Another Musical Interlude

Just thought I'd share a few more songs that I've gotten into lately. One is on the radio a lot and at first I didn't know how I felt about it. But it grew on me. Especially the lyrics. The other two are on CDs I got for Christmas. They all pretty much match how I'm feeling lately.

My Chemical Romance – I’m Not Okay (I Promise)

What will it take to show you that it's not the life it seems?
(I'm not okay)
I told you time and time again you sing the words but don't know what it means
(I'm not okay)
To be a joke and look, another line without a hook
I held you close as we both shook for the last time take a good hard look!
I'm not okay
I'm not okay
I'm not okay
You wear me out

Franz Ferdinand – Auf Achse

And now I'm nailed above you, pushing from my side
It's with your sins that you have killed me
Thinking of your sins I die, thinking how you'd let them touch you
How you'd never realise that I'm ripped and hang forsaken
Knowing I will never rise again

Modest Mouse – Alone Down There

The flies, they all gather around me and you too
Well I don't want you to be alone, down there to be alone
Down there to be alone
Well I don't want you to be alone, down there to be alone
Down there to be alone
But the devil's apprentice, he gave me some credit
He fed me along, and I'll probably regret it
I don't want you to be alone, down there to be alone

Well, that's about all the blogging I can do tonight. Till next time...

Christmas Is Finally Over

Thank God for small blessings. This year had to be the suckiest holiday season yet, and that's saying a lot considering just about all of them have been pretty sucky. I was able to get everyone a present that needed one. Though I had to dip into funds I really shouldn't have to do it. But luckily I got some green for Christmas. Instead of running out and buying myself something cool, I'm depositing it into the account for bills and paying back some debt. Oh the joys of Christmas.

Anyhoo, it's over with now and I don't have to worry about it again for another year. Kimi had a blast, she got pretty much everything she wanted. She was very happy, though she does have a slight cold. Just as I figured, the baby didn't really give a rat's ass, had no clue what was going on. He did, however, enjoy chewing on wrapping paper and drooling all over his sister's new toys. He was also hell on wheels the last few days because he also has a cold. It was so bad that I ended up staying home with him on Christmas Eve while Fran took Kimi to his relatives' place for the traditional Christmas Eve dinner. He seemed to be getting better this morning, but our house is more tantrum and crying than anything else lately. Enough to drive me right over the edge...but I hang on.

Since we're on the subject of Christmas, it's probably a good time to bring up a jolly commercial that just bugs the hell outta me. I'm sure you've all seen it by now. It's for Coca Cola...it shows a bunch of different scenes of people being kind to each other and helping each other. A man drops groceries, a passerby helps pick them up; a car drives through a puddle splashing up a huge spray onto someone on the street, but at the last second a stranger blocks the water with his umbrella; etc. All the while some Christmas carol is playing in the background (don't ask me which one, they're all the same to me and I've had to tune them all out since that's all we've been playing at work for the last month.). Then finally you see a cartoon Santa drinking his coke and it says happy holidays or whatever. So the message is basically, be nice to each other, it's the holidays! What a load of garbage! They should show a commercial about what happens the day after Christmas!

Mine would go like this: the camera focuses on a crowded parking lot where drivers are screaming and cursing at each other over parking spaces. Then it would move into the mall where dozens of people are climbing over each other to get to the sale racks and trampling small children to get into line. Then it would focus on those in line, stamping their feet and loudly complaining that it's taking forever, then berating the checkout clerk for not going fast enough or whatever. Then it can focus on the line at the returns desk where obnoxious people are yelling about how they should be able to get a refund on an item without a receipt even though it probably didn't come from that store. But that's just the day after Christmas pandemonium. Let's move into other areas.

It could then start filming at the house where five children live in squaller. No Christmas presents for them, but there are plenty of beatings from a drunken mother who couldn't care less about them. Or how about the crack addict that shoots and kills the old lady down the street for the food stamps in her purse. I could go on, but I'm sure you see my point.

Why can't Coca Cola create a feel good commercial that promotes being kind to your fellow man all year round? How about being a good samaritan for life and always doing whatever you can to help those less fortunate than you? What about being polite and respectful at all times? Oh no, help your fellow man during the Christmas season, because that's when you're supposed to. It's all bullshit. The lady that helped the man pick up his groceries is probably the same one that leaves her kids with a nanny all day and spends all night getting drunk in front of her fireplace. The man that saved a stranger from getting wet is probably the same one gambling away his family's money and beating his wife when he's feeling like less of a man. But it's the holidays, so they can be nice for a few days. Whatever.

Yeah, it was a very nice commercial. It reminded me of why this world is so fucked up and why I despise most everyone in it.

I'm gonna go grab a coke now while I tell off this momo for parking in MY spot! Later...