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Old 11-19-2013, 04:51 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Also, here's a list of emoish bands that I have listened to that I can't get into. I haven't listened to much by any of them, so feel free to try and change my mind by giving me suggestions or posting a youtube video to listen to:

-Mineral
-old Jimmy Eat World
-American Football
-Hey Mercedes
-Cap'n Jazz
-Whirr/Whirl
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Old 11-19-2013, 08:26 PM   #2 (permalink)
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Old 11-20-2013, 03:08 AM   #3 (permalink)
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Trollheart and Ki, thanks. Glad to be here in journal land.

One of the first emo bands I listened to was The Movielife. At the time, I was a pussy and dealing with a rough break-up in the early years of my college education. So I was sulking in my dorm room, using some Napster rip-off that my college endorsed and let us download from, when I stumbled upon The Movielife. I remember it was one of the 'recently downloaded' albums on the server or whatever, so I queued it to download without really knowing much about the band.

Turns out, the first song I heard from them was able to capture my pussy feelings pretty much perfectly. Here was the song:



My 19 year old self was like "Hey, hopefully in a few weeks I can feel this way" while downing 40 ounce hurricanes and stumbling through the dorm trying to avoid my RA. Basically the song is about being with someone and having wild, rough sex, then breaking up, and making up to be friends... My interpretation anyways. Of course it didn't work out that way. We got back together, had bought an apartment together, got a labrador, eventually had 2 kids in white suburban America, and listened to a lot of Top 40. She cooked and cleaned and I did yardwork and car repairs and we are living happily ever after to this day.

Just kidding, she started fucking a football player and I started pounding the pud of some freshman volleyball player. We eventually met up at Panera bread, then she came to my place 2 weeks later and we had wild sex, then we just let things deteriorate into a lot of bitter feelings and drunken phone calls I don't remember well. Haven't talked in a few years.

By the way, if you are about to tell me that The Movielife is actually pop-punk or whatever, please cram your laptop directly up your ass, jabroni. So moving on, I was listening to The Movielife for a few weeks until I found Alkaline Trio. Back in the day, I would wait until 3AM when the music videos came on MTV and VH1 and watch them all night out of a mixture of insomnia and lack of self discipline. I heard "Time To Waste" and thought it sounds pretty cool.

So I downloaded what I thought was Alkaline Trio's greatest hits CD, called Remains. Turns out, it's actually some weird collection of b-sides, EPs, and international releases. Not that it matters, it still rules. It had the uptempo rhythm I was looking for with a lot of really dark lyrics. Time to Waste, probably their biggest song to date, wasn't a very good predictor for what I would find within their other material. Their older stuff is especially punkish and noticeably less poppy.




I quickly became addicted to their sound and jammed to their first 3 CDs pretty much constantly. Everything after that is kind of hit or miss and much more poppy and less dark. Some of it kinda sucks but their old stuff, especially the Goddamnit and The Alkaline Trio CDs always have a place in my heart. I still relate a lot to the depressive alcohol-fueled lyrics.

Matt Skiba, their lead singer, also has some incredible solo stuff (if you check out his other bands, Heavens and Matt Skiba and The Sekrets, you will want to drown yourself). Maybe I will post some Skiba solo stuff another time but it's worth checking out. Alkaline Trio seems to be a nice bridge between pussy emo stuff and harder bands.
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Old 11-20-2013, 02:26 PM   #4 (permalink)
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Since I'm not always great at segways... Fuck all this bullying shit. I feel like parents in this country are consciously making an effort to turn their children into complete vaginas. Pretty soon the penises of young boys will start falling off and their bodies will regenerate big floppy twats in their places by the time they have reached middle school. A few weeks back, some kid's whiny mom tried to castrate him by filing a 'bullying report' because his football team lost by too many points.

I really do long for the days when I could call sit at my computer while eating a turkey sandwich and call someone a fag or go kill themselves without worrying their gonna go down a bottle of bleach or turn their belt into a makeshift noose. But, we're at that point in society unfortunately and this story really struck a chord with me. Maybe because I played sports, maybe because I hate pussies, I can't be sure why. Sure, the team lost by 91 points, but at what point do we teach a kid the value of competition.... the value of learning to lose. Hell, my football team sucked the world's fattest cock. We didn't win a game my junior year, but nothing even came close to approaching a 91 point ass beating. But I understand why this team gets shat on if their whole team is comprised of kids whose parents are the type to file a bullying report for a loss. Practice running some routes, or tackling, or anything. Was this a blind school? I didn't even check. I hope it was.

