What Is WRONG With Wisconsin?! The Ridiculousness Of Job Hunting

This blog was originally published on Xanga March 26, 2013.

 

Hey Xangans! Both on and offline, I have discussed how ridiculous it has been trying to find a job a lot throughout the last 7 years. 

The last time I worked was 4 1/2 years ago. Throughout my early to late 20's, I have struggled to find temporary to permanent work. 

Growing up during the 1980's and 1990's, I was ALWAYS told "Stay in school, don't be a fool," and if I attended college, I would be wealthy, have a better career, and an education.

Well, here I am at 30 going on 31 years old. My BA is in Asian Studies and my Minor is in Creative Writing. I attended a prestigious college YET  have little to show for it. 

My chapbook is bound at a supposed Mid-Western "Ivy League College." That same college has also been listed in The Princeton Review. 

Nevertheless, my student loans have been in deferment, since graduating in 2006. I was supposed to study abroad in Japan my college senior year but fell ill, during my last semester. I purposely attended college to pursue a career in Writing and Japanese Consecutive Translation.

In 6th grade, I was introduced to Japanese and took it, throughout 7th-12th grade. During all 4 years of high school, I earned Achiever's Awards for taking Japanese. Our Japanese teachers considered me to be the "star pupil" of Japanese classes.

In addition, classmates had a great resentment towards yours truly for always getting 3 Japanese Awards each year and for usually breaking our classroom's curve. They nick named me "The Curve Breaker" for this very reason. That's not including being a female of color.

Before graduating, we regularly translated English to Japanese and vice versa. Because I was 1 of 2 classmates with the ability to translate both languages, I considered pursuing a career in Translation. Then, I thought about how much I enjoyed writing poems and short stories.

Eventually, I researched colleges, which offered degrees of my personal interests. There were several colleges 12 years ago, offering Japanese and Creative Writing.

After conducting additional research on these specific colleges, I realized that most of those institutions annually ran ~$30,000 for tuition and fees. This made me feel hesitant.

My mother didn't have money to put me through college. This led to me applying for financial aid, which allowed me to take out student loans and grants. I never wasted time applying for scholarships.

Besides the fact, that students can easily lose their scholarships all because of a slightly dropping grade point average, I didn't want to be like all the other entitled students, depending on scholarships to get into college.

It was already outrageous enough constantly hearing racist stereotypes and jokes about minorities getting into college because of Affirmative Action and for playing Sports. Instead of doing any of that, I took baby steps.

To get better acquainted with college, I attended a 2-year community college (MATC) for 1 year my college freshman year. 

Then, I transferred to my first 4-year college, which was UW-Parkside located in Salem, WI. Originally, the university claimed they offered Japanese. 

After transferring to Parkside, Admissions told me that I could take Japanese at Carthage, which is literally 5-10 minutes away from UW-Parkside. 

If Parkside did not claim in their course catalog, that they offered Japanese, I would've completely transferred to Carthage anyway. This led to me doing the Cross Registration Program. 

There was a grandfather's clause between both UW-Parkside and Carthage College. 

As long as the student was enrolled full-time with at least 12 credits, the same student could freely attend the other college for additional credits.

Fundamentally, I juggled two 4-year colleges at once and attended 3 colleges within the same year; I started college at 19 years old and was on my 3rd college at 20.

Shortly after transferring to both UW-Parkside and Carthage College, I became a College Radio DJ/Hostess for my own radio show, All Things Frightening. I wanted to be a DJ, since 14 years old. Luckily, that dream position fell into my lap.

While doing my laundry in UW-Parkside's Ranger Hall Dorm, I met this guy in the campus laundry room. He told me, that he was a Radio DJ searching for a "Special Guest Co-Host" for his show. Gradually, I took him up on his offer to be his "Special Guest Co-Host."

Then, he made me fill out tons of forms, before co-hosting. His radio show was more of a Sports Talk Show with periodic music. If you're not a Sports fan, you would've thought it was extremely boring.

