Modern times arrived.

Oh hai there. It's been a while. How you doing?

They say this is the most depressing time of the year. January. Oh January, poor January. It didn't choose to be at the beginning of the year. At the beginning of the time that you tell yourself that you will loose weight, that you will find love, that you will stop taking crack. And when you fail, inevitably, you blame January.

On a topical note, considering the name of my blog and my blirgin post, Marina and her lovely, little Diamonds have released the most radio friendly song of the decade (of the last 24 days, then.) I am emotional. All I said in my review, all I predicted, all I hoped against, has come to light. I suppose I should have prepared myself for this. But I am not prepared. Shall we take a look at her lyrics? Just to rub salt into the wound that is rapidly stretching across my heart...

'Hollywood infected your brain
You wanted kissing in the rain
Oh oh, I’ve been living in a movie scene
Puking American dreams
Oh oh, I’m obsessed with the mess that’s America
I’m obsessed with the mess that’s America.'

Whenever someone sings about how shite America is, they have officially run out of ideas. America is such an easy target, so unimaginative, so done. It's lyrics like that that are for the masses, because the neutral, unpassionate middleman responds with a, 'Yeah! Fuck America, or Iraq, or whatever... where's my Mean Girl's DVD?' When Green Day released 'American Idiot' my soul broke in two. And Enter Shikari's most recent album, don't even get me started on that. A butler, I can only assume, opens with his 'vexing' voice over: 'An aidless and harrowing future is developing for our generation and generations to come.' Then, we are encouraged, in a million languages, that 'WE MUST UNITE!!!!' Come on, drop the bullshit! You don't care that we live in a corrupt society. If you did, you'd start a revolution or sign a petition or start a facebook group or send a text, man. It is so very distasteful when musician's choose to turn their aggressive attention onto a particular country. Or even worse, onto Capitalism. This is the way it is. It wouldn't work better any other way and there's nothing much that we, the people, can do to power change. Of course, united, we could effect something better for ourselves, but there will always be lies, there will always be conspiracies and unknown factors behind the facade of a functioning society, so stop Capitalism Bashing and write something effective. I'm pretty defeatist when it comes to politics and the such. It's a bleak prospect, but human beings have lived centuries and centuries under the wrath of superior rule, and sometimes, get this.... even quite contentedly!

This is getting overwrought. I only came here to show you what I wrote in my Creative Writing seminar but now I think it'll make this blog to long and it won't be read. Dread. I'll post it later. As for now, listen to Marina's song 'Hollywood,' and die a little.