Why?

I came across this picture and was seriously disturbed. I mean, this is how serial killers start, you know?

Apparently, someone in Seattle has been shooting pigeons with a blow gun. PETA is offering a $2,000 reward for information on the crimes.

So . . . I get that pigeons are not the most lovable creatures to ever live, but still. Why would you just start shooting at them?

Yeah . . . they walk on your sidewalk and they poop on your car and they fly in your  windows . . . but you can’t just shoot everything that gets in your way, right?

Well, someone has to disagree with me, or else there wouldn’t be a pigeon walking around Seattle with a needle through its head.

Are you a Jedi?

Movies can sometimes get too far into a culture, I think. It’s part of that whole art immitating life immitating art thing, right? Well . . .

There is this church, in Wales, called the Jedi church. It was founded based on the religion of the main characters in “Star Wars”. The church actually has about thirty members.  Apparently, on the 2001 UK Census, thousands of people listed Jedi as their official religion. Who even knew there was such a thing?

However, it made the news after a man attacked its founders while wearing a Darth Vader costume. The man was spared jail time, but actually assaulted some people. Admittedly, he was drunk, but still. . .

Couldn’t you just see your friends getting drunk and doing that?

Well, maybe I just have weird friends . . .

 

Pianos are now cool again…..

This will be the first post in my “undoubtedly to become infamous” music review post series (you will have to get used to the sarcasm, it’s not going away)……

First up, a not necessarily new band from the shores of Long Island, New York, Envy on the Coast.

They bear a review for many reasons. Despite their lyrical material being somewhat similar to the latest wave of emo inflected bands who wear their pants so tight it can’t possibly be healthy, their musical arrangements are heights above the typical angular sounds coming form the stereo speakers these days. In fact, they are part of the reason that the use of a piano is now becoming “cool” again. This band is far above just power chords, ladies and gentleman. And their frontman can *gasp* actually sing!!!

Their live show is legendary with all band members playing most of the time in bare feet and performing flips off the wall of amps behind them.

 

And although their song material can border on being slightly overdramatic once in a while, it undoubtedly contains much more substance than Fall Out Boy  and their string of impostors.

 

Not to mention the frontman has dreadlocks…….Need I say more??

 

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