Now I'm Pissed

Well, second post and I'm already pissed. That can mean alot but in this case I'm mad.

I lost my license recently. I'm still in BC's Graduated Licensing Program (just a fucking wonderful program if you ask me) and had 2 tickets and that means I'm not fit to drive on B.C roads. Believe it or not, that's not why I'm pissed.

Now, I drive a 5 tonne flat bed for a living. This is an extremely hard job to do with no license as I'm sure you can all imagine. I lost my job the same day I lost my license. Now the government, in these times of "economic crisis" is trying to keep people working. Well maybe give Jimmy the crackhead another chance, he only smoked two rocks on the job, we need to keep Jimmy working. And Bobby the thief? Well, that's theft under $1000 now so we'll give him another chance, we need the workers. But Julian the speeder?! Do not pass Go, do not collect $200 dollars ($183.47 once we get ahold of it) just go straight to jail. We don't want your kind in our work force. Trust me you haven't heard the last of this topic but let me end in saying this is still why I'm not pissed.

I applied for EI......UI?......EI?.....(whatever) on February 4th. If you can read a calender, or simply read, you can see that it is now March 16th the day I'm posting this. I still haven't been paid. THAT is why I'm pissed. I'm a smoker and the 'ol money jar is lookin a little empty. People are going to suffer. Now, numerous thoughts pass through my head. I could write a letter. I could make a phone call and bitch at someone who is filing their nails telling me how they "totally understand and there doing EVERYTHING they can to hurry up the process". I could go down to Naniamo with a loaded 30 odd 6 and let that do my talking. Now being Canadian and not American, I choose the second option. Only bureaucrats write letters. I got to listen how sympathetic Karen was and she would talk to her supervisor right away and see what they could do. Now, for Karen's sake, I hope she didn't do that, as she would be laughed out of his office with 4.7 million square miles of red tape and a pair of scissors closely following her with my file somewhere in the midst of it all. See you next year Karen. That was 6 days ago. Is a simple phone call so hard to ask? At this point even if there's nothing they can do which I'm sure there's not, I'd like to hear it. So I'll just sit here, moneyless in a shitty job market with no mobility and try to "expand" my options.



Feeling sorry for me yet?
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Now playing: Theory of A Deadman - Hate My Life
via FoxyTunes

Hello and Youtube...Grand Opening

Workin hard to get my fill...everyone just wants a thrill. I don't mean to get all whimsical on you on my first post but there it is. Actually, it's not all that whimsical. That's Don't stop Believing by Journey. Good words I think. I've been listening to that song a shit load lately ever since their performance at the Superbowl. Now I called this whole thing Cyanide, Sweet Tooth, Suicide. I realize it's a Shinedown song (and a good one) but I don't necessarily take it right from the song. I don't mind Shinedown but not enough to name my whole life or brand new shiny blog after it. I just think it's relevant to say that even if it is incoherent.

One thing that I need to bitch about (I'm sure there'll be alot of this) is the YouTube, WMG debacle. For those who don't know, which I'm sure is the normal part of the populous, WMG stands for Warner Music Group. The Warner Music Group owns the rights to, from what I've found out, a HUGE percentage of the music out there. As anyone who knows YouTube knows, other peoples music is a huge part of individual videos. By other peoples music I of course mean copyrighted music. I love YouTube for that. Now this wasn't a huge problemo about a month ago but recently, alot of my videos have been flagged for copyright infringement. In all of the dispute cases, i saw the same name at the top of the page. "Your Video, may have audio content that is owned or licenced by WMG". Now I'd like to get one thing straight. I'm using these songs in slide shows of my friends and what-not like that. I'm not using it for profitable gain or putting it on there so people can download the song instead of buying it. It's just on there cause the beats go with my pictures. That, however, is beside the point. WMG had an agreement with YouTube before where they would just slap advertisements on the video and take the profits from it. This was working just fine for awhile but now all of the sudden there has been a disagreement between YouTube and WMG. I'm not clear on all the details but I see this tirade of banning videos as WMG's "fuck you" to YouTube and the video uploaders are suffering.

I was having a conversation with my friend Kody earlier and we were talking about YouTube. I got a comment on one of my videos. I'm not sure exactly what it said but the gist of it was I was a retard, I suckled at life and I was a cocksucker. This would piss alot of people off and at first it pissed me off too. But then I thought about it for a second and started writing him back. I told him I love YouTube. I love it cause you can watch something that someone has obviously put work into and might not even be that bad and proceed to not only make fun of their video; but their family, their country, their sexuality and their mental state of mind. I love the power of Anonymity.

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Now playing: Journey - Don't Stop Believing
via FoxyTunes