Dirty old Republicans

I would like to call out the straight upper-class Bible-thumpers of this country and ask you where you get off?

The magnified view that this demographic has on what a woman does with her body and same-sex couples do in their bedroom is honestly crude, intrusive and disturbing.

If you're not a woman, don't tell them what they can and cannot do with their bodies.

If you're not gay, don't tell me who I can't marry or where or have the audacity to tell me my mental condition.

Keep your eyes out my bedroom, out of her pants and quietly down at your thick, hypocrisy pamphlets. 

Secession

All 50 states submitting secession petitions is honestly so dramatic its cute. It is my sincerest hope that this is either a tantrum or to make political point. Either way, I find the idea of it inconsiderate to the majority of the populations that haven't and won't sign these petitions and ironically counter-productive to all those likely signing these petitions who griped about the fall of America.

I've encountered a lot of nutjobs during this election season, people hopped up on every conspiratorial blog and article they can find and when challenged on their radical stances with my own, tell me to support my arguments with link after link after link.

Sorry, I don't need to comb the Internet looking for fodder for your doomsayer rants. I will however tell you my sources: the news and my ability to take press with a grain of salt, as it should be done.

The fact is, nobody is honest, not for sure. Anybody can write anything. Anybody can cite anything. It's an endless cycle, so I base my judgments on what I see and couple it with what I read.

Romney was my devil but Obama is other's. Where's the middle?

Joy Division: Unknown Pleasures

This time of year tends to bring out my love for the music of Joy Division. A band three decades dead whose music is of the utmost resonance with over three decades' worth of influence. None more so than their seminal debut "Unknown Pleasures."

This record is bleak, sad and beautiful. While the majority of my favorite records tend to be faster, more aggressive, "Unknown Pleasures" is my most favorite, a work of art that tugs on my heartstrings like no other.

Listen "New Dawn Fades" and you will see what I mean.

An explosion of the softest form, a declaration of numb love and the failing grasp to hang on to it, shouldered on sinister bass lines, delicate, ethereal riffs and a funeral's snare. Ian Curtis, Joy Division's face and baritone voice of sorrow, is at his most convincing here, you want to hold someone after hearing this song.