Sometimes I think that I really am losing my mind.
Really.
Ever have one of those lives?
First of all- sometimes a little bit of news sinks in and I can't stop it. Someone is ASTOUNDED that the price of Japan's DISASTER has DWARFED Katrina's pricetag.
OMFG.
I don't even know where to START. Are you KIDDING ME? Are we that fucking self centered????? Katrina sucked. But we didn't have NEARLY the loss of human life, we didn't have NEARLY the disaster. I know we're still "recovering" from it, but give me a break. American's would lose their minds if we had to endure what Japan is. We loot, we steal, we are all for ourselves. We are a bunch of selfish assholes who believe that the best man should win, survival of the fittest, etc. We're STUPID. Of COURSE Japan's disaster is more costly than ours- in every way, shape and form. The fact that anyone is surprised by this makes me really, really wonder about this stinkin world.
Next, I'm going to spew my very uneducated opinion on this, and I'm counting on MFN to chime in and set me all sorts of ways straight.
Michael Buble.
I liked him.
I'm over him.
He's cute. And he's talented. And they have now manufactured him into a nice little cracker jack box. Some of the things that he has written are good, andyou can tell when he's singing them that he feels them. But far, far too many (I listen to big band and swing all day, rem
ember. I'm 400 years old) of the songs are just remakes that he doesn't feel. He doesn't sound like he feels them at all. He's just singing. I can't tell and I don't know if these are songs that he really likes and has been dying to record himself and sell to us, or if he has someone directing him: "Your voice would sound great on this song, let's put it on this next album." Either way, my opinion doesn't matter, because enough other people buy into it, just like enough people buy Avril Lavigne's crap and keep her rich and inspired. I'd listen t him before her ANYDAY of the week on principle alone, or maybe genre alone, but when I hear yet another remake, and I hear him singing and not really feeling it, I feel him slip down another few points for me. Thumbs Down. I feel myself being disowned by MFN right now.
Let's all keep in mind that I'm a hateful bitch in general right now. My hormones still have me at gunpoint. They make me say and do all sorts of crazy shit.
Okay, you're gonna force my hand on this. My love of Michael Buble is actually not a pure, unconditional love. If I'm being honest, there are about 4 songs of his that I love, and will listen to all the time, and love to sing along to. But I went into iTunes and was listening to samples of songs from him and I kept hitting "next" until I got to those 4. They were the only ones I bought. I don't own an album of his.
ReplyDeleteSo there you have it. I'm outed. And I agree with you about when he's phoning it in, which I think he does fairly often. Although when he wants to sing, he has an amazing voice.
*surprised, pleasant shock*! :) Whew! I should have known better, really. :) YAY!
ReplyDeleteI know where you are trying to go with this but I disagree. The feelings, the heartache are the same. If you are comparing – I don't think you can. Really. Bigger doesn't always mean worse. More loss yes, more destruction yes. But from a human element - the same loss.
ReplyDeleteI feel Katrina and Japan's loss are equally devastating. It all really comes down to the human experience of it. Loss. At it's base level. Loss of family, home, community, city. That creates a flurry of confusion and heartache that I think cannot fully be comprehended.
...and you were worried about MFN. ;)
xo jla
I have never been in a hurricane. I have never had my house deemed unliveable, and had to relocate. I have never watched the people around me losing their minds waiting for "help". And although surely not everyone affected by Katrina acted poorly, many did. They must have been extremely desperate to act that way. I still think American's are spoiled little brats, in general. And it might be my own survival skills, but usually looking around and seeing that others are STILL worse off than me at any given moment puts things in perspective. Bodies are not still washing up on shore there. Human loss is human loss, but we all have a choice about how to take it.
ReplyDeleteI can't say that I'm more devastated or feel sadder about Japan, or Katrina, or Sri Lanka, or the homeless man looking for money on the corner. It all sucks. We aren't worried, however having thyroid cancer in a few years, or how many people are going to after such high radiation exposure, or drinking our water, or where the next meal is going to come from, or how to bury thousands and thousands of people when the whole place is trashed and soon the weather will be warmer and rotting will start in earnest.
In all reality, I have no idea what any of it is like. I'm just another spoiled American who feels overwhelmed by so much horror everywhere I look. I'm on the WRONG PLANET, I tell you!