The first of many rants

So i have decided to go about blogging in a new way. I mostly write nothing about myself... so maybe i will try it for a while. I used to hate blogger cos all my capitalisations were wrong, and my spelling was bad, but i think i have just noticed a spell checker icon - bonus.

It reminds me of the time someone informed me there was a spell checker on webmail (which i had not been previously aware of) and that i should use it, rather than sending out a cell (a group i lead in college) email each week, followed by 2 more emails correcting spelling mistakes and typos i consequently noticed...

So what do i want to rant about today? Kerrang. So today i was areading John Rawls "A Theory of Justice". Whilst watching music TV. You can do both at the same time right? Mm not so much. Especially not when you have four 3 week old kittens in the house too. Especially when your book is 600 pg long and boring.

Anyway. So i was watching Kerrang and after a couple of hours i had just about enough of Gerard Way telling me he doesn't love me anymore. Ok Gerard! I'm over it! AHHH! Leave me alone! Will they not play anything else! Ahhh! I'm sorry to be mean to everyone out there who <3's face="georgia">I may as well list the other bands i hate:

Muse
Slipknot
Marilyn Manson (though his music videos are *kinda* interesting)
Fall Out Boy
Snow Patrol
Franz Ferdinand
Kaiser Chiefs
The Editors
And any other lame indie rock bands or whiney new-emo loosers. I think there is a whole lot more but i have forgotten (since i couldn't watch music TV this afternoon... grar)

Bands i recently like:

Enter Shikari
Madina Lake (maybe)

Not that i hate emo, i don't. I was recently shocked (actually it was many months ago now...) to discover many of the bands i most love are "emo", but the old kind, not new lame kind. Like Finch, The Ataris, Alkaline Trio, Taking Back Sunday... and a bunch of others.

Maybe i am just harsh. But a lot of it is i really hate how arrogant these new emo kids are. I mean not that they are the only arrogant people out there, but i was at a Finch gig last summer (wait, maybe it was Easter even?) and there was a bunch of 16yr old girls (or so) behind me and my sister in the queue. They were insulting and bitching about everyone that walked past the line who didn't look *exactly like them* with thier emo haircutted straightened hair, black panda-eyes and emo clothes (oh and converse (not to insult converse, i am not anti-coverse, as my feet attest (except for when it rains, converse are the leakiest shoes ever. Grar))) and elitist attitudes. Whether it was a "chav" or a business man or woman, or even a grunger kid, or punk... they were commenting on how they looked and being mean about everyone, and discussing their "random" and "rebellious" lives and how cool they were, and bitching about friends of thiers or people they knew.

It just really hacked me off. When you go to ska punk gigs people aren't like that, they wear what they want and people are laid back and chilled. If you're gonna skank you can't afford to take yourself too seriously! And i'm not saying that emo kids are the only subculture that has an elitist and judgemental attitude about it, not at all. In many ways i was put off getting into rock or punk in the first place as i felt like people were so judgemental, like you couldn't listen to a band or say you liked them unless you'd seen them in concert and had all their albums and the t-shirt and you wore the right clothes and had the right friends... But i have found that it is particular sub-genres that i find most guilty of this unpleasant trait, and the new emo movement i find particuarly guilty of it.


And it's just sad. It's so horrible when kids are mean to each other and excluding just because people are different to them. And it's just so laughable when all these emo kids do is talk about how they are so "different" and "misunderstood" and "alternative", when actually they are so exactly the same as each other it hurts. And when they are confronted with anyone who is actually different from them, they have precisely no tolerance.

So i'm sorry Gerard but i don't love you either.