Unless you are living under a rock, I know you saw or read what happened to that kid in Berkley. I will assume you did not and give you the short version. BART cops hassle some kids/people, people tape the incident, kid gets shot after what looks like no wrong doing on the kid's part, and now the aftermath ensues. After watching the incident I feel pretty confused and pissed off. I get even more pissed off when people riot after the fact and just destroy shit for no reason. I am just as mad as anyone about the whole thing and the way it was handled but you don't see me setting my neighbors car on fire over it. That is just plain dumb. If anything it almost validates the fact the BART police need to carry guns. I know that sounds ridiculous but think about it. It just shows our community is so uncivilized that after a tragic incident we are going to go ape shit and destroy our living environment. That my friends is whack. I guess I will never understand some people's thought patterns.
Now on to my next topic. I want to talk just for a second about the radio and the current trends in today's music. What I mean by that is the crap and yes I mean complete crap you hear on the radio. Maybe as I grow older I get more and more bitter about certain things. One I feel strongly about is music. I have been very fortunate to have had a very wide range of friends while I was growing up. With that comes the development of a pretty good ear for music. Now I know that sounds almost arrogant of me to say but I am pretty confident that I can tell you what is good ear candy and what will end up in the dollar bin at Zia. Everyday at work I am reminded of this due to the radio being stuck on a certain popular radio station that will remain nameless.
It's all shit. There I said it. I know I am including all of the music as being crappy but when you play the same 10 songs over and over it begins to resemble a huge toilet that's clogged and the brown shit water runs over the rim flooding your bathroom and ruining your day. This could be compared to the overflow of terrible music out of the speakers ruining your ears. I can't believe people buy this stuff. Nobody really sings anymore due to that annoying robotic auto tune that has become so popular. Maybe it's just me. Yeah, it's probably me but if I hear Womanizer one more time I am going to stab my eardrums with a pair of scissors. There is a silver lining to this ordeal though. A new radio station has popped up as of late and I actually heard an old Gangstar song being played the other day. The down side to this is that the station obviously has some bugs to work out and at times can be extremely ghetto. The volume of the music can vary from time to time and go from being clearly audible to a complete, muted silence. One night in particular was actually really funny. It came to my attention, and everyone else listening, that whatever segment of their programming block being played was previously recorded. I think this might be fairly common. The only problem was the music started to skip. Now this may not be that big of a deal if you catch it in time but in this case nobody did....for a long time. The funny thing about that whole thing was that whoever was in charge at the time was obviously not at the station, taking a very long shit, or out cold counting sheep. Maybe they just let the place go on auto pilot while the disk plays? Regardless, there is one less employed DJ in this town I would imagine.
Well thanks for reading again and sorry for the lack of content. I promise as soon as I get my camera, good topics, photos, and stories will surely follow. See you next time.
JD
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