Eventually, I started complaining on the air. I cannot remember all my exact words 11 years ago, but I remember saying something along the lines of, "Dude, why don't you play Fear Factory or something? All this talking about Sports is boring me to tears! Zzzz!"

His regular co-host was almost in stitches LIVE from laughing at me on air. I was bored out my mind and I didn't care about any Sports discussion. Gradually, they started playing more music.

After their radio show ended that night, I received a phone call 1 week later, on my dorm phone. The manager wanted me to attend a radio station meeting. So, long story short, I became a Radio DJ/Hostess.

At that time, it was SO unreal. I was living 1 of my 3 dream jobs. It would've been so MUCH better, if UW-Parkside's campus radio station went full power because we could've been paid. Being a Disk Jockey was labeled as "Voluntary Work" on campus.

Considering, that we were required to know how to work radio station equipment and censor music live for FCC regulations, we SHOULD'VE collected a paycheck. 

I had a college friend that same year at Parkside, who was paid to be a nude model for $12 an hour yet we weren't paid to know how to work radio station equipment.

Being a Radio DJ/Hostess at Parkside had its advantages and disadvantages. It was cool having total access to a music library of old and new releases, playing songs from any music genre(s) and sub-genre(s) I wanted uncensored and LIVE after 10 pm was fantastic. This included albums premieres, as long as they were either pre-censored albums, or censored on air before 10pm.

Sometimes I ended up hosting DJ Madness, which was during Safe Harbor Time. Safe Harbor started at 10pm and we could play uncensored music. Because songs were being heard both locally and online, we had to censor them. 

DJ Madness was usually, when all the DJ's partied at the radio station, co-hosted, and played uncensored music. Sometimes we ordered in pizza from Papa John's.

On the other hand, my personal disadvantages started outweighing my advantages. I later had to listen to horrible demo tapes.

Being objectified, battling sexual harassment, sexism, misogyny, overblown male egos on the job, post 9/11 racism, and 2 creepy manwhores stalking me around Parkside's campus led to me withdrawing from UW-Parkside 10 years ago. The post 9/11 racism and stalking especially hurt my housing situation.

In order to regroup from being stalked and the post 9/11 racism, during the first 25 days of my original 1st semester of my junior year, I HAD to withdraw from not only UW-Parkside, but also Carthage College.

Within days, I re-applied to other colleges. I dealt with my fair share of rejections from grandiose and pretentious institutions. Later, it dawned on me.

Since I was already a part-time commuting student at Carthage College, I already had an academic standing. This led to me re-applying. Luckily, I was able to convert from a part-time Carthage commuting student to a full-time on campus student.

After transferring again, I failed to assimilate. Parkside had students attending from all walks of life. Meanwhile, Carthage consisted of a few townies, foreign exchange students, and mostly pretentious, new money, and extremely entitled, trust fund brats from IL with grandfather's clauses.

Carthage College originated in Carthage, IL. During the 1960's, Carthage relocated to Downtown Kenosha, WI. I felt as if I was in those John Hughes '80s Teen Angst films like The Breakfast Club and Pretty In Pink, my last 2 years at Carthage. That was how sickening most of the student body was on that campus.

I only miss the cuisine meals, fast food restaurants on campus, very few professors, and meeting comedians and public figures.

The classism and struggling to assimilate at Carthage College made my chances to be hired for campus jobs more difficult. Enduring Baby Boomer white women for gatekeepers working in HR and privileged trust fund brats being immediately grandfathered into working on campus because their family previously attended Carthage was a losing battle before getting started.

Other students I personally knew, including my high maintenance drama queen of a roommate monopolized ALL the student jobs. She alone already monopolized 5 of the campus jobs, when I couldn't get 1 simple job.

She had a 3.99 GPA, double majored in Music, collected disability, grants, and scholarships. This was along with graduating with Honors. She's also white.

Several months before my personal health scare, during the 1st semester of my college senior year, I applied to be an on campus Tour Guide. 

While on my way to a class or buying something to eat, alumini from The Silent Generation, at least several years or so older than my grandparents CONSTANTLY stopped me for on campus directions to certain buildings. 

