11/22/4

I've been working on some recordings, so I really don't have time for this. I did drums yesterday, and guitars today, although they still need editing, which I'll do as soon as I'm done here. Something just inspired me this afternoon, and I told myself I'd rant on the blog.

L.A. traffic is bad enough already. And advertising is ubiquitous. But one day, some genius decided to stick a billboard on the back of a truck and drive it around on the freeway. Everytime I see one of these, I just want to scream. While everyone is looking for fuel efficient cars, these idiots are wasting away our finite supply of fossil fuels by driving around a sign, with no other purpose. And it's actually less effective advertising, because as I sat stuck in traffic with this guy, I saw the sign for ten minutes. Hundreds of cars ahead of him and hundreds of cars behind would never see the sign, but if it were stationary on the side of the road, ALL of them would have driven past it. And not have been as blatantly annoyed by it's existance as I was, thus giving the product a more positive image.

Of course, bringing up fuel efficient vehicles was a poor argument, since I'm surrounded by morons in SUVs. It's just another example of American arrogance. The L.A. basin, from the ocean to the foothills, has a slope of 1 inch per mile. Sure, Palos Verdes and Anaheim Hills are a couple of bumps, but generally speaking it's fucking FLAT! So why is there always some obscene bohemeth in front of me in the parking lot at Wal-Mart slowing down to 2 miles-per-hour for the big, scary speed-bump? Does every self-centered and superficial man and woman in California really have that small of a penis? Has the Botox and smog truly destroyed that much of your self-esteem?

While I'm at it, NASCAR needs to cease to exist. We're sending men and women to die across the ocean to guarantee we can maintain our supplies of oil (angry liberals say that's the only reason, but even the most ultra-conservative has to admit that's part of the agenda, since you can't get tankers here if dictators are blowing everything up), and we don't seem to be working too hard at coming up with alternative power sources. And yet, with the ever rising cost of this, as I mentioned, finite fuel source, we have dozens of people driving 500 miles in a goddam CIRCLE!! Between all the professional NASCAR races, the drag-racing and motor-cross, the monster truck rallys, all these fucking arrogant bastards are pissing away the future of this planet.

Or, as George Carlin has pointed out, the future of the HUMANS on this planet. Save the Earth, my ass! The Earth was around for billions of years before we started screwing it up. It's been through meteors and volcanoes and floods, and it will be around for a long time after it's cured itself of the cancer that is the human race. "Save the planet" really means "save the humans!"

I really got off on a serious rant today. I dunno. Maybe the smog is getting to me....

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