I don’t have anything political to write about now so I’ll just post about what’s been going on in my life.
Last Thursday, March the 4th, Machina Infernus broke up, this time it’s for good. At least, if guitarist and founding member Rich Kovacs decides to start it up again, I will not be a part of it. I am disappointed in the way this was handled and it’s kind of knocked me off-kilter for the last few days, it preoccupies my thoughts and just bums me out. I think it’s caused me to have a writer’s block, as I haven’t been posting much at all anywhere these last few days.
I’ve been irritated at WordPress because I can’t get my embedded YouTube videos to show up in my posts, I have to go to Michael and beg him, PLEASE, will you help me embed this video. PLEEEEEEEEEEASE. And he does it for me, but we can’t figure out why it’s not working when I try to do it myself.
Washington DC now has legal same-sex marriage. The city council passed a bill and the mayor signed it, and Congress, who oversees the District’s laws, declined to review the law. They had 30 session days to do so and, as is typical of Congress, didn’t make the deadline. The response by residents has been largely positive. Catholic Charities, however, is now finding ways to cut services. They’re ending foster care outreach and spousal benefits for their employees. How Christ-like. Whatever, I’m just going to get pissed off again if I go down this road, maybe another day.
They say we’re in a recession, but people keep ordering take-out and going to the movies. I saw Alice in Wonderland (in 3-D) the other day, and my advice to Tim Burton is to stop trying to make Tim Burton movies. Other than that it was just okay, visually stunning but I am tired of Johnny Depp playing the same charatcer in every Burton flick. The 3-D was just aight, dawg. Felt like it was shoehorned in, whereas in Avatar, it was meant to be that way from the beginning. Oh, and the takeout- 34 deliveries today in 9 hours, I was busy from the time I clocked in until the time I left. Maybe this recession is completely media-driven because I don’t see people not spending money, just the opposite.
Why is Justin Bieber famous, and who wants to take bets on when he gets his first arrest, when he beats his first girl, and how long before they find him overdosed in a seedy hotel? Well, we can hope, right?
Speaking of pop-culture garbage, if you haven’t seen the new version of We Are the World, you have to search it and watch this abomination. It’s pure douche-chill theater, most notably Jamie Foxx impersonating Ray Charles and Kanye West’s line at the end, and the autotune… oh the autotune.
That’s all for me for now. This week I’ll be back on politics.
~Matti Frost
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