Otherwise, I was usually the only student on my way to either shop inside our campus bookstore, or to a restaurant, if not going to an office for something.

Some would assume by the time a student became a senior, that he/she would have seniority over student positions. That was NEVER my situation. 

I applied to be a Tour Guide only to be snubbed and overlooked for a freshman.  

WHY WAS THAT? 

Because her mother was a Carthage sorority sister decades ago, she was automatically grandfathered to work at Carthage College.

Based on what I have already told you, I am constantly being overlooked for jobs. It never fails. Regardless of my race/ethnicity, gender, qualifications, etc, I am not the only person suffering from these exact same problems.

We can continue blaming who's the president at the time and the economy, until we are blue in the face. The overall problem is women working in HR. THEY are the gatekeepers.

Whenever I read job classifieds in the newspapers and apply for jobs on and offline, these employers have unrealistic expectations and job requirements. I always read the Clerical position ads from companies and they usually want candidates to have 2+20 years work experience and a GED.

I am amazed by employers at some companies expecting their candidates to know how to use Powerpoint, have a GED, and 2+20 years of work experience. They also expect someone to work at a job, which only pays $7.50-$8.00 per hour. Seriously?

Their expectations are just as bad as a woman dating some bad boy from the trailer park or the hood and expecting him to miraculously have a Ph.D. 

Then again, what am I talking about? Those ARE the same people working in HR, right now!

A lot of companies especially run scams and feed us unemployed people bogus lies. Some of you would be absolutely amazed at the number of job interviews I have attended for certain positions. 

I get ready for a Clerical job interview or something else (depending on the ad). Suddenly, that interview later becomes an interview for a completely different position than what they advertised.

The last "interview" I attended was supposed to be for a Receptionist position, last December. That same company sent me an e-mail about my so-called "group job interview" being scheduled in the evening for a "Promoter position."

I really loved that they included in their message, "IT'S NOT A SALES POSITION. IT'S A PROMOTER POSITION." That line was a total lie. 

Anyone with some common sense knows, that promotions is a part of sales. I called and e-mailed them several times. They would NOT give me a straight answer.

I ended up going to the supposed "group job interview." It was nothing except a group meeting, searching for Door-To-Door Canvassers. 

I told those morons, that I applied for a Receptionist position, as they sat there with their dumb ass facial expressions.

The "meeting" was so preposterous that 2 of the men, who originally sat next to me ghosted without me noticing. There were also 2 girls, who literally ran outside the building, and another guy walked outside the building with a disgusted look on his face, while complaining on his cell phone.

So, my fellow Xangan friends, viewers, and subscribers, has any of this ever happened to you?

Why Do Cartoon Network And Adult Swim Exclude Female Viewers?

This blog was originally published on Xanga March 15, 2013.

 

Hey there my fellow Xangan friends, subscribers, and viewers of my page! I am ready to discuss a long overdue issue, which should've been addressed by on and offline viewers, years ago. 

Cartoon Network as a whole, has gradually become a more sexist channel than it used to be. During the 1990's and early 21st Century, Cartoon Network was meant for viewers of both genders to watch. 

Now, the network has become male-centric, even though the opposite sex has always watched animation regardless. 

Why the sudden change?

It's already bad enough, that Cartoon Network and Adult Swim's male viewers have started complaining about their lousy programming.

During my college senior year nearly 8 years ago, I noticed the programming was starting to suck. Cartoon Network gradually started to sneak Live Action Movies onto a network meant for CARTOONS by 2005. 

I can understand their reasoning for showing Animated and Live Action Movies with some animation in them. However, the moment Cartoon Network began airing Live Action Movies, the writing was already on the wall, so to say. 

Once Live Action Movies were shown, the channel started airing mind-numbingly stupid Animation and Reality TV Shows specifically meant for Cartoon Network's male viewers.

During the mid to late '90s, I didn't spend most of my time watching Cartoon Network. During those years, I mostly watched MTV. MTV had better cartoons, music videos, and reality shows. I was also attending middle and high school. 

