Consider this the first installment of Ranting and Raving. I've been toying with this idea for a long time. Frankly, I have a lot on my mind (not necessarily anything important, mind you) and I always wanted a forum in which I would able to vent as much as I could. Or simply extol on the virtues of whatever I happened to think was cool or interesting.

Let's start off talking 'bout music. I love music. It's an enormous part of my daily life. I can't drive anywhere, do work, or sleep without listening to music. Music can be such a beautiful expression of creativity. Too bad we're currently living in a state of musical retardation:

Limp Bizkit? They use fusion the wrong way. You're supposed to take the best elements from two different genres of music and combine them into something bigger and better (i.e. Rage Against The Machine). Instead, that fucking idiot Fred Durst, idol and god to countless masses of drunken, future wife-beating, bucket-hat wearing morons, and his partners in crime create a cacophony of sonic shit ("It's just a two word review: 'Shit Sandwich'"). For instance, take their single, 'Nookie,' as an example. They start out with a decent, albeit, strange groove. Then Fred Douche kicks in with his 'lyrical rampage' and the song falls apart. His rhythm and flow is stilted and curiously atonal. There's no conviction or personality in his rapping. His lyrics are laughable: "I did it all for the nookie/so you can take this cookie/and stick it up your ass." What the hell is this 'cookie' he's talking about? Then you have the breakdown towards the end of the song, where he gets all Stabbing Westward on us. The band does its thing, while he quietly murmurs about how he won't be changed, or something. It doesn't make for good music. I'm completely astounded by their success. Significant Other, their second album, sold over 700,000 copies in its first week.