Changes that should be official now

(written back in 08 or 09)

-"Common sense" should be changed to "rare sense", cause it sure as hell isn't common among most people. Well maybe just here in America it should be changed. It's obvious sense is not very common in a country where the majority follow a cult that has a torture device as a symbol to worship, yet claim to be fighting for morality when they deny gays of their rights or are about ready to send a guy to prison for guy to prison for 20 years just for simply buying Japanese comics while the war criminals in the Dubya Administration get no punishment at all up to the end of their reign of terror.

-The M in MTV needs to stop meaning "Music" already, I've seen some good suggestions before like "Money" "Marketed", and my favorite "Moronic". "Moronic TV" is straight to the point.. MTV is the LAST place to find music. You can find more music in a dog's asshole than on whatever channel MTV is. The concept of MTV never entered my mind in years. I just felt like ripping on MTV cause some dope was telling me to "clean" my crappy 1-man band's music so I can be on MTV one day. First of all, I never planned to ever be on MTV and second, you have more chances at being on MTV if you're a drunk frat boy rather than a musician.

-I'm gonna start calling "Gift" Cards Burden Cards from now on cause they just force you to go to a specific establishment and then burden you into having to use every cent in the damn card before it expires (in CA they generally don't expire cause of the law but there are still technicalities that can make them able to expire). They're so pointless, you can just give money, that would save money and time on both sides. If you want me to buy coffee at Starbucks so much, don't give me a $20 Starbucks gift card, just give me a $20 bill and mention something about Starbucks when you hand it to me. Same principle is it not? My brother just gave me a $50 "gift" card for Shell, the gas station. I now have to waste gas to go all the way to Shell instead of going to the gas station that I pass regularly.

Burden Cards force you to spend more too. I still have a Burden Card from a year ago for McDonalds. Originally it had $15 on it. Now it has like $1 on it (had to find out the value of it by looking it up online, see with cash it's worth as much as you see, no bullshit about trying to find out how much is left on it). Anyways, the only way I can make use of it now is if I combine its remains with my own money because $1 gets you nothing. Ugh, I hate McDonalds to begin with too. What next, Blockbusters gift cards for blind people...Bacon Buffet gift cards for Jews?

There's also times when I get like a $20 Burden Card for Best Buy. There's nothing $20 or under I want from Best Buy. The only way I can make use of the card then is if I use my own money. So basically it's nothing more than a $20 off coupon. And like a coupon, it can expire sometimes.

Why the fuck do "Gift Cards" even have to expire, the piece of shit has already been paid for (the CA law should be all across the country). Evil bastard companies, getting money from idiots that buy gift cards and then hoping whoever receives the gift card gets killed in a horrible accident or kidnapped by terrorists before they ever get to use it, that way they get more profits in the end.

Hey wait, that gives me an idea. I'll start my own business and offer Gift Cards valued at $100 for only $99. What a bargain huh? I'll then devise a way so that customers are obligated to disclose the address and identity of whoever will be the receiver of that card. Once this information is obtained, my hired goons will make sure these receivers never get to use their precious cards mwhahahaha.

In conclusion, fuck Burden Cards. If whoever invented them is still alive, I'll buy him/her/it a "Gift" Card for a Casket cause they'll definitely need one when I get my hands on them.

- Most self-proclaimed "movie fans" should just be called "new/big budget/celebrity fans". Let me explain: After being subjected to the so-called "film buff" collection of my brother, which consists of such great timeless classics like Dark Knight, Iron Man, Hulk, Superman, Spiderman, Indiana Jones (latest one), and Transformers (live action), I just came to the realization that most people (aka typical mainstreamers) don't really like movies as an art like they say they do, they just like anything that looks expensive. In other words, they just like the budget, the celebrities, the "NEWness".

Seriously the concepts, plots, characters, of these mainstream action/adventure/superhero/videogame movies are all the cliché black and white morality, good vs evil bullshit where good always wins in the end. There's nothing inherent about those movie that make them the memorable profound films that they are hyped up to be. If these movies had the budget of lets say, a Troma or HG Lewis film, people would HATE this shit for looking so "cheap" and "tacky". There wouldn't really be a fanbase for films like Dark Knight or Iron Man (look at the first Punisher, it was hated cause it was a cheap b-movie).

They're only "good films" cause there was enough money to make a special effects bonanza with popular actors. Compare the first Fantastic Four (the forgotten one from the 90's) with the newer Fantastic Four, the old one is a "joke" but really the only core difference between the two are the budget for special effects, hot actors, and marketing. Other than that they're the same good vs evil bullshit. Hell, I GUARANTEE Ed Wood's films wouldn't be such a joke if he had the budget these big Hollywood movies have at their disposal. Uwe Boll films may be an exception to my "as long as it looks expensive enough people will watch it", but his stuff is still relatively low budget.

Basically mainstream movies don't connect to viewers and treat them as real thinking beings, rather they treat them as nothing more than mindless spectators of expensive explosions and bad guys getting beaten up in glossy fights. I'll watch a movie like Stroszek or Taxi Driver and the story/acting/angles/everything really sticks with me but shit like Spiderman, all I can say is "expensive CGI" and forget about the movie completely 5 seconds after the credits roll. My brain dumps it like it was a disposable diaper. It's the budget/celebrities/"newness" people like, not the actual movie. Meh, just an observation.