Musicians

this is straight up just a list of music artists that i like please judge me for my tastes

The title says it all, except for that I'll also mention the best album by each artist (or track depending on their discography)

• 6ix9ine ~ DUMMY BOY
• ABBA ~ The Album
• Andrew Jackson Jihad ~ Knife Man
• Aminé ~ ONEPOINTFIVE
• Bill Wurtz ~ Mount St. Helens Is About to Blow Up
• Bloodhound Gang ~ One Fierce Beer Coaster
• C418 ~ Minecraft - Volume Alpha
• Cal Chuchesta ~ Advice
• The Chats ~ Get This In Ya!
• Childish Gambino ~ Because The Internet
• Danny Gonzalez ~ Beef With Me
• Eminem ~ The Slim Shady LP
• Epic Rap Battles of History ~ Steven Spielberg vs Alfred Hitchcock 
• FrankJavCee ~ FrankJacCee Collection, Vol. 1
• Gorillaz ~ Demon Days
• Green Day ~ American Idiot
• Hot Dad ~ TV
• Insane Clown Posse ~ The Great Milenko
• Kendrick Lamar ~ DAMN.
• Kero Kero Bonito ~ Bonito Generation
• Kevin Lynch ~ It.
• Korn ~ Korn
• Lemon Demon ~ Spirit Phone
• Lil Dicky ~ Professional Rapper
• Lil Pump ~ Lil Pump
• Lindsey Lomis ~ Chapter I
• The Lonely Island ~ Incredibad
• Marilyn Manson ~ Antichrist Superstar
• Modest Mouse ~ Good News For People Who Love Bad News
• Ninja Sex Party ~ Cool Patrol
• The Offspring ~ Americana
• Planet Booty ~ FUTURESWEAT
• Pogo ~ Ascend
• The Protomen ~ Act II: The Father of Death
• Rob Zombie ~ Hellbilly Deluxe
• Rusty Cage ~ Gangstalkers, Vol. 4
• Schaffer the Darklord ~ Sick Passenger
• Ski Mask the Slump God ~ BEWARE THE BOOK OF ELI
• Skyhill ~ Skyhill
• Starbomb ~ Player Select
• Sublime ~ Sublime
• System of a Down ~ Steal This Album!
• Tenacious D ~ The Pick of Destiny
• TWRP ~ 2nite
• An Unkindness ~ 4 Songs
• Weezer ~ The Red Album
• Weird Al Yankovic ~ Straight Outta Lynwood

The Steps Required to Enjoy a Nice Album

If you can sit down in a chair and listen to a 45-75 minute long album and do nothing else, you are no good in my opinion. I'm pretty sure that's one of the signs of being a sociopath. Anyways, you're going to want to set up for a good album listening. For myself, I usually just listen to one while I'm taking a walk or doing some other mindless task, and that's just no good, so I need to fix my terrible habits. Listening to music while walking around is only good for things you are familiar with, not with things you wish to experience. Here's a quick guide to fixing yourself (and myself) and get the most out of your listening experience.

1. You're going to want to find a nice comfortable place. As I said earlier, don't sit in a chair. There are many better places to choose from: The floor, your bed, the top shelf of a high bookcase. A personal favorite of mine is the corner of my room. It's right next to the door, so if it opens I will be smacked in the face with it. You get some pillows, a blanket, and the fan. Turn the fan on the lowest setting, cover yourself with the blanket, and now you have a fun little tent that you can lie down in or whatever. Be creative with your area.

2. Get something to fiddle with. I don't care what. A rubik's cube, a pocket knife, a couple strands of hair. Whatever you want. You will get bored while listening to the album, or at least your hands will, so keep your hands active by fiddling with something, or you may end up pulling up the carpet in your room, which is no good.

3. This is the final step, and it is the most important. Listen to something good. I don't care what you count as good, as long as it is good music in your mind, I'm happy. Don't listen to things you don't want to. I once tried listening to something I knew I wouldn't like, my disappoint was immeasurable and my day was ruined. The album was something that is generally seen as good, and I was allowing myself to fall for it. The album was Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon. I didn't enjoy it. On the other hand, if I were to listen to a nice fun time album that I actually enjoy or know that I will enjoy, such as a Pogo, Korn, or ABBA record would all be preferable to me, even though they are all vastly different. Listen to what you want to, and don't let other people tell you that you have to like something just because they do.

The Best Holiday

February is beginning soon, and you know what that means...

GROUNDHOG DAY

If you don't know me, Groundhog Day is my favorite holiday just because it's a beautiful amalgamation of superstition, chunky animals and men with silly hats. The beautiful big boy shown in the above image is Punxsutawney Phil, named after the town the holiday takes place in, Punxsutawney, PA. I have had many people tell me that my boy Phil is a bit of a "fatass" and I have to say, that is rude. He is not fat, he is phat, as in I love him very much and if you say such crass about him again I will be forced to throw his beautiful body at you.

What they do on this day of February 2nd is fairly simple: Get Phil out of his hole and let him look around for a few seconds. The President of the Inner Circle (currently Bill Deeley), talks to Phil for a second and Phil lets him know the details on his shadow seeing business. If Phil says that he did, in fact, see his shadow that means there will be six more weeks of winter, but if he has not seen it, there will be an early spring.

