10 Random Opinionated Thoughts On Life

1) The new Trail of Dead album is disapointing --
It's not that it's bad...but it's just not them and it doesn't really measure up to the greatness of their previous albums. It's more crass, less passionate, more conventional, less loud (in a bad way), more lethargic. I dunno, mabye I'm just too picky when it comes to my favorite bands. Madonna and Source Tags are amazing...so was the EP that came out between Source Tags and this album, it gave me some hope that this album would be part of a contenual improvement.

2) Garden State (the movie) Is overrated --
It's not that, again, it's a bad film, it's pretty good. However, I do not see how it is the greatest film ever made...as some people in a fit of blind obsession have claimed it is. It's simply another movie about another twenty-something guy who doesn't know who he is or where he's going and is trying to find out what those two things are. It's no different than the Graduate in that sense. The film never really resolves, and honestly really isin't that deep. It has some really funny moments, but as an overall film I didn't get into is as much as seemingly everyone else did.

3) The Texas Department of Transportation is absoultely ridiculously stupid for knocking down the Westbound entrance ramp to Ben White between Congress and I-35 --
I guess this is one of those "you have to be there to understand" things.

4) Texas State University students need to start caring more about the school's athletic teams --
Instead of wearing other more prominient athletic school's stuff, we should concentrate on going to our own games, cheering for our own teams, and supporting the program so that someday mabye we can compete with Texas and Texas A&M instead of dreaming or pretending while treating our school like it's a second class instituion...when it's not.

5) Antibiotics leave a weird taste in my mouth --
Everytime I've taken them, I've had the same weird taste. It's weird

6) People seem to use wet weather as an excuse to drive in an unbelievably and irrationally bad way --
Everytime it rains, more people pull in front of me, run red lights, and run stop sings, things that you can't blame on the rain, only on just being thoughtless and careless.


Hey Chris, good to see you in the Blogosphere

7) The "Blogoshpere" is a stupid name, for anything. Blogging is overrated...that could be point 8...

8) Blogging is overrated. Yea, sure it's a new medium where "everyone has a voice"...but a lot of those voices are crappy and full of...well, crap. To think that the average blogger has the same media power as Peter Jennings is just wrong. Peter Jennings is Canadian...who would have thought.

9) Conan O'Brien is a genius and should already be hosting the tonight show instead of Leno.

10) The gas price hikes are purely being manufactured by business and investment instrests to make a profit. Even with increased consumption in China, there's no reason for prices to jump like they have except for the fact that investors are focing them up and holding the economic growth of the U.S. hostage. I would like to think that the Bush Adminstration would do something about it but who am I kidding.