Umm... I don't really have anything to say before we get into these, except that they're just some random stuff I typed out while I was sitting around. It's the type of stuff I see myself writing while I'm away from the internet, so when I get back on, there may be a few entries full of these. So let's get on with it.

Music

I was thinking about music, and realized that it all falls into six categories:

1) Music I Love: This category houses moe., Colonel Les Claypool's Fearless Flying Frog Brigade, Béla Fleck and the Flecktones, and more recently, Phish. These four bands are pretty much the reason I listen to music. They're easily the most talented musicians out there.

2) Music I Like: Here, you'll find every song on the song list that isn't by one of the four bands above.

3) Music I Don't Listen To, But Respect: This includes a lot of the stuff my friends listen to. A lot of Japanese stuff and what have you. My friends like good music, and if they tell me something's good, I believe them.

4) Crap: This is the bulk of the music industry. It includes just about everything you might hear on Viacom's Greatest Hits (all the MTV channels, all the VH1 channels, BET, CMT) and Clearchannel Radio (Listen to the radio stations in your town. I bet Clearchannel owns at least two.).

5) Madonna: This is refered to by the Wigwambë tribe as, "Tukitukituki," or, "The crap of crap's crap." I call it music only because its easier to type than, "cacophonous dischordant vomit sounds."

6) Bjork: The Wigwambë don't have a written word for the music of Bjork, but their spoken word translates to, "Those sounds which are the foulest of the most foul and shall not be inscribed." Bjork holds the distinction of being the only person I could kill with no remorse whatsoever. She may be Satan.

"Special"

I think one of the biggest problems in society today is that we raise our children telling each and every one of them that they're special. Don't get me wrong, my problem isn't with the fact that we do it, but rather with the word "special."

Webster's says that special is,

"1 : distinguished by some unusual quality

2 : held in particular esteem

3 : readily distinguishable from others of the same category

4 : being other than the usual"

I'm sure you see the problem by now. If everyone is special, then no one is held in particular esteem, no one is readily distinguishable, and no one is other than usual. True, they still may be distinguished by some unusual quality, but no one can point one out.

The fact is, not everybody is special. Some people are normal (remember that word?). That's why there are special people. Special people are special because normal people are normal. Of course, in being normal, they aren't special, which sets them apart from everyone else, giving them an unusual quality, making them special. We can't tell them that, though, because if they really are special, then they lose the quality that makes them that way. It's very complicated.

That's both of them. So... uhh... sign the guestbook, and play Hold the Button

Later.