Harrison's Highly Critical, Judgemental, Elitist Rants Presents: The Misunderstood 'Like' Button
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Posted July 30, 2009 at 11:34 am by Severed Head
One thing that bugs me about Facebook is all of the ass holes complaining about facebook, and complaining about stupid shit. One particular complaint I’ve seen many times is about the lack of a “dislike” button. I’ve always though that was a dumb idea. The whole point of the like button, I thought, was so that you don’t have a bunch of ass holes leaving the same goddamn comment on everything. E.g. “Nice”, “cool”, “Haha”, “lol”, “Awesome”, “Me too”, etc. The whole goddamn point is to eliminate that waste, the stupid comments people leave when they have nothing else to contribute. Unfortunately, there are still a lot of stupid comments everywhere for those of you who have a strong desire for people to see your thoughts, even if you really don’t have any. If you click the “like” button, you’re kind of pushed to the side now. Thank God.
The very idea that you dislike something generally means you have a conflicting view. If you do, this generally depends on something. There could always be the “That sucks” comments that could be eliminated, but those are few and far between. Plus, if you had a dislike button, who the fuck would click that in a lot of cases? It’d just be a dick move. I may not be psychic, but I can definitely foresee problems in this hypothetical situation. A friend of yours clicks dislike on a link you posted and offers no accompanying comment, and you get annoyed. Like, what kind of ass hole would you be to just go “Nope” or “Wrong” or “I disagree” and NOT say anything else?!
Plus, you’d have to have an “Undislike” button, and that’s just retarded.
But if it’s really that big of a deal to you to express your discontent with someone’s posting, just type in “Dislike” and hit send if you are that much of a fucking ass hole that you have express you disagree without any goddamn reasoning and that you can’t give the person the time of day to explain yourself. It’s fucking disrespectful.
The bottom line is that, if you don’t have anything to contribute, stop fucking talking. I feel that way about everyone always. If you are entering a conversation just to say “cool”, shut the fuck up, unless you’ve got a goddamn brain to back yourself up.
Posted July 29, 2009 at 11:32 pm by Severed Head
I’m reading over old pages on this website, and some of our comments are fucking hilarious. Our witticisms back and forth are great. Gee, our website is great. Won’t you join me in reading it, everyone?
Letter to Jake about playing music
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Posted July 25, 2009 at 11:58 pm by Severed Head
I think maybe we should just start booking gigs here in Phoenix. I will find some that you and I can both make in terms of dates. If we get booked, I’ll really quickly record some shit and send it to you, and we’ll basically jam some songs off of that at the show since we won’t really have time to rehearse.
Just to get the ball rolling and play some fun shows. What do you think?
Posted July 22, 2009 at 4:07 pm by Severed Head
I will get straight to the point. I am way fucking sick of remakes and sequels and all of these movies whose success relies entirely on nostalgia.
I am halfway into There Will Be Brawl, a series composed of as many Nintendo references that could possibly be squeezed into a little amount of time, with no depth, actual drama, or suspense. I do enjoy seeing the different characters and the takes on each, but the quality of the writing itself is just so unbearable I thought I’d get out this rant that’s been building up for so long.
Let’s just go over some of the crap that’s been going on in the world:
Remakes of old movies (EVERY GODDAMN HORROR FILM RELEASED IN THE PAST 4 YEARS, MANY OF WHICH WERE HORRIBLE WHEN THEY WERE RELEASED 20 YEARS AGO)
Movies made out of toys/horrible, horrible television series (Transformers, GI Joe, Where the Wild Things Are)
Sequels added on after years of nothing (Indiana Jones, The Godfather (I know the third film wasn’t in our time period but you get the idea), Star Wars)
Sequels added on after years of sequels (Planet of the Apes-type stuff, Halloween, Rocky, etc.)
Now, I can see why these movies are getting made. Because people go to see this shit, and whether or not they like it, they keep watching it. People love nostalgia. Largely though, it’s holding us back. Creatively, very few of these movies have anything original or interesting to say. They are just like “All right. You know how Batman was before? Let’s make him more modern.” And that’s all. Remember in the 70s when EVERY GODDAMN CHARACTER became a disco version of themselves, and how, we look back on this and see how retarded it is? A few years from now, we’re going to look back and go “Wow, EVERY GODDAMN MOVIE THAT CAME OUT WAS JUST A FUCKING HORRIBLE FRANCHISE WITH A DARK/DEEP (but on a very, very shallow level) TWIST”… Don’t get me wrong, I enjoyed The Dark Knight and some of the other films that came out, but largely, all of these sequels and films have NOTHING to say and NOTHING to contribute to society except for nostalgia.I think a lot of it can be defended with that bullshit argument that everything’s been said and done already. But that’s jut fucking dumb. Charlie Kaufman is still writing and making new films and deal with issues that haven’t been talked about before. I mean… Do we REALLY need more superhero movies? No. No, we fucking don’t. Hell, we don’t need any more GODDAMN action movies. THEY’RE ALL THE SAME AND HOW DO YOU PEOPLE NOT REALIZE THIS?! OR MAYBE YOU DO, BUT HOW CAN YOU KEEP SUPPORTING THEM?!
