I tried in 140 characters. It didn't work out very well. This blog will be in real time. I opened up Yahoo news and the headline was something about Jon and Kate. I never watched the show. Never asked about the show. But it was getting annoying seeing them all over every site. What I've gathered from the things I've seen unintentionally is: They were married, now they are not, and just recently Jon stood up to Kate. About what, I do not know. It sounds to me like a marriage problem. Not sure why that grabs the attention of millions of people. So now...I am going to go find out what makes them attractive. Stay tuned.
Ok. Wikipedia tells me the show was about a couple with 8 kids. Jon was caught cheating, and they got a divorce. That's it? They weren't celebrities or anything? I know people with more than 8 kids now. They don't have the world following their every move. This show sounds like a glorified episode of Cheaters mixed and a long background.
Have we, as a society, become so numb to life that we actually care about two people that are making no difference in the world, offering no real entertainment, and having marriage problems? 42% of marriages end in divorce. This is nothing new. And for some reason I have sympathy for the two. Not because of their problems, but because they are being glorified on television and the internet for every move they make. I have even more sympathy for the 9.8 viewers, plus all of the people that caught up online later. I'll be the first to admit that the programs that I watch aren't always the most educational. But they're at least truly entertaining. Most of them fictional (with the exception of the ones that are actually educational) but no reality. I mean come on...this isn't even a good idea. Big brother has an idea that can be entertaining to some. Trading Spouses is a unique idea. Who pitched this? The conversation in that meeting had to be close to the following:
"Hey I got an idea...let's invade the lives this normal couple with 8 kids, build up sympathy of a hard life, then wait until we drive them clinically insane and they do something entertaining."
Sounds about right to me. I have a new pitch for a reality show of equal attraction that I've been working on in my spare time. It's called "The not so entertaining life of Matt Barnes". Here's a time line of one of the episodes. I wake up. Go to the bathroom. Drive to class. Read paper instead of taking notes. Drive home. Eat on the recliner while watching TV. Spill some spaghetti on my shirt. Change shirts. Shoot some golf balls in the backyard. Drive around for 8 hours at work. Come home. Go to sleep. Oh, and I'll be tweeting throughout the day. Who would watch that? Brainwashed consumers who also watched Jon and Kate.
It's just ridiculous to me. Probably because I haven't been watching it and getting sucked into crap that doesn't matter at all. Do they actually have box sets of these? There's 5 seasons! Really??? I am going to move to the mountains like Mark Wahlberg did on shooter. The entertainment world is selling out. It won't be long until The Truman Show becomes reality because all other incredibly dumb ideas have already been used.
Feel free to post hate comments about why you love Jon and Kate so much. Also how I'm an unsympathetic jerk with no feelings. Just include the part about how you befitted from caring about them. I would like to read them.
2.9.09
The past few weeks
My life at the moment.
In case your wondering, all current dgn projects are on hold along with everything else I've been working on. If you're wondering why, it's because my hard drive crashed. Over 200 gigs of every song I've EVER recorded (over 100) along with all of my iTunes songs (over 6000) and all of my drum triggers, plugin presets, and a lot more than I can even think about is now gone. I sent it off to a place who said it would be $1400 to recover it. Another place says $500, so I am sending it there tomorrow to see what's up. $500 is a lot better than $1400 but it's still not pocket change. Also, the clutch finally went out on my car. There's another 300. Plus putting it in won't be the best time of my life. Ironically, I can't work without my car and I can't get money without working. Driving a motorcycle in the rain is very cold and very uncomfortable.
Amidst all of this, I'm not sweating much. I'm more composed than other times that haven't been so bad. I thought it would be one of those things that just wrecked me and made me hate life, but it didn't. Why? I don't know. Maybe because I still have hope that one day, money won't be a problem. I mean come on...If Stephenie Meyer could make millions by basically writing a bad movie script into a book, I could get somewhere. I've been making fun of her a lot recently. It's not her fault though. It's the people who eat it up and, unlike me, can get past the fact that her writing style seems more like a Beverly Cleary book than anything someone in high school or college would read. I like going off on tangents. She has nothing at all to do with what I started here. It's just fun to wonder out loud about some things. And to you, Twilight fan who could possibly be reading this...you must be angry and wanting to comment on my own writing style and how it's not good either. Go for it. I'm writing a blog. She wrote a book.
