If you have seen this, you have seen what most of the MTV hip-hop is about. I find it funny.

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The perfect guy is either a liberal or a conservative, opinions do matter to him and he is not afraid to express them.
The perfect guy knows what’s an e-mail and a web site, and is also an expert at telling the difference between them.
The perfect guy wears t-shirts when it’s hot and always has an umbrella in his closet.
The perfect guy has a “Best Hits” collection in his car.
He takes pictures and makes websites for them, collects numbers and puts them in his phonebook.
He has a job, which provides him with money.
He hopes to get promoted one day, so he can get more money.
He knows what “quality” time is.
There is time to be angry, time to be happy, therapy time, time to get in touch with his feelings, and time to browse the web. Time is on his side.
He dreams about a vacation, somewhere far away from here so he can relax.
He can’t wait to go back home when he has a vacation.
Movies make him think for a while, movies make him think for a while, movies make him thi…”new releases today.”
The right amount of alcohol makes him a different person.
He can’t wait to tell his friends what happens when he is a different person.
He wears nice clothes in clubs, so he can get in.
He likes his news to be up-to-date.
He knows what date is today.
He has a birthday today.
That makes him think for a while, that makes him think for a while, that makes him…”hey how are you”

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Apparently, there is a show called “Baby Borrowers,” where they make teens take care of babies for some reason. Channels seem to be pushing the limit every day, don’t you think so? There is a show for everything nowadays — decorating your home, getting in jail, being a terrorist, etc. I think that, in the future, wherever we do, there will be a substantial risk of being featured in a reality show.

“I call this the Facebook effect” - Ocean Vice

The “facebook effect” is when people take pictures of each other not to remember the moment in the future, but to have something to put on facebook (I am sure you know what it is). The “facebook effect” is often accompanied by many phrases such as:

“Dude, let’s put those pictures on facebook”
“Hey, give me you facebook account so I can tag those pictures”
“I haven’t made a kissy face yet, don’t take my picture”
“Picture take facebook now”
“Now facebook take picture”

“Facebook take now picture”
….or a variation of the above

The “facebook effect” is a also a distant cousin of the “myspace effect.” Anyways, I suspect that, like facebook, whatever we do in the future will be connected with reality shows. Believe me, they will find a way to creep up on our lives.

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This video is is fascinating. I would probably do the same thing in their place, not because I give up my individuality, but because it would be plain weird to have nine sets of eyes looking at me in such limited space.

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Isn’t it funny how misunderstandings could cause so much pain? It seems that broken relationships, arguments, and even world conflicts all come as a result of something which wasn’t taken the right way. As if we are constantly searching for something to correct, then somehow spread our idea of righteousness and feel good about it in the meantime. Some people always have their antennas ready to spot something that they don’t agree on, only to voice their opinion on it. David Hume said that:

“Truth springs from argument amongst friends.”

The problem nowadays, however, is that our arguments get so heated, that they even get in the way of friendships. Abortion, war, death sentence– most people are detached from those things, but they still manage to divide us. Isn’t that funny? Then we have all sorts of affiliations, groups, parties that make us think that we are not alone in our beliefs. And we start to believe it little by little — our city, our college, our movies, our family; all of those things try to put us in a certain place. The catch is that all of those things are man-made; so when I think that I am right and you are wrong, I am ultimately going against my own nature. This sort of thinking can really distance us from society, but I believe that it is the right way to obtain self-awareness. I will end this post with a quote from Abraham Maslow:

“Self actualizing people have a deep feeling of identification, sympathy, and affection for human beings in general. They feel kinship and connection, as if all people were members of a single family.”

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I think it’s about time for me to share my taste in music. The first thing that you will notice is that I rarely listen to music just to hop around…or to grind with someone’s daughter for that matter. I mostly want it to be an enlightening experience, which would help me see things from a different perspective. This is not to say that I only enjoy moody, depressing, melancholic songs. Come to think of it, I might as well say that. Anyways, I won’t really get into that mainstream/underground debate, I just like when music makes me think, that’s all. As much as I hate categorizations I must say that I mostly enjoy alternative rock and hip-hop. I also know that songs that are deep for me might seem stupid for someone else and that it’s all relative. One more thing, if I like a band I will make sure that I gather all possible information about it, so I might seem a little but fanatic at some points.

The first song that I am going to mention is called “New Dawn Fades” by Joy Division. They are one of the bands that I really, really admire, so I would love it if I have introduced you to them for the first time. I seldom use the word “beautiful,” but that’s the only way that I can describe their songs. All of them were written by Ian Curtis, who was a simply a genius. Those are the lyrics of “New Dawn Fades” :

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Here is a news-worthy material that will never find its way into the mainstream media. Is your daughter grinding? First, what is “grinding.” According to Mariam’s Webster dictionary it is “to rotate the hips in an erotic manner.” So, to paraphrase the question, I will ask - is your daughter rotating her hips in an erotic manner? To add to that, is she doing that while a guy is standing behind her?

I don’t want to be a party pooper, but the chances are that if your daughter has danced at a party, she has grinded, because it is the most popular way to dance nowadays. It is fascinating to think about the ways that dancing has changed in order to speed things up. It makes me wonder every time I see people dance this way. Are we that primitive, that we actually have to simulate a sexual act on the dance floor in order to show affection? The days of the tango and waltz are gone. Sure, some people still enjoy that kind of dancing, but the most common way to dance at a party nowadays is indeed grinding.

