Top Most Influential Albums

I was nominated by Daniel Cannuli to list my ten most influential albums, it's not an easy task but I will try.

1. The Beatles - Abbey Road
2. Nirvana - In Utero
3. Megadeth - Rust in Peace
4. Pink Floyd - Animals
5. Blink 182 - blink-182 (self titled 2003)
6. Frank Zappa - We're Only In It For the Money
7. Radiohead - Hail to the Thief
8. Between the Buried and Me - The Great Misdirect
9. Roger Waters - Amused to Death
10. Born of Osiris - The Discovery 

UPDATE November 17, 2014

I notice that a few weeks later I do still agree with this list however the order I would put these albums in now would be different.  It changes with what happens in life and the brain chemistry changes even over only a few weeks. Music is extremely emotional experience, and the emotional state of the human mind/brain is constantly changing.

Racism Still A Huge Issue, But What About Bias Towards Homosexuality?

I still see a lot of people (I assume they are gay/lesbian/transgender) putting a lot of effort, expending a lot of resources, money and energy into defending their rights to be gay and be accepted by the public.  Basically, trying to make being gay socially acceptable.  But I think they have won their battle, haven't they?  Maybe it's just the area I live in, which is New Jersey, a Blue State, a good amount of liberals, a lot of Democrats, and a lot of totally clueless people when it comes to politics, who however, do not hate gays and do not care whether gays are socially accepted or not...but they do not make any attempt to try to take rights away from gays, such as marriage, which most states are overwhelmingly in favor of allowing now.

Honestly I think racism is a far bigger problem now than the vilification of homosexuality. The country has come a long way since the 80's to the present time in accepting gays and their rights, especially marriage. It's actually pretty impressive, considering how many ignorant dumbasses (in the case of racism, sexism and hatred of homosexuality, it always seems to be the hardcore Conservative Christians who are the biggest, most violent, hypocritical, ignorant assholes of them all) there are in this country.

Basically, the gay community seems to be doing pretty well, from this (mostly uneducated on the more complex aspects of this subject) heterosexual observer, compared to the racism that many minorities still face, decades after the Civil Rights Movement and many assassinations and also things on the opposite end of the spectrum, where whites and blacks are seen together, working together and getting along.  But racism is still a much bigger problem than the problems homosexuals face on a daily basis, as a whole.

Tl;dr - Homosexuals probably have it a lot easier for the fact that they are homosexuals than minorities do for the fact that they are black/Asian/Arabic/Hispanic/etc...

Favorite Quotes (Part 1)

This is such a brilliant, well thought out observation, by the late and eternally great George Carlin

You know what's interesting about assassination? Well, not only does it change those popularity polls in a big fucking hurry, but it's also interesting to notice who it is we assassinate. Ya ever notice who it is, got to think who it is we kill? It's always people who've told us to live together in harmony and try to love one another. Jesus, Gandhi, Lincoln, John Kennedy, Bobby Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, John Lennon – they all said, "Try to live together peacefully." Bam! Right in the fucking head! Apparently we're not ready for that. Yeah, that's difficult behavior for us. We're too busy thinking around, sitting around trying to think up ways to kill each other.