TooSawn Trigger

We’re all screwed

I hate this mentality. First of all, why the hell are we comparing ourselves to other generations? What they did is done and the only reason we should pay attention to the past is to make sure we can try to avoid their mistakes. Second, we need to stop bitching about how were screwed and just try to fucking fix it. Or get off our asses and stop living with this fucking sense that because we got a degree we deserve an awesome job. Okay so our parents more or less lied to us saying a college degree is the easy route to good income. They did not account for the growth of the middle class that could afford to put SO fucking MANY of us in college. Most of you got your school paid for by your parents or loans (OMYGAWD I HAVE SO MUCH DEBT!). Damn it, shut up, there are PLENTY of ways people can get loans cut down. Like volunteering or joining the army. The system is broken, we did not make the system nor did we break it but a good step is to become proactive about the problem instead of pessimistic. Sure we have been dealt a shit hand, are we going to be the generation that stepped up and fixed this mess or the one that passed the buck while bitching all the fucking way to the ground?

(Source: toosawn-trigger)

eakiffh:

So I’ve seen this post a lot, about the want for equal job prospects for those of us who have tattoos, piercings, coloured hair, or other body modifications.

Ummm. Don’t get me wrong, I totally agree with this. Yes for equality.

Except where it was stated that it was ‘like not hiring somebody because of their gender or skin colour…’ No. No. It’s not like that at all. Are they both discrimination? Sure! Do we choose to modify ourselves? Yes. Do people choose their races or gender identities as freely? Nope. I sort of knew that argument would be thrown in there (isn’t it always?) but oh lord. We choose to do this to ourselves. Everybody deserves equality, but don’t equate our struggles with those of said groups. As a white, cis, modified person one huge concern is finding a good job because of how we look. Not, oh I don’t know, let’s say… being murdered because of it, or violently attacked (yes, cases like Sophie Lancaster but BIG PICTURE HERE PEOPLE please), or raped, or generally all out systematically oppressed in countless ways for hundreds upon hundreds of years.

Sigh, end rant. Thoughts?

Body modification in my opinion is a  beautiful thing. People should choose to look however they want to, or for many people its about the process more than a certain look. To each their own. Employers have an idea of how they want their customers to feel and have a educated impression of what kind of customers they have or will have. If the employer does not want to make their customers feel nervous OR make themselves feel nervous by hiring a person with…whatever it is you might have: dreadlocks, dyed hair, tattoos, piercings etc etc. That is their choice. Just like getting that thing changed on your body was yours…YOU chose to make yourself look different. Body modification should never be done without fully examining the impact of your decision as often times body mods are permanent. We all made a choice to severely limit our employment possibilities when we added mods whether we were aware of it or not, end of story: case closed. 

Also, I don’t know what change is she looking for to end this discrimination. Employers are forced by law to have a certain percentage of skin color in their work force and receive TAX BREAKS if they ‘happen’ to hire more than that. Are we looking for that sort of action? Every employer must have a certain percentage of their work force have body modifications? On a long enough timeline in that version of the future, we will have people doing things to their body they DO NOT want to do just to get employed. Is that what we want?

Not what I want. Body modification is an institution that I am still learning about but this much I know: it is a declaration of individuality in a world that tries to make us all the same. When we try to force the world to accept our weird, we pay the price of it becoming mainstream and therefore destroying the very nature of the weird. I think when you choose to get body modifications you are choosing to have the world look at you for the weirdo that you are. That to me is the beautiful thing about body mods, so we should keep it that way.

Also: BEING DISCRIMINATED FOR BODY MODS (I hesitate to use so harsh of a word as ‘discriminate) CAN NOT EVEN BE COMPARED TO BEING DISCRIMINATED FOR SKIN COLOR.

