radio stations and newspapers specifically for LGBT people? This sort of seems like walling yourself off MORE, not breaking down any cultural barriers that were and are already there.

I wish people in general could be more accepting. I really do. And I’m really sorry I can’t come up with a more viable solution to that.

I might swing both ways, but until things change, associating myself with the LGBT will be the last thing I ever do.

If one more person tries to show me “inspector gadget” dubstep…

…I will stab you in the neck with my shoes.

1. Dubstep isn’t good.
2. Trying to make Dubstep appeal to me through my childhood is like dressing a prostitute up like Thomas The Tank Engine. It’s just horribly twisted and even less appealing.
3. Dubstep isn’t good unless you’re well into your drinks.
4. seriously, stop showing me this god damn song.

I’m sorry, but Dubstep and techno (to me) are still second best to bands with real instruments. This can be broken down in the following categories: Emotion, Concert experience, and (dare I say) raw talent.

There’s a variety of emotion portrayed in music that is non-techno. This may be my lack of experience in the realm of techno and its deformed, strange relatives or my lack of experience in heavy narcotics but in techno I have yet to detect any real emotional attributes. A big part of this comes from a singer in a real band. Autotuned, edited stock vocals are dust in comparison with something original. For example. Let’s compare Adele “Rolling In The Deep” with Benny Benassi’s “Satisfaction.” Granted these are extremes, but the point is still valid. With Dubstep, I have no idea what sort of emotional attribute “BWOMP BWOMP BWOMP BWOMP BWAAAAAH RAH AH AH AH” is supposed to portray, it sort of sounds like the soundtrack to Dry Heaves. Or the noise fat people’s shoes would make if they could talk. Moving on.

I have only seen techno concerts in clips on youtube. HOWEVER I have been to a fair share more live concerts. And the feeling is pure exhileration. Watching the musicians on stage portray their feelings and energy towards the crowd, and the crowd responds with doing the same. At a techno concert or Rave or whatever the hell it’s called, there’s something about it that just seems to me to be different and outlandish. I feel as if the DJ at a concert (another problem, there’s no musician. Period. It’s a DJ. DISC JOCKEY. Someone who is just very adept at pressing play.) Is as real musicians are to playing weddings. Just sort of there. It’s less of a spectacle. So it’s buried under lights, 808 bass drops and -oh god- fog machines. Granted some bands do the same, but I believe I wrote an article about them. Just scroll through my blog until you find a picture of ATTACK ATTACK and BRING ME THE HORIZON in the same space. Anyway, veering back on track. Nothing is more raw than a live band. However, live techno is just like going to HMV and listening to the new skrillex demo (in this respect). I like it when my music isn’t perfect. Of course it’s cool when a musician nails a solo or sings perfectly, but if they fuck up it has something extra. It’s a very human addition to the experience.

Which brings me to the overall talent of the creators. This is different as nobody can really say either side isn’t Talented. Techno is more technologically involved, hence the name. The real music is more involved in a more instrumental sense. Sure there’s keyboards on either side, but there’s so much more on the non-techno side. There are drums, not a drum machine, there’s guitar (sometimes) ALONG WITH a synthesizer, and real vocals. 

So, after reading this (or at least skimming through this) I hope you’ll stop posting me links to dubstep and dubstep bi-products. Some of it is okay, but if you want me to listen to dubstep, You’d better be offering free booze. 

/End rant.