Cartoon Network's programming was normally syndicated cartoons from the 1940's-80's. I already watched some of them, 3 decades ago. There was no such thing as Cartoon Network, in the '80s. 

Cartoons used to air on local channels 7 days a week, during the mornings and afternoons. Gradually, those same channels stopped airing cartoons and began airing more Daytime Talk Shows and news programs. 

During the early 1990's, Cartoon Network was niche; It only existed on basic cable in New York City, Philadelphia, Washington D.C. and Detroit. Cartoon Network was also the only cable channel, which aired 24-hour cartoons among Nickelodeon, USA, Disney, and The Family Channel. Cartoon Network didn't arrive on nationwide cable packages, until 1996.

That following year, Cartoon Network launched Toonami. The word "Toonami" is a portmanteau of the words "cartoon" and "tsunami." 

Toonami is supposed to mean a "tidal wave" of animated shows from both America and Japan. In other words, this was an Action Animation Block. 

I didn't start watching Toonami, until 1998. 1998 was when Cartoon Network began airing the Mahou Shoujo (Magical Girl) Anime series, Sailor Moon. 

Since Sailor Moon was a Mahou Shoujo Anime, it was specifically meant for the female demographic and maintained most of its demographic, regarding Shoujo Anime. I never had the chance to watch every Anime Cartoon Network aired. 

Throughout my youth, I was engaged in other activities and shows. Although, I did learn from a few Toonami and Anime fans, that there was another Shoujo Anime. That was Cardcaptor Sakura. 

Cartoon Network mostly aired Sailor Moon, Cardcaptor Sakura, The Powerpuff Girls, and Hai Hai Pafi AmiYumi (a.k.a. "Hi Hi Puffy Ami Yumi") for the female audience. 

Is that pathetic or what? 

There were some unisex cartoons, but for the most part, Cartoon Network mostly cares about the male demographic, and even they are being misrepresented.

Meanwhile, there is Adult Swim. Adult Swim is a separate network of its own, which airs on Cartoon Network and is a bundled network supposedly meant for men. Adult Swim launched, when I was 19 years old.

Originally, I mostly watched Adult Swim's programming for canceled American cartoons, from Fox and The WB. 

In 1999 and 2000, 3 Primetime Cartoons were too controversial to be airing on Fox and The WB at the end of the 20th Century and the beginning of the 21st Century on local networks. Those 3 were Family Guy, The Oblongs, and Mission Hill.

Family Guy, The Oblongs, and Mission Hill all aired on Fox and The WB during my high school junior and senior years. All 3 were soon canceled because they were politically incorrect, morally corrupt, and had sexually explicit content. 

Them having dark humor was a bonus for viewers like yours truly.

By the time I was in my early to mid-20's, I started watching more Adult Swim. The network began airing Family Guy, The Oblongs, and Mission Hill. 

In addition to those 3 cartoons, Adult Swim started airing Shonen Anime such as Scryed, Case Closed a.k.a. "Detective Conan" (Meitantei Conan in Japanese), Crayon Shin-Chan, Code Geass, Death Note, Wolf's Rain, Witch Hunter Robin, Trinity Blood, and Bleach. 

To add more animation to Adult Swim's programming, the network launched their own animated and Stop Motion series such as Robot Chicken, Metalocalypse, and The Boondocks. All of the preceding gave me reasons to watch the network.

Even though some of us female viewers watch all of these Adult Cartoons, they are still meant for the male demographic. Adult Swim only wants to target the male demographic. 

In fact, lately it seems as though they only care about targeting teenage boys. All the while, some don't enjoy watching most of Adult Swim and Cartoon Network's currently airing shows. Those 2 networks are a heaping pile of misrepresentation for both genders young and older, which is a problem.

Now, Cartoon Network and Adult Swim mostly show the MOST mind-numbingly stupid, vapid, and worst live action shows and animation in a bundle. The viewers have complained a plethora of times to them. 

Both networks mostly feed their viewers lies about not airing certain shows and mock their Anime viewers. This is where it gets even better. They claim they are "lowly funded."

