• To the inventor of the “Rick Roll”

    Okay. I get it. You think you’re cool like me because you know obscure 1980’s music. But here’s the best part. You think it’s funny to “Rick Roll” me by making me think that I’m going to watch something interesting, but when I click the link, “What the fuck is Rick Astley doing singing ‘Never Gonna Give You Up’ when I’m supposed to be watching a Family Guy clip?” are the only words that can come into my brain. Oh, I get it, you played a fucking joke on me. Kinda like when we were in 2nd grade and you would point over my shoulder and say, “What’s that over there?” Then I would look and everyone would laugh and sing in malicious unison, “Made you look, made you look, now you’re in my baby book!” Fine. I can take a joke…

    …every once in a while…

    …but this has gotten out of hand. As if there wasn’t enough useless shit posted on youtube (I’m talking about drunken frat boys shooting bottle rockets out of their assholes and 16 year old girls crying in their video blogs about how much their lives suck), now I have to deal with this. Again, it would be fine if it happened once in a while, but when I want to visit a link and I immediately hear the opening drum riff and see a red-haired guy in a gray suit, it’s the most ANNOYING FUCKING THING IN THE WORLD. One person started this fucking thing. I love a good prank, but whoever you are, inventor of the “Rick Roll,” you have opened up the Pandora’s Box of fucking with people on the internet. I can’t trust any of the videos on youtube that I actually want to watch because one million people followed in your shoes because they think they’re funny, too. Youtube was intended for people to post videos that other people would actually give a shit about. But immature, fledgling technologists worldwide have bastardized it and made it a forum of pure fuck.

    I can’t watch anything anymore. When I look for something obscure and see a link for it, only to have a little chat bubble pop up exclaiming “YOU’VE BEEN RICK ROLLED,” I lose my fucking mind. Goddamn it, you’re not even looking over my shoulder in anticipation waiting for me to click this shit. In fact, you will never know that I even clicked it. But the problem is that I know. I know that I clicked it. I also know that you are a cocksucker. I also know that you spend all your time thinking about the next “clip” that you’re going to make. Guess what. The fun is over. Nobody likes this shit anymore. It’s not funny, and Rick Astley went from being an ’80s one-hit wonder to a nobody to a youtube phenomenon to a fucking asshole. I can’t even listen to the song anymore because of you. So thank you for ruining Rick Astley. Thank you for deleting him from my library. Thank you for ruining youtube. Thank you for ruining the internet in general. Thank you for ruining my day.

    Worthless ass fuckhead.

  • Röyksopp and More!

    Neil Clarkson

    I like to think of myself as a try-er.  I’m usually on board to try some new food I haven’t had before and  I like to think I give a lot of music a chance.  I don’t want to sound like one of those douchers that say “I listen to everything,” but I get bored of ol’ rock ‘n’ roll sometimes.  Hopefully I don’t disappoint Stinks/Neil again, here are a few of the jams I have been listening to lately.  I don’t know who Röyksopp is, but this video of real life Space Invaders got me into them(via NotCot).  PrettyMuchAmazing got me into Kid Cudi via the Crooker’s remix of Day ‘n Nite.  And if you aren’t sick of Weezy’s A Milli, check out Kid Cudi’s freestyle.  Its by the same producer of A Milli  (basically the same style/beat), and the original beat is from Rich Boy’s “Drop.”  I don’t know how I missed it earlier, but Chicago rapper Rhymefest put a mixtape as a tribute to Michael Jackson and a promo for his new cd “El Che.”  I don’t listen to many mixtapes, but I am usually a sucker for raps with old soul or R&B samples.  The new Rihanna stuff isnt’ that bad.  Hope that Chris will stop making her “hatin’ on the club.”  Finally, me, Baby/Austin, and Aunt Rosie all agree that the new Kelly Clarkson is the mad notes.  Yeah, I just said that. (more…)

  • Slow Your Roll, PepsiCo

    Has everyone seen the new Pepsi logo?  I don’t like it that much and from just a little research, it seems like a lot of other people share my opinion.  One part of the craziness is the way the company that redesigned the logo pitched it to Pepsi (which people argue might be bogus too).  Either way, it pretty funny how the Arnell Group described the logo as some sort of legacy of humankind and science.  They compare the Pepsi logo to the Mona Lisa and the Golden Ratio.  What I think is weird (and didn’t realize till Joan pointed it out to me), is that the logo does not have any trademark symbol to it.  And maybe I am getting old and bad at doing interweb research, but I can’t find any article or anything that discusses Pepsi’s reasoning for that.  (I like to think that if I am curious about something, that someone else on the interweb has probably thought about it a while ago and already wrote something about it.) The only reasons I can think of are highly doubtful:

    • It’s a marketing move to encourage people to use it and spread it around.
    • Pepsi knows how bad the logo looks and isn’t fully committing to it.
    • Forgot, like I probably would.
    • There a huge international company, but don’t think registering a trademark is worth it.

    For whatever reason, Pepsi has been rebranding their entire line of drink products.  Mountain Dew is now going to be called Mtn Dew.  Tropicana got a rebrand, but after much criticism from the ol’ “blogosphere,” the old package design was brought back. Crazy, huh!?!  Yah, your right, not really.