Posted June 26, 2009 at 2:58 am by Crumb Bandit
Good job you fucking slimy pricks. You just made a miserable America feel more miserable, by showcasing the truth again by breaking into our invincible bubbles of urban comfort and longevity. It’s time for a revolt. Â By the way, the pharmacutical(god damned spelling) business is turning us into zombies and mutants. Â Probably paid for by the government. Â On to lighter things. Â Like how many miserable lives I see every day at Circle K.
Fun Facts, Pissed off rants, Propaganda
Posted June 9, 2009 at 2:32 am by Harisn
Gun sales increase
People seem to be afraid that Obama is going to take our guns away. Is he going to? Probably not. Politifact, while they seem to like Obama, post unbiased news. They tell us when Obama is lying and when any politicians make big claims that aren’t true. It’s pretty rad. Anyway, SOMEHOW the word got out that Obama wants to take away our (see: YOUR guns. I don’t own a gun. Quite honestly, the only people I know who own guns are the paranoid and hunters, ONE of whom has a good reason to own a gun (see: the hunters))… WANT TO GUESS WHO TOLD US THAT HE’S TRYING TO TAKE OUR GUNS? THE FUCKING NRA. THE WHOLE FUCKING POINT OF THE NRA IS THAT THEY ARE RUN BY THE GUN MAKERS. DO YOU REALLY THINK IT’S A COINCIDENCE THAT THEY START SPREADING LIES ABOUT OUR GUNS BEING TAKEN AWAY RIGHT AS THE SALE OF GUNS SEEMS TO COME TO AN ALL TIME LOW?…
I just linked to the chart of sales of guns at the top. As you can see, there is a ridiculous drop before they started their paranoia propaganda bullshit. THEN, the rumor got out, AND SALES WENT FUCKING NUTS. REALLY? YOU’RE GOING TO INVOKE PARANOIA IN ORDER TO SELL MORE GUNS? DON’T YOU REALIZE THAT THIS IS JUST MAKING OUR NATION MORE DANGEROUS WHEN THE PARANOID OWN MORE AMMUNITION AND MORE GUNS?!
Harrison’s Highly Critical, Judgemental, Elitist Rants Presents: Drugs, Alcohol, Religion, etc.
Awesome thing of the week, Conspiracies, Dreams, Guitar, Life, Limb, Music, Philosophy, Pissed off rants, Things To Do Before I Die
Posted May 31, 2009 at 8:55 pm by Harisn
First of all, let me get this out of the way if any of you are wondering. People are all fucking stupid.
There.
You know why kids who go to Catholic school are fucked up? It’s because they’re raised by people who make certain behaviors taboo. Drinking or drugs or candy or video games or sex or what the fuck ever. Simply, when people are repressed, socially, politically, or otherwise, they end up lashing out, eventually. People who don’t drink who suddenly start drinking do stupid fucking shit and burst out and get drunk. Nearly everyone does. I personally RARELY hear of anyone who starts off drinking light and knowing his or her limit. No, they start off pushing their limit. (This applies to driving too. There’s a lot of ass holes out there slamming on the accelerator to make it to a fucking red light. If this isn’t a perfect metaphor for the folly of this American society, I don’t know what is) And I’m not saying people shouldn’t drink, but they need to practice restraint. Moderation is the key to ANYTHING being good. Our society emphasizes two extremes: instant gratification, and this religious bullshit of nearly everything enjoyable is related to sin.
But here’s why getting drunk is stupid. It’s one thing to drink to get a buzz to relax a bit and get out of your head. It’s another to kill brain cells and act out and deal with your problems, emotionally or socially, with a bottle. People call it social lubrication for a reason. But once you start depending on that for social interactions, you’re fucking pathetic. Plus, let’s be honest. 90% of being drunk is acting like you’re drunk. Alcohol can affect your system, but only as fucking much as you let it. Not only are YOU the one choosing to imbibe more alcohol once you’ve already caught a buzz, YOU are the one deciding to act like a fucking idiot at a party to get attention. And the thing that bothers me most? People embrace this behavior. Everyone does. People enjoy a drunk. At this age at least. Once you get older? Not quite as much. Want to know why? Because it’s fucking pathetic.
Now, I’m all for the idea that life is about your interactions at people and that, while we’re here in our short lives, we should enjoy it, but personally, the large majority of people I know drink in order to be someone else. They’re almost repressing an alternate identity, and then when they drink, letting that personality come out to become the drunk version of themselves where it’s acceptable to act on impulse and do stupid things.
