I mean I get that society is constantly changing but in this day in age; we’ve got the internet, we’ve got 14 year old kids on the internet posting stupid crap that people seem to eat up and then we’ve got people who just try so hard to matter, try so hard to be cool and just fail at it. And these people are the ones forming the internet culture, also known as the realm of weird, stupid, and blatant. I mean we’ve got pictures of “lolcats”, shitty rage comics that I always somehow see on reddit (owned by Conde Nast Digital.) caption pictures, “verticals”, and signs of win, fail and epic. I mean seriously, there is alot of crap out there like this produced by people who try way to hard and they just eat it up. Hey, I’m not the kind of person to include “LOL” or “oh hai” into my posts, nor am I the one to monetize crap that 4chan has created (or say that everything is “awesome” and “epic”, man do I hate those terms and the way people are using it; it just makes everything look whorish.), nor do I fall to those memes that the media perpretraited.

Like with Rebecca Black, maker of the hit viral song “Friday” (which other people have produced and written) and the latest popular thing on the internet, which is thanks to Michael J. Nelson and that Tosh.0 guy on Comedy Central… Who I assume posted this because they thought she creating “the worst song in history” or so we thought. Yes they’re criticizing the video, the lyrics, basically anything due to the fact that well… Her video is both good and horrible at the same time (if that was just possible.) and I don’t see what the big deal is about her (and thousands of internet memes out there, not to say a few make sense.) If these two guys hadn’t posted it in their blog then we would of never heard of her and her video would just lay dormently with only a couple hundred or thousands of views. Which brings me to my point, most of these internet memes are only famous because the most famous blogs bring it to the uneducated masses, I can assure you that if something ended up on TMZ or one of the blogs on that vile “Cheezeburger Network” which just happens to be the producer of all the “memes” you see on the internet; then you’ll be hearing about it within seconds.

Both of the sites I listed are only part of a ring that contribute the worst in culture, that ring also includes most of AOL and Grawker and the entirety of NBC Universal (there may be more but I can’t think of any at the moment); sure, I may watch some of their TV channels and look at some of their sites but I’m focusing on the stuff that contributes to culture, so that doesn’t matter much to me. Most of these companies use their sources of media to influence the very fabric of culture, those in the ring are the worst offenders. I mean really; whoever thought of allowing Comcast to own NBC Universal is out of their freaking minds, I mean they already own some of the worst channels which put out trash that people manage to like, and they have the mindset of a 1930′s millionare who’s mean and snobby all because he has money (this shows in their piss poor customer service and almost monopolistic like behavior.) Buying NBC Universal and then removing the space from it just makes them the worst offender; they now have a massive media and news empire (and a couple of theme parks) they can use to influence everybody and anybody, and I just don’t trust Comcast with influencing society/the news, I mean you see what they did to geek/entertainment/style culture didn’t you? (There are FCC roadblocks but I think they’re very inefficient, rediciolously even. It’s only a matter of time before Comcast finds a way to use NBC Universal to it’s advantage while getting around the roadblocks.)

There is also News Corp which is also a horrible offender but much has been said about them on the internet so I’ll let it be.

Anyways, these corporations choose which stuff is hot and which stuff ultimately gets left in the dust bin. They can choose what goes on the front page, who becomes famous, who gets to make a million dollars (because the world revolves money, which is the main problem which can never be fixed.) The fact that we rely so much on these sources is a part of society’s downfall because we have to rely on notable websites in order to find out what’s hot, like a baby with his pacifier. And the content creators suffer because they have to worry about creating something that’ll get a lot of views, that’ll take advantage of current events and that’ll get a lot of money. Most of which is appearing on YouTube (with shit like TheFineBros. that guy who rants with stupid transitions and stuff, and those doing stupid stuff that’ll get a lot of views.). I appreciate those who take the time to put up a quality product (like that Left 4 Dead painting I saw where the children are fighting child zombies) but mainly most of YouTube and the internet contains of crap that stupid people and people trying to look cool will obviously like, which is the problem when you let the mainstream dictate what you like, I don’t let the world tell me what to like and I certainly don’t let the stuff influence the stuff I say or create.

