Thoughts and Opinions

TOP FIVE CHARACTERS IN NARUTO If you are like most weebs my age, then you more than likely watched cartoon network growing up. And, like most kids, you' watched it until the cows came home. Then, there was that one fated day where you stayed up on a Saturday night at eleven am, and saw adult swim. But it wasn't your usual dose of edgy adult humor and debauchery. It was Toonami. The greatest thing to happen to TV since the Nazi's inception of it. And, if you were lucky enough to stay up, there was this one show that always came on every Saturday night at 11:30 am, and it was called Naruto. When my Oedipal organs first experienced the pleasure of watching Naruto, I knew for a fact that it would be apart of my childhood. Or at least I knew for a fact that I would be watching it for a while. What really got me was the opening. Before Naruto, I never knew that the Japanese culture was producing cooler rock music than the people who started it. It never came to my mind that the J...

PADDLEFISH- FLYER ALBUM REVIEW      There is a lot of infatuation going on in our generation around 90's rock. I mean, who can blame us? You've got Nirvana and the grunge boys, Radiohead 's magnum opus with OK Computer; and how can we forget class acts like Pixies (its pixies not "the pixies" you fucking poser), Cocteau Twins, Pavement, and Dinosaur Jr. coming to the fray( no pun intended).       The 90s was the decade where rock finally took the lid off of the genre. Every other decade created a subgenre within rock, but didn't really have the diversity between acts to back it up very well. The 90s also possessed a double-edged sword in the fact that 90s rock was the last decade of rock relevancy, if we are being completely honest with ourselves.       Everything post nineties has been some form of capitalistic brainchild, or a fusion of genres that are way cooler than rock in and of itself. Or, as we see today, an extension of the...