Some people at my school searched for my blog but found this one. I dont use this one, so I thought I'd give a heads up and a link to my buzznet page, and my active blog/journal there (the one I'm always blabbing about).
Cheers.
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Tuesday, May 1, 2007
How I totally had to pwn another aging agist indie hipster anglophile snob....... again
Yep, this is really funny.
My Chem, Muse make for unusual pairingFROM THE HIPSTER'S VAULT
By CE SKIDMORE skidmore@poststar.comPublished: Tuesday, May 01, 2007
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COURTESY PHOTO My Chemical Romance, above, and Muse roll into the Glens Falls Civic Center on Thursday night. To order copies of staff-produced photos from The Post-Star, please visit http://reprints.poststar.com/.
IF YOU GOMy Chemical Romance with special guests Muse will be at the Glens Falls Civic Center on Thursday. The show starts at 7:30 p.m. and tickets are available for $30.25.As a critic, I'm scratching my head. As a fan, I'm verging on outraged.I'm super-psyched that Muse is coming to Glens Falls. But as second fiddle to My Chemical Romance? Something smells funky.
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Weigh in for yourself.Muse's musicians are epic songwriters with albums that are theatrical and dramatic, yet still relevant on the rock charts. Muse has mastered the European airwaves, earning awards and accolades in the United Kingdom for each of its major label releases. Granted, Europeans have been wrong before. They did plague us with New Wave. But we can also thank them for the Beatles and the Stones. It's a fair trade.Muse songs like "Knights of Sedonia" and "Stockholm Syndrome" make you want to ride into battle, or, at the least, take a powder keg to all your emo albums.Speaking of emo ...My Chemical Romance is another in a long line of bands with black nails and gender-bending haircuts that makes money via desperate song titles like "Vampires Will Never Hurt You" and "Welcome to the Black Parade." Maybe I'm getting old, but these just sound like the grindhouse double-feature at the B-movie multiplex.MCR publicly rejects the term emo. But if it walks like a duck, talks like a duck and whines like a little girl with a skinned knee ... it's an emo duck.
I'm not saying it's a bad band. If you're into that kind of thing, MCR is in the upper echelon. It filled a marketing gap and the kids sure do love 'em. But, brass tacks, Muse is the better band.Civic Center Director Suzanna Bernd calls the concert an "intriguing, eclectic mix." She is almost as perplexed as I am about the split bill. Bernd thinks My Chemical Romance appeals to a school-age crowd while Muse, she said, is "attracting more people my age."They must be doing something right. Can't wait to find out what.
Comment by Wendy:
I'm a HUGE MCR fan and HUGE Muse fan. To me it is brilliant and although people might have trouble hearing similarities between the two sounds, I hear sounds reminiscent of the MC5 and Stardust-era David Bowie that both bands share. Both have big, bombastic sounds and together make a lovely Anglo-American sandwich. Age has nothing to do with it, especially considering the amount of aging hipsters drooling over the arctic monkeys and the amount of teenagers with Dark Side of the Moon T-shirts. Ugh. Agism. It puts my imaginary testicles in a vice.
BTW, how is "I am not afraid to leep on living" (MCR, Famous Last Words) Emo when
"You make me wanna die, you cut my name into my heart" (Muse, Space Dementia) not?
Comment by Wendy
PS: Muse's musicians are not all epic songwriters. Only one of the members actually write the songs-- Matthew Bellamy. Shouldn't you know more about Muse if you're going to write about them? However, all MCR's members contribute to the songwriting. That means by Iggy Pop's standard (and I do hope you know who he is) Muse are not even a real band, whereas mcr are.
"There are no real bands anymore, these days one person has all the talent and there are just a bunch of other guys with similar haircuts"-- Iggy Pop
He said that I believe in the march issue of spin with fall out boy on the cover.
Though technically every member of muse is important and they do not have similar haircuts.
Comment By Wendy:
You spelled Muse's song names wrong too. It's "Cydonia" not "Sedonia."
