Updates & Music Commentary

WARNING: The following post contains nothing even remotely political. Thank you.

Okay, break's over! SIT is once again coming to you from Plum Borough, Pennsylvania, the most cow-tastic suburb in Pittsburgh.

First of all, thanks to everyone who participated in my little "survey" over the weekend (especially those of you who added some sort of compliment). I was just curious about how the F people actually found my blog (evidently, IMAO brought a relatively large number of you here) and how many were actually here as compared to the number of people who comment regularly. Again, your help is appreciated.

Also, here's a tip for certain individuals: If you're going to troll my blog, at least have the balls to troll the front f**kin' page, all right? I just had my third or fourth incident of someone trolling a post I wrote months ago. Do you really think I care about that crap anymore? Morons.

Anyway, I have some brief commentary on a non-political subject. I'm a drummer, in case you didn't know, and as such, I'm pretty much a part of an oppressed group. We don't get the attention, we don't get a lot of women (Tommy Lee doesn't count), and we have to deal with all the stereotypes (drummers are dumb, drummers have no musical talent, etc.) that people perpetuate.

However, we really get screwed in one department: Music videos. I was watching "Insomniac Music Theater" on VH1 last night (which is apparently the only thing on that channel now besides "I Love the 80s"), and it just hit me all of a sudden that drummers always have the most boring parts in videos.

Think about it. Whether it's a pure performance video or one where the band is playing their song during some kind of adventure, the drummer basically sits in the back while everyone else is doing...well, something!

Of course, it's the lead singer's job to carry the video most of the time, but the guitar player usually gets some sort of supporting role as well. Even the bassist occasionally manages to be featured, but the whole time, the drummer just sits there and drums. I know that we're at a disadvantage because we can't move around while we play, but come on! It's like they don't even try to give us an interesting part!

The only time the drummer gets to do something is when the video features the band without instruments, and in that case, you sometimes don't even know who the drummer is because he was in the back of all the other videos while the rest of the band was jumping around and playing solos and things.

You could probably say the same about live performances, but even then, at least they're limited to a stage. In videos, the entire world is available for performance, but the drummer still just SITS THERE! I want to see a music video featuring the drummer for once.

...Sorry about that. I had to get it off my chest.

Speaking of music, I'm writing a couple new songs at the moment. One is about abortion, and the other is about judicial tyranny. I'll post the lyrics here when they're finished.

Too bad I don't have a band. Then I'd show them how music videos should be done...