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Ahh…what?! Brain hurts..too..much stupid. Arrghghg!!!

american-apologies:

Via CNN:

“In protest of what it calls a religion ‘of the devil,’ a nondenominational church in Gainesville, Florida, plans to host an ‘International Burn a Quran Day’ on the ninth anniversary of the September 11, 2001, attacks.

The Dove World Outreach Center says it is hosting the event to remember 9/11 victims and take a stand against Islam. With promotions on its website and Facebook page, it invites Christians to burn the Muslim holy book at the church from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.

‘We believe that Islam is of the devil, that it’s causing billions of people to go to hell, it is a deceptive religion, it is a violent religion and that is proven many, many times,’ Pastor Terry Jones told CNN’s Rick Sanchez earlier this week.

Jones wrote a book titled ‘Islam is of the Devil,’ and the church sells coffee mugs and shirts featuring the phrase.”

For the next 24 hours you can go to their site and get the “Islam is Gay” commemorative coin for only the low price of $14.99!

I’ve thought about growing a beard, and would actually like to do that someday. And I’m not talking about one of those, oh I haven’t shaved in a week so it looks like scratchy pubic hair on my cheeks type mess either. I’m talking to the level of, f**K off, this is a man’s world and I need to chop me some lumber type beard. The type that says I could wrestle a beard, do your girl and shoot bullets out of my ears…all at the same time. Maybe someday, when I’ve got a better job, I’ll pull that off.  Besides Andy Williams from Every Time I Die and Liam Wilson from The Dillinger Escape Plan make it seem so freaking cool.

Anyway, Metalsucks.net just had an interview with the two. I dig both of these gentlemen’s bands for the chaotic eargasms they provide my soul. Reading this interview makes me wonder why they don’t have their own show. 

Come on, Williams’ constant use of the word gnarly is worth a contract from Fox alone.

Anyway, check out the interview. Meanwhile, I’m just going to keep rocking the afro and the chin sidekick.

Balance my children.

This was definitely an interesting read, and while I would love to give Manning a light of an idealistic hero simply trying to do the right thing by exposing the truth, he comes off as more of a vain psycho simply wanting attention. Also emoticons?! WTF?! OMG! Lol

Then again, maybe it all has to do with the isolation and what he witnesses—he did mention that he was heavily medicated. It’s interesting because Manning could either go down as some type of information hero, or treason loving enemy depending on how the media spins this.

I will say this, you cannot hide your skeletons anymore, not in this day and age.

While the floor is open, what are everyone’s thoughts on the Wikileak Afghan War reports?

nedhepburn:

The Afghanistan whistleblower - 22 year old Army Intelligence analyst Bradley Manning - leaked the documents over INSTANT MESSENGER. It’s a great read, full of emoticons and everything. All the data was transferred over burned CD’s  (labeled ‘Lady Gaga’, etc). Bradley Manning is currently being detained by the U.S government in an Army base in Kuwait.

Oh man this is going to make a great movie.

Keith Buckley—Captain of the get rid of crappy music campaign or just another grumpy old man?

I’ve always dug the southern swag meets break your face hardcore concoction that is Every Time I Die. Not a lot of my friends dig them, which is fitting since I don’t really care for Lady Gaga, Drake or anything else that gets played on the radio.

I’ve recently discovered that Buckley is writing for Alternative Press.(Yeah I know,where the hell have you been dude?) And now I’ve become a fan of his writing. Buckley was an English teacher before ETID essentially took off. I wish I was as good as him at the whole stringing of coherent yet witty sentences. I guess that’s the difference between English majors and journalists. English majors can actually write. Journalists con you into believing that they can write.

His latest offering is taking a hard look at the current state of rock music, using bands like Breathe Carolina and Brokencyde, and Attack Attack as his guilty culprits as to why rock music today sucks. I think he plays the diplomatic route and avoids name checking any of the bands (except for Breathe Carolina).

While this little gem has some good points, I can’t help but feel that overall, it’s a bit, um, traditional in the sense that “Well, everyone in their late 20’s and 30’s criticizes the music of the youth.” Hell, even ETID, along with anyone that had the word core, in their sound was thought of as crappy by the grown ups.” It happens every generation. We look at our younger siblings, listen to their shit and note how said shit is indeed shitty.

Meanwhile, we pat ourselves on the back with our fine wine and cheese—cause beer is soooo 18-22 year old—while enjoying our bands of the day, even if their last few albums weren’t as good as the first two or three. Hey at least their crap is better than anything that’s being offered by the new bands right?

On the other hand, seriously, Fuck Attack Attack and Brokencyde. That stuff is putrid and devoid of any real heart or soul. Or maybe that’s just the old man in me talking.

I still rock Local H’s Bound to the Floor like it’s brand new, and the Spice Girls are just beginning to come out.

So what do you think about today’s music? Does it all suck? Or is a 20-something like me too out of what’s hip and cool?