Seriously, you're not so much bragging about how good muse compared to mcr as you are parodying someone who is bragging about how good muse is compared to mcr. Please stop embarrassing them. It's so pathetic. Far more pathetic than an emo kid. In fact, it's emo. More emo than the grass that cuts itself.
PS: Person who actually left me a comment? You pwn. And your English is better than most native speakers.
-----
I did not have the heart to tell this geezer that I was only sixteen.
I'm sorry, but the concert I went to was one of the most mind-opening, broad, clever, and beautiful shows I've ever seen whether live, on a live video on Youtube, or on a concert DVD. The sounds actually mesh beautifully for the reasons which I stated above. People judge too much on appearances.
But I guess now based on my comments, if everyone who listens to MCR is an emo kid, so is every kid who listens to Muse.
"Everyone's a little but emo/ sometimes/ doesn't mean we go around committing /suicides/If we all could just admit/ that we are emo a little bit/ And everyone stop being so /enraged/ doesn't mean your boyfriend/ is gay"
Cheers
My Chem, Muse make for unusual pairingFROM THE HIPSTER'S VAULT
By CE SKIDMORE skidmore@poststar.comPublished: Tuesday, May 01, 2007
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COURTESY PHOTO My Chemical Romance, above, and Muse roll into the Glens Falls Civic Center on Thursday night. To order copies of staff-produced photos from The Post-Star, please visit http://reprints.poststar.com/.
IF YOU GOMy Chemical Romance with special guests Muse will be at the Glens Falls Civic Center on Thursday. The show starts at 7:30 p.m. and tickets are available for $30.25.As a critic, I'm scratching my head. As a fan, I'm verging on outraged.I'm super-psyched that Muse is coming to Glens Falls. But as second fiddle to My Chemical Romance? Something smells funky.
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Weigh in for yourself.Muse's musicians are epic songwriters with albums that are theatrical and dramatic, yet still relevant on the rock charts. Muse has mastered the European airwaves, earning awards and accolades in the United Kingdom for each of its major label releases. Granted, Europeans have been wrong before. They did plague us with New Wave. But we can also thank them for the Beatles and the Stones. It's a fair trade.Muse songs like "Knights of Sedonia" and "Stockholm Syndrome" make you want to ride into battle, or, at the least, take a powder keg to all your emo albums.Speaking of emo ...My Chemical Romance is another in a long line of bands with black nails and gender-bending haircuts that makes money via desperate song titles like "Vampires Will Never Hurt You" and "Welcome to the Black Parade." Maybe I'm getting old, but these just sound like the grindhouse double-feature at the B-movie multiplex.MCR publicly rejects the term emo. But if it walks like a duck, talks like a duck and whines like a little girl with a skinned knee ... it's an emo duck.
I'm not saying it's a bad band. If you're into that kind of thing, MCR is in the upper echelon. It filled a marketing gap and the kids sure do love 'em. But, brass tacks, Muse is the better band.Civic Center Director Suzanna Bernd calls the concert an "intriguing, eclectic mix." She is almost as perplexed as I am about the split bill. Bernd thinks My Chemical Romance appeals to a school-age crowd while Muse, she said, is "attracting more people my age."They must be doing something right. Can't wait to find out what.
Comment by Wendy:
I'm a HUGE MCR fan and HUGE Muse fan. To me it is brilliant and although people might have trouble hearing similarities between the two sounds, I hear sounds reminiscent of the MC5 and Stardust-era David Bowie that both bands share. Both have big, bombastic sounds and together make a lovely Anglo-American sandwich. Age has nothing to do with it, especially considering the amount of aging hipsters drooling over the arctic monkeys and the amount of teenagers with Dark Side of the Moon T-shirts. Ugh. Agism. It puts my imaginary testicles in a vice.
BTW, how is "I am not afraid to leep on living" (MCR, Famous Last Words) Emo when
"You make me wanna die, you cut my name into my heart" (Muse, Space Dementia) not?
Comment by Wendy
PS: Muse's musicians are not all epic songwriters. Only one of the members actually write the songs-- Matthew Bellamy. Shouldn't you know more about Muse if you're going to write about them? However, all MCR's members contribute to the songwriting. That means by Iggy Pop's standard (and I do hope you know who he is) Muse are not even a real band, whereas mcr are.
