Okay, so I decided against my better judgment to look up AMVs.  It's been awhile, so I thought "why not?"  Well, here's why.  I like to watch AMVs that are 1) funny or 2) poignant and emotional.  I'm kinda down so I'm thinking category 2 is the better choice.  Don't judge me, I just sometimes feel better by being reminded that the imaginary lives of fictional characters in completely impossible situations suck more than mine.  So yeah.  Back to the primary rant.  One of my favorite anime series, X, or X/1999, (not the movie for God's sake!) is appropriate what with the whole homoerotic end of the world thing.  It's like Evangelion without giant humanoid robots and a slightly smaller death toll.  Well, I guess a lot smaller since in Evangelion (SPOILER ALERT) everyone dies.  Except two people.  And people didn't die, they turned into Orange Fanta.  (Fanta, fanta, doncha wanna wanna OH DEAR GOD IS THAT REI?  AND WHY IS SHE A MARSHMALLOW!?  AND GIGANTIC AND NAKED???)  But the Absolute Terror Fields are similar to kekkai (spiritual barriers designed to prevent combat from having a negative effect on the world.  Dragon Ball Z could learn from this concept).  Anyway.

I go to youtube (of course) and innocently enough type in X/1999 amv.  Sounds good, right?  Well, because the anime is more below the radar these days, the few amvs that had been done involved the two worst musical groups ever: Linkin Park and Evanescence. 

I swear to God, someone decided to put together a "How to Make a Sucky AMV" tutorial that has as it's first instruction 'pick a song by one of these shitty musical groups.  And it's not just X.  Dragon Ball Z, Bleach, Naruto, Full Metal Alchemist, and dear God even Sailor Moon.  No anime is safe from these douchebag "fans" who think it's okay to set good anime to music that isn't as good as Mozart's farts.  And those of you who know my opinion of Mozart will realize the true gravitas of that statement.  I don't care that Evanescence has their good points, the bitch vocalist sounds like a goat.  I actually want to put her in a trio with Celine Dion and Shakira and call it Three Goats.  Yes, I think they ALL sound like goats.  I don't give a flying high altitude fuck if the arrangements are good, they still sound like shit.  William Hung singing the 4th movement of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony will suck because it's William Hung and even Beethoven can't save him.

My point (I'm not entirely clear if I ever really had one) is that it should be illegal for people to use Linkin Park or Evanescence music to make AMVs because they just make good anime shitty and it's just plain lazy.  Come on people pick some good music!!!