And it’s not just action movies. Horror movies are pretty much the same goddamn villains over and over. Romantic comedies are SO predictable, you can generally figure out the entire plot by the end of any given trailer. And not just the ending and overall arch. You can almost predict every goddamn awkward moment the “will they won’t they” couple will have.
It just seems like the film industry gets such a pass on this bullshit. If Bob Dylan rewrote the same fucking album over and over again, would he be as critically acclaimed? No. If The Beatles stuck with the same outline for an album over and over again, would anyone fucking listen? No.
All of you idiots out there need to realize what art is, and seek it out, and don’t support this stupid bullshit. Meghan Fox may be hot, and I can admit that I am not going to see the movie, but let’s not pretend that the writing stuff put 2 minutes worth of effort into writing Transformers 2. Or that anyone involved with the movie was remotely intelligent.
Also, in terms of some of these oscar-winning movies like Benjamin Button. LET’S NOT JUMP TO THE CONCLUSION THAT JUST BECAUSE THE MOVIE HAS A LOT OF SILENT MOMENTS OR MOMENTS WHERE THE SCORE TAKES OVER THAT THERE IS A BIT OF GODDAMN DEPTH IN THE WRITING OR THE CHARACTER OF SOME ASS HOLE WHO AGES BACKWARDS. MORE THAN ANYTHING, IT’S JUST WEIRD, BUT HARDLY EVEN THAT. JUST A GODDAMN LACK OF CREATIVITY WHEN YOU TURN A 10 PAGE SHORT STORY INTO A 3 HOUR LONG MOVIE WHERE ABSOLUTELY NOTHING HAPPENS AND THERE ARE NO FUCKING STORY ARCS AND THERE IS NO GODDAMN SUSPENSE AND THERE’S NOT A SINGLE RELATE-ABLE EMOTION THAT BRAD PITT GIVES OFF THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE MOVIE BECAUSE HE DOESN’T. FUCKING. DO. ANYTHING. OPEN YOUR EYES, PEOPLE.
Shit like this may totally seem deep, but when you really examine whether there’s any meaning, there’s absolutely NOTHING to be found, AND YOU SHOULD ALL REALIZE THAT YOU’VE BEEN FUCKING HAD.In conclusion, if any of these remakes/sequels didn’t include the main character or whatever it is that draws you to this nostalgically, you wouldn’t be watching it, and you would see how shitty it is, but because it will include some character you knew from your childhood, or fuck, even 2 years ago, you fail to see anything beyond that nostalgic haze.
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Posted July 12, 2009 at 11:59 am by Severed Head
But when it comes to video game soundtracks, that is, specifically the remix/cover ones made by fans, there are TWO things I absolutely hate:
1. Adding vocals to a song with no existing vocals. If it were in a choir version or they were wordless vocals like an a capella thing, that is cool, but adding your own shitty lyrics or some rap? Fuck. That. Talentless. Shit. Why the hell does everyone need to separate the songs with vocals from songs without? Like, I hate when people tag songs as instrumental in the song title or just point it out in general. Instrumental songs are often WAY better than songs without vocals, though certainly not always. I guess it’s annoying when people demand either way. But, regardless, what’s not acceptable is ADDING YOUR OWN SHITTY VOCALS TO A SONG WHICH ORIGINALLY HAD NONE.
2. Sampling the original song. There are two ways I’ve seen this done. The song will start out with the original, and then it will EXPLODE INTO THE NEW SONG. or whatever. But it won’t do it on beat or in a clever way at all. But it just comes with a really strong amount of cheesiness, I feel. The other way I’ve seen it done is playing the original song, and then just laying down some other instrumentation on top of it. How fucking goddamn lazy can you be?
Anyway, coming soon: PSI Rockin’ Omega by Broken Harmonica, the entire soundtrack to Earthbound REDONE.