"There are no real bands anymore, these days one person has all the talent and there are just a bunch of other guys with similar haircuts"-- Iggy Pop
He said that I believe in the march issue of spin with fall out boy on the cover.
Though technically every member of muse is important and they do not have similar haircuts.
Comment By Wendy:
You spelled Muse's song names wrong too. It's "Cydonia" not "Sedonia."
Seriously, you're not so much bragging about how good muse compared to mcr as you are parodying someone who is bragging about how good muse is compared to mcr. Please stop embarrassing them. It's so pathetic. Far more pathetic than an emo kid. In fact, it's emo. More emo than the grass that cuts itself.
PS: Person who actually left me a comment? You pwn. And your English is better than most native speakers.
-----
I did not have the heart to tell this geezer that I was only sixteen.
I'm sorry, but the concert I went to was one of the most mind-opening, broad, clever, and beautiful shows I've ever seen whether live, on a live video on Youtube, or on a concert DVD. The sounds actually mesh beautifully for the reasons which I stated above. People judge too much on appearances.
But I guess now based on my comments, if everyone who listens to MCR is an emo kid, so is every kid who listens to Muse.
"Everyone's a little but emo/ sometimes/ doesn't mean we go around committing /suicides/If we all could just admit/ that we are emo a little bit/ And everyone stop being so /enraged/ doesn't mean your boyfriend/ is gay"
Cheers
Saturday, March 31, 2007
I Don't Like Being Lied To.
I go to a Catholic School. I actually like my school a lot, strangely enough. But one thing that does annoy me is just how much pro-life propaganda there is. I mean, obviously, there is going to be some, but the extent they push it to annoys me.
I am Pro-Choice.
I hate abortion.
People think that if you are pro-choice, that makes you pro-abortion. I am not pro-abortion. I don't see how I could be. I hate abortion. I think it is one of the worst things a person can go through.
I could never go through with it myself, except in one scenario. I mean if the pregnancy was killing me. That would only be the right thing to do. Better have a potential life die then to have a potential life AND I both to die. Otherwise, I just could not do it. I couldn't. I don't want some doctor sticking their hand or God knows what in me and killing my baby. No. That is revolting to me. Terrible. And if I ever have a friend in a crisis pregnancy, I would say that I think that they should probably have the kid and put it up for adoption. But whatever choice they would make, I would support them. That's what friends are for.
However, I would say it once, and drop it. Leave it up to them. I would not hold it against them if they had it done. I would not show them pictures of dead babies, or scary videos or threaten them. I could never do that.
See, I can only make these sorts of decisions for myself. I won't make them for anyone else.
My uterus, my choice.
I don't want a Doctor with their hand in it. I DON'T WANT THE GOVERNMENT THERE EITHER!
That sort of decision is the worst a woman would ever have to make. No one wants to have an abortion. No one.
But the Government has no right to tell you what to do with it. Especially since the government is mostly comprised of men (though the actual Legislative Electorate is 52% female, the Executive and Judicial branches are in the majority male).
Yes, I believe abortion is icky. Childbirth can be too, but I would have someone to love so fiercely and completely that (while I don't have a kid, so I don't pretend to know first-hand, but this is what I believe from the accounts of those who do) it would be more than worth whatever pain I would or could ever go through. But I can't speak for every woman. I won't. I refuse. And for any person to try to make that decision for someone else is disgusting to me.
But, I stopped getting pissed whenever I saw all those stickers and shit in our school. They have a right to believe what they want. And it does not really affect me that much. With or without the stuff they throw at us, I would feel the same way. They are not telling us we are going to Hell if we have one. Overall, I think they go about it in a somewhat mature fashion. While they do go overboard sometimes, they do it with a little dignity. Their pro-life stuff mostly was just having a few post-abortive mothers come in and talk to us about their guilt.
I even got a kick out of my current morality teacher's attitude towards abortion. She had stickers on her wall that say things like: "IRRESPONSIBLE MEN LOVE ABORTION!!!" "ABORTION: A WORTHLESS MAN'S BEST FRIEND!" "REAL FEMINISTS DON'T RIDE ON THE BACKS OF DEAD BABIES!" "WOMEN DESERVE BETTER THAN ABORTION!"