Just wtf is up with bullying recently anyways. It's like the new trendy buzzword that everyone can get pseudo-offended by. There's even commercials for it. I want my future son to kick ass if he's bullied, not go tell a teacher. I remember my high school had a "no-tolerance" violence policy, and many other schools do too. So even if you defend yourself, you get suspended. Fuck these pussy rules. I got bullied one time and I put the kid in a submission leg lock, ripped his leg from his body, gnawed on it, used his blood as sauce, then took a dump on him before merrily strolling my way to the principal's office to get my suspension notice. Except when I got there she blew me first. The world needs more people like me.

It's even going on now with GROWN MEN. The pussyitis disease has spread to our adult males too. And not even the flamboyant fashionista limp-wristed ones. I am talking this garbage that's going on with the Dolphins where an offensive lineman got kicked off the team for 'bullying' a 300+ pound professional athlete. Then today, I flip on ESPN as usual and some random player for Rutgers is saying he left the team because the coach was too mean. I guess he wanted the following pregame speech before the big game: "Ok guys, lets go out there and play hard today. And if we don't win, at least you did your best! Even if we get blown out by 50, we can still go get crazy vanilla ice cream afterwards! Extra large waffle cones for everyone!!!" Excuse me while I slowly remove this pistol from between my teeth but what the hell is going on here?
As usual I agree fully with what you are saying. TO make it personal I will add this...I was bullied a ton as a kid. Did I like it, **** No. Did it make most of elementry, middle, and high school absolutely awful...yes. But if it wasnt for that I would never have learned to stand up for myself. I realize now that how people treat you is up to YOU not THEM, if you demand respect you will get it. If some parent or someone had stepped in every time I got bullied and treated me like the little pussie I was I would not have turned out as well as I think I have today.

edit: I would like to add however that as DJ said bullying on the internet has gotten way out of hand. Although it would seem most cases are because the original person was a complete moron. Take for example the girl who dressed up like the boston bombing victim. Sure people should not have started threatening her life and sending her nudes all over the internet and to her house....but if she wasnt an absolute retard in the first place that would have never happened. It isnt like totally innocent people are getting bullied to that extreme.
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It isnt like totally innocent people are getting bullied to that extreme.
Totally innocent people are getting bullied to the extreme. There is a reason why they are committing suicide more and more.

I've heard about a few stories over the past few months of girls killing themselves over death threats from their peers that followed them from school to online.

The girls end up getting arrested that did the threaten and parents have that same mentality that buttface and batty has where they think their kids didn't do anything wrong and that kids these days need to toughen up. STFU and discipline your own children. I feel like they should be held accountable for the actions of their children. Take it to the extreme and jail the parents as well.
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Your journal makes me wanna listen to some of these bands (Despite not being able to watch the videos due to being on my 3DS), particularly the Alkaline Trio and The Movielife. Too bad there's probably not a decent place to go find their music in this state, unless there's a mystical CD store I don't know about. Anyways, yeah, excellant job!
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Your journal makes me wanna listen to some of these bands (Despite not being able to watch the videos due to being on my 3DS), particularly the Alkaline Trio and The Movielife. Too bad there's probably not a decent place to go find their music in this state, unless there's a mystical CD store I don't know about. Anyways, yeah, excellant job!

I feel kinda lame listening to The Movielife. They give a more teenage feel to handling girl problems or whatever. But Alkaline Trio is really timeless to me. Matt Skiba shredded his vocal chords over the years with his aggressive singing style and their last 2-3 albums have been noticeably more poppy. They've lost their punk style roots over the years, but I will always think their first few albums are titties. The depressive, alcohol fueled lyrics don't feel like forced poetry shart like a lot of music (even bands I like). It feels less woe-is-me and more fuck this shit.



Speaking of Alkaline Trio, their lead singer is Matt Skiba. For those not in-the-know, Skiba has been in a bunch of side projects. Most notably, or not-notably because they blow fat cocks, Heavens and Matt Skiba and the Sekrets. Don't listen to either, it will taint your image of him. It's like watching Jordan ball for the Wizards or Jerry Rice's skeleton run routes for Seattle. It's painful.



But, his solo stuff owns. In 2002, (thanks Wikipedia) Skiba released this Split CD thing with Kevin Seconds from 7 Seconds (eh, he's alright). Skiba has 5 songs on it, and every one is killer. The bassist/occasional singer from Alkaline Trio has a weird voice, kinda lispy. So his pussy-ass isn't in the solo stuff. Here are my two favorites from the Split.