No, I don’t need statistics or all kinds of data to back my claim up, if you go to any sort of disco, frat house, party, etc. you will find an awful sight. I am not here to tell you how messed up your kids are, or about modern values - I just find it fascinating that if I were a parent, I would really feel embarrassed to find out that my daughter is grinding.

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Well, this is very dandy. There are people out there, who like to shoot guns for fun. There are no targets, no challenges or, for that matter, no skills required. You just pay to go behind a gun and shoot it. Even though I have never been a hunter, a soldier, or a big paintball fan, I always understood that there is an objective to all of them. Getting joy out of using machinery intended to kill people, somehow crosses the line for me. It’s fascinating how amused we are by metal, noise and shininess. We like the idea of holding the trigger and having more power for a couple of seconds.
It is videos like this one that make me wonder if those people really take themselves seriously. What exactly are they thinking when they are shooting that minivan (which by the way is very combat-like)? I just like to look at their smiling faces after they’ve shot the gun.

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Seriously, you have to watch this movie.  I watched it last night and it was a breath of fresh air. It is a strange mix of comedy and drama and it really makes you think in the end. I hate it when movie reviews and trailers spoil the whole point of seeing the movie, so I’m not going to give anything away. Only the fact that it has a rating of 7.5/10 in IMBd, which means absolutely nothing.

By the way, have you noticed how many horror movies are coming out lately. I wonder if it’s a coincidence, or if movie producers think that “horror” is what’s hot nowadays. I bet that there’s a special group of marketing people beating their heads all day to come up with a better way to target us. One thing’s for certain, putting the whole plot of the movie in the trailer may not be the best idea. What happened to the old days, when even if the movie sucked, its trailer was somewhat convincing?

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I know that people don’t know who Ocean Vice is, or maybe they are not ready to know? Either way, I hope that as this site gets more exposure, people will be genuinely interested in who stands behind this corporate monster called BadGeneration… I also hope that I won’t be talking to myself much longer.

In the meantime I would like to tell you something which really annoys me. Check it: it is people who imitate having an accent in front of people who actually have an accent. I know it is a bit complicated, but once you look at how pathetic it is, you will feel the same way. Imagine that you have an accent, sexy or not, and you are constantly imitated by those around you. You have heard thousands of imitations, seen many types of stupid expressions, but people still think that they can amuse you by doing a terrible interpretation of the way that you speak.

As with almost all of my posts, I would like to look even deeper into the issue and get some sort of a global perspective on it. It all comes down to people having common sense and a general understanding about their surroundings, which they don’t. See, if you stop and think before you actually imitate someone’s accent, you would understand that others have tried the same thing before you. And have failed miserably. Thank you for your attention.

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I will give you a cookie if you guess how many times Keith says anything containing the word “lobby.”
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It is so easy to hate media nowadays. A while ago I did a post about the teen pregnancy pact, basically claiming that it is a worthless piece of information and all about sensationalism. Today I stumbled upon this article:

“Over the weekend, Mayor Carolyn Kirk of Gloucester told The Associated Press that an initial inquiry had turned up nothing to confirm the assertions of Joseph Sullivan, who was quoted as saying that 17 girls under the age of 16 had “confessed to making a pact to get pregnant and raise their babies together.” Other officials backed up Mayor Kirk’s statement today in comments to The Boston Herald.

Doubt was also expressed by the local newspaper that had been covering the surge in pregnancies long before Time. Patrick Anderson, the lead reporter on the story for The Gloucester Daily Times, told Editor & Publisher that “the idea of the pact is not something we had reported and not something we have found.” The new element, he said, “took an already unusual story and turned it into something operatic.”

Meanwhile, leaders of Gloucester plan to hold a meeting today on the issue, though Mr. Sullivan will not be in attendance. He’s been on vacation since last week, official said, even as his name reached national prominence. As for the article in question, it remains unchanged while sitting atop Time.com’s “most popular” chart.” (The New York Times)

Isn’t it funny how everyone started discussing, complaining and arguing about something that, in all probability, is not even true.  It is all cheap hype and sensationalism intended to waste you time.  We are back in high school again.

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Keith Olberman said it best, George Carlin was a man who “made sense of this crap.” Day in and day out. He looked past the fake smiles and pathetic norms which people use to obtain an illusion of prosperity and tried to make sense out of it. I understand why some people only view him as a complaining, old man. You have to view a lot of what he says with an open mind, because it is hard to notice injustice, when you have been born around it. He, however, noticed it well and made his best to show people how to always question what they see and not just criticize without a purpose, but to do it constructively.

He did not consider himself a counter-culture hero, messiah, or prophet. To label him something of that sort would be pathetic, because he himself considered the act of idolization as one of the major diseases in modern society. Much like Bill Hicks, George Carlin was an ordinary man, just like me and you, who proved that there are a lot of things which we don’t know about ourselves. His comedy was even uplifting for me, because I could finally hear a voice of passion and logic in a sea of pretentiousness. It was impossible for him to change the obscurities of modern media, but at least he showed us how to notice them and not be oblivious. His legacy will live on.

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I was watching TV one night and apart from all the “Girls Gone Wild” and “Enhancement Pill” commercials, I actually saw a comedian that made me laugh. Strange. I was starting to believe that the only way I can see a good comedian is to go to some underground place where you must know a secret handshake to get in. This is refreshing. Enjoy!  ( more clips when you click continue)

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