Ticketmaster should be called Thieving Bastards.

I used to call it Ticketbastard. It's just not correct though. They truly are a bunch of thieving bastards. Here's the deal. Wanted tickets to Sparklehorse at Fillmore, a show that's $22.50. I need two tickets. Unfortunately, being at the Fillmore, a great venue that I now rarely attend due to buying tickets through the thieving bastards, the price of two tickets was over $66. Yep, over $66. So tickets, face value of $45, end up costing about 35% more thanks to the thieving bastards. THOSE FILTHY THIEVING BASTARDS! Yep, charging an $8.20 "convenience fee" (over a 3rd of the ticket price) per ticket. That pisses me off on it's own. But these are, as I said, FILTHY THIEVING BASTARDS! So they also feel they can charge a $4.50 "processing fee". Sons of bitches. They really piss me off. So much so I plan to take a trip to San Francisco next Sunday to avoid the fee. Why? Not because it saves money. In fact, it may cost more due to gas, but I suppose I'll try an do something else while I'm up there. It's the principal. If I had the power to send those executives at the filthy thieving ticketbastards to a place of fiery torment (like hell I suppose) I sure would. I mean what the hell is it they do anyway? Sell a ticket! Sell tickets! Wow. Must be high overhead. Yeah, I mean, the band gets paid out of the ticket price, so that's not overhead, but they have a site to run. So that needs to be taken into account... Let's see, a high volume industry... Yeah, why not charge over 1effing3rd of the face value. Why not. Filthy Thieving Bastards. You know they want to charge you to use your computer to print out tickets they charge incredible premiums on already? I guess since your using your time and ink and paper they have to charge extra. What a scam huh? I far prefer tickets.com, they're not angels or anything, but when I buy tickets from them I don't feel like ripping anyone's throat out. These bastards are the biggest reason I have switched to a small venue fan. I mean, it's great to see a show close to the band and all of that, but it's even better to avoid ticket"master". Master bitches. I wish the bigger venues would use Virtuous, or even tickets.com. I cannot support the thieving bastards. May their executives all burn in a fiery place of torment. Burn in a fiery furnace. I like the fiery furnaces actually. I hope that when they come they play a non thieving bastard venue. I must see this Sparklehorse show, and I rerally do love the Fillmore. I just have to usurp ticketmaster's authority. evil evil evil fiends.

the truth of a written word

"a mob of people stood and drank and yelled in your face, looking past your head as you looked past theirs, for relief, for escape, for someone better known or wittier. At a certain point a party was just that: a loud room of coarse static, like a rookery of big frantic birds."
Just a short amusing excerpt from "blinding light", a book by Paul Theroux that I'm not entirely sure I like yet. I loved that little excerpt though, funny as hell that was. You see, it's the first book of read of his, and it's good, though not quite mind numbingly good... You see, I picked the book up after reading a review in some magazine at the dentist office, and since I went to the library and saw it sitting on the new release shelf, I figured I would pick it up. The review was just so glowing. I thought about the glowing reviews I have given certain books and albums and movies, about how much I love them, and how the reviewer must have thought that about this book. The simple truth is I can't give it an affair opinion without further reading. I'm halfway done, and as I mentioned it's a good read so far, but not something I would have touted as a fantastic work. Then again, I am not done, and I don't review anything professionally. So what do I know. I know what I like. Maybe much later in life I'll read a book like this and it will blow me away. Maybe. Right now there is much I prefer, including "serious" fiction, at least I think it qualifies as serious, books and authors I've mentioned before (ie. Bukowski) and books that many people write off as dribble, fantasy novels, graphic novels, highly entertaining and dare I say it occasionally enlightening books that make me feel things that this book just isn't given me. At least right now. I'll finish it up though, and if my opinion changes, I'll give an update. A good book, but...
As far as the wonderfully entertaining goes, Mr. Wu turned me onto "Fables" a fantastic series which I am currently catching up on through the graphic novels, but is still running. I don't think I even need to mention that issue 6 of "Civil War" finally reached the West Coast. It left me wanting ever more the conclusion to come in 7. Semi-spoiler warning: WHY are the X-Men not involved!!! Why is it Wolverine won't break ranks? Seems against his character.
So enough blab.