George Carlin: My Favorite Lapsed Catholic Atheist Maven of Logic

I grew up watching tons of standup comedy with my family as a kid. My parents were smart enough to understand that hearing someone say the words fuck and shit weren't going to really do much harm against my upbringing, so really, I watched everything that they would watch. I was able to many of these shows "live" as they aired on HBO and Showtime, including Richard Pryor, Rodney Dangerfield, Eddie Murphy, and of course, George Carlin.

Out of all of them, Carlin was the one I resonated with best. Even when I was 6 years old I loved corny, silly, and puny jokes that revolved around wordplay. There was no one better than George Carlin for that. I often found it stupid that people would get so upset over words that were just made up by humans, and that we had set rules for the right and wrong way to use them when they were just made up anyhow. I understand the need for rules, but making fun of it all was just that much better, and free speech is something we all fucking need.

Raised Catholic I found a lot of what he said about "God" and religion interesting, because even early on I started to realize that those ideas and beliefs were not my own. Laughing about it helped me realize how silly I really found all of it and as a teenager I could have no better influence or teacher on the subject than that same guy that made me laugh my ass off as a little kid.

As an adult I've become a bitter bastard of an atheist, however, with a very optimistic yet realistic eye for the future. I have major plans and goals that I want and need to accomplish and I will be starting my own family as of Oct. 25th, 2008. (That means I'm getting married, that doesn't mean that Rosa is pregnant.... yet!) Watching his last comedy special he talked a lot about things that I care about and am looking toward and it seems like every phase I enter in my life I can look back to some George Carlin comedy special that I saw right around that time. Too bad I won't be able to say that about the future.

As hilarious as I found George Carlin to be, I thought his best accomplishment was getting people to think, even just a little bit. People don't seen to do that enough or as often as they should, so even if watching one standup comedy hour made people laugh while stimulating some brain activity, he did more for it in one hour than most could do in their whole life.

With that being said, I'm not going to say "Hope you're out there somewhere watching blah blah bullshit" because Carlin and I both don't believe there is anywhere to go for that crap.

Instead, I'll just end it with my favorite George Carlin bit.

New Job at my Job?

So i might be getting a new position at my job... which would kick so much ass. I need to have benefits and all that good stuff so it would be a welcome step up.



Beyond that, it would put me in a more creative place, which is excellent as it works towards my goals of world domination.



Yay!

Confirmed: Evil Adam is Better Than Slipknot

So according to http://www.reverbnation.com/main/bes_chart?genre=metal Evil Adam is better than Slipknot, at least for today. That makes me happy, no doubt, however I realize that I have to overcome Bluntforce and Omnidemic and the herculian band Banshee if I ever want to go anywhere in the music world.

Fucking crazy! Oh, and the hard drive... well a co-worker is giving me some software he thinks may help. Let's cross our fingers and toes.

3rd Times The Harm...

Fuck you. Fuck you you fucking piece of shit hard drive. Fuck you and your other 2 brothers that died on me a few years back, one after the other. Fuck you for not being completely backed up yet, as I was in the process of trying to back you up 2 weeks ago and had a problem with my DVD-R drive. Fuck you for being an asshole.

Fuck you for not doing what you are supposed to; work. Fuck you for not being there for me when I needed you most, which hasn't even happend yet, but I already know you're not working now so I know you WON'T be working next year when I get back down to the dirty business of music. Fuck you for having all the Cousin music on you, possibly making 2 musical projects suffer. Fuck you for not being a person, because at least if you were a person I would just not talk to you anymore or beat the living shit out of you.

Most of all, hard drive, simply and sincerly, fuck you!

Some Numbers to Scare the Shit Out of You With...

First of all, look at this chart:

Ok, now that you've seen it, really read and pay attention to the information it presents. How fucking terrifying is that? Ok, now let me fess up with you... it isn't ALL that horrible.... right?

Yeah, actually that is REPORTED natural disasters, as in some things just fell through the cracks... probably of the Earth, as it was breaking up during an earthquake. Anyhow, now there are more and more ways to record, report, and inform, so that number is only to be bigger and bigger as media and multimedia capabilities strengthen and reporting agencies pop up into existence. Beyond that, really, yes, natural disasters to seem to be growing in occurance.

Why? Who the fuck knows. Do we know that natural disasters weren't this frequent millions of years ago? We don't really have any conclusive evidence that proves or disproves it, and besides, no one was alive yet. Can't rightly ask a fucking t-rex what happened, so there we go. I will say that in HUMAN records and memory, though calamities of greater magnitude have happened I don't think the frequency of such has ever been as high as it has in the last few decades, and this decade has definitely been pretty crazy.

Now, I would also like to see natural and man-made disasters on a chart like this, basically measuring the loss of human life thanks to natural means and man-made death fests such as wars, terrorist attacks, murders, traffic accidents, and such.

Could be an interesting set of numbers, eh?

Anyhow, where am I going with all of this? You'll see soon enough. One of my damn theories, which I was turning into a book, is slowly looking more and more like reality. I'll explain more at a later date. Until then you can read the full report that I pulled this graph out of right here.