Plastic Materialist Sponges (stupid people)

Plastic Materialist Sponges

"It's too bad that Stupidity isn't painful" -Anton Lavey

Okay it's true, I'm single again so naturally a little bit more bitter and un-even. I babble on and I swear my blog's have never been read, I know previously it was all philosophical babble... and I can imagine that people weren't that interested in that. I may have deleted them by now. There are so many people with fascinating blogs on here displaying their artwork and charity work etc and I must say I am very impressed.

I have to go to work and the people around me come in and talk about X-factor and Twilight it seriously drives me clinically insane. It drives me insane because I simply do not understand why people think these things are so great. For example, if you watch X-factor and the shoddy parody of beyonce has stopped singing then the croud is waiting to hear the context of what Simon Cowell is going to say. When Simon says (without finishing his sentence) "That wasn't as good as last week..." the croud start to boo and scream until he finishes his sentance by saying ...compared to last week it was 1000 times better" the croud start to cheer and celebrate. This leads me to think that no matter what they say the negative comments are greeted with boo's. This sickening example of the music industry has turned the artist's into products on a conveyor belt and has even put poor innocent mis-guided people into the churning machine for nothing but jokes and ridicule. While teenage girls sit at home slobbering over their posters of Jedward there are scientists working on a cure for cancer and aids. Don't get me wrong I am not saying their shouldn't be people trying to achieve stardom, but covering the same old take that number every day of the week can't be considered creative.

I have learnt an interesting formula to understand whether someone's musical tastes vary or not. If someone is talking to you about music and they say "I like everything from Darius to the Beach Boys" you will notice that Darius is a very well forgotten pop-star that got his stardom from pop-idol and the Beach Boys are a very mainstream institution in America, this tells you there is barely much variety in their tastes. If someone was to say to you "I love everything from Abba to Blondie" this also tells you that their tastes could fall quite neatly in the 70's! If someone says "I like everything from Al Wilson to Dvorjak" you're quite safe to say that they like a fair spectrum of genres. I know this is not an exact science but it works.
When I went to University I expected everyone to be in tweed jackets smoking pipes, listening to classical music and talking about Kierkegaard, however when I arrived I was surrounded by drunken students talking about getting their end away on the weekend with t-shirts that had things like "Where's the pub?" written on them. The height of their intellectual conversations touched on a football match of the past I have never seen. When I was talking to one of these mindless zombies about The Beatles she replied to me "How can you like music that was out before you were born?" now excuse me but in my life that is in the top 10 of most stupid phrases ever uttered.

I'm sorry if this just seems like a rant, but I needed to get this off my chest. I see this every day and nobody relates to it. If you have any storys or anecdotes I would love to read them! comment away. I'm honestly not a boring bitter sod, the reality is I don't understand why plastic pop is good? Maybe someone could educate me.

I will try and update this blog as much as I can if something interesting happens to me.