Chester BenningtonBEGINNING OF FACEBOOK RANT

Facebook is getting annoying. I'm gonna be unoriginal and rant about the crappiness of facebook.

I actually liked the idea of facebook when I first signed up. Then I didn't use it for a few years (adding friends that added me but that's pretty much all). Now I decided to get involved with it a little bit. It's nice to see what people are up to, but man it's getting rediculous. I kinda like these [link removed] rules, to an extent. Take a quiz, every now and then (like once a month) wouldn't be so bad. But these idiots take these quizzes every freaking day! Anyways, story time.

Everything started going downhill when my brother found Mafia. My friend count went up about that time too. He invited my friend to Mafia (he tried me, but 99% of the facebook apps suck, so I didn't even want to partake), and as a result, my friend convinced lots of our other friends to join facebook, and join his Mafia. I deny every freaking request for Mafia. I have better things to do with my time. As a result of this overload of friends, they also partake in quizzes, such as "Which weapon would you be using in a zombie apacolypse," "Which idiotic character are you" "which moronic thing do you do" "what stupid time period are you from", "how brainless are you", "are you dazed," "How many pointless quizzes will you take?" Etc. I was going to go down a line of synonyms for "stupid" but grew tired. The point is that they are pointless, and I DON'T CARE! And changing my Facebook status to "hates pointless quizzes" is unoriginal and no one will take me seriously and still take those quizzes.

Maybe if people only do this once a month, or less often, maybe it would be alright. For instance, I picked 5 top video games of all time, also TV shows.

This post won't change anything and is unoriginal, so whatever. Oh and no I do not want a peep, poke, shellfish, pie, cake, or any other rediculous thing that does not do me any good because it's a digital item that's worth nothing in the real world.

END FACEBOOK RANT.

BEGINNING OF MUSIC

In other news, I've been looking for new bands to listen to for the past year, and my search has been, for the most part, unsuccessful. Let's see if I remember all the bands I've listened to. Puddle of Mudd, Three Days Grace, Breaking Benjamin, UnderOath, Disciple, Decyfer Down, Shinedown, The Fray, The Killers, Coldplay, The Offspring, Nickelback, Evanescence, Julien-K and I think that's all.

I didn't like Breaking Benjamin, although the song "Diary of Jane" was good. But they didn't stand out to me, other then that one song.

UnderOath was too hard for me. I know. I just don't like screaming ALL the time. I do like Blindside's old stuff though, but that's because I got into Blindside with the album Silence.

The Fray didn't stand out too much for me, (except the songs that were hits on the radio/music videos).

The Killers and Coldplay just aren't my kind of music. Kinda like The Fray. I'd have to be in the mood for those bands to listen to them.

The only songs of Nickelback that I like, are their hits that they release onto the radio. Their other songs are just crap to me it seems like.

There's a few songs from The Offspring that I like, but they are too Blink 182 for my tastes. I do like "You're gonna go far kid" and a few others off their new CD.

I haven't listened to enough Disciple yet, so I have no opinion of them yet. They get to be on the "When it's a slow time for music, I'll gander at them again" list.

Here's the better half that I leaned towards likeing list. I looked at Famous from Puddle of Mudd, and it was good, but didn't reach up into my "Awesome band" category. Plus Puddle of Mudd has a lot of albums to listen to, and I like listening to all of a band's music and deciding how they stack up. I just didn't get around to any of the other albums. Maybe when it's kinda on my "When it's slow..." list.

Evanescence was also pretty good, but I feel I didn't spend enough time with them so it also goes onto that list.

Three Days Grace's One X is really good. I like them a lot. I haven't gotten to their self titled album because I enjoyed One X so much. So I'll probably start listeing to them regularly.

Decyfer Down is also really good and I'm looking forward to their new album in May.

Shinedown was amazing. I listened to Sound of Madness. Probably my favorite of all those bands that I listened to, and probably will get comfy in "Favorite bands" list. I don't have a top ten bands, just "a bunch of bands I like." I haven't gotten to listen to their other two albums because I have thoroughly enjoyed Sounds of Mandess.

I think I covered everyone on that list, except Julien-K. They just recently released their album Death to Analog and get a their own paragraph. Not because I like them a lot, but because they will influence a CD I will be buying near the end of the year.

Julien-K is a different mix of music. I can hear a lot of influence from the 80's and 90's along with some Nine Inch Nails in their music. Like synthesiser 80 music, not hard rock. Crazy huh? I don't know about them yet.

But the reason I am listening to them is because a singer named Chester Bennington from Linkin Park is in a side project with them, and if I were to name my favorite singer, it would be Chester hands down. They will release a CD this fall under the name Dead by Sunrise.

Anyways back to Julien-K. I haven't listened to them enough, but they are growing on me and I kinda enjoy driving to them. First time I listened to their CD, I was working on something on my computer, and I was like "This kinda sucks." Now first time listens are usually not good, but to give you perspective, I listened to Shinedown once and was like "One of my favorite bands!" At the same time, albums grow on me usually, such as Blindside's Great Depression grew on me. Didn't like it at first, and now it's one of my favorite albums. Anyways, back to Juilien-K (again).

I'm on my second play through, through driving in my car while listening (with fun time subs). I like listening to music in my car. My favorite place probably. Julien-K is very bassy (which I likey in my car with my subs). I forgot to add "Techno" in their description. Not pure techno, but there is influence of techno. I think all of their songs are over 5 minutes. I guess I kinda mentioned Techno influence when I said Nine Inch Nails (don't hurt me Nine Inch Nail fans, it just his music has a techno feel to it, but it's not techno).

So to conclude that paragraph, Julien-k is growing on me, but I don't know yet. I also try to picture Chester's vocals which makes me happy.

I guess I'll end this post.

"The darkest hour never comes in the night."
- Shinedown