Cartoon Network is owned by Ted Turner. Adult Swim is contracted with Williams Street. Williams Street is a division of  TBS (Turner Broadcasting System), which is OWNED by Ted Turner. With that being said, Cartoon Network and Adult Swim are not NEARLY as "lowly funded" as they claim to be. Adult Swim exists in OTHER countries and those same countries have better programming than in America. 

Currently, there is division between both Cartoon Network and Adult Swim's viewers. In fact, viewers are so divided, that it's as divided as Republicans and Democrats in America. Very few male viewers are being represented and the female viewers are completely excluded.

For some reason, it seems like these networks don't believe that female viewers matter. Just because a show for the male demographic has at least 1-4 female characters in it, that doesn't mean the show caters to the female viewers. 

I get the impression, that Cartoon Network and Adult Swim assume us females are engrossed in watching reality shows, soap operas, Twilight, The Notebook, and taking slutty pictures, all the while giving our best duck faces, and posting them on Facebook. 

Last year, I was told many times on fan pages by fanboys, that airing Shoujo Anime on the Toonami block isn't "actiony enough" and that particular Anime genre does "poorly in sales." If that's the case, why do females enjoy watching Shoujo Anime? Apparently somebody is buying Shoujo.

If those working at Adult Swim and Cartoon Network would pull their heads out their asses and tried harder to properly represent both genders, maybe they would realize they could still regain more viewers

How could they succeed in attracting more viewers?

How about buying MORE shows, that BOTH genders like and would most likely watch? Hmm, there's a thought. 

If Cartoon Network and Adult Swim wanted my input, I would GLADLY give it to them. Airing Anime such as Kuroshitsuji (Black Butler), Jigoku Shojo (Hell Girl), Shiki, Special A, Kaicho Wa Maid-Sama, Shugo Chara, Vampire Knight, School Rumble, and Beelzebub to only name a few would be a start.

 They wouldn't have to necessarily run all those Anime at once. They could rotate these series, whenever 1 or 2 of them would end. Most of these titles cater to the female demographic but the male viewers can still watch them. I feel these titles have something for everybody and would bring in more viewership. 

Until then, Cartoon Network and Adult Swim's viewers will remain divided, and the female demographic will continue to be excluded. Therefore, neither network should beg more viewers for ratings, while lying and making excuses to us about it.

Have American Daytime Health Talk Shows Sunk To An All Time Low?

This is blog was originally published on Xanga March 13, 2013.

Hey Xangans! I don't know if you watch any of the Daytime Health Talk Shows on local networks, but I have noticed how pathetic they are becoming. Because I watch The Doctors, Doctor Oz, and Dr. Phil, I have been noticing a few problems recently. 

If these talk shows don't have the latest "trending" celebutards trying to promote their new books, entertainment careers, and/products with their names plastered across them, those same celebutards choose to be "special guests" on talk shows, while pushing their political agendas like good wannabe "political activists."

This most definitely applies to smarmy politicians, that seriously believe they are celebrities. These patterns are becoming more frequent, during the 2012-13 year. 

Aside from those issues, I will get directly to the point of today's blog. Yesterday afternoon, I watched The Doctors. It seems as if CBS and the producers (1 of the producers being Dr. Phil's oldest son), recently launch "TMI Tuesday." 

The Doctors: "TMI Tuesday" (2013)

The episode was dedicated to women with embarrassing questions literally about their genitals. 

Dr. Lisa, who is normally the only female doctor on The Doctors, decided to re-educate viewers (mostly female) about the female anatomy. "TMI Tuesday" had other female doctors as special co-hosts to help re-educate us about the female anatomy.

With self-righteousness, these female doctors preached about parents needing to teach their kids the proper terminology for their genitals, all the while using food as their demonstrations for the female anatomy.

Did you understand the last part of that sentence?

While making my bed, I listened to the first few minutes of the show and their ridiculous attempt to their Sex Re-Education (my term for it). I suddenly looked up and saw them holding an AVOCADO, while they explained the location of the clitoris.  

