Not Everything Happens For A Reason...Case In Point Tim Allen's Career

Since I am going to London in a week or so I decided to have a night where I taste six different English beers and rate them. I thought it would be a good experience even though I am not hip on all the beer lingo. I mean whats a hops anyways? I guess it is something I should know but I guess its not vital. One less thing for me to talk about at parties. That will be something to keep me occupied during Jeopardy and then the Steelers game.

I skimmed through the latest Arctic Monkey's album and it is sort of lackluster. Have you ever listened to an album and just yelled at the stereo "Why aren't you rocking me? ROCK ME BABY!" So I just listened to Fake Tales of San Fransisco and All You People Are Vampires.

I have to say I blame the guy from Queens of the Stone Age for the lackluster sound of this album. I don't know his name but it is not even worth taking the time to look it up. I think he produced the album and he has seemed to manage to make this disc even more boring than his shitty band. Don't get me wrong there are many worse bands than Queens of the Stone Age but their music just doesn't do it for me. It just seems to go through the motions man. Its like yeah we're gonna rock but not too hard man why need that ever important radio ready sound. Fuck man I might be going to hard on the band. I'm listening to Era Vulgaris and it sounds ok.

I read a really good article at work the other day that I think if you have the time you should give it a once over. It's called A Mugging On Lake Street (what a misleading title read it and you'll see why). In summary it is about this reporter who was riding his bike through the streets of Chicago when a group of teenagers attacked him which sent him to the hospital. The reporter writes about his efforts to reach the kid who knocked him out to basically find out why he decided to attack him. Really you should read the article even though the author does not come to a satisfying conclusion.

What I liked about the article is that it made me think about why things happen. I have always been a nihlistic person and don't think things happen for a reason or that everything is inter conected. That's why I really liked Jeff Goldblum's character in those Jurassic Park movies; I am all about Chaos theory. Everyone questions why something happens but I just embrace it as happening. Fuck man life is like a big game of roulette only the wheel is bigger dude. That's a metaphor.

I understand why the author of this article and people in general question and try to figure out the why. Why was he attacked? Why did my car get stolen? Why do people watch American Idol? I understand why people try to find meaning with what are basically a bunch of random actions around them. Life without any sort of meaning is scary to some people man and it doesn't matter what it is and why something happened; God, Tim Allen's performance in Wild Hog's, the Democrats in power it doesn't matter man. Sometimes things happen for no reason and people just do things.

The best example I can think of is a story I heard about I guy I used to work with. He lived in D.C. and was walking to his jeep when he noticed a bunch of young kids near his car. I forget now what it was that one of the kids picked up but lets just say it was a brick. Anyways right in front of the guy I worked with this kid takes this brick and breaks one of the windows out of the jeep. So my ex coworker walks up to the kid and asks why did you do that. The kid basically shrugs his shoulders and says "I just wanted to see what would happen."

See. That is one example. Sure this little kid is a dick but I would make the argument that he is more liberated than most people. Sure to you it might be a scary and horrible way to live without putting a fixed meaning behind every action. This kid understands the only thing that governs the human existence is just random fucking chance man. It all started with the creation of life with the big bang theory. If it wasn't for the comet that wiped out the dinosaurs we would not be the dominant species. Why did that comet hit earth? There was no governing structure besides the laws of physics and the fact that the projectory of this massive space rock happened to coincide with where earth is located. There was no master plan or divine intervention or predetermined place where this comet would land (Actually if there was a Jerry Falwell dinosaur he would have blamed all the homo dinosaurs for the comet hitting earth). Actually it was probably an asteroid but that's just semantics man. All I am saying is that there was no meaning behind it. These things just happened.

I was thinking I was more of a nihilist than anything else but I don't think so. Well maybe I am even though there is no way that is possible since the definition of nihilism is having no belief structure; that would kind of be like having a meeting for your anarchy club to discuss parliamentary procedure. I think living this way is more liberating. Like Fleetwood Mac said dude you should go your own way. Was that Fleetwood Mac? Actually who cares man because they sucked and are like eighty. All I am saying is that you should live life and stop worrying about the why. Just be happy. Of course I say this many times. But I mean it this time. I have a new motto on life and it is the same as that kid from the rollerblading movie: "If you see the perfect wave, the perfect girl, the perfect anything you take it." Seriously that kid from Airborn was some sort of miniature high school surfing Buddha man. But yeah I am going to live life and go after and fight for things worth fighting for. Please do the same.

I thought I would add this video. It kind of comes to the same conclusion I do about life even though it tackles a diferent subject. Plus Cursive is an awesome band. Win Win.