By Doug on April 1st, 2010
Shit on it as much as you’d like, but ranchera music’s popularity is simply staggering, especially in LA. For those of you who don’t know what ranchera music is, and God bless if you don’t, it’s basically every song you’d here at a mexican restaurant. It’s that stuff that has a lot of accordion and maybe some horns. Awful, just awful.
It’s everywhere in LA, too. I guesstimate have of the radio stations here play that shit. Literally, half. Every single pickup truck from the 70s filled to the brim with day laborers that I see, and I see a lot, is just blaring that shit.
I hate to label a type of music as shit but, well, it is. Basically, you know your music is shitty when an accordion is its primary instrument. I considered the notion that it’s a cultural difference and well, basically, it is. But, that doesn’t make it right. Ranchera music has been popular for almost a century and seemingly without much change, at least according to my Caucasian ears. It’d be like me listening to, well shit, I don’t even know what kind of music white people listened to one hundred years ago. Music tends to evolve pretty quickly, which I guess is exactly my point.
It’s April Fools Day today, and anyone who’s had the pleasure of eating In N Out Burger can appreciate this great April Fools Day prank.
By Doug on January 29th, 2010
So, there’s this new guy at work. Well, he’s been here a few months but I didn’t actually have a conversation with him until today and I really only talked to him because we happened to be going to the fridge at the same time. He’s the new guy at work the same way my ’99 Honda Accord was new to me when I bought in 2005. It doesn’t really matter, does it?
Anyways, we exchanged polite pleasantries and it eventually evolved into us shooting the shit and he brought up how he’s this huge music fan and he wanted to know what all I listened to. I brought up how I’m a big Nirvana fan and the conversation evolved to talking about 80s bands like Motley Crue and Van Halen. The 70s were next and I mentioned that Zeppelin is possibly my favorite band ever.
Things were going good and I was thinking to myself how this guy could be someone I could hang out with again possibly outside of work blah, blah, blah. I then mentioned how I sort of like Pink Floyd and he responded, “I love Pink Floyd. That guy’s so talented.”
Yes, he thinks Pink Floyd is one person and not a band. What am I supposed to do with that? Well, I mean, it’s besides the point now because as soon as I realized I had heard what I thought I had heard, I got the fuck out of there. But, is it my responsibility to correct him on this? It’s kind of past the point at this point.
And now, every time I see this asshole I’m going to think to myself, “This asshole thinks Pink Floyd is a single person. What an asshole.”
By Doug on May 19th, 2009
Well, it turns out Ice T and I have at least two things in common: Soulja Boy Tell ‘Em is an awful, awful rapper and big white asses are A-OK.
I was listening to the radio today, which is odd because the radio in LA sucks more than your sister did when she showed up at my cousin’s bachelor party two years ago, and this song came on. And Oh My Fucking God is it awful. It’s so bad that I think black people should consider it to be racist. Cuz it definitely doesn’t make black people look good. Music for that matter, too.
Just awful.
By Doug on March 31st, 2008
Have you ever seen someone wearing earplugs at a concert? I’ve been attending rock concerts regularly for the last ten years and have always noticed a Dbag or two wearing them at each one. Like, really? Ear plugs at a concert? I’m not going to hate on anyone but there’s really no excuse for that. Yeah sure, it’s loud. I always thought that was the point of a rock concert.
If you don’t want it to be loud then save your money, stay home and find clips of the band playing on youtube. With earplugs, you’re going to get about the same sound quality anyways. And with the extra cash you’d save on not going to the concert, you’d have that much more money to buy things you’d probably like to have like a new tricycle or an EZbake oven or whatever the hell it is 3-year-old girls like you are into.
It seems to be getting worse and worse, too. I was at a concert three weeks ago and I noticed an exorbitant amount of people wearing these things. One of them even had those plugs that are connected to each other by a piece of string. There were three people within my immediate perimeter (as in I could have touched them) with earplugs in. Doing the math, that’s roughly ten percent of the people immediately surrounding me.
Applying that figure to the rest of the arena, 10 percent of the estimated 15 to 20,000 people there would mean that there were roughly 1500 to 2000 people paying $40 or so to have considerably less fun than everyone else around them. Ear plugs make things quieter, but they also cut out certain frequencies. You’re not simply not hearing the same sounds as everyone else.
Who are these people? These lame-oids. These losers. These are the same people who choose to sit at the front row of a movie. The same people who have an HDTV without HD Cable. Oh wait, I have an HDTV without HD cable. Shit.
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