There was a silly movie based on the holiday, starring Bill Murray. The movie is pretty good, Murray (named Phil just for fun) is a weatherman who is sent to Punxsutawney to get that groundhog on camera. The next morning, he wakes up, and guess what. It's February 2nd again and now he's stuck in Groundhog Day forever, until he learns to be a better man. What a heartwarming story. A Broadway musical was also made about it, but I try not to talk about that one too often, even though it's pretty good.

Y'all better be celebrating this great holiday when it comes around in a couple of days, because I know I will.

How I Learned To Stop Worrying

SAT-IRE

[ˈsaˌtī(ə)r]

NOUN

1. the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues.
2. 

   
   

In my English class, we are being taught about satire, and that's all well and good. I don't mind it much because I quite enjoy what we're doing with it, y'know, watching a video or reading an article and then explaining why it is satire and what it is satirizing. As you know by this point, I am the #1 Movie Boy™, and I watch a couple of them a week. I believe during the winter time during my eighth grade school year, I watched the film Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. I had recorded it on my DVR at our old house, and I watched it over the course of several days while getting ready in the morning for school. When I finally finished it, I thought it was the most hilarious thing I had ever seen. The abruptness of the ending just really got me and I can't really explain why.

After a bit of "research" I found that this film is known as a "Political Satire" on the topic of the Cold War and the looming threat of nuclear warfare. Now, in the year 2019, I'm pretty sure we're in another Cold War, Cold War II if you will. I'M OVER HERE FLINGING ZINGERS ALL OVER THE PLACE, I AM A COMEDIC GENIUS YOU CANNOT STOP ME. I'm sorry for that outrageous outburst of outlandish proportions. But the movie is a satire on that whole situation. I am against remakes a reboots that are unneeded, but I think a Strangelove remake could be a fun idea. Maybe change around some stuff, so that it doesn't seem like a straight up full on remake but instead a beautiful reimagining of Red Alert by Peter George, the original novel the film is based on. 

As previously said: Many sequels, reboots and remakes feel disgusting to me, especially Pixar, who revel in their "original" films while in past years all of their movies have been sequels to already established films in their productions. A remake for Strangelove does make me feel good. I would love that to be a thing. xoxo gossip girl.

The Ultimate Showdown (Of Ultimate Destiny)

The video can be found here

"The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny" is a song released in 2005 by indie artist Lemon Demon, better known as Neil Cicierega. It was also released on video hosting platforms at the time of it's creations, most notably on NewGrounds for it's popular flash music video (shown above). This video features animations by Shawn Vulliez and Cicierega, and it is among one of my favorite videos online.

The video starts with "Godzilla just hoppin' around Tokyo City like a big playground", introducing our first fighter, kaiju monster Godzilla, until Batman comes out of the shadows, making his entrance known by throwing a Bat-Grenade at him. As Godzilla goes to attack Batman, Shaquille O'Neal blocks him and unleashes a can of Shaq-Fu, just for Aaron Carter, singer of the hit single "That's How I Beat Shaq", and start beating him up. Carter and Shaq and then promptly run over by the Bat-Mobile, and as the vehicle is making it's way back into the Bat-Cave, Abraham Lincoln comes backs from the dead and takes out an AK-47 from his hat, mortally wounding Batman. Right when Lincoln runs out of bullets, Optimus Prime shows up and scares him off. This is just the first verse.

Godzilla and Optimus Prime begin fighting, with Godzilla taking a large chunk out of the robot's side, Cicierega explains that it is the same way Scruff McGruff, the Crime Dog, would take a bite out of crime. Shaq comes out of a short coma after being ran over and tries to join back in the fight, and Jackie Chan leaps onto his back. Abraham Lincoln chases a wounded Batman with a machete he also pulled out of his hat, until he is tripped by Indiana Jones' whip. Godzilla then tried to sneak up on Indiana, but Batman had stolen his gun and shot it at him, only for him to miss and almost hit Jackie Chan. Jackie Chan and Abraham Lincoln both tried to jump at Optimus Prime at the same time so the both collided and were hit by a Care Bear Stare.

Just to date the song, a bridge comes on that describes the strongest man alive at the time, Chuck Norris. During his introduction he, 1) kicks Indiana Jones so hard in the crotch that all of his bones shatter, and 2) basically murders Batman by crushing his head between his thighs.

Suddenly a barrage of characters come out to stop Norris, including: Gandalf (The Grey and The White) from Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit, the Black Knight from Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Italian dictator Benito Mussolini, the Blue Meanie from Yellow Submarine, Cowboy Curtis and Jambi the Genie from Pee-Wee's Playhouse, Robocop, the Terminator, Captain Kirk and Spock from Star Trek: The Original Series, Darth Vader from Star Wars, Lo-Pan from Big Trouble in Little China, the original superhero, Superman, all 150+ Power Rangers, Bill and Ted from Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure, Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, Doctor Octopus from The Amazing Spider-Man comics, and Hulk Hogan. They all "Beat Chuck Norris in his cowboy ass". After apparently another century of fighting, the winner was finally reigned. The only person to survive the years upon years of war, was Mr. Rogers, who immediately kills himself afterwards.