I've been wanting to post something for a while, but could never think of anything postworthy. No, that isn't a word and yes I made that word up. This still isn't very entertaining and for that I apologize. Maybe this will kick start some more updates. In the meantime, I will keep looking forward and hope that I don't go broke. Here are some entertaining sentence fragments about my life at the moment.
Lots of free time. Sometimes not as much. Think a lot to myself. Bored mostly. Picked up golf again. Drove a plastic ball 45 yards. What you got? Just leaving out the nouns. Boring sentence fragments. Taking a lot of showers now. More than usual. Washing clothes a lot more too. Not as lazy as I used to be. Recording a cover song. Your Love by The Outfield. Can't sleep anymore. Just lay in bed for hours. Hair straightening no longer needed. Trying a few with no verb. I'm about ready to bed. I should my teeth and some water. First, I have to my room. I can't in a dirty room. Doesn't make any sense. Still reading? You must be as bored and insomnious as me. Spell check says that is not a word, but I think it is. I'm going to look that up, hang on a second......it is! I win spell check. These have been complete sentences. Thank you for reading my pointless ramblings and I hope that you soon forget, lest you become dumb.
In case your wondering, all current dgn projects are on hold along with everything else I've been working on. If you're wondering why, it's because my hard drive crashed. Over 200 gigs of every song I've EVER recorded (over 100) along with all of my iTunes songs (over 6000) and all of my drum triggers, plugin presets, and a lot more than I can even think about is now gone. I sent it off to a place who said it would be $1400 to recover it. Another place says $500, so I am sending it there tomorrow to see what's up. $500 is a lot better than $1400 but it's still not pocket change. Also, the clutch finally went out on my car. There's another 300. Plus putting it in won't be the best time of my life. Ironically, I can't work without my car and I can't get money without working. Driving a motorcycle in the rain is very cold and very uncomfortable.
Amidst all of this, I'm not sweating much. I'm more composed than other times that haven't been so bad. I thought it would be one of those things that just wrecked me and made me hate life, but it didn't. Why? I don't know. Maybe because I still have hope that one day, money won't be a problem. I mean come on...If Stephenie Meyer could make millions by basically writing a bad movie script into a book, I could get somewhere. I've been making fun of her a lot recently. It's not her fault though. It's the people who eat it up and, unlike me, can get past the fact that her writing style seems more like a Beverly Cleary book than anything someone in high school or college would read. I like going off on tangents. She has nothing at all to do with what I started here. It's just fun to wonder out loud about some things. And to you, Twilight fan who could possibly be reading this...you must be angry and wanting to comment on my own writing style and how it's not good either. Go for it. I'm writing a blog. She wrote a book.
I've been wanting to post something for a while, but could never think of anything postworthy. No, that isn't a word and yes I made that word up. This still isn't very entertaining and for that I apologize. Maybe this will kick start some more updates. In the meantime, I will keep looking forward and hope that I don't go broke. Here are some entertaining sentence fragments about my life at the moment.
Lots of free time. Sometimes not as much. Think a lot to myself. Bored mostly. Picked up golf again. Drove a plastic ball 45 yards. What you got? Just leaving out the nouns. Boring sentence fragments. Taking a lot of showers now. More than usual. Washing clothes a lot more too. Not as lazy as I used to be. Recording a cover song. Your Love by The Outfield. Can't sleep anymore. Just lay in bed for hours. Hair straightening no longer needed. Trying a few with no verb. I'm about ready to bed. I should my teeth and some water. First, I have to my room. I can't in a dirty room. Doesn't make any sense. Still reading? You must be as bored and insomnious as me. Spell check says that is not a word, but I think it is. I'm going to look that up, hang on a second......it is! I win spell check. These have been complete sentences. Thank you for reading my pointless ramblings and I hope that you soon forget, lest you become dumb.
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