Risk of sounding conceited be damned: the thought of releasing an album to a record company so they can sprinkle it into a hype machine spanning through social media makes me feel very queasy. Fuck your assumptions that mine or anyone else’s musical taste can be convoluted into a flurry of computer code and out of that shits a list of artist’s to be suggested to the listener. To some degree I think that is a great thing and might even work most of the time but when it is wrong it is so fucking far off it turns me homicidal. I imagine in my head sneaking up behind some computer code head tapping away at his keyboard from the shadows and squeezing his adam’s apple back to his throat until he stops flailing before I simply drop his heavy skull to crack his keyboard in half. Or the ads I get over social media for some shit band of asshats pretending originality and a waging some sort of battle against society through music or whatever they want you to think of them; whilst seeming so formulaic, so fake. Even more so the plausible idea that the music we make might one day be contributing to a company that exudes these types of “artists” makes me want to throw up. I will never claim that our band sounds different from everything you have ever heard but we make it for the pure joy we get out of it and all the dead musicians that came before us that put so many ideas in our heads every single day about what to play/write next. A love letter to remind them all that they are not forgotten. For me, that idea is what puts a smile to my face when I play. Any recognition we might get besides their invisible smiles could never measure up to that.

(Source: toosawn-trigger)

Doing what you can is all you can do. Fuck the rest, it is not up to you. Fate is written existence, but you are not allowed to skip ahead to the next page. We can only anticipate the next couple paragraphs at most. That is to say until Doc Brown shows up to tell me otherwise. You are not a master of your own fate but in control of the tangible present. Any moment could be the time you change it around and own the moment. Own the present, for it is one of the few gifts we get in this life.

(Source: toosawn-trigger)

While I am at it. Fuck Jan Brewer.

You picked an awesome title for your book, Scorpions for Breakfast, but shut the hell up about how Obama did not read your entire book. Who the fuck do you think you are greeting the President visiting your state with a heated argument. You’ll “regroup”? Go fuck yourself. Seriously. The only reason you’re even Arizona’s governor is because there are too many old fuckers retiring here that depend on you to keep their taxes low, medicare financed, and with a bit of fear mongering about the ongoing doltish “war on drugs” or border conflict. Not to downplay the actual level of violence, because it is quite dangerous, but anyone with half a brain knows how to solve this problem. You have done a terrible job, welfare and foodstamps are too readily available: commonly used by what must be hundreds if not thousands who do not need it. There are bars that accept food stamps, I shit you not. Also, a bill that passed in your state making Medical marijuana legal is being fought against by your administration: still punishing anyone who grows or sells by making the proper channels to start too risky for any cautious business. But anyway.

I do not know what statements in your book about President Obama set him off because I will not waste my time searching for statements from an old fuck conservative though I am sure they are not much different from shit my Grandpa says; which is baseless assumptions and curse words regurgitated from right wing nut job radio shows. The President deserves more fucking respect that whatever the hell you put down on your waste of paper and spat out your mouth to his face. I am fucking proud of my President for being bigger in the situation and walking away. Its people like you, Jan Brewer, that make bipartisanship even tougher but myself even happier when you make your party look even more like the bunch of conceiving, rude jackasses that you are.

Its one thing to want to be weird. It is another thing to insist the rest of the world understands you, never offends you, and everyone you encounter supports your choice to be strange. If you choose to flaunt your weirdness that inhabits inside yourself on the outside of your body that goes against some sort of social norm that is your right and I full on give you two thumbs up as high as I can raise them for what ever amount of courage to do that. [sigh] Let me cut to the chase here. If someone approaches you genuinely attempting to understand, not out of curiosity but genuinely caring, I do not (I do care but you know what I mean) care how much scrutiny you have weathered in your life, it is fucking rude to jump down their throat for not knowing about something their little mind never occurred existed.

There are a lot of people who are going offend you, say things that hurt, do mean things all because of who you consider yourself to be. I wish it wasn’t that way, but it is. I also realize there will be times this will seem overwhelming. Fuck those people. But don’t let the hateful blind you to the genuinely caring but ignorant people. Do not be so bitter that you lash out to everyone you encounter. There are strangers out there who are loving, thought they may seem tough to find when you might need them. 

(Source: toosawn-trigger)

I was walking through the market with a friend the other day, grabbing some beer for the evening. We got in line behind what culture calls a ‘scene kid’. He had on a skrillex shirt, dressed in all black but was adorned nearly to his elbows in fluorescent colored bead bracelets, and had hair that I swear he spent five hours on modeling after his favorite anime character. Now this of course gave us both a small case of the giggles at first. Either he was used to it or did not hear us, but we composed ourselves quite quickly. I told myself we all go through ridiculous phases when we are young (this boy seemed no older than 18). We purchased our beer and cigarettes, then had a real laugh outside that initiated the following train of thought.