Talk about the most castrating pro-life stuff ever.
And as she will tell you "I'M A FEMINIST FOR LIFE!"
Now, I do get annoyed when she calls pro-choice people "pro-death." That's annoying.
Or when I got that note in Spanish on the "Silence Against Abortion" day (someone noticed I was talking), it said "You kill babies and you're going to Hell!"
I responded by drawing a picture of a wire hanger and handing it to the person who gave me the note. Under it, it said, "I don't remember doing that, but I do remember my grandmother telling me about finding this sticking out of her friend in the forties because abortion was not legal. So instead of one 'life' gone, it was two lives."
Strange thing is, I don't remember killing any babies.
Anyways, this quarter in Morality, we have to do projects on abortion. Now, usually this is done in partners. When we were told this, I felt relieved. That meant I could do the research and not have to write or say a single thing. My partner could do that.
Except there was an odd number of students in my class. And guess who my teacher decided would work alone because they "were the only one in the class who can think for themselves"?
Moi.
Otherwise the class is like a philosophy class. And I'm the only one who actually can argue with my teacher and follow what she says.
But I digress.
So anyways, my topic was abortificacients like the pill. Fantastic.
So anyways, everyone was provided with links on my teacher's site to look up information. I look at these sites.
Then I Google the pro-life stuff. I am shocked at what turns up. I ask my teacher, she says it is real.
I get told by these sites that in every abortion, there is almost a full baby coming out, that it is dismembered and decapitated, its head crushed. I am told they use a vacuum and the woman is always hurt badly and that sometimes the babies survive and are thrown on the roof and eaten by birds.
Okay. I did not believe that fully. I mean sure, some things remotely like that might happen, but not in credible abortion clinics, and not with all abortions.
So I talk to my psychiatrist, Dr. B. Supershrink. Supershrink is a Catholic. Supershrink went to Georgetown Medical School (Jesuit-run). He said the priests were good, holy men who were easy-going. But they would not teach abortion, so there was some other hospital the students were sent to in order to learn to perform an abortion. Supershrink had actually performed them a very very long time ago. He told me about it a couple of weeks ago when we discussing women's rights. Supershrink also told me he used to "baptize" every baby that died just in case. He then went into psychiatrics and became Supershrink.
So with this in mind, I discuss all this with him. I figure when he performed abortions, they were even worse since it was back in the seventies.
He looks at me and says, "No! Not at all! Those pictures you saw are probably fake. An aborted fetus looks like a piece of skin about this big."
Supershrink proceeded to press the tip of his right forefinger to his right thumb to make a space about half the size of a walnut.
"Now partial-birth abortion? Yes, that is bad. Late term abortion? In some cases. But in regular abortions, not at all!"
This of course directly contradicts all the "accounts" from former abortion doctors on these sites.
I trust my experienced Supershrink over these websites.
And trust me; I don't believe everything psych people tell me. In fact, before Supershrink, I had been through five or six therapists/shrinks. I didn't want to go see him at first. In fact, the first time I spoke to him alone, the first words out of my mouth were, "I'm going to be perfectly honest with you, and I was not told I would be seeing you until earlier today. I've been through a million of people already. And I respect you enough to be perfectly honest. The truth is I have no interest in being here."
But I didn't know that he was Supershrink.
I invited him to read my blog last week.
So maybe he's reading this here. If so...
HI DOCTOR B!!!!!!!
He also got me an autographed Christina Ricci photo too. And we lent each other CDs. He gave me a Talking Heads record I did not have and Rumors by Fleetwood Mac. I got him into Muse and MCR.
But anyways, I don't like being lied to. People, whatever your stance is on abortion, good for you as long as you're not shooting people or blowing things up. Or forcing people to do stuff. Or LYING TO PEOPLE! But go march in whatever march you want. If we disagree, fine. You believe what you want. That's how Liberty works.
I don't want the Government sticking its hand in my uterus. The only people who should be in there are the people I decide to create when I am ready to have kids. That's it.