Largely, drinking is self-destructive. So are drugs and any other form of acting out. Sex with strangers or people you just met. etc. This doesn’t seem apparent to a lot of people. This is because, going back to earlier, our society emphasizes this instant gratification bullshit. AND YOU ALL GIVE INTO IT. There are a few good ones out there, but let’s be honest, THIS BASIC PRINCIPLE IS HOW OUR COUNTRY JUST GOT FUCKING FUCKED. People don’t want to put in the goddamn hard work to make money these days, and some ass holes making money on buying and selling stocks made some decisions that fucked us, the general public. I don’t want to get political here, because I don’t think it’s a political issue. Stupid people got into too much debt, putting trust into companies who are supposed to keep one’s money safe, but DIDN’T because they were too busy fucking around trying to make a quick buck. And I mean. I can understand where these bankers and stock traders who fucked our shit up are coming from. They don’t want to work hard. They want to take the quick, easy option, and make lots of money. Nearly everyone who comes into my store wants a new condition book for a used price. Everyone wants to be on the winning end of a good deal, yes? But when it comes down to taking the easy option over the hard option, the easy option almost always wins. The hard option might take a bit longer to pay off, but that’s not what we want. Well, let me tell you this, kiddies. If you keep taking those easy options, you’re going to fail, and you’re going to be pathetic. Andrew W.K., not exactly a great philosopher, someone who preaches partying and instant gratification, outside of his music, does have a really great idea. I remember watching an episode of his show where he said “Nothing easy is ever good, and nothing good is ever easy.” I don’t like maxims that use “nothing” and “ever”, but looking at my life and everyone’s around me lately, it has never seemed more true than right now.
Adam Carolla has a podcast, and with nearly every guest that comes on, Adam asks “What’s your story? How did you get to be successful?” You know many of them said shit like “Well, I just happened to be in the right place at the right time, and I got lucky?” NONE OF THEM. IT TAKES FUCKING BLOOD, SWEAT, AND TEARS TO GET TO ANYWHERE REMOTELY RESEMBLING THE TOP. Do you think it’s any coincidence that Brian May and Paul Gilbert, arguably two of the greatest and most successful guitarists, who get to do whatever musical projects they like without worry for money or approval from critics, don’t do drugs or drink heavily? IT’S NOT. And I want to be at that level, personally. I’d love to have complete artistic freedom, playing music with my idols, or able to play with any musician I want. As my old chemistry teacher said, it’s the American dream to aspire to mediocrity. Well, I say: FUCK THAT SHIT. I’m not going to settle. I’m sticking to my fucking morals and my beliefs and my work ethic, except that instead of just sticking with that stuff, I’m going to keep making it fucking better. A lot of you know that I’ve worked harder and fucking harder each year for my life. I’m doing two majors at college, and two of the hardest fucking majors, I might add, and I’m doing it in just a bit more than 4 years. I’m not going to sit on for 5 years of college and hope everything works out, I’m fucking making it work out.
And you think Paul Gilbert and Brian May and all these great musicians are naturally that way? Of course not. I read this wonderful article by my guitar instructor talking about some of the great musicians of all time, the classical composers. Do you think they just got more inspired than everyone else, and that’s why they’re so good? No. They put hours and fucking hours into their craft. They worked their goddamn asses off to get to a level of musicianship some of us can hardly comprehend. This shit takes fucking time and hard work. And now their music is still being played today. More than half the shit on the radio is never going to be heard from again 100 years from now, but people are going to keep listening to and playing Bach forever.
And let me just add, by the way, that most of you people out there who really need the help don’t fucking accept it. My beliefs and my ideas about alcohol and drugs go against nearly EVERYONE’s I know, and I hardly exaggerate. I have a few friends and a wonderful girlfriend who agree with me and who curtail these stupid behaviors, but I must emphasize how few these people are. And it’s hard. It’s hard for me to maintain certain friendships and seeing them go down this road and not giving into the ease of mediocrity. It’s fucking hard as well. So why do I do continue to be such a stubborn ass hole when it comes to drugs and alcohol or being lazy? Because, like Andrew says, nothing good is ever easy and nothing easy is ever good.
Posted May 8, 2009 at 8:00 pm by Crumb Bandit
Suits are dead. Do you know why? Cause the age of having to wear them to everything is dead. Do you know why? Because the guys who lived in that era are dead. You know how I know? Because all their suits are at Thrift stores.
Here’s looking at us, bringing back the suits.
Watch every movie on the IMDB top 100
Posted April 8, 2009 at 11:15 am by Harisn
1. The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
2. The Godfather (1972)
3. The Godfather: Part II (1974)
4. Buono, il brutto, il cattivo., Il (1966)
√5. Pulp Fiction (1994)
√6. The Dark Knight (2008)
7. Schindler’s List (1993)
√8. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)
9. 12 Angry Men (1957)
√10. Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
Read on…
Posted April 8, 2009 at 11:06 am by Harisn
I want to become a knight. It would be awesome. Apparently, knighthood is most often appointed to “High Court judges and senior civil servants.” How fucking great would that be?
