Music:

I used to really be into music. I knew artists, songs, lyrics, genre they fit into and listened to music somewhat constantly. I am not sure why, but I just don't anymore. An ipod has no appeal to me at all.

I like David Lee Roth Van Halen and Sammy Hagar Van Halen and I don't really compare one to the other. They are just different bands with the same name.

For the most part the singer is the band. If the singer leaves, it just isn't the same band anymore. I used to like INXS and after Michael Hutchence killed himself, I just forgot about them. I can't imagine Nirvana with a new singer. You can replace pretty much anyone other than the singer and it would be hard to tell the difference.

Getting Old:

I know I am getting old because I complain when people leave lights on when they leave the house. Or, when the Air or heat is on and doors and windows are open.

I don't feel the need to drive 80mph all the time anymore. I don't drive 55, but I just don't need to be going faster than everyone else anymore.

I don't have an AIM or any other messenger program on my computer. Cell phones and email are good enough for me.

TV:

I really think TV is geared towards idiots. Other than a very select few, the programming is just horrible predictable trash only to be out-dumbed by the constant advertising.

Movies:

If a movie sucks we should get a refund. Think of it like a recalled product or tainted food. If the movie truly sucks and they spent $150 million on it, and it grossed $2 million in the first week, we should get our money back. We have to sit through 30 minutes of pre-movie advertisements and then five previews before the movie, so I want something back if it sucks.

If a studio puts out a sequel or a prequel and it sucks we get double our money back and they are prohibited by law from making any more sequels for 12 months and have to fire the person that green lighted the sequel.

You can't go back and change a movie that has been out for years. Sorry Steven Spielberg you cant have a change of mind and digitally remove guns and change them to cell phones because you feel guilty it is corrupting the youth. You made the movie and you have to stick with it. As for Star Wars, George Lucas should be forced to release a warning label on anything he releases that he changed 20 years later. It needs to say "Now that I have money and you have caught on to my story inconsistencies I am trying to trick you into thinking I knew where this was going in 1978"

More sex, less violence in movies.

The EMO Look / Attitude:

This probably should be in the Getting Old Section, but this fad is just funny. And I mean Funny like I am laughing at those that embrace this with their down trodden bleeding poems of angst. Parents, please video your kids if they are into this, archive it and make sure to show it to them in 20 years. It will be worth it.

Arguing on Internet Forums:

A very productive use of time, please put as much energy as possible into convincing some random person you will never see on a point of view that they will never admit you are right.

Politics / Politicians:

Don't act shocked when you find out a politician lied. It's what they do for a living. Its like being shocked a criminal does crime.

I truly derive a huge amount of pleasure seeing politicians get caught doing things that they advocate so strongly against. As a hypothetical, like a politician voting against Gay anything and getting busted for wanting Gay sex, in like an Airport Bathroom or something.

Criminals and Guilt:

If there is video tape of me beating someone with a baseball bat, two hundred witnesses to the event, I will still plead innocent.

It truly amazes me how everyone is innocent of what they are accused of. We have become a country of victims of the man.

Conspiracy Theories:

I know stuff is done all them time with nefarious intent, but not everything is a huge government cover-up. You can't have the government horribly inefficient one day and able to fake the moon landing, 9/11 sending Tsunami's to Asia the next. This is all you have to remember, the more people you require to pull something off, the more likely that sooner or later someone is going to rat out the plan. And any number over one person equates to a 50% chance that someone will squeal. Deep Throat / Nixon / Watergate anyone...

Personal Responsibility:

Take some. Stop blaming your 4th grade teacher for failing you in PE for your holding up a kwik-y mart 30 years later. You did it, now own up to your actions.

Coffee is hot. Driving is Bumpy. You can get burnt if hot coffee spills on you. This isn't something that you should be compensated a few hundred thousand dollars for. Suck it up, you made a bad call.

Cell Phones While Driving:

You car should automatically be forced to the right lane, the slow lane or off the road to take your all important call, especially if there is any traffic at all. Same applies to putting on make-up, eating or anything else other than driving.

Political Speeches at Awards Shows:

I don't care for your opinion, you are an actor, and you pretend to be other people for a living. The lot of you can't stay married or off drugs for more than a few months, so spare me your views on the extinction of the Furry Woodchuck in Northern Uzbekistan.

The Term Diva:

You can't be a Diva until you have two triple platinum records and they are at least ten years apart. There is no such thing as a 21 year old Diva. Let's just say Flash in the Pan and be done with it until that ten years passes.

Rehab:

I am not impressed, nor do I assume anyone is because you have been in and out of rehab for drug addiction several times. Its one thing to fight an addiction, its another to get so much press over it. This leads me to the DUI arrests of the rich and famous. For the love of FN GAWD get a driver, take a taxi, take a limo, you made $20 million for your last picture and you can probably afford to get someone to drive you to the club where you will clearly, based on your history drink too much then drive home.

Corporate Crime:

Enron / Lincoln Savings, etc. If you are held responsible for this, and found to be guilty of stealing from millions of hard working Americans, then should be stripped of all of your luxuries in the same way the people you stole from lost everything. I don't care that Florida law allows you to keep your $9 million dollar house due to a technicality, it's going to be sold to pay back the people who are fighting to pay rent in their apartment.

Rap Artists:

Personally I consider this an oxymoron, but that's just me. But don't tell me you donated $50 thousand to the hurricane relief fund because you care and then brag about your $1 million dollar car and set of 20 $40 thousand dollar Rolex's. That just doesn't go so far.

Sports Stars and Steroids:

Their contract needs to read, once we pay you over a million a year we get to drug test you randomly and often. If you are caught taking Enhancing drugs you are banned from the game for a year. It's like cheating, and just because it's done, doesn't make it less cheating.

Impeaching the President:

What a joke. Good, Bad or Indifferent, Clinton was impeached and said, go ahead, try to fire me. Nixon got impeached and they said, and yes, we will fire you. But don't bring up impeachment of a president if you're not going to go through with it. This makes us look like a bunch of wimps to the rest of the world. People throw this term around like it actually means something. It's like putting Gummy the Barking dog in front of your house to protect it. After a while people just know it has no teeth to it.

Lip Syncing at Awards Shows:

I propose a constitutional amendment to have this banned. If you can't sing at an awards show, you can't win an award as it proves you have to have a studio create your voice.

The Price of Gas:

Don't complain that a gallon of gas costs $3 when you would pay the equivalent of $50 dollars for a gallon of star bucks and you never question that cost.