My favorite music channel on TV is Fuse. It is primarily about rock. Or used to be. Apparently, the new management now wants to add even more hip-hop/pop crap, movies and reality shows. Just like MTV did, that is. And look where that got MTV: very low ratings, way lower than they used to have 15 years ago when they turned their ship towards popularism.

JBQ was telling me a few months back how the Live 105 radio station in our Bay Area is one of the few remaining stations that play alternative rock. The scene is pretty much dead in New York for example. And I really don’t get that, because Alternative Rock is just so much catchier than most hip-hop songs out there (yes, it is). Indeed, looking at the charts, Staind’s new single “Believe” only made it to the #84 of the Billboard Hot 100, and consider that Staind are a huge name in the alternative rock scene!

The interesting thing is that most [white] people who browse online and are active youtubers/diggers and whatnot, are into alternative rock or hard rock. The same demographic that votes Obama that is. I guess we are not that many of us as I thought we were… Or it just happens that the same demographic are pirating more than others and so the alternative rock market got sterile.

On a semi-related note, the VJ of Fuse, Steven Smith, is hot.

I don’t understand why people spend so much energy and money on weddings and wedding photographers. I really don’t. The “basic” package for some pictures/video of a wedding is $600, and it can go as high as $10,000. And I ask you: why?

Why not hire a professional photographer for less than an hour, either before or during the ceremony, and pay like, $150, and be done with it? Then, you can use friends and family to snap more pictures or shoot video. This is how it was done in my wedding, and how it was pretty much done at my brother in law’s wedding. And it’s the logical thing to do.

I mean, on my wedding, we got some pictures and some video (my father in law shot parts of it). I’ve only watched the video once, and I look at the pictures quickly only when I happen to clean up the shelves (something that doesn’t happen very often). So why spend crazy money on that kind of thing? Vimeo is full of such over the top expensive wedding videos, that I personally don’t see the point of.

I mean, look at this video. If that’s not overkill, I don’t know what is. Mind you, I find the video really well done, and very artistic. But I wouldn’t pay for it. If the director wanted to use me as a model for such a video idea I would volunteer, but I wouldn’t pay to create a short film just because I am getting married.

I guess I really don’t believe in weddings. Marriage itself is not a bad thing (although it’s not necessary, it is useful in many ways), but the weddings in general, and all the culture that surrounds them are useless shit.

And please, don’t give me the excuse of “you shoot nice videos/pics so you can remember your wedding better”.

I don’t have Alzheimer’s, I remember my wedding. And even if I wasn’t, what the big deal is? I don’t love my husband more or less because of it.