"Okay, why aren't they using their usual diagrams?" 

That was what I asked myself. I let that part of the "TMI Tuesday" episode slide. 

Eventually, they went to another segment about this lady wanting to get surgery done on her LABIA. Supposedly, she felt insecure and it physically bothered her. 

Here's the absurdity. Another doctor was explaining the labiaplasty procedure by using a ROAST BEEF SANDWICH. I kid you NOT! A ROAST BEEF SANDWICH?! SERIOUSLY?! OH MY GOD!!! 

The moment that doctor pulled out a ROAST BEEF SANDWICH to describe the labia, I could not help simultaneously laughing, rolling my eyes, and shaking my head. Talk about a disgrace! I don't think I will view a Roast Beef Sandwich the same way ever again.

It's understandable that CBS and The Doctors' producers call themselves trying to be "fun" and "innovative," while informing people about their health and anatomy. However, those of us with an IQ and an attention span larger than the size of a gnat were dumbed down as viewers. 

The Doctors also made themselves look like self-righteous hypocrites. This includes losing some of us SMARTER viewers with their joke of an episode by trying to re-educate us women about our "lady parts." That's another issue that irked me and some other viewers to no end. 

All the female doctors kept interchangeably using "vagina," with "vajayjay," "down there," and "lady parts." Talk about patronizing us women as their viewers.

The village idiots, who are in charge of The Doctors at CBS, obviously forgot about last season's repercussions, when they added Jillian Michaels (who happens to be really squeamish about her own anatomy and sexuality) to the show. 

That divisive, loud mouth wreaked so much havoc among the original hosts, that she ran away millions of us viewers, during the earlier part of the last season. 

CBS had to fire Jillian. In fact, some of the original viewers of The Doctors still REFUSE to watch the show again, even though she was fired during the mid-season of last year.

Most of us viewers really enjoyed The Doctors, before they decided to throw in some moronic gimmicks. It used to be a fun and light hearted yet educational Health Talk Show, during the daytime. Since the last season, The Doctors have turned into a joke because their integrity is gone.

Yesterday, I thought I was watching an SNL or Mad TV parody for an early April Fools' Day episode. In the past, the show won a few Emmys because they were watchable. Now, CBS feels the need to air unnecessary half to unknown to has been celebutards, as "special guests" to do testimonials. 

When celebutards are not doing testimonials, they are on The Doctors trying to promote themselves and/share their sob stories with us viewers.

The Doctors reach to incorporate how a celebutard's product or minor problem is something health related. It's annoying, highly insulting, and needs to be stopped. 

Meanwhile, I used to really like and respect Dr. Lisa. Lately, I'm gradually losing my respect for her as a female viewer.

Dr. Lisa needs to stop acting like some desperate, and horny cougar, every time male guests, who are old enough to be her son, appear in her presence on stage.  

It's already bad enough she's a Twerd and a 50 Shades fan, but that's another problem for another time.

Anyway, yesterday's "TMI Tuesday" was an absolute joke!

Have You Ever Watched MTV Icon: The Cure Circa 2004?

This blog was originally published on Xanga March 9, 2013.

 

How's it going my fellow Xangans? I know that I'm super LATE with this topic, but have any of you ever watched MTV Icon: The Cure?  

I can't believe MTV did another MTV Icon back in 2004. I didn't know anything about it! Then again, that was a BRUTAL year for me. 

In 2004, my grandfather died from multiple terminal illnesses. He was the only father figure I ever had. At the same time, I mostly stayed gone from my dorm room. During 2004, I was swamped with difficult classes and had a needy and attention-seeking drama queen for a roommate. 

It was mostly my roommate's cheating boyfriend at the time (he was cheating on my roommate with her divisive friends), their toxic relationship, and his need to monopolize the TV and our dorm room, that gave me reasons to stay gone. 

I was lucky to sit down and watch TV or listen to music, much less get any sleep. Anyway, I digress.

