Saturday, August 14, 2004

Yurkos song of the day: Signs of Love- by Moby

"Oh, look, Arthur, it's a completely rehabilitated villain. She's comfortable with herself. Comfort, commitment, marriage, what do these things have in common? The letter 'C' except for marriage, and if people get all British whenever they get knocked on the head, what do British people get? I know... comatose! Another 'C'."

{Added note: Welcome to Version 3 of my crappy little site. The old template; as good as it was; had begun to get on my nerves. Something about all that black on orange, plus with blogger adding that confounded titlebar thing it threw the layout off. Regardless I went and found a new and i might add extremly snazzy template (it being tuesday as i type this) so feel free to comment on the new look, i really like it and i hope you do as well. This being the case dont forget about the poor post below cause it wants you to comment on it as well. Enjoy!}
(GAH disregard the bloody Â's that have for some reason cropped up around this template, everything looked fine when i previewed but after publishing went all wonky, Trying to fix it so just ignore them if possible)

Felt like another one, mostly cause i was finally able to see collateral today. Hot damn thats a good movie. Different pace than Heat, definely a faster pace but it fit the film. Heat still stands as my favourite work by Micheal Mann but this was still a very good film. Tom Cruise made for one kick ass villian and i must say that I personally was rooting for him at the end, although im guessing no one else was or ever will. Hmm im not a psycho, its just that his charachter was so slick i couldnt help but root for the guy. Regardless i was pleasntly suprised with Jamie Foxx in a serious role. Overall really good movie, not Micheal Manns best but still very entertaining, fully reccomended by I.
Rather different song today, somewhat more modern. Good one though, slow one but well its good stuff. Speaking of songs, hooray for random CD buying, finally got The Joshua Tree by U2 which is widly regarded as there best album and thus far im tending to agree. Also got The Dream of the blue turtles by Sting, very good CD as well, alot of jazzy. calypso influences which i must say is nice and refreshing not to mention makes for some good listening.

Ahh Left wing US media, how you bother me. Correct me if im wrong but is not the purpose of mainstream media, especially news networks to be unbiased in there reporting? Especially with this up coming election in the us? Hmm maby im just crazy. I must say that i would absolutly hate to be an undecided voter in the united states. All you ever see when watching the US news nowadays is Bush did this wrong, or he messed this up etc. Now im not saying that i support the guy or not, my problem is that i am unable to get enough info on both sides to properly make a decision. Which is never a good thing in a democracy. The media, and all of its happy left wing friends are so hellbent on getting bush out that you get next to no information on John Kerry. So far the only bad thing that i have heard about the guy via the media is that he flip flops on decision making, and this came via a bush ad not CNN or anything like that. To me this is a very scary thought because, as history will attest to, there has never been a sqeaky clean perfect politician. Never has, never will be so somehow i doubt this perfect image that the media would love you to have. Comon people, in order to make an informed vote you have to know quite a bit about the candidate, his track record etc not just what the john kerry campaign would love for you to hear. Media has done a good job at showing the downfalls of Bush so at least they have that covered but somehow i doubt that he has done nothing at all in the slightest of merit while in office. But hey if you listen to CNN or MSNBC this would seem to be the case. Very fustrating indeed.

Now im guessing while you read this your thinking im some hardcore right wing republican loving person but this isnt the case. I still think that Clinton was an extremly good president, one of the best the Democrats have put out in a long time. What i just dont like, and the point im trying to make is that the point of the media in a democracy is to show an unbiased critique of both canditates demonstrating both there good and bad to the voting public. Its the campaings job to make there candidate seem god like compared to the other one, not the medias. Im sure the Kerry campaign fund is extremly happy considering that they dont have to spend as much what with the constant ads for him being shown via the "news". Democracy cannot work well if you have your supposed unbiased sources spewing biased material. Thats what editorials are for, so the rest of it should be opinon free. My friend neil did point out the fact that US news radio is extremly right wing and that well something needs to balance it out. I say that having the TV news networks become left wing is not the answer. When an undecided voter wants information they are more likely to turn into something like CNN which the expect to be unbiased instead of a known biased source such as talk radio. Plus when it comes down to it who listens to the news on the radio all that much anymore anyways? Sad state of affairs i must say.

Well thats enough from me, to much talking and not enough brining my point across makes yurko tire. Keith i have heard that yes Doom 3 is a demanding mistress but see i wouldnt know cause the morons at dell have (yet again, Grrr) failed to ship my computer by the date that they promised. Damn them and there smelly hides! Ahh well hopefully ill get it before the UofA experience begins. Tune in next time for part 2 of my rant, also known as why i hate Micheal Moore

Till Next Ramble

The Amazing, Boring Yurko

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