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Goodbye, and Goodriddence to 2009 and this awful decade

We started off the new millennium with lots of hopes. The whole “Year 2000″ thing sounded so exciting and futuristic, and we were all expecting great things to come. Instead, this decade has been an awful start that hopefully won’t set the stage for the next 90. While some areas had wild amounts of success and made our lives better (like all these fancy new cell phones), just about every part of our lives has suffered some kind of step backwards in the 2000s.

Here’s why I can’t wait for the month to end and will be welcoming 2010 with open arms.

The Music of the 00’s

It all started off with this and has just gone downhill.

Linkin Park: Pure awful on a disc

In 2000 the #1 album was “The Beatles: 1″, and by 2005 it was a 50 Cent album. That’s how fast things went downhill. The rest is history. Year after year we are treated to another piece of repetitive trash, a new Britney comeback album, or something else that just makes you dumber every time you hear it. It’s gotten so bad that we now consider a song who’se only lyrics are “Tonight’s gunna be a good night” to be perfectly acceptable. Excuse me while I go barf.

It’s ridiculous how much 90’s music I listen to now just because today’s “artists” have driven me in another direction so rapidly.

The music industry as a whole became something we all hated. Nothing like hearing record labels cry poor from piracy only to find out now that they use unauthorized recordings in compilations all the time.

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Know your customers: Hollywood video now offers a “Stoner Movie” Section

With the rise of On Demand video, an overall lack of new movies I have no interest in seeing *cough* and the fact that nobody I know works there any more, I have little interest in going to Hollywood Video any more. With the desolate wasteland that the area is, it’s only a matter of time before that whole corner of Cass & Grosbeck on the west side of Mount Clemens becomes a complete greyfield anyways.

But I digress, I found myself there recently. Apparently, they’ve pulled out all the stops to cater to their customers (since nothing else really works) and have decided to have a wall section dedicated to movies to watch while you’re high. No doubt a large percentage of movie renters here come stumbling in grabbing random comedies and popcorn, sour patch kids, etc.

The word “High” got half cut off, but you can still make it out.

Livin the High Life at Hollywood Video

Livin the High Life at Hollywood Video

So props to Hollywood Video, even if it is the direct result of stoned customers not being able to find the movies they’re looking for and the staff being completely sick of helping them. Good stuff.