Another State of Mind

Last night I watched a pretty cool documentary on punk rock called Another State of Mind which takes place in the summer of 1982 and depicts the first international tour that the bands Youth Brigade and Social Distortion embark on. I love how they tour across the U.S. and Canada in a run down, piece of s*** for lack of better words. It was an influential video I would say because it not only was on music, but also how punks were misunderstood by people and how they're judged by others based on how they look and how they dress.

I've been really into punk lately but mostly just bands like Against Me! and The Clash but most recently, I've gotten more and more into Social Distortion. Leather jackets, blue jeans, motorcycle boots, tattooes, and an obvious 1950's greaser esque rock 'n' roll sound and style. There isn't one thing in that sentence that I can say I do not like. I didn't like Social Distortion that much before but I have a new found respect and understanding of the band and Mike Ness (singer/guitarist), well he's just simply b.a.

Life is too much for me to even care what's going to happen after

It amazes me how corrupt society has gotten to be. We live in a generation where religion, faith, and morals are thrown out the window. I'm getting started on reading the Bible, not because I'm a religious person, but because I'm interested in reading it and getting my own interpretation from it. I've heard some stories from the Bible like Jonah and the whale and some of them just seem so ridiculous for me to even believe. But I think people may misinterpret it. I think they take it way too seriously when really they're looking too deep into things. I don't know, religion frustrates me. It just seems to me like religious people are so ignorant, arrogant, hypocritical, they just seem like they're the worse people out there. I don't mean to cause any offense to anyone but seriously, it's sickening. Religion as a whole causes so many problems and people get so upset if somebody else doesn't have the same belief system as them. Here's the way I see it, we have one life to live and we don't know when the end will be for us. No one knows if there is a Heaven or a Hell, no one knows for sure if there is a God or not. We need to make our own individual choices on what we're going to believe because it's simple, you either have faith or you don't. That simple. People need to stop thinking they know the impossible and stop trying to know the impossible. Religion has turned into such a public matter that people are judged by others because of it. I just wish people could believe in what they want to believe in and just carry on with the rest of their lives.

And I scream from the top of my lungs, what's going on!?

Tom Hanks. Hands down, one of the best actors there ever was. He just has to be, I haven't seen one bad movie with him in it. I just got done watching one I haven't seen yet called Philadelphia and I highly recommend it. It's one of those movies where by the end of it, you feel like you can make a difference and can become a better person. Oh and a song that I have just recently discovered and am addicted to and suggest to many, What's Up by the 4 Non Blondes. Anyway, it's 2:33 a.m. so I'm going to bed so I can be up for my adventure tomorrow. Goodnight