Voters are hot.
Yo peeps. I'm about to start winding down here at the school. And it's been too long ONCE AGAIN since I've posted. Maggie and Becca were here, VIC people went to a Casino, the Rock STILL haven't won, and I'm feeling all sorts of healthier then I have in a long while. My lacrosse team (school) is going to get murdered this year. See, we WON the whole she-bang last year, so this year they decided to strike out on their own from the people who were with last year (UTM). Now with SMC we're back to having almost NO experience I think. This week will be telling at the very least. Well, it's gonna be a hell of a lot of fun either way!
I actually got to see people last week which was fantastic, hanging out and all. The kitty remains good, and work as always has been long and busy.
HAPPY ELECTION DAY EVERYBODY!
(here for voting info)
(here for results info)
Seriously now, not voting while you're a citzen of a democracy is just not doing your civic duty. That's like a king failing to have kids. Just sad!
So with a gift card I got both American Idiot and Joseph and the Technicolor Dreamcoat (if that's not an eclectic mix of sound I challenge you to show me what is!) and I'm loving the new Green Day! It suprised me how good it is. I expected good, they did wini a lot of awards. But now it's clear why the got those awards. It's one hell of a solid album. I was also suprised to hear Toronto as a song lyric from them but hey, I guess the rhymes have to flow from somewhere.
She's a Rebel - Green Day
posted by Jaecyn @ 7:23 PM
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4 Comments:
Truly that Green Day album was by far the worst album I have heard in years. I will never trust your taste again because you think it was good. It is poorly put together with full of shit lyrics and overly simplistic music. Green Day has to be the most overrated band. It goes to support the argument that a bigger ego does not make you a better musician. I am really disappointed in you Jae, I thought better of you than that.
K.
Okay fuck off. You just flamed a blog post for god's sake. Fine then.
While I won't argue about your attack on their egos, which are decidely over-inflated, your decision that my taste in music sucks because I like their album is one of the dumbest fucking things I've ever heard, or in this case read.
I never said it was full technically masterful arrangements, and yes some of their songs ARE actually fairly simple in by design, but to say they're overly simplistic suggests that you don't have ANY idea of what you're talking about in the areas of musical theory or composition. Show me whatever goddamn credentials you have that say you get to make statements like that and I might back off from this.
And what's wrong with simple? Sometimes simple is just what's needed. Ode to Joy is simple, (I'm basing THAT off the fact that my 5th grade orchestra could and did play it) and it's stuck around for couple of years now. Fine, I guess Yellow Submarine, Stairway to Heaven, and Jailhouse Rock all suck too. At least by that reasoning.
As for the lyrics being 'shit', well to each his own. Maybe YOU didn't identify with them, didn't like the voices (wouldn't blame you there) or the leads, or maybe didn't even listen to them (well, maybe you did and didn't pay attention. I've done that enough times) but I think you're just wrong there. What's wrong with American Idiot? If your a redneck, or have an agend, I can see how you could be offended in some way by this song. Jesus of Suburbia's lyrics don't mean anything to you? Well fine, but maybe it isn't your country getting bent over by the current administration and religious right. I hate Sylvia Plaths poetry. With a passion of a thousand latin suns. I've NEVER told anyone who liked her poems that I was "really dissappointed" in them. I might wrinkle my nose and ask what they actually liked about them, but to discredit they're opinion as worthless due to their liking something different then myself would be akin to making an ass out of myself.
In case you missed that, I think you're making an ASS of yourself with the above comment.
I fail to see how any of this makes it BAD music though. I don't like 50 cent, can't say I listen to Snoopdog, LeAnn Rimes, Dave Matthews Band, or John Mayer. But I CAN say I don't go around telling people their opinion no longer matters if they do like it. I don't claim these artits don't have decent lyrics, or maybe okay ones. I only claim that I, ME, MYSELF, don't enjoy their music.
So screw you for demanding that I agree with everything you think.
Also I think you're just plain wrong. And you know what? So do other people. Who you may ask?
Well, let's see. Green Day was nominated for EIGHT Radio Music Awards, and won a handful of them; won six Billboard Music Awards; was nominated for Grammy; and won six Kerrang Awards (I don't know what that is, but they won them). So someone out there has to agree that its a decent bit of sound.
As for them being overrated... what? Most people hear of Green Day and say "oh I remember Dookie!", not "OMFG BEST BAND EVER!" And if bigger egos don't make a better musician then I guess Mozart never exsisted. Not to say that they should have big egos, but they're ego doesn't determine how good they are at playing music, just whether or not you like them as people. It's not a qualifier. Go ahead, hate them. I honestly won't care if you bash them as people. They are arrogant sob's it's true.
But don't rain on my fucking parade when I say that I'm enjoying a god damn music album. I thought they were worthy of the awards they won. Are they the greatest band of all time? No! Is it good stuff worth a listen too? Yeah, yeah it is.
I was a skeptic, as proven by my reluctance to buy the album until only last week.
And you come off to me as one hell of a pretentious asshole to decide that I'm a lesser person for liking a new music album.
Here's me, telling you, to fuck off.
I'm jusy trying to figure out why you spent money to buy American Idiot when we had it here all along and you could have uploaded it to your Ipod.... That's the reason I DIDN'T buy it for you... by the way, we also have all kinds of copies of Joseph...too...lest you forget, I just did the Narrator in said show. Money to burn, have we??? Anyway...
First things firstly. Hi Mom! I've become a curse! Now Canada's conservative too! It's only a minority. I repeat that to myself a lot.
Secondly in response to the Narrator, "Nope! Just a leftover giftcard of Christmas joy!" As you can see in the sentance that starts that particular paragraph.
As for why I didn't rip either of them at home. Well. Apple does this thing where every ipod is keyed to a specific computer. Thus, I can really only muck around with what I have in the way of mp3's and such available on playlists and such, while on good old Wedge here. And it can get really picky sometimes over the legal tags and coding connected to the songs that I try and import to iTunes (my Windows Media Player had something around 4,000 songs, iTunes here has only about 1,700 of those. It's a pain in the butt to fix and I'm generally more willing to go to bed then to spend the time converting the files over.
Sleep is good you see, even if for the weak.
It takes those files and further confuses things by stripping off the extra info and placing the bare minimum of the file onto the ipod in an extremely efficient manner. This is cool in that I can fit more songs on, but I can't transfer those same songs to iTunes on other computers because the other computers don't have the other half of the file to match up with the songs. This is unlike Chip's mp3 player which loads the entire file onto the device like its an entirely seperate computer (iTunes plays in mp3's which gives the option to store a higher quality way to store audio files then wma, what Chip's player uses. However, the wma format is still good quality stuff while being smaller file sizes, so both do the same things but were designed for different systems).
Then there's the other side of the coin where Tenel Ka was for all intents and purposes pretty much full while I was at home (I'd saved up podcasts for the busride and put some extra pictures on there to show friends, and pictures devour memory) so I wouldn't have had room to transfer them anyways. Wait! I got yelled at for even plugging her IN to the computer to recharge! I'm dealing with the hassle of taking over the PC long enough to physically rip the cds and put them on the pod? Doubtful.
But I only got American Idiot because I listened to Chip's copy and liked it, and picked up Joseph because, well it's a good show, and I'm pretty sure there's a good chance Brian's one of the kids singing along with Osmonde in this version (I'm looking into this). And having overstock (Green Day) and something that probably doesn't sell well in the HMV of the Eaton Centre (Joseph... there was only one copy) made for sale prices and a happy Jae.
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