Find Something Better To Do

So I hate to come back after over a month with this, but I promised a "rant" in my last post 273 days ago.

So here it is.

This was much more appropriate to complain about a month ago when all the award shows were happening, but I must follow up on my promises like I always do with this blog. It's not so much the award shows that bother me (though we could easily do without them), but rather the red carpet pre-shows and post-show and all that garbage. I mean, let's step back and think about what's going on:

Me, person A, is spending my time asking persons B, C, D and so on, about what they are wearing and about various goings on in their life. Part of my, person A's, job, is to behave obsequiously: fawn all over and pander to persons B, C, D and so on. I do not know these people, but for some reason I enjoy spending my time doing this.

To steal a phrase from Norm MacDonald, what the H are you people doing? Who cares?

Why does it matter who made person B's dress or that person C's suit was designed by Italian SuitGuy Merconi? Are you genuinely interested in this completely random person's choice of attire? Do you walk down the street asking people about their lives? Should I?

And come on, Ryan Seacrest, you cannot love every movie and every song that everybody does. Feigned emotion and/or excitement is profoundly abhorrent, especially when you're praising songs by Selena Gomez and movies involving Chris Rock.

And what's with people actually watching it? This is one of those things where I just don't get it. Usually when there's something I don't like, I can still figure out a reason that people like it. But watching random human beings walk down a carpet while photographing and brown-nosing them is just perplexing to me.

But it doesn't stop at the carpet, no! There are entire television programs where people talk about and criticize what these random earthlings decided to wear on that particular night. First, who are you and why are your opinions of these people relevant. Second, why are these other random people caring about what those first group of random people are wearing? And why do television networks pay this second group of random people to comment on what the first group of random people wear? It doesn't make sense.

And TMZ sucks, too.

Video:

I shared and Envy on the Coast video last time which I am positive 100% of you hated, but their second and final album provides more of a bluesy, pure rock feel. Lowcountry is markedly different than Lucy Gray, and I listened to it for about two weeks straight a month ago. This particular song is probably my favorite off the album. Enjoy!