And I do not want to be lied to. I want to learn truth, or I learn nothing. I do not want to swim in ignorance; I want to use my brain well. I want to develop it. Lies stand in the way of that. I will not tolerate people standing in the way of my mental development. I am too young, I have to become smart now or I never will and I will not be deprived of any knowledge or intelligence that I am capable of obtaining.
I am Pro-Choice.
I hate abortion.
People think that if you are pro-choice, that makes you pro-abortion. I am not pro-abortion. I don't see how I could be. I hate abortion. I think it is one of the worst things a person can go through.
I could never go through with it myself, except in one scenario. I mean if the pregnancy was killing me. That would only be the right thing to do. Better have a potential life die then to have a potential life AND I both to die. Otherwise, I just could not do it. I couldn't. I don't want some doctor sticking their hand or God knows what in me and killing my baby. No. That is revolting to me. Terrible. And if I ever have a friend in a crisis pregnancy, I would say that I think that they should probably have the kid and put it up for adoption. But whatever choice they would make, I would support them. That's what friends are for.
However, I would say it once, and drop it. Leave it up to them. I would not hold it against them if they had it done. I would not show them pictures of dead babies, or scary videos or threaten them. I could never do that.
See, I can only make these sorts of decisions for myself. I won't make them for anyone else.
My uterus, my choice.
I don't want a Doctor with their hand in it. I DON'T WANT THE GOVERNMENT THERE EITHER!
That sort of decision is the worst a woman would ever have to make. No one wants to have an abortion. No one.
But the Government has no right to tell you what to do with it. Especially since the government is mostly comprised of men (though the actual Legislative Electorate is 52% female, the Executive and Judicial branches are in the majority male).
Yes, I believe abortion is icky. Childbirth can be too, but I would have someone to love so fiercely and completely that (while I don't have a kid, so I don't pretend to know first-hand, but this is what I believe from the accounts of those who do) it would be more than worth whatever pain I would or could ever go through. But I can't speak for every woman. I won't. I refuse. And for any person to try to make that decision for someone else is disgusting to me.
But, I stopped getting pissed whenever I saw all those stickers and shit in our school. They have a right to believe what they want. And it does not really affect me that much. With or without the stuff they throw at us, I would feel the same way. They are not telling us we are going to Hell if we have one. Overall, I think they go about it in a somewhat mature fashion. While they do go overboard sometimes, they do it with a little dignity. Their pro-life stuff mostly was just having a few post-abortive mothers come in and talk to us about their guilt.
I even got a kick out of my current morality teacher's attitude towards abortion. She had stickers on her wall that say things like: "IRRESPONSIBLE MEN LOVE ABORTION!!!" "ABORTION: A WORTHLESS MAN'S BEST FRIEND!" "REAL FEMINISTS DON'T RIDE ON THE BACKS OF DEAD BABIES!" "WOMEN DESERVE BETTER THAN ABORTION!"
Talk about the most castrating pro-life stuff ever.
And as she will tell you "I'M A FEMINIST FOR LIFE!"
Now, I do get annoyed when she calls pro-choice people "pro-death." That's annoying.
Or when I got that note in Spanish on the "Silence Against Abortion" day (someone noticed I was talking), it said "You kill babies and you're going to Hell!"
I responded by drawing a picture of a wire hanger and handing it to the person who gave me the note. Under it, it said, "I don't remember doing that, but I do remember my grandmother telling me about finding this sticking out of her friend in the forties because abortion was not legal. So instead of one 'life' gone, it was two lives."
Strange thing is, I don't remember killing any babies.
Anyways, this quarter in Morality, we have to do projects on abortion. Now, usually this is done in partners. When we were told this, I felt relieved. That meant I could do the research and not have to write or say a single thing. My partner could do that.
Except there was an odd number of students in my class. And guess who my teacher decided would work alone because they "were the only one in the class who can think for themselves"?
Moi.
Otherwise the class is like a philosophy class. And I'm the only one who actually can argue with my teacher and follow what she says.
But I digress.
So anyways, my topic was abortificacients like the pill. Fantastic.