It has been a long recounted belief that the seasoned Music obsessives go through ‘phases’. One might go as far as to say everyone does. You listen to a genre of music that through one reason or another and idolize the style of it. For most of us it was a punk phase we had in high school or for my older followers a grunge phase. You entire life rotates around a set of rules: only listen to this, only dress like this, act like this, etc. Then we grow out of it, one way or another. One way to do this is to adopt a new genre. But the trouble with that is, it probably means trading one obsession for another. This might go on for years, perhaps decades. Its a fascinating aspect of human nature, honestly. So much effort to be what is put in front of you. The level of loss of self-thought kind of astounds me. When I really got thinking like this we could all easily fall into some category of fashion/music. This is what came to full realization to me the first time I was on mushrooms in San Francisco: that most of us youth pick a genre of music and unknowingly or not replicate the fashion of it upon ourselves. I could pick out an young person on the muni and tell you at least two bands they listen to. It perturbed me deeply that a lot of kids do not realize this. Or they do and are proud. But why would you be proud to be a cut-out of something? Honestly I see way too many kids aimlessly walking around campus looking like something from a music magazine.

I might be turning into an old man, I might be coming off as some snooty hipster, or just an asshole but I think a lot of young people need to take a deeper look at themselves and re-evaluate their self appearance. Come to terms with the fact that you will have to look at photos of yourself a couple years from now and admit that person is you. Really contemplate if you like looking that way. At the very least stray from looking exactly like the friend next to you. Or don’t, its your choice.

I continue to have no desire to pay any attention to Louis CK

sixtyforty:

Tired of straight, white people thinking he’s brave or edgy or whatever for his casual use of the words nigger and faggot.

I enjoy him not because of that but since he is actually really intelligently funny. Sure those words hold ancient negative meanings. If you listen to his bits on those words though, he completely adopts more modern meanings to them. I am not saying you should not be offended. I am merely pointing out the context, he has no problems with the LGBT community or any other for that matter. In fact, he is openly FOR gay marriage..

“It doesn’t have ANY effect on your life. What do you care?! People try to talk about it like it’s a social issue. Like when you see someone stand up on a talk show and say ‘How am I supposed to explain to my child that two men are getting married?’…I don’t know, it’s your shitty kid, you fucking tell them. Why is that anyone else’s problem? Two guys are in LOVE but they can’t get married because YOU do not want to talk to your ugly child for five fucking minutes?”

His pieces on growing old, having kids, getting divorced, dating, technology, and other elements of our modern culture are spot on. He is a real funny guy. Also an atheist, if that changes things for you at all. I still listen to him, because if you drop yourself out of your element and don’t take everything so seriously I think life is more enjoyable. The ability to laugh at yourself is a good skill to laugh. In the grand scheme of things I think life is one big absurd joke. I say this as an avid stand-up fan though, I guess some people just do not look at life the way I do. But I guess my point is, you try to tell people to not be homophobic or trans—gender-phobic or what have you (let’s boil it down to the phrase ‘close-minded’) but you want to boycott a comedian for saying a couple of words that are not even meant in the context you think they are?Correct me if I am wrong anywhere here but it seems pretty contradictory to me.  I mean if I really wanted to I could take offense to you using the word ‘straight’ or ‘white’. It is stereotyping, fitting me into a box I do not want to fit into just because I prefer women and my skin is a light color. But I do not let it bother me because I know the context of which you present it: not in a negative way. That is your opinion, this is mine. Just debating for debates sake.

(Source: calloutqueen)

It’s hard to figure out what you want to do for a living

It’s even more frustrating when you know what you want to do, but can’t do it. The problem I have basically stems back to the bad economy. It is not a cop out, it is the damn truth. Daily, I see another graduate who had to move back home with their parents. Or someone with two degrees working at a fucking cafe. Or someone with a solid business plan who can’t get any investors.

This is bullshit. I for one, I hope you all have as well, have let my representatives know that I do not want anything to hold back the economy from returning back to what it once was. My family is losing half of their life savings thanks to the shit real estate market. They seem weak, depressed, and defeated. A guy should not have to see their parents like that. What happened to my american dream? Its being shitted on by fucking capitol hill, just because some do not want to ‘reach their hand across the aisle’ as they say and work together. Now is not the time for a fucking power struggle you douschebags. Its time to save the America I grew up assuming would be there when I was old enough to have my own slice of the fucking pie.