Really great, that’s how much.
Posted April 1, 2009 at 11:52 pm by Crumb Bandit
I forget periodically that I need to journal at least some of my thoughts, but lately I haven’t written anything here in a while because my super sweet gateway has died, and am just now getting situated on my little bro’s Macbook.
Anyway, about poker. I was sluffing off all of my homework today playing online poker, when my poker buddies from drumline call me up and say they are hosting a small five person, ten dollar game. I came away noticing that I am bluffing myself very well in other parts of my life besides poker. I lie to myself and pretend that I won’t be any good. I need to give my skills a chance.
I love poker, because it satisfies my need for gambling, is generally cheaper than going to the casino, and is a great get together. It also can help me work out psychological problems, like tonight when I realized I was just bluffing my way through a music degree, but in reality, I believe I have a Flush. A nut flush as they say.
Posted April 1, 2009 at 10:44 am by Harisn
We quit
Posted March 24, 2009 at 11:49 am by Harisn
This is only recent, but MySpace has included the number of views for each bulletin. While this is kind of a cool feature, I can’t help but notice that a majority of the bulletins put out by normal people are seen by between 0 and 2 people, and that, even for more popular/famous people like comedians, the views are less than 100. While it is a neat feature, I think MySpace is only highlighting the fact that fewer and fewer people are using it. It’s kind of sad, but also kind of really hilarious how desperate MySpace is in creating these new features.
Harrison’s Highly Critical, Judgemental, Elitist Rants Presents: The Peace Sign and Shitty Drivers
Awesome thing of the week, Fun, Pissed off rants
Posted March 19, 2009 at 11:42 pm by Harisn
What the fuck? First, I’ll start off with what happened to me tonight, then I’ll go off from there about reasons why I hate this section of society. I’m looking to make this a regular column, where I basically yell at people. Tonight, I was driving home on a street which has a posted speed limit of 40 miles an hour. I normally go about 5 mph over, and feel that this is the perfect reasonable speed at which to drive, but I’m not saying that everyone should and different people have different needs. However, since this is such a small street, of two lanes, where most people are going about 2 over, I feel it is fucking ridiculous when ass holes try to go about 15 over. So this guy goes speeding past me on the right, and so I honked at him. He then, being the douche bag he is, gave me the peace sign. To some extent, this could be understood, if he was telling me to chill. He then proceeded to get as close as possible to the car in front of him so he could change lanes without braking. I saw the line of cars in front of me panic as this happened, because he did it so quickly, and without any consideration for the other drivers on the road. He eventually cut in front of them when given barely enough room, and went on his way.
To a red. fucking. light.
He sped up, and cut off like 3 cars and tailgated one so he could get THAT far ahead on his way to a red light.
I’m sure part of this is just the presence of douchebags and ass holes in this town, but a large part of this is also the WILD misinterpretation of the peace sign. It represents peace and harmony. Not being an ass hole and causing danger to a few lives. Nobody got hurt in this instance, and in most instances like this, nobody does get hurt, but it does cause panic and anger and frustration with nearly ALL of the people involved. Using a peace sign doesn’t excuse him from being an arrogant, selfish, aggressive driver. It means he’s an ass hole who doesn’t know what the fuck “peace” is. And this is representative of society as a whole. A majority of people want to go on with their lives peacefully without ass holes fucking with them, to put it simply and full of cuss words. But the problem arises when THESE SAME PEOPLE ARE ASS HOLES TO EVERYONE ELSE. It’s hypocritical, clearly, but it really shows just how goddamn ignorant everyone is and how inconsiderate people are, ESPECIALLY when it comes to driving in this town. People don’t want to be cut off, but expect to be ignored when people cut them off? No. I am going to honk my fucking horn at shitty drivers and call them on their bullshit driving. Someone has to. Everyone who doesn’t, I feel, is a goddamn pussy. We can’t let these ass holes take over the road completely, but the sad thing is, they do, and most people LET them. LET’S NOT LET THEM ANYMORE. PEOPLE NEED TO DRIVE CONSIDERATELY, AND IF THEY DON’T, HONK. MAKE A BIG FUCKING DEAL. It’s dangerous to EVERYONE involved, and it’s, as shown in this case, and I’m sure many everyone has seen, unnecessary in the long run. Hell, even in the short run, this ass hole was only got about 20 feet ahead of everyone else while risking their safety!
In conclusion: FUCK ASSHOLE DRIVERS