I also don’t want to worry about creating stuff that the people should like; which brings me to why I don’t listen to mainstream radio anymore; the reason being that most of the stations are controlled by companies that have strict standards (companies such as Clear Channel and Cumulus.) You want to know the reason why radio is dead, it’s because they’re playing that stupid electro-pop stuff that is easily producible, sounds mostly the same and is easily disposable. Compared to those indie bands, I’m thinking they’ve thrown musical integrity out of the window in an attempt to make a popular song that will get stuck in peoples heads and onto their playlists as their favorite songs (easily the most shallowest songs ever.); and due to the power of payola (thanks to the major music companies UMG, EMI, Sony and WMG, who are also at fault because they’re the ones who can ensure that your shit gets radio play, and all for the signing away of a few rights and a guarantee that your albums will move units,  least you want to be kicked out into the cold.), they can ensure that that song will be played over and over and over again. (see the problem with money? Once you get a lot of it, it changes you, makes you really immoral.) Clear Channel stands out in the fact that you can upload your music to them and they’ll possibly play it on the radio station (or an New Music channel that can only be received by buying a useless HD Radio receiver.) if it’s good (read: shitty.) enough. The fact that I have to sit there and wonder (will Clear Channel play it? does it have a political message? does it speak out against democrats or republicans? does it have offensive subject matter?) about those questions just pisses me the fuck off, I have artistic integrity and I am not about to compromise that for a radio company that controls the rocker and black demographics, strip the soul out of an oldies station and lean heavily towards republican with their affiliation with Fox News. (Yes, I know it’s News Corp. but I watch some of their stuff; I will never watch Fox News or any of those news channels though.)

Another thing; the internet has grown to the point where it kills all kinds of culture that previously had a uniqueness. Take for instance the geek culture, I used to be a geek but I revoked the title myself due to the fact that being a geek or nerd is nothing special ever since other people have flooded the internet with their “prowess” and “geek wisdom“. Please, any person can take a camera and take an image; any person can take a microphone and talk about technology; any person can even review technology gadgets; any person can create tweets that they think is clever but it takes a master to make a great photo or a great podcast; and the quote that I said doesn’t even matter now that everybody is dumbing themselves down for this audience of self-proclaimed geeks who talk in lowercase and seem to have come out of the wrong side of the womb in terms of intellectual conversation. (not to say that many geeks aren’t intelligent, most of the new ones aren’t though.) I swear everything has to rely so much on flashy graphics and imaging to lure the general public into listening to people who barely know anything about what they’re talking about and have a ridiculously huge ego (which ends up making them look like hacks.) and there are more of these people then there are actual geeks who know about this stuff; which there were many of a long time ago. Back then it used to be about technology now it’s mostly about the coverage of cellphones, gadgets, social media sites, web apps and the occasional big event to break up the monotony. You barely get to see actual technology anymore.

Point I’m making is that society as we know it has been dumbed down with all of this technology and shit is that it’s killing it; I blame it on the fault of these parents who don’t raise their kids right and teach them about how hard the real world can be, which is the downside to everything as they choose to ignore reality and focus on themselves rather then face reality. I swear the internet is bringing out the worst egos in people and I have trouble seeing past the egos, makes me respect the person even less; not that there are many people out there worth giving my respects to, the only people I’m going to respect are those who can produce top-quality shit and those who mean something in this world instead of just dodeling off trying to become an “internet superstar”, which is pointless in my opinion. What’s worse is that society is starting to rely more on this technology to the point where we can watch the newest movies at our own home for highly inflated prices, that all of our books will be uploaded to digital and the resulting pages will be burned away (if they were ever foolish enough to think that digital technology would be reliable; what happens when an EMP bomb drops all over the US, all of the data would be lost!), that all of the old ways are obsolete and we should the newer ways are better. (this is true for Hulu, Netflix, Gamefly, travel sites, not so much for the other stuff.) Hey, I’m a big user of technology as the other man but I fear that are usage will turn into our biggest flaw that will bring upon our downfall; and with the way society is killing itself, I predict it’ll be very soon.

According to various news sources (including TMZ) Rihanna and Chris Brown got into a fight that was probably started by a text message, their jealousy, or any other related factor that might of pushed him to the edge. Anyways, I’ve heard that Rihanna suffered some burses, bite marks, some possibly nasty stuff and according to her, it’s not the first time that’s happened as she’s been abused many times before by him, it’s kind of sad when they try to keep up that dream couple feeling when it’ll eventually go down in flames. So afterwards, Chris Brown turned himself in and that’s where the downward spiral begin. When he was released, he traveled in a black SUV heading for home and Rihanna, well she had to make some sacrifices since she was in that incident. That’s a summary of what has happened and what is happening now as we speak. Even now, MTV is planning to air a documentary type show that’ll analyze every aspect of their relationship as well as milk a lot of money off of this.