Last year, I YouTubed MTV Icon: The Cure and wasn't that impressed with it. MTV had Marylin Manson of ALL Rock Stars host the tribute. That narcissist did NOT deserve to host a tribute for The Cure. 

He was so patronizing to us viewers and fans. As if Manson wasn't already a grandiose, pompous ass?

His melodramatic antics and feeling the need to say, that he was more into Metal than he was into The Cure was highly unnecessary. Like the typical narcissist, that asshole wanted to make The Cure's tribute ceremony into being about HIM.

Siouxsie Sioux from Siouxsie And The Banshees, Jonathan Davis from KoRn, Jared Leto's 30 Seconds To Mars, Nine Inch Nails' Trent Reznor, Peter Steele from Type O Negative, Bauhaus' Peter Murphy, or any other musician, who was Goth or highly admired The Cure should've hosted the tribute. 

It felt as if Marylin Manson was insulting The Cure and their fans including yours truly, throughout the entire tribute. 

He disguised his insults as jokes from time to time about Robert Smith, his hair, The Cure's music, etc. I understand that Manson was trying to be "witty," but his insults disguised as jokes rubbed more of us viewers the wrong way. I'm not the only fan of  The Cure's, who noticed that narcissist's inflection.

Last year, I read the YouTube comments all throughout the time I watched this 9-year-old tribute that I missed. 

The Mansonites loved it whereas The Cure fans like myself didn't. I don't believe Robert Smith or the rest of the band cared for Marylin Manson's hosting, either.

It was as if Marilyn Manson was mocking The Cure and us fans. Some YouTube posters said Manson was acting like a "douche bag" and I completely agree with them.

Neither did the late Peter Steele of Type O Negative, nor did I have a problem with joking about the Goth Sub-culture, when he wrote the song, "Black No. 1." 

Type O Negative's song, "Black No. 1" was meant to be witty about the Goth Sub-culture and Goth Chicks without being patronizing. 

It sucks that Peter Steele didn't host the MTV Icon: The Cure, when he (Steele) was still alive. 

I'm willing to bet that Peter Steele would've done a phenomenal job compared to Marylin Manson. Peter would not have been melodramatic to the extent, that he was patronizing The Cure and their fans.

The Deftones and A.F.I. were the best Icon tribute performers; Both were fantastic, when they paid homage to The Cure. Every other band's homage sucked ass. We're talking cringeworthy vocalists from shitty Pop-Punk bands like Blink-182, naming only 1 example. 

Who can take a band, that revels in tomfoolery seriously? 

No one in Blink-182 ever had any real singing talent. 

Mark Hoppus and ESPECIALLY  Tom Delonge still dress like 12-year-old skater boys from the '90s with the voices of 12-year-old boys to match. 

I guess I'm being a little harsh. At least Mark sounds like he already reached puberty but I can't say that for Tom, that's for sure. Oh, my ears!

MTV should've had bands such as 311, 30 Seconds To Mars, and other vocalists with singing talent and an appreciation for The Cure to perform covers. 

Undoubtedly, The Deftones gave the best cover performance out the entire tribute for The Cure. 

I am not only saying this because I enjoy The Deftones, but also because the dark tones, the intensity in the band's performance, and Chino Moreno's vocals sounded amazing. 

A.F.I. had the 2nd best cover. Everybody else sucked ass. I think MTV might have chosen to pull the plug, after MTV Icon: The Cure. Marylin Manson's shitty job of hosting the tribute was as terrible as the other performances.

I will admit, I like some of Marylin Manson's songs and can respect him TO AN EXTENT. Otherwise, he needs his ego to be deflated. 

I have never met the man, but he comes across as very abrasive and should stop patronizing everyone. 

Manson can do his "shock value" schtick as much as he wants and more power to him. However, anytime Twiggy quit Manson's band and Dita filed divorce papers on his birthday years ago, it makes me wonder why. I'm just saying.

So, has anybody else ever watched MTV Icon: The Cure? If you want, you can check out this Deftones' cover of "If Only Tonight We Could Sleep."

The Deftones "If Only Tonight We Could Sleep" MTV Icon: The Cure (2004)