I hate it when...

1. Pastors lie/misinterpret/make up symbolisms and things for the sake of strengthening faith or make themselves look profound or whatever they're trying to do. Now, don't get me wrong, I'm down with Church (more in theory than in practice though) and Christianity; I'm a total Jesus lovin' Bible carryin, praying my way through un-studied for tests and gas-lit trips to the fuel station. But a lot of things a lot of preachers say are total crap. Like sometimes I wonder if they even pay attention to The Bible when they read it. A lot of those things somehow travel to multiple churches, for example the belief that God wants everybody to have buckets of money and fancy cars, wtf? Or when giving a sermon about how the entire congregation has been called to be rich they'll say "Seek ye first the kingdom," then skip down to "and all these things [cars, jewelry, superfluous income] shall be added unto you" ignoring the fact that, when read in context, the verse clearly means life's basic necessities, food, clothing, etc. Then they go on to speculate on what "the kingdom" means. It's bullcrap. Another one is when they talk about Passover and how the Jews, in order to stay alive, had to place blood from a lamb on the sides and top of their doorway, you know, cool story; but then they go on to say that it's foreshadowing to Christ because "when you place the blood on both sides and across the top of a doorway it's clearly in the shape of a cross". Now, I didn't ace Geometry in high school, and when I took drawing in college I only got a 'B', I don't claim to be Michaelangelo or Da Vinci, but that doesn't sound like any cross I've ever seen . . . it's more like . . . the outline of a door frame (*gasp* 'cause Jesus was crucified in a door!) That's all I'm saying. There are thousands of good lessons in The Bible. Why make stuff up? A lot of these pastors mean really well. . .they're just a little dumb, is all.

2. People on myspace or whatever say they love music as if that's a freakin unique character trait. Might as well say "Hey, I'm not deaf; yay me! I'm so different!" and then their evidence for the outrageous claim is they take their iPod® everywhere they go and they would be "OMG so lost" without it. These people who have never taken a music class unless it was mandatory, can't read music, and don't play any instrument apparently love music more than your average human being with functioning ears because they cant be separated from their little mainstream, worthless, overpriced mp3 player with maybe 238 songs on it. Kill yourself. And what's even worse is these elitist indie kids who think they really love music because they go to "shows" or they have their favorite band on vinyl and only own tee shirts with bands on them. Then they act like that makes them better than everyone else. And they only listen to about four genres of music...that is, if you consider indie, emo, and alternative that different. They listen to rap just to be "ironic"¹ and pretend to like Edgar Allen Poe so they can look deeply emotional. They talk about how much main-stream sucks and how unique they are while they and all their friends have matching ipod nanos with all the same songs. WOW. Get Rachmaninoff on 45 and then maybe we'll talk.

3. People say they like the 1989 Batman movie. That's mainly just because Tim Burton wasn't true to the source material, Batman couldn't move his neck, Joker was short, fat, old, and possibly a child molester, and a real Batman fan would never say that.

4 . While we're on the subject, I hate it when Tim Burton makes movies. Because he's one dimensional, unimaginative, self-indulgent, takes himself too seriously, and 96%of his fans are exactly the same way. Plus, if Hot Topic ever shut down, he'd die. And whats the deal with all the stick figures and spirals?

5. When I'm hungry and I don't want to eat anything in the fridge.

6. When People say they hate an entire genre of music. Honestly, I used to be that way with country music then I started actually listening to it. There's some good stuff in there, you just have to find it; the stuff right on the surface is always going to suck, it's always gonna be contrived, calculated and built to sell rather than as artistic expression. Every genre is like that. Although, if you say you hate disco, or techno, I completely understand.


I'll save the rest for another time.
Feels good to get that out,
-Marlon

1. they're lying they secretly crank that soldier boy alone in their rooms.

P.S. I still haven't decided which blog site I'm going to use. I still haven't finished my Wordpress entry, they have so many distracting things on there... and it's not quite as simple as on here. So things are looking pretty good for Blogspot so far.