Beans beans the musical fruit
Tuesday November 1, 2005 - 4:44PM EDT
There are a few local radio stations around here made by idiots for idiots. Everytime you turn to them when they are not playing music some moronic DJ is talking to an even stupider caller. It is such a fucking disgrace.
Speaking of disgraces I heard some local DJ make fun of Weezer member going back to Harvard to study. It might have been off the cuff remark but that kind of comment is symptomatic of a larger problem. Meanwhile we have a TV show where that degenerate from Motley Crew goes back to school. What the fuck is that shit all about. That giant pile of loser only regained his short lived 80's fame by hooking up with Pamela Anderson and giving her hepatitis. I really don't care if giant piles of losers live their lives however they please but please stop showing that crap on TV and making us aware of it. We have plenty of losers in everyday life that we encounter we don't need that crap in TV land.
I was also thinking about when Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon won oscars and when one of the producers got on stage to thank people he spoke their names in his native Chinese and the audience would giggle. I don't know how many people even think about that but I do. Especially since studying Chinese. Now when I was first studying Chinese there are things that are intially funny because it is strange and new. But you quickly get over it especially if you want to learn the language. When the audience laughed I just thought how childish. I thought these people are supposed to be some kind of pinnacle of culture, educated, dignified, etc. They acted like children and no one called them on it. I don't necessarily want to ridicule them because it is so ignortant and childish. I just want correct them like a child so they know. But if one were even to suggest such a thing they would probably be seen as some kind of haughty intellectual and dismissed. But the collective psyche of the audience was childish and they need to learn.
The NBA dress code is in full effect. I called them out on the sham proposal it was. What I didn't think of though is something that Chris Webber mentioned in an interview. It was that none of the players had any idea that this thing was going to happen. They weren't warned or involved in any discussion on it. One day they woke up and there was a dress code. I never thought about it that way and that kind of thing can be what is really upsetting for some players regardless of whether they are againt the dress code or not. That someone made a snap decision in the league they play in without even talking to them. Especially in the age of unions and whatnot. Almost everything about the game is talked over before action is taken. The fact they just implemented this without any discussion is evidence that it was a sham proposal and posturing on the leagues part to flex their muscle. It was an "because I say so" move that serves only to pump up the league executive's ego. To make themselves feel powerful. You see this kind of shit all the time. For various reasons. Maybe in a league more dominated by players and their personalities than any other league NBA execs were just feeling small and wanted to stick it to their players and this was probably the only thing they could pull off without the real shit hitting the fan. What my question is now is whether these execs have fooled themselves into believing this is some kind of image enhancher or they are just going along with that game in the media when they know that this is just their own personal game of machismo. Also something Chris Webber mentioned in the interview was that some teams already have a dress code so it various team to team. No one ever talked about that.