Happy New Year (2021)!

 

Happy New Year to all who read this.  I don't think many of you read this.  If so, cool!  I hope you have the best year possible!  Of course, we all know that 2020 was an awful year.  The pandemic, the deaths and other unfortunate events occurred in 2020.  2020 had so much potential and then COVID-19 happened.  Now I hope the vaccine works for us all and we'll progress.  2020 had very little to no progression at all.  We didn't do much, we didn't work, we couldn't find any work, we lost lots of money, etc.  The disastrous 2020 presidential election (sorry, I will not touch on politics too much in this blog), Trump not conceding, which has complicated matters more with the 2020 election.  Yeah, 2020 was a bloody awful mess and I hope we don't repeat it ever!

The final day of 2020

 

2020 was a turbulent year for most.  It was not a happy new year at all.  It did start off as a happy new year and then nose dived into an awful year.  Surprisingly, it was a decent year for me!  If you talk about 2020 in general, it was a dismal year.  What about the positive aspects of 2020?  I don't want discuss the negative aspects at all.  That's best documented elsewhere.  I want touch on the positive aspects of 2020.

What were the good things that happened in 2020?  Well, there were some good music albums this year.  You can say that.  The L.A. Lakers became NBA champions this year.  People met new friends online and they did achieve some personal accomplishments.  People who probably always wanted to work at home finally got to work at home this year due to the pandemic.  I don't know what else... wow!  2020 did truly suck!

I have to say it... thankfully today is the final day of 2020!  I hope 2021 is much more prosperous and things will get better.  2020 was an odd year and it will go down in history as an odd year & more!

 

R.I.P. Eddie Van Halen

 

Rest in peace, Edward Lodewijk Van Halen.  I cannot believe he died today.  As a guitarist myself, he was a bit of an influence.  He got me more into tapping (a guitar technique he was famous for and you can see him doing it in the picture I provide).  I remember I learned how to play a couple of Van Halen songs during my first years of playing guitar.

I was around 5 or 6 years old when I first heard Eddie Van Halen, he did a guitar solo on "Beat It" and it totally blew me away the first time I gave it a good listen.  I was in my room back in Pomona, NY.  From that point on, I wanted to know what that was.  I was a very young child at the time and I couldn't really comprehend it that well.  Click here for an article on EVH's guitar solo on that song.  It was one of the most amazing things I ever listened to in my life at that point in time.  I believe it got me hard rock and heavy metal.  I am sure that was the song that was responsible for me loving heavy music.

2020 has been a rough & tough year.  This 2020 death has affected me, just like Kobe Bryant's earlier this year.  I hope the 2020's get better... this year has been a total dumpster fire.  I can't believe this year has been so horrible.  We're not even done with the year yet and EVH dies today.  :(  My condolences to the Van Halen family, friends, fans and anybody else.

One year since I decided to revive this blog!

It has been a year since I decided to revive this blog.  I never knew I'd revive this blog.  I originally intended to end it and never get back to it.  I like expressing myself and letting the world know how I feel.  This blog is having a pretty good run so far.  I remember being at home in New York while writing that first blog entry for 2019.  I know this blog is not going to gain any sort of traction or become big.  I just write it for the fun of it and maybe some people may read it.

I have no idea what else to write down.  I'll continue to write.  I have no plans to discontinue this blog.  If I do want to discontinue it, I'll let you know.  For now, no.  I don't think so.

2020 is worse than 2016

I'm going to rant here.  I don't usually like ranting in my blog entries.  This needs to be jotted down.  I have to get this off my chest.  2020 is worse than 2016.  It has been a fucked year.  COVID-19, the death of George Floyd, the protests, etc.  BTW, I will not touch on George Floyd and the protests about it too much.  That's best documented on other blogs and news publications.  I will say that it was major injustice and it shouldn't have happened.

IMO, 2020 is much worse than 2016.  2016 was the year of death and the year Tronald Dump got elected.  I was thinking that 2020 is 2016 part 2.  Well I change my mind on that.  2020 is in a league of its own and it has proven to be a real shit show.  It's more than just another year of death, it's more than that.

It seems like 2020 has been one big huge fire that cannot be extinguished.  So far, it hasn't been extinguished one bit.  I don't know if I got one positive thing to say about 2020.  Nice weather?  I dunno... even the weather has not been that great this year.  Ah yes.  Music.  As a big music fan, 2020 has had excellent music.  Particularly, there's been excellent metal music.  My only non-complaint about 2020.  It sucks I can't really hang out with friends and I moved far away from them.  I was going to make new friends this year in southern NJ, well now that plan was ruined due to COVID-19.

