The Self Fulfilling Prophecy of 2012 Playlist

Well, the end of the world is gonna happen this Friday... or, you know, that's what half the Internet wants you to believe. I'm surprised local business people haven't had "End of the World" sales to take advantage of another manufactured day people should care about. Personally, I don't think the world is going to end. Whether it's a total misunderstanding of the Mayan calendar or Nostradamus or planets aligning or old Chinese predictions or the Jehovah's Witnesses predicting Armageddon... again... for like, the third or fourth time, people have their predictions on when, how, and why the world will end.

Personally, I don't think the world will end. Sure, I enjoy my zombie movies and video games, I love Fallout 3 (New Vegas is okay but I gave up way too early), and I can be a paranoid mother fucker, but I don't think the world will suddenly end if the planets align with the galaxy, or Earth will suddenly start hating humans (it all ready does) and instantly develop killer grass to send scents that will make us want to commit suicide. I don't think the Mayans predicted our demise, but I do think they were predicting the end of the calendar year (not really much of a prediction, but you know...) which we do every year... on New Years' Eve... with booze.

I do think, however, that if the world was going to end, or if society as we know it was going to end, then it's by human hands. I do fear that this whole end-of-the-world crap will get into some psychotic fucker's brain and might hack into the nuclear launch computers, or an asshole leader will start a war with another country, taking us into World War III that may or may not involve nukes that will ultimately fuck us all over, or dumbasses will go into mass hysteria mode, thinking, "Well since the end of the world is happening anyway, we might as well create a whole bunch of anarchy," and riot everywhere. That last one might not really be end-of-the-world material, but I think it's the more realistic of the three, though from what I see in the tension between Israel and Palestine, and Iran, and North Korea, and the shit between China and Japan, and Republicans and right-wing shitheads being total assholes all the time... that second one is pretty realistic, too.

So, with that said, people's tendencies to believe in stupid shit has inspired me to make another playlist. I made this several weeks back, but I've just had the inspiration now to describe the background and thought process going into it. It's in Spotify... again... so there may be other updates with the playlist in other formats or apps or stuff. And for the non-Spotify users, I'll just list each song and maybe a short description.

Concert Season 2012: Encore Issue: Not So Silent Night 2012

I thought the concert season this year for me was over. I was perfectly content with The Monkees concert being my last concert since it was that good. And since no one was too excited about the lineup (since it was split into two and there was a lot of excitement for a couple of the bands on both nights, but not a lot of excitement for the rest), there was a lot of hesitation amongst my friends about going. Then suddenly, my sisters ended up buying tickets to both nights, and my friend out of the blue wanted to go and asked if I was interested in Night 1. Thinking about it for a while, I thought it'd be interesting to go to one more concert before the year was through... and what would come was a very interesting week, to say the least.