Foreign Guys And Their Sticks

  Sorry again for not having posted in a while, pretty soon I'll be free and on more though :D I've been trying to keep on here a bit just haven't had time to post... So just to keep you on your toes before I get back on to posting frequently, here's a video! 

  You guys better appreciate this; finding a video with only foreign tags when searching the URL doesn't work is hard! (I admittedly just searched for the name, copy and pasted of course)... Either way, it's a guy doing some cool stuff with sticks... Check it out!

Ronald Jenkees!

  Behold the glorious site that is the one and only Ronald Jenkees. Below is a song performed by him, jamming with some drummer from STS9 apparently... I checked them out a while back when I first heard the song and they aint bad... Nothing on the Jenkees though.

  This motherfucking badass is quite possibly the biggest nerd stereotype to ever be known by Youtube. I first came across him after hearing his song "Remix to a Remix" on an Elevator Show video (look them up...), and googled shortly after I exploded in orgasmic fury to his pure musical talent. How this man only has 50,000,000 video views, total, is beyond me. Especially while faggots like Justin Bieber (ft. Ludacris) can get hundreds of millions for one shitty song just because he looks cute for a ten year old.

  Seriously though, this guy's great. I regularly find myself returning to his music, and would recommend him to you all... My apologies for not being again not being able to post about more topical things than a musician, but I again found myself with little time... Plus, this guy's great :D Hope you enjoy...

Just a quick one today

  I've been busy for the last couple of days but figured I'd pop on and post a really cool link that is kind of topical, as it's 4/20 today (near enough; 13 minutes ago), and this is something that is pretty trippy... Ok I just wanted a reason to post it because it's cool :D
  Let me know what you think et cetera... Anybody get up to anything fun to celebrate today then?

Judas

  As I'm sure many of you are aware, Lady Gaga has recently released a new song; Judas. Personally, I don't think it is her best work, but I do really like it. It's catchy and in keeping with Gaga's style; a bit weird. That said, I'm not really sure where it will fit into music; it's a fast pop track but can't imagine it being much of a club song... Not the majority of it at least.

  But oh well, it makes me look forward to her album so much more... If I can figure out how, I'll attach the song in this post xD  

  I'm a genius! (Ok I gave up and linked to Youtube). Let me know what you think of it.

Big Brother!

  Love it or hate it, Big Brother was a massive part of UK television for 11 years before Endemol (its creators) finally threw in the towel. I have no doubt that those of my followers from the UK will mostly hate it (as will those of you from the US and elsewhere, but this is less relevant to you), and will be angered by the knowledge that Channel 5 have bought the rights to it, and it will be returning with an "All star" celebrity version later this year, and then continuing its old cycle from there on. Read more here.

  Personally, I must say I'm chuffed; Big Brother was poor for a few years but the most recent seasons have been great! Plus, it will be returning on Channel 5 with the same crew, so it should continue its improvement. Though, I must say that I am annoyed with it for returning so soon after the "grand finale", only one year's wait before reviving it is just stupid (and the owner of Channel 5 wanted to do it sooner)! 

  Let me know what you think about the program, its return, whatever you like... I'll read and comment back as standard

Aliens

Sounds legit to me

  I recently read online a report claiming that a memo had been found that proved the existence of aliens, discussing them having been found in Roswell in 1950. Now, I have no doubt that this report is bs and the pictures attached are fake (not least because it's a report by The Daily Mail), but do not doubt at all that there is life elsewhere in the universe than on our little planet.

  That said, I do not think that as a species we will ever encounter alien life (not least in my lifetime), because while there are many many planets, and so many inhabitable planets, and so undoubtedly some with life, the probability of any of these inhabited planets being remotely near to us is slim... I know that if what the attached report is saying is true, then surely the species to which the aliens belonged would have come to Earth in order to try to track down their lost comrades, or to avenge them...

Picture semi-related, but also kinda cool...

  But, even if alien life were to be real, what possible positive outcomes for the human race could come from this knowledge? Assuming they didn't completely destroy our planet and us (which if they were able to locate and get to us, shouldn't be a problem for them), they would be very likely to be peaceful towards us. I'd rate the chances of coexistence being about 20%, with negligible chances of us being able to dominate them. Now if these  aliens were to, for whatever reason, fall into that 20% chance of being peaceful, we have to look at what would change for our society.

  Sure, in the billions of years when Earth becomes uninhabitable we'd have somewhere to move to, but it's far more likely that the lifetime of the alien's planet would be shorter than that of ours... We could get their knowledge, their understanding of the universe, science, medicine, and weapons. Understanding would be nice, but wouldn't really benefit anything other than our curiosity... Medicine for our already overpopulated planet wouldn't be great, and alien weaponry would undoubtedly be bad... (Though it could enable us to dominate other lifeforms should that day come).

District 9; good film...

  Anybody who gives the outcome of alien communication any thought should be able to see that it is on the whole a bad thing, yet still people try ever harder to communicate with aliens! Can't we just live our lives without them? Let me know what you think in the comments

Abuse of Power

Fuck tha police!

  A little while back (well, three years ago), a video was uploaded to youtube, in which a University of Florida student was tasered and arrested at a forum for simply asking a question. Original video here. This is far from the only video of its kind, and sure it may now be old news, but I still cannot watch this video without getting really frustrated! My frustration is not only with the policemen and women abusing their power in doing this, but also with the hundreds of people there, some shouting asking why nobody is doing anythign, and yet not intervening themselves.

   Now, I get that in large groups of people there is a dispersion of responsibility (or whatever the fancy psychology terminology is), but it just saddens me that had one person intervened and put themselves out there where being punished is possible, then it could have all gone differently. We are raised given mixed messages regarding whether or not we should intervene in such situations; as a child I could not tell you how many times I had the poem "First they came" read to me as a child (here), yet was also frequently told to stay out of things that didn't involve me! Told to look out for myself...

   Thankfully I've turned out to be somebody who I like to think would intervene should something be going against my beliefs, and I try to whenever possible. But anyway, below is the video that brought this topic to my mind... The cop in this is being a bit of a douche, but I think it's made better by the fact that he is on his own (pretty much), and that the kids are actually in the wrong... Still, he goes to unnecessary lengths, and as a result makes a bit of a fool of himself...