Bass not into the Tuna

I'm For: John Mayer Trio, increased mobility in my torso, practicing guitar, my car's gas mileage

I'm Against: Lance Bass's sexuality being headline news, skunky imports, my parents early bedtime cutting guitar practice short, BMW's with the bumper sticker "Don't let the car fool you, my real treasure is in heaven."

People need to get their own fucking lives. We are a society that obsesses over the lifestyle of the sucessful, wealthy, famous, and good looking. It is a society of syncophants and followers that can't fucking make a decision for themselves. We feel the need to look to celebrities for the answers in style, philosophies, and all things cool. There countless media outlets that are dedicated to the lifestyles of celebrities, psuedocelebrities, and people who would do anything to be part of their elite group. Everytime I flip the channel past VH1, E!, MTV, or a major network someone is going on about the behavior of the rich and famous. We ooh and awe about their lavish clothes and houses, and we overanalyze and deplore every false step they take.

Part of my job is to flip through magazines and to analyze competitive ads for other beverage brands. I look over a lot of magazines like People, Cosmo, US, Entertainment Weekly, Men's Health, and Maxim. Half of these magazines are dedicated to photos of celebrities with their families in every day situations. Paperazzi are paid good money to take pictures of celebrities trying to spend time with their children. What the fuck is the point, what a waste of resources and time. Instead of doing something productive or furthering your artform by taking pictures of something beautiful or in an artful technique. You waste time and resources spying and hassling people so other people can waste their time in critique. The whole austentacious celebrity spending culture makes no sense, and is a drain on our society.

Today illustrated our obsession with the stupid perfectly. Lance Bass a former member of teen supergroup N'Sync came out of the closet and it was headline news on almost every major news content aggregator in this country and perhaps the world. N'Sync was not worth anyone's time to begin with they were a group of 5 guys that were assembled together with the sole purpose of exploiting the hormones and economic power of pubescent girls. I have nothing against the guys, they were above average talents that were willing to work hard to maximize their performance abilities and play the system under a literal "fat cat" in Lou Pearlman. Eventually they learned they were getting screwed, but before they could do anything about it and prove their real talent, they all learned that they were just biproducts of the system that just fucked them.

This group did not produce art, they did not create the one thing that makes life truly worth living, human expression. Without human expression in the form of art, love, or passion through sport, friendship, or other humanistic pursuits we become mindless drones that drive to and from work to produce some random shit for someone else to consume. Keep pursuing that art, human expression, and passion. Keep our souls in tact for as long as we can hold onto.

While we are on the subject of Lance's sexuality, is anyone really that surprised. Yes he was the quiet "religious one" but in hindsight the publicists just overplayed that so we wouldn't see the truth. Let's think about this for a second, the guy was from Mississippi and he sang and danced since he was a child. Somebody had to know the dude was gay. Being shot into space with a bunch of dudes aside, we had to have a hunch.

Regardless a man's preference for summer sausage over tuna, headline news? I think not.