söndag 29 november 2009

Music!...and some other stuff...

So, about this concert with Deep Purple I went to a couple of days ago...

This bothers me greatly, because there was nothing really wrong with the concert itself, they were brilliant. In fact, those old geezers beat out most modern act by a fair margin, they seriously rocked like all hell.

But the problem, see, was the opening act. They were some kind of swedish rock band called Attack. The creepy thing about them was that they were pretending like we were all supposed to know them, acting like they weren't just a bunch of middle-aged creeps who were never any good in the first place, and clearly just got worse during the last 20 or so years.

Only funny thing about them was the drummer, because when the others left the stage and he just tried to fire up the crowd on his own, he did a much better job and everyone seemed more at ease without the three other idiots around.

Fortunately, the idiots finally abandoned their attempts to...do something or another, and left the stage clear for the arrival of the ones we actually bloody came to see! I mean, how fucking pretentious do you have to be to just stand there and waste the audience's time like Attack did?!

Anyway...

Let me tell you this; every single word your parents have ever said about just how brilliant Deep Purple are, out of which you believed absolutely nothing, is completely true. Sure, they are old, but they've aged much more gracefully than any of the other oldies, like Led Zeppelin or Pink Floyd.

Of course they included a whole line of classics; "Space Trucking", "Sometimes I Feel Like Screaming", and my personal favourite "Wasted Sunsets" in an awesome rendition. I actually though that last one was too much to hope for, but I suppose I got lucky this one time, which will probably have some pretty severe repercussions in the future...

And christmas is drawing closer by the minute, so maybe me and my beloved can conjure up some christmas spirit this coming weekend. Myself, I feel that christmas is the most romantic time of the year, and guess what ghosts and ghouls, this year I have a girlfriend! Hell yeah!

Ehm...what was I saying? Oh, right, about christmas...

I think we can cook something up, and I have a feeling this'll all be a winter to remember, not just for me but for my very significant other as well.

In other news, the commonly held opinion about the accelerated global warming is simply a load of bullshit.

http://www.newsmill.se/artikel/2009/11/27/betydelsen-av-climategate

Y'know, this is exactly what I have been saying all along, literally. I have endured alot of crap because I have advocated a wait-and-see stance on the matter, and have urged those who make claims about global warming being a bomb ready to blow any second to actually look up the facts themselves instead of just saying "Oh, but any serious scientist agrees that...".

Well of-fucking-course they do, because you and every other idiot out there automatically considers any scientist who disagrees with the generally held opinion to be not serious!

Now people will instantly want to defend them, saying this is just a situation involving a few rogue scientists and nothing that affects the bigger picture. Here's the problem with it; it fucking does affect the bigger picture.

Most people drawing conclusions on the subject are doing so based on hearsay; they've heard someone say something about some unclear figures, and they are basing their opinions on that. A smaller category of people are the ones who have actually looked at those figures themselves and draw conclusions based on them, not on hearsay about the figures.

At the top, however, we have a small clíque of scientists who actually gather and compile all the data that everyone else uses to draw their conclusions. It is these people who have been pulling the wool over the eyes of the general public by manipulating the numbers.

And this is naturally easy to do; we all like to think that "Numbers cannot lie!", which is true, numbers can in fact not lie.

People, however, have no problem whatsoever with lying. People can enter whatever numbers they like into the statistics, and the general public will trust those numbers to be accurate.

In this case, they weren't, time to own up to that fact!

måndag 9 november 2009

The Twilight Zone!

Since my love hadn't heard of this fantastic phenomenon, I feel somehow obligated to spread the word of it to the world.

See, The Twilight Zone is the brilliant brainchild of the genius Rod Serling. The concept is that of a long series of short movies, each telling the story of some person in a very peculiar way. It is most commonly referred to as science fiction with a message. More often than not, it touches on the subjects of redemption and personal enlightenment, with many supernatural elements, but in a way that doesn't get preachy.

