La de daa. I'm back. Quite a bit later than usual, but oh well. I was busy. Kelly and I actually got stuff accomplished in FFXI. Not as much as we wanted to, but pretty darn close. So yeah, FFXI and me have a Love/Hate relationship right now. If it goes the way I want it to, I love it and don't want to stop. If I die, or people are stupid, I bitch and whine and get a headache. But yeah, I'm 2 levels shy of being able to unlock all the advanced jobs. Go me! And apperantly I have level 7 Jeuno fame . . . which is a LOT higher than I expected. So yeah, I'm almost as famous as I can possibly get in the high level city. Man, I rock.
And Joe and Lindsay are in bed. Together. I just heard a "smooch" sound . . . Put it out of your head Eric, put it out of your head . . .
I just updated myself on people's livejournals. Lots of conflicting emotions from those . . . My group of friends from high school never update. And on the rare occasions they do . . . I dunno. Its about stuff that just flies over my head. Its like I don't even know them anymore. It's sad.
That and I'm extremely bitter of other people's happiness. I dunno why. I'm not exactly down in the dumps, but I just have so much animosity towards some people. At least I know its unfounded.
Although I am extremely pissed to hear about people I respect getting high. If you know me at all, you know how much I hate it and look down on it. I definitely do not repsect these people nearly as much as I did.
And then someone bashes a movie I loved. People's opinions are so weird. Its like they're completely unfounded in logic and reasoning and its ridiculous. Do I have any opinions like that? That I just decide on a whim for no point what so ever? God, I hope not.
It seems like I've gotten nothing but badnews from blogs tonight . . . hmmm . . .
I was riding with my brother to work today, and listening to his Shinedown cd again. We were listening to this one particular song, and I thought to myself: these lyrics don't make any sense but they sure sound pretty. So I paid more attention, and no, the lyrics don't make anysense at all. But they are very illustrative. It's like someone said, "hey, let's take all these words that sound really cool when sung and make a song out of them". There's a bunch of stuff about darkness and light and eyes, and burning, and hesitation, etc. And that "-tion" ending. There were lots of words like that: hesition, salvation, conversation, imitation, etc. That suffix is soooooo common in the english language! There is such a wide variety of words with such different meanings that rhyming almost anything can be possible! So yeah, if I ever want to make it as a music artist, I just have to use a lot of -tion words, and it'll sound pretty and who cares if it makes sense? I'll still get money.
Which gets me to thinking about musicians and song writing . . . if you think about it, most musicians really don't have that much talent. They have a pretty face, so they get someone else's songs and sing them and get lots of money. Hell, they don't even have to sound good, because they just edit the vocal tracks using a computer. And then, when performing concerts, they just lip-synch, or sing along to a track of themselves. Its soooo pathetic. These people with no talent are rich because they are good looking, and it kinda pisses me off. What the hell makes them so special?
And then again, I'm just jealous that I'm not in their shoes. Bahh.
But yeah, so now I'm all wondering about my favorite artists. Do they write their own music? Do the lip-synch? Well, I know Sarah writes her own stuff, and I know she actually sings at her concerts because she wears little things in her ears so she can hear herself better and sing well. But yeah . . . interesting thing to think about. Should someone really be one of your favorite artists if they can't compose and can't sing any better than your average person? I don't think so. Anyone who thinks otherwise can give me reasons.
And while we're on the subject, I recently listened to John Mayer's 2nd CD this weekend. Well, re-listened, and I must say that it was rather dissappointing. It doesn't have anywhere near the longetivity of his first album. Everything seems so . . . manufactured in Heavier Things. And that damn "Daughters" song pisses me off. Its so freaking sappy! And its obvious that what happened was some guy in charge of the record company said, "Hey, people like that 'Your Body is a Wonderland' song, so make another one like that for the second almbum." And John said, "ok", and did it. Its just so, "I love women a lot, and I'm a really nice, sensitive guy" crap, it makes me want to puke. Its almost to the point where John's over-defending his heterosexuality. "Methinks the lady doth protest too much". And that's lots of quotes for one paragraph. But yeah, as a whole, the 2nd album jsut doesn't have the soul that the first one does. Go back to your roots, John.
Hmmm .. . methinks its bedtime. I've got a big day on my brand new schedule. Lets see if I can stick to it! ^^
Eric 11/29/2004 01:38:00 AM
