MTV Gen X No More

MTV long ago ended being Music Television but now MTV has decided to further screw a Generation which knows it's screwed already.

MTV Networks president Van Toffler reiterated the network's devotion to millennials. "We're pushing Generation X out," Toffler said. "We're slaves to our different audiences, for MTV that's millennials, who are vastly different than Generation X; they're definitely less cynical."

Gen Xers made MTV watching Headbanger's Ball, Yo MTV Raps! and all the angst riddled Smashing Pumpkins, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, Nirvana, Melvins and Alice in Chains videos.

However, Generation X , as a group is outnumbered by the gracelessly aging Boomers and the petulant Millennials. We're the Prince Charles of America. Always waiting and soon to be pushed aside for the next in line or is that too cynical?

Never forget the Boomers had to have the Big Block 454 107 octane gas guzzlers for crusin' the strip in their youth and then had to have the 5-Ton Mega-sized SUVs in their dotage. Now they have to have daily injections of botox in their faces and collagen in their asses which have spiked medical costs.

So, We Xers are going to face the full wrath of the Health Care Crisis and the Gasoline Crisis. Because the Millennials are going to out vote us and send us to Government Health Care 'Death Panels', fortunately they'll be sending us in three wheeled electric vehicles so maybe we'll be able to escape.

The Republican Party enjoys Nirvana?

Hate me
Do it and do it again
Waste me
Rape me, my friend ~ Rape Me, Nirvana

Well, not exactly but what the Pro Human Pain and Suffering Profit over People Chicken Hawk Punk Ass Bitch REMFpublican Party of Deferments does enjoy is funding companies that force women not to report being raped because, well because, as everyone knows by their actions the Republican Party hates People.

Republicans for Rape shows the 30(!) Republican Senators who voted against an amendment that would allow employees of military contractors to sue their employers if they are raped at work.

You see Republicans and their conservative enablers enjoy it when People (Especially Americans) are killed, raped, assaulted or grievously wounded. That's why they celebrated Bush and Cheney's Utter Failures (9/11, VA Tech, The Amerithrax Attacks, the DC Sniper, Hurricane Katarina, Iraq and Afghanistan). When Republican Teabagging Conservative Birtherites see violence and death They see Money and there is nothing Republicans love more than being able to profit off the Blood of Humanity.

\m/ Thrash Unto Thee \m/

Time for something Lighter...

There has been a recent revival of classic Thrash Metal 25+ years after it's unholy birth in the San Francisco Bay area. The revival is being led by a new group of bands like Lazarus A.D., Evile, Fueled by Fire, Hatchet whose members were zygotes or younger when the Kreators Testament, Metallica and Slayer invented the genre.

Thrash basically evolved from the New Wave of British Heavy Metal (NWOBHM) when garage bands took the inventive works of Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Motorhead and others then crafted the pinnacle of Metal.

Even bands (Metal Church, Exodus, Exciter, Death Angel) who never experienced the wide spread main stream popularity of the big Thrashers have reunited dusted off their patched jean jackets and recorded new work. Wikipedia has an excellent article on the creation, history, and bands comprising the Thrash Metal genre. Wikipedia articles on subjects of this nature can usually be considered reliable.

Thrash Metal is a fundamental expression of the angry young man. It is an outlet which captures the angry young man's voice as he enters into the early recognition of his power and ability and discovers he is thwarted since the modern age is geared towards women and middle aged men.