put down that slice of cake, and let's mosh those pounds away!

Dear surfing dead,

sorry for a complete lack of post in forever, but i haven't felt the need to rant enough to overpower my problem with people who post blogs sounding self important. my current bother with the world seems to be stemming from the ever growing snowball of technology coming towards us to utterly crush physical human contact. seriously, i don't mean to sound like some old guy who's not keeping up with the times or embracing change, but shit's out of control man.

it's gotten to the point now where commented on someone's facebook replaces a phone call. or sending someone a half assed text means you "tried" to contact them at least. those things are bad enough. now you have a guitar controler and color coated drum kits and you're a virtual band now. the next tony hawk is going to have a board controler that you stand on and do the moves from there. really? come one. we really do live in a virtual reality, where we have our real life where we go to work, mow the lawn, maybe go to the bar or something... but then we have this other life that's literally virtual reality. we have our myspace and our facebook, we have our online gaming buddies, we have our blogs that we check to hear about other people's lives. we get our news online, we go shopping online. the internet is a great thing but i'm starting to wonder if it's really good for human being socially. i mean, you're still talking to people i guess, i don't know. i'm rambling and it's hard to put my finger on it. maybe it is the future and it's all just moving forward. but it is insane the techology that is available to even the bottom rung consumers.

all these thoughts have been floating around in my head for awhile. obviously my hate for guitar hero related games is nothing new. but the application of that approach to skateboarding really disgusts me. they already did it with the shawn white game so it's nothing new really, but seriously? why don't you step out in the sun for a couple minutes and risk a scraped knee or two? seriously. the straw on my humped back is due to yesterday when i misplaced my cell phone and worked a double at work with no contact from the outside world. it was weird. it's been years since i probably went a whole day without a cell phone. and i survived. i missed my wife more than usual, because i didn't even have a text from her all day, or have a chance to ask her how her day was. and that's a good thing. it's different when you can't even text someone.

in addition, my one month xbox live subscription ran out this week. i'm jonesin like nobody's business, but it was eating my life. i'm glad i don't have the 8 bucks right now to get another one. everything in moderation.

and that's kinda my point. technology is a good thing. granted our government uses it against us before we even know it exists, but it's progress. shows us we're moving forward. theoretically it makes life easier. now you don't have to spend a day on the phone calling everyone about a party. just forward one email to everyone. but what if you tried doing something else instead of checking your facebook every half hour. what if you read a book, or picked up an instrument, or took a walk, or did something thoughtful for somebody else. that's a lot more rewarding than how many status updates you can post in 24 hours via your cell phone. right?

or maybe i'm just crazy. and seeing as how sanity is based on consensus, the odds may be pretty good.

by the way, check out the band the cobra skulls. i thought they were weird at first (kinda country punk, but in a way that doesn't suck ie against me) but they're addictive and i keep listening to them. my favorite track on their new release is a song called bad apples. here's why. cobra skulls are from reno. reno is one of the reasons why straight edge is recognized as an official gang, and you can actually get arrested in some places for having a straight edge tattoo. which is really a disgrace that people pushed something that is supposed to be about living a positive life into an area associated with all the crime in the world, prostitution, drugs etc. "when your adrenaline's pumping, do you like the rush" and "your actions make you look intoxicated" are the stand out lines to me. i think it a brilliant song and they totally nailed how full of shit people like that make themselves out to be.

anyway, try not to make the world any worse today. especially since everyone in new jersey is being arrested for some kind of scam right now. rabbis selling human livers at crazy prices? next they'll be killing the son of god. what? to soon?