So anyways, everyone was provided with links on my teacher's site to look up information. I look at these sites.
Then I Google the pro-life stuff. I am shocked at what turns up. I ask my teacher, she says it is real.
I get told by these sites that in every abortion, there is almost a full baby coming out, that it is dismembered and decapitated, its head crushed. I am told they use a vacuum and the woman is always hurt badly and that sometimes the babies survive and are thrown on the roof and eaten by birds.
Okay. I did not believe that fully. I mean sure, some things remotely like that might happen, but not in credible abortion clinics, and not with all abortions.
So I talk to my psychiatrist, Dr. B. Supershrink. Supershrink is a Catholic. Supershrink went to Georgetown Medical School (Jesuit-run). He said the priests were good, holy men who were easy-going. But they would not teach abortion, so there was some other hospital the students were sent to in order to learn to perform an abortion. Supershrink had actually performed them a very very long time ago. He told me about it a couple of weeks ago when we discussing women's rights. Supershrink also told me he used to "baptize" every baby that died just in case. He then went into psychiatrics and became Supershrink.
So with this in mind, I discuss all this with him. I figure when he performed abortions, they were even worse since it was back in the seventies.
He looks at me and says, "No! Not at all! Those pictures you saw are probably fake. An aborted fetus looks like a piece of skin about this big."
Supershrink proceeded to press the tip of his right forefinger to his right thumb to make a space about half the size of a walnut.
"Now partial-birth abortion? Yes, that is bad. Late term abortion? In some cases. But in regular abortions, not at all!"
This of course directly contradicts all the "accounts" from former abortion doctors on these sites.
I trust my experienced Supershrink over these websites.
And trust me; I don't believe everything psych people tell me. In fact, before Supershrink, I had been through five or six therapists/shrinks. I didn't want to go see him at first. In fact, the first time I spoke to him alone, the first words out of my mouth were, "I'm going to be perfectly honest with you, and I was not told I would be seeing you until earlier today. I've been through a million of people already. And I respect you enough to be perfectly honest. The truth is I have no interest in being here."
But I didn't know that he was Supershrink.
I invited him to read my blog last week.
So maybe he's reading this here. If so...
HI DOCTOR B!!!!!!!
He also got me an autographed Christina Ricci photo too. And we lent each other CDs. He gave me a Talking Heads record I did not have and Rumors by Fleetwood Mac. I got him into Muse and MCR.
But anyways, I don't like being lied to. People, whatever your stance is on abortion, good for you as long as you're not shooting people or blowing things up. Or forcing people to do stuff. Or LYING TO PEOPLE! But go march in whatever march you want. If we disagree, fine. You believe what you want. That's how Liberty works.
I don't want the Government sticking its hand in my uterus. The only people who should be in there are the people I decide to create when I am ready to have kids. That's it.
And I do not want to be lied to. I want to learn truth, or I learn nothing. I do not want to swim in ignorance; I want to use my brain well. I want to develop it. Lies stand in the way of that. I will not tolerate people standing in the way of my mental development. I am too young, I have to become smart now or I never will and I will not be deprived of any knowledge or intelligence that I am capable of obtaining.
Wednesday, March 28, 2007
Hello Ladies and Gentlemen, I want to Discuss Agism
Agism.
What I mean by that is prejudice towards someone based on their age.
Now I will say that those who have spent more time on the planet generally do know a bit more than I do. Which is why I listen to what people usually have to say. I also usually question it, or argue, but I do listen.
Now, that being said, that does not mean I should be discriminated against for being a teenage girl. Yes, I am fifteen. But that does not make me stupid or even ignorant in every sense.
I'm going to start with music.
Many times, I have been accused of only listening to music that has been fed to me. That I listen to all the following bands: MCR, TBS, FOB, P!atD, 30stm, AFI, A7x, FFTL, Good Charlotte, Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, HIM, The Used, Aiden, Saosin, Senses Fail, Simple Plan, Green Day, and Nirvana.
