I don't know of anyone that self-identifies as emo. Probably because the label is flung around a lot as an insult.
Buffista Music III: The Search for Bach
There's a lady plays her fav'rite records/On the jukebox ev'ry day/All day long she plays the same old songs/And she believes the things that they say/She sings along with all the saddest songs/And she believes the stories are real/She lets the music dictate the way that she feels.
I don't know of anyone that self-identifies as emo. Probably because the label is flung around a lot as an insult.
Yeah that's the impression I got recently when I mistakenly attempted to affix that label to a Fall Out Boy song. No "emo" kids were quoted in that icky article and I've never heard someone say, "I am emo."
I read the article and @@, as one would expect.
In most definitely non-emo, non-@@ news, I got to see Eric McFadden play last night. He stepped in on a couple songs for The Kehoe Nation, and was, predictably, awesome. It was like a master class on rock guitar.
I was talking about that article with my mom and quoted her some Fall Out Boy lyrics to try to explain why some (insane) people might think certain music promoted suicide.
The ribbon on my wrist says 'do not open before Christmas'
Mom said "what's so bad about that?"
I said, "he's singing about opening his wrist."
"ohhhhhhh" She replied, "I thought he was giving himself away as a present."
I wuv my mom.
Baltimore-centric post on WFMU's blog.
Baltimore-centric post on WFMU's blog.
Thanks, Tom! Baltimore is very much the Thing right now I guess.
I wound up on Toro's barricade at Madison Square Garden too.
Dude.
God wants me near Ray Toro. This much is clear.
I'm tempted to blow off work for a little while and attend tomorrow's city council meeting because of this proposed ordinance: [link]
ETA: Ha, ordinance tabled. Go team.
Listening to Portishead's Third and suddenly hankering for a version of "Glory Box" that I'd found on Napster way back and have since lost, and I can't find the song again. It's not the live version (Roseland NYC) and it's not the original from Dummy. It was more hard and aggressive. Anyone know of which I speak and where to find it?!
Third is okay, it's Portishead, no doubt, but more of the shrill keening that I liked least about the band, and a dash of Beth Orton, which is okay in it's small dose, and a sad loss of the triphop sampling thing they did that I loved so.