Japanese Girls Rocking Overhyped American BBQ
"This is the version that goes into the Pre-Calc book because it's not a practical example." - Adol. Math Prof.
"We can always reprove it; hopefully it's still true." - Algebra Prof.
"How do you know that? You don't. But it's still true." - Algebra Prof.
And here are some other thoughts that have been going through my head recently...
1 - I've recently seen new photos of Avril, and heard her new song, and I have to say, she's well on her way down the path of Stefani. It's debatable if she was ever a "punk rocker", but now she's moving right along into the pop world. How much longer until she has her own group of Japanese girls following her around everywhere?
2 - I've also seen Gwen's new video, and I must say that it is the worst thing I have ever seen. Her outfits are like Peter Gibbon's days in Office Space. Every outfit was the worst outfit I had ever seen. Also, side note, why do rappers always point to the sky? After rapping about gansta life on the street can you really then point to the sky and thank God? I mean seriously, come on.
3 - The Zone (a local "new rock" radio station) recently was giving away tickets for the upcoming Modest Mouse concert in Rochester. Why does the Zone have tickets to this show? In all the time the Zone has been on the air they have not once played a Modest Mouse song. My only theory is that there is added publicity after their lead singer slit his wrists on stage at a recent concert, so the Zone wants to capitalize on that. Classy.
4 - Also recently heard on the Zone (sometimes I wonder why I listen to this station at all): "I've got a cover song coming up, but first here's Rage Against the Machine with Renegades of Funk." Yeah...see, that song is a cover. In fact, that entire Rage album is an album of covers. That is almost as bad as the time I heard one DJ introduce a song as "a punk cover of the Bangles song Hazy Shade of Winter."
5 - There is a restaurant in Rochester that claims that they have the "Best Memphis BBQ outside of New Orleans." Wouldn't the best Memphis BBQ outside of N.O. be located in...say Memphis? In fact shouldn't the best Memphis BBQ be in Memphis to begin with?
6 - I know Americans love to think that we are number one in every aspect, but can you honestly think that our flag is the best? I mean take a real look at it. It is hideous and gaudy. It has to be one of the biggest eye-sores ever. I know that most of the simple, nice looking options were already taken (France, Germany, Italy, even England). But seriously, that's the best they could do? It's a face that only a mother could love.
7 - With the release of Quentin Tarantino's new film Grindhouse coming out, I've been hearing way too much about him and it's solidified something that I've always suspected. I love many of his films (Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill, and I'll even give him credit for From Dusk Till Dawn), but I hate him. He just rubs me the complete wrong way. He may be a fine writer/director (and a shit actor), but he is not the cinema god that he is made out to be. And I think that's what bothers me most about him, the fact that he seems to buy into all the hype that he is the greatest thing to happen to film. So I will still go see Grindhouse (partially because I do love Robert Rodriguez), but I refuse to be another one of those people kissing Tarantino's ass and holding him up on some pedestal.