Yes, my adoration of MCR borders on obsessive. Fall Out Boy I find adorable and fun. Taking Back Sunday's latest record I like a little, Panic! not anymore, I have a copy of AFI's Shut Your Mouth and Open Your Eyes, and I do own Green Day and Nirvana records
In addition to being told what is on my Ipod, I also get told I know nothing about classic rock music or real punk rock. Okay.
Let me explain why this is a very stupid thing to say:
YOU CAN'T READ MY MIND.
Actually, what you might find interesting is that those who usually brand me as an ignorant teenyboppers are usually indie snobs who's ages range between 17-22.
Adults who are actually familiar with what I actually know and listen to and actually take me seriously when I talk about rock and roll are usually musicians, journalists, and used record store owners ranging in age between 27-65.
And this has nothing to do with my parents. In fact, my dad thinks Iggy Pop is a type of soda.
Now, I know I sound totally presumptuous thus far, so I will explain a little more about me.
I am aware that every kid my age has either a Dark Side of the Moon, Beatles, Rolling Stones, or Ramones t-shirt. However, I don't just listen to your by the books classic rock. I don't just listen to the Beatles, The Stones, Queen, The Ramones, Bob Dylan, The Sex Pistols, Pink Floyd, The Who, AC/DC, Jimi Hendrix, Blondie, Morrissey and the Smiths, Elvis Costello, The Clash, Little Richard, and Fleetwood Mac.
I know bands from way back when that not even people who were in their teenage years at that band's time have heard of. I won't go on a roll or try to brag. I am just stating the fact that my taste in music is not that which is repeatedly marketed to me by Hot Topic or Pac-Sun.
I listen to your basic classic rock, but in addition I also listen to: The MC5, Iggy Pop and The Stooges, The New York Dolls, Patti Smith, Velvet Underground, The Slits, The Talking Heads, Lou Reed, The Damned, Souixsie and the Banshees, Public Image Limited, The Dead Kennedys, Social Distortion, Sonic Youth, The Pretenders, The Pixies, The Manic Street Preachers........................ You get the idea.
I don't pretend to be some kind of rock and roll expert either. I wish I could but I can't. However, I am not an ignorant drone either. I got my old guitar teacher (who is very much aware of my My Chemical Romance obsession) into the Stooges, Patti Smith, and Sonic Youth. This old guy I once met in an airport played guitar with me and when we talked about music, he asked me for some american artists he could look into for his American music club (I was 13). I know a guy who works for my parents who once played with Clapton, and I schooled him on David Bowie records. The old hippie who runs the used record store near my aunt's house (they have the best vinyl, but I can't get it because my dad refuses to listen to vinyl ever again), he actually takes me seriously. A family friend of ours sung for Blue Oyster Cult, and she knows I know my shit. I have gotten people older than me complimenting me on my (though still limited) knowledge of rock and roll.
I don't know shit about metal, and I'm not a "punk." I still am not nearly as well informed on rock and roll as I'd like to be. However, don't tell me I'm ignorant. Don't stereotype me by my age. That has NOTHING to do with it.
I also have decently formed political views which make my dad proud. I also can tell you anything you want to know about the Renaissance, French Revolution, House of Anjou, and House of Tudor. As well as religion, I know a lot about Christianity and religious unrest through history (when I was eleven, my parents and I went to this costume wedding party and I picked out the costumes, some dude asked me if I knew who my dad was dressed as. I replied that he was Henry VIII, that I was Elizabeth I, and my Mother was Katherine Parr. He turned out to be a historian of religious history, and we ended up getting into a long discussion about Thomas More and how much Anne Boleyn contributed to the rise of Protestantism).
Now, I am a stupid kid on almost every point and I have the maturity of a six year old. But don't judge me solely on my age. Or I'll hand you your ass on a platter like I did all those other agists.
What I mean by that is prejudice towards someone based on their age.
Now I will say that those who have spent more time on the planet generally do know a bit more than I do. Which is why I listen to what people usually have to say. I also usually question it, or argue, but I do listen.
Now, that being said, that does not mean I should be discriminated against for being a teenage girl. Yes, I am fifteen. But that does not make me stupid or even ignorant in every sense.
I'm going to start with music.