Myself, I'd call it very very discrete and subtle horror. It's nothing like regular horror movies, where there is gore and monsters jumping out in front of the camera. It's much more subsued or subsumed or some other word like that; many episodes leave you with a kind of eerie feeling, like there is just something very wrong, relying more on a disconcerted feeling than on fear. It also contains quite a lot of twist endings, you are lead to believe something throughout the entire episode, then it's turned on its head at the very end.

The best example of this is ironically enough not an episode of the series at all, but rather a movie that I believe most people have heard of; The Planet of the Apes, that is, the original, not the remake. This shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone who knows that it was in fact Rod Serling who wrote the screenplay for the movie, so it plays out like an episode of The Twilight Zone, especially the ending.

Here's the SPOILER for those who have already seen it, everyone else should skip this part!

At the end, the protagonist is riding away with his girl on a beach. Suddenly, he spots something that makes him fall to his knees in despair; the ruins of the statue of liberty, showing that he had in fact traveled not through space, but through time, and human civilization had destroyed itself, which allowed the apes to rule the world.

That brought me a particular feeling of it all being so wrong, like the world wasn't working the way it was supposed to, and that is precisely what many episodes of The Twilight Zone does.

You are reading this post, thinking it to be just another amusing anecdote in the life of a normal human being. But what you don't know, is that you have just checked into a hotel, that rest forever inside...The Twilight Zone!

söndag 8 november 2009

Wedding...n' shit!

So, was at a birthday celebration yesterday, had a whole lot of fun with the relatives, but couldn't shake the unmistakable feeling of missing my dear Maria way too much!

Seriously, I can't conceive of time going any slower than this, why the flying fuck does it have to inch along at a pace that would make a snail go "Eat my dust!"?
Just another 11 days of waiting, but it's still too bloody much! I want my girl now!

Furthermore, have been appointed toastmaster at the wedding of my cousin, so in essence, I'll be running the whole freakin' show! I just thought I'd be introducing the speeches, at most, but it turns out I'll be in charge of just about everything and the kitchen sink apart from actually marrying the two. You know, planning speeches, games, keeping track of the catering, constructing the building we're gonna be in, inventing cold fusion, that kind of stuff.

Doesn't mean I'm not looking forward to it, though, it just means I'll have a whole lot on my plate that weekend.

Oh, did I mention I miss my girl enough to drive me crazy?

torsdag 5 november 2009

Exam!

Sat for about four hours and wrote an exam today, starting 8:15, which was a seriously major pain in the rear.

However, something I noticed while doing it was this; the longer I sat there, trying to force the figures to make sense inside my head, and trying to force the same figures down onto the paper into something resembling written language, I caught myself taking the piss more and more.

First, it was very small, maybe a "!" at the end of some sentences to make them sound more direct and forceful, but as I wrote down the second to last bit, I was sitting there making a simple graph of trade relations, then making an arrow pointing to one intersection of curves and writing "PROFIT!...for both" next to it, as a means of illustrating that it was at that point that two countries would both enjoy a profit.

On the last paragraph of the last question, where I was supposed to sort 6 suggestions out of 8 according to their economic viability and stuff, I basically just wrote "So, yeah, it costs too darn much, but it makes the cut because it's a good idea, that unfortunately relies on the wisdom of man, which is roughly as reliable as Stevie Wonder's eyesight!", then put down the pencil and went home.

Thank god there's no more school until monday!


Also, I'd like to add a little appendix to my advice on how to survive horror movies, and it goes like this:

Listen to advice you're given!
If someone says "Don't spend the night at Haunted Mansion, 23rd Murderous Maniac Boulevard, Zombiessex", chances are doing so would be a fucking awful idea!
If someone says "Don't trust anyone!", you can be fairly sure you're not supposed to give your blind trust to that middle-aged fellow telling you he knows a perfect hiding spot in the middle of Serial-killer Woods!