The voice of reason

South Park has been fun since it first aired. I remember some of my geekier friends in the mid nineties show me the Christmas episode when it started circulating (Back then the internet was primarily a play-zone for smarter people who wore black and who had a mutual dislike with their peers) on the web. I wasn't very into it after the first few episodes in the late nineties. I thought it was cool and funny, but after the first season I was kinda bored of it.

Then they blew my little mind with the movie. It felt like someone had hacked into my brain and animated it on a screen. It still reigns as my favourite musical of all time. Then I kept saying I like the movie, but I'm not really into the show. This ignorance kept up until 2006ish. I caught a couple episodes. I forget which one snagged me, but I was soon enthralled. Avid in my watching. Now I respect it as it has matured into one of the sole voices of reason in pop culture. They're continuing commitment to not taking sides has rendered them able to see situations without a 'left' or 'right' clout. They tend to find the middle line in any issue. Be it abortion, terrorism, celebrity, apathy, drugs, greed, family, alcoholism...anything. They even made me look at my own values views in The Twin Towers Deusche episode.

Anyway. I just wanted to share my appreciation of, what I believe to be, some of the finest art on TV...

We need to reduce our numbers

We need more war.
More pestilence.
More Famine and death.

We are, as noted in the Matrix amongst others, a virus.
We are the cancer of the world.
The bane.
The Notion that we are divine, doing the creators work is absurd.

We are not only killing ourselves. Our children. Our loved ones, but we are killing everything that we know to be alive in the universe. We might be the only life in the universe. Maybe the only intelligence, and we're flushing it all away. We will never learn as we are today. We will never overcome as long as the enormous amount of power and influence we all share is coupled with the lack of compassion and thought we all seem to carry.

So I say hate thy neighbour! Kill! Lie! Covet thy neighbours wife until he or she kills you! Hate each other! Treat others the way the extinct animals would treat you if they had knowledge and foresight.

Try to love the greater good.

Reason # 987 why I love Japan

MAD TV's 15 minutes seem up

I really liked the last couple seasons of Mad TV. Especially last year. There seemed to be some originality, bravity and just plain funny....I don't know exactly what idiotic decisions were made over last summer, but the first warning sign that things were in the crapper were the first few episodes being "best of" episodes. It seemed desperate, but I thought, ah maybe they just need some time to rewrite some things... and then the 'real' season started...

...I like the acting, but I really miss Nicole Randall Johnson, who I feel was the most talented cast member in years. Ike Berinholtz (spl) definately left a void, and I don't feel the new replacements have successfully replaced them.

Something happened to the vision of the writers, too. It feels closer to the uber-crappy SNL. Infact the whole series feels now like the little brother of SNL. Bad ides that repeat for way too long and a focus on simplistic subjects.

Every episode does draw a few chuckles, but more groans. I also get the sense that the actors know it's crappier, but are professional and will do their jobs as well as one can when there is no more love for their art.

It's too bad, but I guess good things don't last, eh.

Race is Bass

This may sound like a Hitler idea, but imagine if we could execute everyone in the world who hated other people based on their race, religion, sex, sexual preference or language... would there be anyone left? I imagine I'd be left, but I might be wrong.

Prednezone Blues

It's a weird thing to be tickled by depression when you're aware that it is brought on as a side-effect. I'm on lung building steroids after a week in the hospital and they warned that I'd experience irritability and depression along with red spots and more crap. Anyways, I turned down the offer for happy-pills to countedr the roids as I didn't like the notion of adding drugs to handle other drugs.
Anyway I started noticing my thoughts gravitating towards the negative. And a sense of futility hung around me. But intelligently I can figure that these emotions and thoughts are essentially fabrications. Side-effects from the meds Sooo, I'm trying to get through the rest of the week as a Vulcan. Existing logically and ignoring my emotions until the bullshit passes.

Maybe I just need a toke.

NEW LEAF

OK so I just spent a week in the hospital..ICU thank you very much... and have since found a new zest for life. There are so many things undone. So many words unsaid, so many choices which I never bothered to aknowledge. I have been forced into a position in which I am no longer aloud to smoke anything. And I enjoy smoking all of it... Cigarettes were easy to quit. Because it's logical. Having the direct medical excuse gave me a backdor to quit smokes without 'copping out' as most smokers will understand.

Weed was/is a different story. It's such a common, socially acceptable thing (compared to cigs) that the choice to quit seems irrational or atleast unimportant. But it's deceptive. It's too easy to say weed either isn't the problem or that I'm aware it's a problem etc. The fact is weed is one of the problems. there are many and smoking dope every day all day was one. It's not as bad as so many other things... but it's not good

weed makes me passive, insecure, content, relaxed and happy to have weed. It takes the edge off, or more accuratly my edge away...

I do like it though. Alot. And if I didn't have a medical condition that forced me to not smoke, I'd continue doing it, and love doing it all day...
but for now, I'll enjoy the confidant anger that fuels my daily routine