I'm giving it my all being a better person. Sue Henry, a wise former manager, once told me to stop worrying about things beyond my control. For someone like me, who likes to see things make sense, that's a hard task. Still, I try to ignore things that don't make sense, but some things force their way through. I'll vent here instead of to people-- then I'll appear plesant in person, right?

When did 311 start to suck? I mean we know the answer. It was that record From Chaos. I liked the record and all, as a short departure, but they rode that train for a few records now, and the pop formula that 311 has become is sad and unfortunate. Condolences. I mean, it's not like that had no fans when they actually rocked. They had plenty if you ask me. Then they wuss-out and come down to "Amber" and that Cure "Lovesong" cover? Oh my God, somebody should've jammed a screwdriver in Nick Hexum's neck after that. Now they got this new song "Frolic Room," which seems to try to rock, but it sounds like a hacky version of Weezer's last efforts. Of course they had the guidance of Rick Rubin. 311's all over. Come on back if your wives leave you and you have some edge.

Why do people watch Mind of Mencia? Hopefully if you're here, you don't, but still. Is there something funny about a guy prepetuating stereotypes about people over and over and over? It's bad enough we have Blue Collar Comedy going around calling themselves rednecks, and it's okay to make fun of rednecks, because they are rednecks. No it's not. It's one thing to laugh at oneself, but there's a limit too. When you're making a career out of disecting people's cultural and ethnic flaws and making fun of them with unintelligent, uninspired, often not-funny jokes, then you become crappy. That's it. By the way, he's not Mexican.

Ya know, Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby comes out this weekend and if there is not a song in the movie, I will be upset. The subtitle is the BALLAD of Ricky Bobby, so there should be a song, right? At least a poem? I should hope so. And no, it wouldn't be ironically funny if there was no song or poem. It would be stupid. I'm tired of people laughing at Will Farrell for no reason. He's becoming my generation's Robin Williams and that's not all-good. Robin Williams is a funny man, I mean look at Toys, but people just laugh at him no matter what. He had to do a Nazi movie for people to take him seriously-- and it didn't even work! Why don't we let Farrell sit back for a year or so, raise the kids, love the family, and come on back with his hairy, goofy self later on? Moderation is the key to everything people. And seriously, if you see this movie and there's no song or poem, don't tell me. I may snap your neck.

FX Networks brought back that show 30 Days. This week is about outsourcing jobs to India. Did you know accounting for federal taxes even gets outsourced to India? That surprised me. Anyway, this toolbox Morgan Spurlock is trying to show a guy what it's like to have your job outsourced. How? By sending him to India. Uh, Spurlock, if you wanna show a guy what it's like to have his job outsourced, why don't you give him a beer, put on Maury, and let him sit at home in his underwear collecting unemployment? Sending him to India is showing him what it would be like to work in India with people who are smarter because they have ambition and people that actually want to partake in a functional educational system. I think this show, 30 Days, is pretty stupid. Maybe I could be justified if I watched it, but I'm pretty comforted calling it awful without viewing. The situations that get set up are always off the mark from understanding a moral lesson. Putting a border partol guy in with illegal immigrants? No illegal alien is gonna be on TV. Ugh. I don't get it.

Is it completely wrong of me to not want to see the new September 11th movie because I think Nicholas Cage sucks in everything except Raising Arizona? I realize it's a movie about a national tragedy and there's a much bigger picture to the story than Nicholas Cage offering up a distracting New York accent, but I really just can't take him. Why does he get work? He's funny lookin', he plays the same three characters in everything, and he already signed on for National Treasure 2. I can watch a movie with him in it, it's not so bad that I didn't enjoy Adaptation, but many actors could've done the role as well or better. And Face/Off? Don't even get me started. I was upset that he took starring roles in The Weather Man and Lord of War. I would've probably watched those movies based on how ludicrous they looked, but he made me turn it off. Luckily, I have no one to go to the movies with. Danger averted. HE NAMED HIS BABY KAL-EL!