I know where I want to be but I am smart enough to know it is going to have to wait. For fucking now. Sack up, Capitol Hill, and do your fucking job.

LulzSec: Seriously?

I doubt any of you actually LIVE in Arizona, let alone near the border. As someone who does let me tell you just how many SHERIFFS have been shot in the past 18 months: 7. 3 dead. I am talking within about a half hour from where I work and live. Thanks SO much for undermining their already too underfunded operation to not just fight against drugs but more importantly KEEP MY FRIENDS, FAMILY, AND MYSELF SAFE. A couple hundred Tucson police officers just got laid off this month due to budget cuts, so lets add understaffed to the list. Thanks for pushing me off the fence on the idea of owning a gun.

While I have my rant hat on: Lets stop assuming the entire state of Arizona are racist bastards. I am against the SB 1070 bill as much as you. I do not want to live somewhere that I have to show my ‘papers’. Come on, what is this Nazi Germany? But at the same time, boycotting your band or business from operating in AZ is not doing anything really but hurting us consumers. Alienating us makes us only feel more unsafe. The nation overall has no real idea just how bad it is. So if you do not live here please for the love of God, shut the hell up because it IS worse than you know. I do not watch local news since Giffords got shot because it scares me, a grown ass man: scared.

If christians, or jews knew anything about space……I don’t think they would be religious….

Dude, you can have faith in a higher power and know science. You can attend a church and still be an advocate for LGBT rights. You can read be religious and still be pro-choice. I have always been an avid searcher of knowledge. There is a difference between knowing something exists and having faith that it exists. I know that the universe is more vast than most people can imagine, I also know that we are no where near exploring everything in it. Yes, I have seen ‘Zeitgeist’. Yes, I read ‘God Is Not Great’. Yes I still believe a higher power exists. Am I part of the crusades or in line at a anti-gay marriage rally? No. Do I wish most evangelists would shut the fuck up? Yeah. Your choice to believe in a religion or not is yours and yours alone. I am not an advocate of forcing my beliefs on anyone. I encourage all people to examine every point of view on the subject and figure it out by yourself.

I just wish calling myself a Christian did not automatically tag me as a hate-monger.

(Source: diamondgun, via badbrainwaves)

Tour T-Shirts

We get it, you saw the band. Great, good for you. Does anyone give a shit what other cities they went to? Is a list of cities really something you want written all over your back? Honestly, when it comes to music t-shirts or really any t-shirt for that matter: should you not treat it as a personal statement? A part of yourself? I rarely think about too hard about what I wear, mostly because I only buy clothes I would not mind being buried in. More people need to adopt the Tracy Morgan mentality of style. I’m paraphrasing at best here but it is along the lines of, “Wear every outfit like you are about to get murdered in it.” A sort of James Dean look at life/style/fashion, yeah? Well, guy who sits in front of me in math/apparently went to go see KISS live, do you really want to get killed wearing that shirt? Yeah you wouldn’t since you are old and probably a card-carrying member of the KISS army but if I never see another dirty (not vintage, there is a difference) tour t-shirt I will live a pretty happy life.

Can I speak for a second about a little website called ‘The Dirty’?

This site makes me sick. But I am not sure which I am more nauseous about: the people being written about, or the people writing about people. This is what is wrong with humanity: Spreading nasty fucking rumors and just general shit talking. Some posts defend their actions saying ‘I hope (he/she) sees this and decides to change (his/her) ways..” How is hanging out someone’s dirty laundry for the world to see helping them? How do these people honestly think? I am disgusted. If you want to help someone you know, talk directly to them, take them to a professional if that does not work. Its like fucking Maury, but on the internet.

I kind of want to hunt down the website’s creator just to travel to their mansion and slap them across the face. Disgusting human being. Does keeping up with everyone’s dirty secrets give you some sort of illusion of grandeur? I have some harsh fucking facts for you: It makes you a fucking leach and a terrible person. Get a fucking hobby.

(Source: toosawn-trigger)