I will say that hopefully 2020 will get better. Let's hope it does!  I know there will new music this year and I'll enjoy that!  The thing that gets to me the most about 2020 is that 2020 was actually starting off to be a good year starting in January.  Then it goes all downhill from there.  Every time someone thinks it can't get any worse... it amazingly does get worse!  I hope it doesn't get worse.  One thing that we can all agree on is that 2020 has been a terrible year.  Stay safe out there and have a good day/night!

Solar Opposites

Today's blog is about an upcoming animated series called Solar Opposites.  It was created by Justin Roiland.  You may know him as one of the co-creators of the hit animated series Rick and Morty.  Solar Opposites is going to be on Hulu.  I'm going to share my thoughts on this upcoming animated series.

I watched a trailer of it on Facebook and I thought it was pretty good.  The show definitely has potential.  It's has a Rick and Morty vibe to it and that's no surprise since Justin Roiland created this animated series.  Eight episodes have been made so far.  The first episode will be available on Hulu on May 8.  It's basically about aliens from a better world who come to live in Earth and they take refuge in middle America.  They decide whether it's cool or not.

If you are unaware of Solar Opposites, here's a trailer of it.  Watch it!  Sadly, I don't have Hulu anymore.  Whenever I do get the opportunity somehow to watch it, I will watch it!  I like Justin Roiland and his animation.  I know it won't disappoint.

Oh and don't forget to watch the sixth episode of the fourth season of Rick and Morty tonight!  Click here for info on it!  Honestly, I've only watched the first episode of season four so far.  I'll have to catch up by watching the others I missed, then I'll watch the sixth episode and other episodes!

Who expected 2020 to be so bad?

2020 is what 2012 should have been and 2012 would have loved it.  Right?  LOL!  Yeah, we got COVID-19 going on right now.  People are panicking and people are buying up toilet paper like crazy.  As "The Kid From Brooklyn" Michael Caracciolo would have said, "the whole world's coming to an end!"  It seems to be that way and I agree with Big Mike to a certain extent.  I hope things get better for 2020.  I try to make this blog to be as positive & optimistic as possible.  If you've read my obituaries and stuff, eh not that positive & optimistic.  I have nothing else to say on this matter.  Here's 3 good sources for this COVID-19 mess:

Source 1

Source 2

Source 3

That's it.  I'm gonna take a break from this blog.  I'll continue writing in May.  If I feel like writing something else in April, I'll write something here for sure.

Earth is not flat

Today is a blog that will be focused on flat earth and the absurdity of flat earthers.  All of us know that the earth is not flat.  This has been proven well before I was born, before my parents were born and so forth.  It was proven over a thousand years.  I don't care if I'm going to offend you flat earth people.  You are 1000% wrong.  Are these people serious?  Read this and find out.  It is unbelievable that you have these people who believe the earth is flat and they believe it is even a proven fact that the earth is flat.  It isn't!  It is equivalent to saying that 2+2=3.

They think that they were lied to in school about the shape of the earth.  Give me a break!  There's seven ways to prove the earth is round.  I know in school they did not lie to us about math.  Why in the world would they lie in science class about earth's shape?  Seriously people.  I know this blog barely gets any traffic.  I was happy that one of my blogs actually got a comment and I was happy.  Now if I get comments from you so-called flat earthers, go ahead and I don't care if I rustled your jimmies.

I've noticed that in the 2010's and 2020's, people are being more vocal nowadays on certain things.  That's why you got these flat earth people who are being vocal on their ridiculous belief.  The shape of earth is not supposed to be debated.  It does not require a debate whatsoever.  You flat earthers are no better than the Illuminati conspiracy theorists and birds-are-not-real conspiracy theorists (yes, there are people who actually believe that birds are not real... I might write a blog about that one day)!  C'mon now!

Happy Palindrome Day!

A day like today will not happen in 101 years.  That will be 12/12/2121.  Will we make it that far?  We'll see.  I don't think so.  Thankfully I'm not writing something that's full of doom & gloom.  January 2020 was a turbulent month.  I am hoping the rest of 2020 is more positive.  A friend of mine dubbed this year as "2016 2.0."  Remember how I said 2016 was the year of death?  It just may turn out that 2020 is another 2016.  For more on what this day is all about, I suggest you click here.

Expect more posts this year

I will posting more than ever before in the year 2020.  I started this blog circa 2008 and I never really went that far with it.  I was going to quit this for good and then decided to revive it in 2019.  I will be posting reviews, rants, thoughts, etc.  I doubt I'm going to post everyday.  It would be too time consuming and I'm not that into keeping up with a blog.  I'm sure there are people who write everyday in their blogs.  I'm most likely not going to do that.  I'm sure they do it for money.  I really don't have any interest in monetizing with my blog.  I may consider it.  For now, no.