So, America’s on fire.
Dunno much about the specifics.That’s deliberate. What little has filtered through to me unbidden is scary enough. Any more, and I may freak out.
I still might, actually.
What I know is that there is rioting in many American cities. It was triggered by yet another cop killing an innocent, non-resisting black guy, this time my kneeling on his fucking neck until he suffocated, despite people in the crowd (including medical professionals) begging and pleading to let the poor dude breathe.
The officer who did it has been fired, arrested, and charged. But the riots continue, because while a real world event is required in order to trigger riots, once that fire starts it follows its own rules and logic.
That’s because its fuel is people’s anger and until the anger runs out, the fire keeps burning far beyond the originating incident.
That’s why every riot sees otherwise moral and upright citizens turned into violent monsters by the group emotion of it all. Riots engage a part of our minds meant to respond to violent outside threats by unleashing a killer rage.
But when that threat is too abstract and remote to be present, all that unleashed rage has nowhere to go, so you get the random acts of violence riots are known for.
Honesty, I was worried that riots would break out in the ol’ USA, but I thought they would come from the anti-lockdown protesters. I figured eventually, they would fuck with the wrong police officer, someone would get shot, and we’d have police having to deal with a bunch of pissed off heavily armed MAGA types.
But then some cop straight out murders someone, it’s caught on camera and goes viral, and now shit’s burning down.
The latest thing I saw was cops in Minneapolis arresting a CNN anchor live on CNN.
Wanna guess what color his skin is?
And you can see the cops’ confusion when he fails to give them a clear reason to beat the shit out of him. He repeatedly asks the cops where they want him and his crew to move and the cops just stand there silently, like they have no idea what to do in this situation and it’s breaking their brains.
Finally the cop in charge says he’s going to arrest the CNN anchor, who (without resisting) repeatedly asks what the charge is.
They don’t respond because they can’t. There is no charge, their can’t be, the guy has done nothing wrong. Basically, he’s being arrested because Minneapolis cops arrest black people by default.
Those cops knew no other way to resolve the situation.
The real charge would be something like “making a cop think while black”.
The whole thing has me pretty scared. I mean, deep down, I know that these things are like forest fires and therefore will burn themselves out over time and that this doesn’t mean the USA is about to descend into anarchy, but still, this outpouring of rage makes the world seem even scarier than usual during these mad times.
It’s a fucked up time to be alive.
More after the break.
Eminem is evolving!
And turning into this guy :
Found him via a YouTube ad that played this video :
That makes it the most effective YouTube ad ever for me, because I was instantly riveted to the spot by it and watched the whole thing, then looked up the song so I could listen to the full version then download it.
Because holy shit. Every word’s a bullet, every line’s a bomb. He raps so hard it leaves me feeling dazed and I am fucking loving it.
That also means that I have become a new fan of a particular artist in what feels like forever. Normally, even if I like a song, I don’t feel compelled to go look for more stuff by the artist. And when I do, I usually look up one or two tracks and find that either all their songs sound exactly like what one song I like, or that none of them do and I don’t care for their other stuff at all.
But this guy blew my socks off and they are staying blown. Yee freaking haw.
He’s so good I am actually pretty jealous of him because he raps exactly like I would rap if I was a rapper. That non stop brutal assault style, every word like a punch to the gut, is pretty much exactly how I would rap.
Now, if I do it, people will accuse me of biting his style.
I swear I have been rapping that way in my head for years!
Oh well, I still have the fact that I would be unashamedly not from the hood, a product of the middle class, nerds as hell and smart as fuck to fall back on.
I could definitely see myself being an in your face gay nerdcore fat fucking rapper.
Of course, like Tom, I would be producing my own stuff, because fuck collaboration.
Which segues neatly into my opinion of the new Corel Video Studio 2020, which is : I fucking love it.
It has everything I love about the program, just in a slicker and better organized interface, and most importantly, it has the most important thing of all…
..multi-trim! I won’t go into the details, but it is the absolute best way to edit video that I have ever tried. Everything else is clumsy and complicated by comparison.
So the odds are very good that I will buy the thing, even though it will cost $90. It will be worth it to have a totally legit copy of my fave video editor.
And yes, that means I will soon be making videos again. Not sure what kind or on what schedule yet, but they will be far more professional looking and slick than before so that they no longer embarrass me when I watch them.
Besides, making videos is fun, and far more productive than video game playing.
So why not have fun and be productive at the same time? It’s the best of all worlds!
So stay tuned, folks. Good things are coming soon.
I will talk to you nice people again tomorrow.