Procrastination Station 2: Violence is Fun.

I'm currently reading an article about how music is used in social movements.  This article focuses on the White Power Movement...  So CLEARLY, I get the song "We are Young" by Fun. stuck in my head!
(Disclaimer: I am absolutely NOT comparing Fun. with the WPM)

I was just thinking about these lyrics from the intro of the song:
"My lover she is waiting for me just across the bar.
My seat's been taken by some sunglasses asking 'bout a scar and...
I know I gave it to you months ago.
I know you're trying to forget..."

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Ya know, he always looked like a wife-beater to me.

So what I gathered from this little itsy-bitsy piece of lyric is that this guy injured his lover (or caused her injury somehow), but the two are still somewhat together....  Hm...

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I'm not sayin', but I'm just sayin'...

It's even more interesting that the "setting" of this song seems to take place in a bar, and the whole foundation of this relationship seems to be based on some kind of alcoholic/drunken hot-mess scene.  This guy appears to have recently had a violent episode with his partner, but it's okay.  When she's drunk at the end of the night, he'll carry her home...  Because they are young...  Thus, they must set the world on fire.

Now, I'm not criticizing this song in any way, but I just find it funny how songs become ten times more interesting once you actually take the time to sit and listen to the lyrics.  Not only is this song now a national anthem to young folks everywhere, but it is also the national "gettin' wasted" theme- or that's how I see it.  Just control yourselves, and try not to physically abuse your loved ones.




PS.  This is one of my FAVORITE songs.  Long live Indie music on the Top Charts!

Y teh Gays Shoold Not B Marryedd

This was something condescendingly hilarious, and I just had to share it.  Enjoy, and please... let those gay people marry each other.  The country is already screwed, so I don't see anything bad coming from it except more happy families.  Because, you know... America hates creating happy families :)

Times like these make me want....

a Tumblr account.

Procrastination Station

I am currently supposed to be writing a one page response about an animal rights activist for my Protest and Change class.  One page.  I can't even stay focused enough to type a page worth of honest words.  This stuff is double spaced, too...  Oh boy...

Since I'm on the subject of animal rights, I just want to take this moment to announce that I have been vegetarian since this Saturday!  Technically, my vegetarian experience started after hearing this guy, Gary Yourofsky, speak at our school about animal rights, being vegan, etc.  After that, I never could look at meat or animal products the same again (Saturday, I did go to Six Flags and eat half a corn dog, but had a hard time keeping it down.  That was a good enough cue for me to quit meat).  I figure someday I'll take a stab at the vegan life, but for now, I'm staying away from just meat.  It's going to take a while to explain my personal feelings about meat, and why I am just now shunning meat, but I'll just explain all that in a different blog.

Hmm... In the time it took me to write out this post, I could have been done with my one page response to Gary...

Oh well!

Unnecessarily Amazing Draw Something Drawings

There is a fairly new smartphone app out.  It is called Draw Something, and it has grown in popularity over the past few months.  The game is pretty much like Pictionary.  You send a drawing to someone and they try to guess that drawing based on a limited number of letters they are given.  As you earn more coins by playing the game and guessing drawings correctly you can eventually earn more colors to enhance your drawings.  This game is a fun (at least for a while, but I'll come back to that later), but there are some people who take this game to another level.  When I think of this game, I think of people making stupid little doodles that could barely earn a passing grade in elementary art class.  However, some individuals use this app as a way to show players that they are the next Michelangelo.  This is fine, except when the drawings start to become a little bit... unnecessary.
Allow me to explain:

Instead of drawing this...

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Someone drew this...

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This show was popular...  Right?

And so the elaborateness goes on.  Take a look at this fellow's drawing of the word "ape."  That's right.  All he/she needed to do was draw an ape...

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Do you see any apes in this picture?  Neither do I.

This next one, I just felt the need to nitpick at...

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Chimpanzees are apes, not monkeys...  Dick.

I guess the point of all this is that these drawings get a little bit ridiculous to me sometimes.  I'm not judging the people who make these.  Well...maybe a little.  I mean, come on guys!  It's just a $0.99 game!  Chill.  Either way, I'm not denying that these drawings are fantastic pieces.  I sure wish I could draw as good as these people, but in the mean time, I'm still going to be baffled at the amount of intricate time people spend drawing on their phones and/or tablets.

Enjoy some more unnecessarily amazing drawings!  Warning: Most of these are totally awesome...

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Catapult.  Get it?

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I never would've guessed those were slippers without the Asian man eating noodles there.

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Batman's parents died under a golden shower, I suppose?

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Usually when I draw "green", I just color the whole screen green.  But I guess I'm not creative enough.

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Its just awesome that this person found it necessary to draw Dexter in order to draw a graph.

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Could have just drawn a pair of scissors, but that's too easy.

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Okay.  Now you're just being obnoxious.