"Help control the pet population. Have your pet spayed or neutered." Seriously, people. This is not just a phrase of some random words thrown together. This is IMPORTANT. Gah! Stop selling animals like they are your living!! And no, most of you aren't careful breeders of some AKC breed that are carefully bred. Stop acting like you're doing the world a favor by guilting everyone into getting one more of your over-bred animals! I do feel for the animals, that's why I say this. What I wish was that you didn't think it was so great that your pet and its off-spring are paying for your irresponsibility as the owner. Telling us all about how cool it is isn't convincing anyone that it's okay for you to fail your pet.
Rant continued (if you are a cat lover, I don't mean any disrespect to you, just the over-proliferation of memes, I promise):
I hate cat memes. It's like the world is being taken over. How is it funny to keep posting "grumpy cat" pictures and referring this to your own life. I don't get it. And I don't want to see it. I wish I could report them as spam. Someone recently joked that there would soon be two internets: one as the regular internet, the other that is told as "Mean Girls" quotes. This would be slightly humorous, but not close enough to truth. There may be two parallel internet worlds, but one will be totally dominated by strange obsessive cat memes and cats who mind-control their owners into letting them run the computer. (Actually, as I typed this, I flipped over to facebook to post an idea and saw 2 new posts with that annoying meme. I can't wait for this trend to disappear.)
Lastly, this isn't a rant as much as a request, but I still feel kind of bad for saying it. (Apparently today's post is just the feel-guilty-for-posting-it one and I will hope that I don't incur the wrath of cat-lovers, meme-lovers, and lovers of music legends.) Blasphemy, probably.
Leonard Cohen remakes, please! I almost get him. Almost. There are parts in 'Hey, That's No Way To Say Goodbye' that I like. The guitar stuff in "The Stranger Song" is nifty. But then he sings some run on breathless too low lyric and I start to wonder again. I want to like them, but the songs are just too strangely written. I would like to see new arrangements. For example, the version of "Hallelujah" that we all know and love by Jeff Buckley was thankfully rearranged by John Cale, because really, the original sounds kind of creepy.
So, am I just not listening to the right songs or does someone really need to rearrange these things? Or if he's your favorite, can you explain it to me?
Maybe each of these situations could be corrected if Leonard Cohen would write a song about getting your pets fixed. Our veterinarians would have an influx and our world would be happier?
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