I blame goddamn NPR for making me want to buy the new Gnarls Barkley

MCR is responsible for me discovering/liking Gnarls Barkley. True facts.

Oooooh -- interesting synchronicity.

Am I crazy for seeing the similarity to the lead singer of MCR?

No... but you might be crazy and RISKING HIS LIFE by pointing this out.

Um, I mean, "no, that is a perfectly reasonable observation, Stephanie"

There's the ever-growing mild embarrassment at the antics of the younger fans. Screaming "Marry me!" (or other things), stampeding and mobbing the band? Not Cool. The band members are human, and don't want to be swarmed.

Heh. At the Ivy League show I was teasing of the guys about that when we were talking about Cobra's upcoming toure, "Looking forward to the shrieking, aren't you?"

There's the knee-jerk defensiveness you might develop when you mention you're a fan of one of these bands. People will mock you for listening to teeny music. People who have probably never listened to anything by the bands will make insulting and derisive comments about how they know the bands suck. Whatever. The energy and enthusiasm I have experienced at MCR shows is amazing.

I generally say "I listen to music I'm way too old for." Which is bullshit, but then they laugh and we change the subject.

I generally say "I listen to music I'm way too old for." Which is bullshit, but then they laugh and we change the subject.

Yeah, I usually say something like "My inner 16 year old music fan isn't very inner."

WTFF?

Joy Division limited edition Microsoft Zune.

The energy and enthusiasm I have experienced at MCR shows is amazing.

Seriously, it's almost unreal how amazing it is to see them in concert.

I blame goddamn NPR for making me want to buy the new Gnarls Barkley

I actually like the new Gnarls Barkley a lot better than the previous album, fwiw.

Any Chicagoistas want to see Iron & Wine tomorrow night? My friend had to cancel, so I'll probably have to go by myself.

There's the knee-jerk defensiveness you might develop when you mention you're a fan of one of these bands. People will mock you for listening to teeny music.

I generally say "I listen to music I'm way too old for." Which is bullshit, but then they laugh and we change the subject.

I totally wouldn't have thought that MCR was teen-y music. Of course, that's due largely to the fact that I'm suck back about a decade ago, when teen-y music was Backstreet Boys et al. Or 2 decades ago, in the heyday of Tiffany and Debbie Gibson.

MCR seems so different from those bands that they just don't seem "teen-y" to me.

Anyone like Sia? I'm totally obsessed with her recent album, Some People Have Real Problems. She's probably most famous for "Breath Me", which I guess was played at the end of the Six Feet Under series finale? Anyway, that's on Colour the Small One, which I just downloaded yesterday, and like OK so far. Also, her cover of "Paranoid Android" (from the Radiohead tribute album) is awesome.

Those are the two songs I know of hers, tommyrot. Heh. I also have a Zero 7 song she did the vocals for.

WTFF? Joy Division limited edition Microsoft Zune.

I know! It's been funny seeing various blogs do artists'  renditions of what it might look like.

Dance, dance, dance, dance, dance to the digital music playing device

Heh.