I feel bad for both of them, but especially Rihanna since she’s the one who suffered a lot (not numerically but emotionally and physically). I wonder what happened to Chris Brown, he’s a great R&B star (even though I don’t know him personally), the self proclaimed future of R&B and known for his mix of Usher and Michael Jackson (particularly Michael Jackson). He’s released 2 albums which spawned a plethora of hits, he’s become a superstar in his own right and he has been known to be madly in love with Rihanna, propounding his love every which way, including having a fight with T.I. over Rihanna. But why did he have to keep this dream romance together, especially considering the fact that mostly these romances have a 10% chance of succeeding. I feel that he tried to keep too tight of a leash on her, I feel that his jealousy over that text message was a bit over the edge and trying to keep him and her happy just doesn’t work well if you don’t match up that well, just look at Mariah Carey and Tommy Mottola’s marrige.

But Rihanna, she’s suffered the worst. Receiving really physical abuse from her former boyfriend Chris Brown over jealousy and wanting to have possibly a perfect marriage, physical wounds heal but I don’t think her mental ones will heal at all, ever. This is the downside from men trying to be the superior being over woman and trying to control everything in their life, and trying to beat their woman so that they’d support their man better, abuse is not the way to go when trying to make a perfect relationship. That’s why most people are in jail right now, because they can’t control themselves. Seriously, The girl who’s released 3 chart-topping albums and we can’t forget about “Disturbia” written by Chris Brown. Still, sad to see her get straight into a situation that she couldn’t get away from and for Chris Brown, he couldn’t even get out of. Having a man abuse a woman just isn’t right and in their cases, it’s kind of disturbing.

Still, I wish the both the best of luck on trying to resolve their now persistent issues. Because most people do not like to see their career and their life destroyed in the process. Sure Chris Brown might of lost every bit of his endorsement, fame, and recognition and Rihanna might of lost some of her self consciousness, and what he did to her was wrong but people need to forgive right? Even though Chris Brown won’t be able to get Rihanna back as her girlfriend now. Also some of you may note that I’ve become inactive recently or I have stopped updating my blog regularly. Well just to let you know that I’m not dead and I am still taking a break and thinking about some things. This break has really proven to be essential as it allowed me to view things into perspective and don’t worry, I’ll be back posting updates on a regular basis and interacting with you guys again. I don’t know when that’s going to be exactly but hey, keep waiting, I’ll pop up eventually.

I’d admit it, I tie myself with a community for most of the following reasons. It’s because the community is neat, you feel a certain attachment to them after an amount of time and I’d admit it, the people on there are very nice and very talented but you tend to be associated with the community after a long time. Note, I don’t mention the various names of the communities I’ve been with or in well because I feel like I want this to truly be a blog of my thoughts and opinions, also I don’t want to risk any of my other fans finding out about this site well because most of them I feel ashamed for and I don’t also want to be associated with them. If something bad happened and everybody turned against you, would you be associated with them anymore?

Also, if someone’s acting like in they’re own world, acting stupid or just have serious problems, they get much more attention and much more of the fame. I know I said something about this before but I feel that they and I need some help. I know they’re just trying to be a part of the community, trying to help out, trying to get noticed but is mocking them really going to do any good. I’ve been mocked before and I clearly know how it feels, it feels like your being mistreated and nobody takes you seriously anymore, I’ve been through it a lot of times. I just wish some people would try to show these misguided people the light, even though I might of contributed to the problem and I feel sorry for it.

I’d imagine that this would be longer but, whatever. I also have some problems with people doing stuff with my stuff that I didn’t want done, I’ve tried to speak out in 2006 but they wouldn’t even take me seriously then, 3 years later, still the same. For those of you reading, please don’t play my music and videos on radio talk shows when somebody is talking, it’s not funny and it’s disruptive. Also, I’m not a comedian, you may think I’m a comedian because the stuff that I did in the past is really funny and gut busting, hell, even I think it’s funny but I’m trying to get people to take me more seriously. I obviously have a long way to go before ever reaching that status but hell, this might be the perfect time to take a break from all of this and seriously get to some things I’ve been dreaming to do but haven’t been able to do.