I want to thank everyone that’s been reading these things and showing me love for expressing myself outside of rapping and just plugging what I’m doing all the time.
With that said, its a new year and if you’re even halfway semi-popular or in the music industry you’ve been getting a thousand emails and text messages that read “Happy Holidays and Happy New Year” and all that. I’m just gonna say it. Generic holiday mass email wishes may SEEM sincere but am I supposed to respond to every one of them? Someone accused me of being cold and standoffish because of my reply that read, “Thanks, same to U!” I could’ve sworn I nailed it. Maybe I’m the only jerk that didn’t get unlimited text messages on my cell phone or maybe typing on that thing is more bothersome than my blackberry…either way I guess it’s just me that doesn’t send holiday greetings to my whole email list with hopes that everyone will return the favor with a minimum two sentence response.
Truthfully I’m not even mad at those, they’re nowhere near as funny as the emails, calls and just over all convos that will surround the topic of this year being THEE year. “No more playing games! ‘09 is mine! This year I’m taking over!” I know…I know. I got it. This year is different. I understand. We all should have a positive outlook on the future but does anyone remember last year’s new year’s resolution? I said I was going to drop 12 CDs. What a bright idea I had, only to have some of them go under the radar and spark a marketing tool for rapper “so and so” to use this year. Great! But for real, around February are you still talking about what you pledged on December 31st of the previous year? The exercise regimen…the diet plan…the church visits…the fidelity pledge. Just claim to have good intentions and save yourself the added new year pressure.
Is it me alone that gets annoyed by the term “Happy New Years” when it’s only ONE New Year? There’s New Year’s Eve and then there’s the New Year, but happy new years would mean that there’s a whole bunch of new ones. I’m a dick.
And can someone tell me the date the actual New Year greetings end? If the 1st time we speak or see each other for the year is around Martin Luther King’s birthday, do we ignore that holiday and say “Happy new year my dude!” or do we say both? Or can I just skip it since the year is a few weeks old now? I think the 18th should end the New Year slogan for everyone. By that time if you haven’t sent a holiday shout out, I believe it’s expired. People have actually said to me “Yo you didn’t even wish me a happy new year.” So in October when your year isn’t going so good the reason will be my neglect to throw that wish at you I’m sure.
I used to be a phone person but I’ve realized I’m not anymore. So the fact that I’m complaining about text messages when I would much rather read a salutation than hear one on the phone is beyond me. If you ever want to make yourself laugh a little bit, when you’re on the phone with someone you’d rather not speak to just hang up on them in the middle of the convo as if you lost your signal. It’s important that you’re the one in the midst of the sentence when you hit the button so it doesn’t seem purposeful. It can be hilarious if you pull it off correctly. Then again that’s kind of mean but if you do it try to mention being on a landline at some point before the disconnect so they really get confused about your signal loss.
Then just send em a text message later that says “Sorry, I lost my signal, I’ll call back later.” And maybe throw in a “Happy new years!” with the ‘s’ on it. That will really piss them off.
-The Present
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