So the other day I am out driving to Trader Joe’s, not on purpose – I was actually in the neighborhood.  I figured, “Hey the video store is right by it!” I pull up to the video store and it’s closed.  As in nothing on the shelves closed, lights out closed.  NO!!!

That’s my bread and butter they’re fucking with.  I walked up to the door to read some signs they posted, in hopes of a brighter tomorrow, I see that there is another Hollywood Video down the road from my apartment in the opposite direction.  I’m thinking to myself that can’t be all that bad.

After my stop for snacks I make my way across town to find a smaller version of the video store I used to frequent.  Slightly disappointed I found a stack of movies.  I am one of those movie nuts that when I go to rent movies, I usually walk out of the store with anywhere from five to twelve movies.  The lady at the counter said I get to have only one.  This is my burden since I am new to this store.   Her response is that it’s a new policy since there have been too many thefts.

Let me tell you something counter lady who doesn’t make the rules but just enforces them:

First of all, if this is something that has been happening to more than just one store, (and I am sure it is) how about you centralize your customer accounts so I don’t have to open up a new one every time I go to a different store?  Why doesn’t corporate spend a few extra bucks doing this so when people go to rent movies, they’ll see whether or not if this is a person who has been previously noted as being a vandal or a movie addict who desperately needs his fix. . .  he has the money give him the goods.

Apparently I can rent three movies at once now, Hollywood Video: I have a feeling you’re going to be closing a lot more stores until you fix an easy problem that seems to be costing you quite a bit of money.

Next on my “Bitch about Video Store Day:” I have a big ‘Piss off’ to Hollywood in general.  You’re just setting yourself up for failure and it’s blatantly obvious.  You have this belief that sales are down in DVD’s as well as Blu-Ray disks, you know this is no true because we see the same sales figures as you and if they’re up, then they’re obviously up.  How about this: on all of the new releases, give us back the ‘Special Features’ options?  I’m getting upset opening up a DVD/Blu-Ray case and seeing ‘Rental Copy’ on it to find out it’s just the movie and not the listed special features from the display box.  If I wanted JUST the movie, I would have pirated it from some Bittorrent site, or from the various open FTP networks out there.  But when I look at a movie and it may have some oddball commentary or weird feature – I assume I’m getting that when I rent it.

In lieu to my rant, I have given up on purchasing any movies for the year 2010.  I may even go as far as selling my collection of several hundred.  If there is a movie that I desperately want to see, I’ll just have to wait for it to come to the Valley Theatre where it will only cost $1. 50 plus the two drink minimum.
I had faith in movies, now that faith is gone.

Thanks to advances of technology and that fact that I live in the Midwest. We have virtually no rolling black-outs so we’ve got plenty of electricity. Or at least until we have a severe freeze, or I guess a fairly decent sized thunderstorm – but then again, that means it’s out for only a day or so.

But yes, the advances; there so many miraculous things within this world but I think we need more bands covering Rolling Stones songs. A random thought I know but just think of it. Another great generation where one out of five people are immune to every substance that the common world deems toxic to virtually everyone!

Granted, due to a certain event that had recently happened- I don’t exactly recommend what a certain Keith Richards had done, but I do have to say this. For as wrinkly as he is, he has got some serious balls.

We don’t always get what we want, wait wait wait… I need to quote that since it’s from a great track. “We don’t always get what we want,” there we go! On that quote, we don’t get what we want because it’s obvious that we all suck. Not like Hollywood suck; more like Red Hot Chili Peppers covering Elton John songs suck. We are a group of unique individuals prancing around in our underwear, flinging mud, trying to duplicate though we perceive it as seeking acceptance.

With this perception of seeking acceptance, our peers praise us for the individual talents that we have but at times, if not all times, we don’t think that these talents are the quirks that are going to get us through life.

Take for instance; I’ve been called a genius. I know it’s not true. I may be some egotistical borderline (if not completely over the fence) narcissistic person. But I’m not genius. All this time I’ve been told this, I once thought it true. After hearing it repeatedly I came to some understanding that it couldn’t be true. If I were a genius, I would hope that I would know a genius of what. Or maybe that is the definition of what a genius is? Some person is given this title, where they express brilliance within thought where they are cursed to ponder an equation that will ultimately be the all coming of themselves. The downfall of any and all genius species is that they have this answer for this equation. An answer that is so clear to them and they understand everything after that answer, but they delve on the equation of how this answer is. Where did it come from, what are the factors that, when grouped together, create the all being solution?

I have a peculiar taste in life. I will let the world serve it to me and I’m not about to take it with two sugars one cream. I take my shots strait. Put it in a cup on a plate above a napkin if you like, dress it up as much as you like. Put a fucking ice cube in it, bring the pain. Life on the Rocks is what I’ll be choking down, just because I’m biting my lip doesn’t mean that it’s all bitter.

All in all we have the complete works from The Rolling Stones and we are ruining all of audio from people who have focused their craft for us to hear a specific spectrum of their audio taste that is more than likely ruined with digital audio.