Many times, I have been accused of only listening to music that has been fed to me. That I listen to all the following bands: MCR, TBS, FOB, P!atD, 30stm, AFI, A7x, FFTL, Good Charlotte, Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, HIM, The Used, Aiden, Saosin, Senses Fail, Simple Plan, Green Day, and Nirvana.
Yes, my adoration of MCR borders on obsessive. Fall Out Boy I find adorable and fun. Taking Back Sunday's latest record I like a little, Panic! not anymore, I have a copy of AFI's Shut Your Mouth and Open Your Eyes, and I do own Green Day and Nirvana records
In addition to being told what is on my Ipod, I also get told I know nothing about classic rock music or real punk rock. Okay.
Let me explain why this is a very stupid thing to say:
YOU CAN'T READ MY MIND.
Actually, what you might find interesting is that those who usually brand me as an ignorant teenyboppers are usually indie snobs who's ages range between 17-22.
Adults who are actually familiar with what I actually know and listen to and actually take me seriously when I talk about rock and roll are usually musicians, journalists, and used record store owners ranging in age between 27-65.
And this has nothing to do with my parents. In fact, my dad thinks Iggy Pop is a type of soda.
Now, I know I sound totally presumptuous thus far, so I will explain a little more about me.
I am aware that every kid my age has either a Dark Side of the Moon, Beatles, Rolling Stones, or Ramones t-shirt. However, I don't just listen to your by the books classic rock. I don't just listen to the Beatles, The Stones, Queen, The Ramones, Bob Dylan, The Sex Pistols, Pink Floyd, The Who, AC/DC, Jimi Hendrix, Blondie, Morrissey and the Smiths, Elvis Costello, The Clash, Little Richard, and Fleetwood Mac.
I know bands from way back when that not even people who were in their teenage years at that band's time have heard of. I won't go on a roll or try to brag. I am just stating the fact that my taste in music is not that which is repeatedly marketed to me by Hot Topic or Pac-Sun.
I listen to your basic classic rock, but in addition I also listen to: The MC5, Iggy Pop and The Stooges, The New York Dolls, Patti Smith, Velvet Underground, The Slits, The Talking Heads, Lou Reed, The Damned, Souixsie and the Banshees, Public Image Limited, The Dead Kennedys, Social Distortion, Sonic Youth, The Pretenders, The Pixies, The Manic Street Preachers........................ You get the idea.
I don't pretend to be some kind of rock and roll expert either. I wish I could but I can't. However, I am not an ignorant drone either. I got my old guitar teacher (who is very much aware of my My Chemical Romance obsession) into the Stooges, Patti Smith, and Sonic Youth. This old guy I once met in an airport played guitar with me and when we talked about music, he asked me for some american artists he could look into for his American music club (I was 13). I know a guy who works for my parents who once played with Clapton, and I schooled him on David Bowie records. The old hippie who runs the used record store near my aunt's house (they have the best vinyl, but I can't get it because my dad refuses to listen to vinyl ever again), he actually takes me seriously. A family friend of ours sung for Blue Oyster Cult, and she knows I know my shit. I have gotten people older than me complimenting me on my (though still limited) knowledge of rock and roll.
I don't know shit about metal, and I'm not a "punk." I still am not nearly as well informed on rock and roll as I'd like to be. However, don't tell me I'm ignorant. Don't stereotype me by my age. That has NOTHING to do with it.
I also have decently formed political views which make my dad proud. I also can tell you anything you want to know about the Renaissance, French Revolution, House of Anjou, and House of Tudor. As well as religion, I know a lot about Christianity and religious unrest through history (when I was eleven, my parents and I went to this costume wedding party and I picked out the costumes, some dude asked me if I knew who my dad was dressed as. I replied that he was Henry VIII, that I was Elizabeth I, and my Mother was Katherine Parr. He turned out to be a historian of religious history, and we ended up getting into a long discussion about Thomas More and how much Anne Boleyn contributed to the rise of Protestantism).
Now, I am a stupid kid on almost every point and I have the maturity of a six year old. But don't judge me solely on my age. Or I'll hand you your ass on a platter like I did all those other agists.
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