In Your Wake


Song about kicking heroin:

Good Fucking Bye



There was a bunch of stuff the past few weeks I thought about posting here that I found contributed to the Pussification of America, but I'm tired. Also just a lot of ridiculous bullshit from feminists, vegans, etc. I was kinda hoping more people would be up-in-arms about the Jameis Winston rape situation so I could make fun of them, but feminists seem relatively intelligent on that issue. Got the next few days off, expect more updates this weekend. I know you are all eagerly waiting with your asses barely on the edge of your seats.
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Today I had the unfortunate circumstance of taking my car for inspection, which it failed miserably. I could have laid $350 in my toilet and watch it swirl away with my turds, but at least I have a safer car now. The most unfortunate part was that I was stuck at the mechanic for a few hours since I didn't have a ride and didn't know when he would be finished. I walked to get food, but came back and flipped on their little 22 inch TV in the waiting area to kill some time.

Basic cable. Those peasants. I had the brain-racking decision between QVC, Paternity Court, or Dr. Phil. Paternity Court gave me some lols, but I felt like I was cheating on a certain Judge Judith Sheindlin, which led me to the beginning of a Dr. Phil episode. There were 2 parents on stage, with their hott, busty, blonde daughter between them. It piqued my interest despite the fact she was 16. I wanted to see what this little hoe had to say, though it was regrettably not on Jerry Springer. Basically, she was a pill popping slut who got expelled from school, liked fighting, and dated 28 year old guys. Man, some guys have all the luck.




So, as usual, everyone is telling their sides of various stories while the crowd 'ooo's and ahhh's' every few minutes to show signs of life. Snap to a few quick-cuts to crowd members shaking their heads or laughing at a lame Dr. Phil dad-pun. It was everything I remembered from watching Dr. Phil with my gram 7 years ago. Basically, the mom cheated on the Dad, who she said abused her. The daughter told a bunch of likely exaggerated stories about trying to kill herself 40 times, her father abusing her, doing meth at age 11, etc. She actually managed to take a story about attacking her Dad with scissors and make herself the victim. I could tell she had a Tumblr blog.


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But I'm watching this all go down, and Dr. Phil is being such a blowhard. The Dad was like "I never touched anyo-" and Phil interrupts with "That's a lie!" Cue crowd applause. At one point he told the crowd that a mother is a young girl's most important role model, then very awkwardly stared at the mother until the crowd felt uncomfortable enough to laugh 10 seconds later. The entire segment was so ridiculous. But mainly I couldn't help but feel a level of rage towards Dr. Phil that I don't usually feel towards people. I had to get up and go smoke a cigarette at one point to contemplate my existence in a world where he routinely packs his studio with his minion-retard-fans who actually think this guy knows what he is talking about. The segment ended as they were handing me a bill for their services. She got put in some stupid group home which was "specifically designed to handle these type of situations." Whatever. I hate seeing his face. I hate his voice. Why are my jimmies rustled?


Well now I feel obligated to shoehorn some music into this shitty update. I was clicking around trying to find bands that seemed to fit the bill of my music tastes. I found this song:



I thought it sounded pretty sick. Checked out a handful of songs by Sense Field and realized they were all fucking ghey. They were all like Dashboard Confessional-ish. Way too soft and sappy for me.

So then Rezz was playing Chevelle in Plug and we had talked about Chevelle in Plug a few weeks back. See, I had this room mate. We will call him Doug since that's his name. Doug was the type of guy who couldn't have a good night if he didn't pick up a chick. He had a nice routine of stumbling into our place at 3AM without a random slut, blast Chevelle from the living room speakers and smash beer bottles in our kitchen. Ah, college.

Eventually he found a random slut named Pam. She was a very top-heavy Mexican chick who had a bush (lol). Overall pretty cool chick though and her and her friends started coming around a lot. But then she started coming around drunk like every night to **** Doug, who was a lanky, pasty, and had one of those beer bellies that looked like a starving Ethiopian on his wiry frame. So the soundtrack to their fucking became Chevelle blasting through his speakers. Whether through that experience or through other means, I started to really like Chevelle. I never really dug too deep into their catalogue but always liked the songs I've heard.




First song I heard by Chevelle because it was in Madden.
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If you want to dig into their albums then listen to "Wonder What's Next" then "This Type of Thinking (Could Do Us In)" the clincher is on that album and then Sci-fi Crimes!! Love Sci-fi crimes.

Apparently they released an album in 2011 but I haven't heard it yet so I can't co-sign for it but definitely check out those three and get back to me with what you think.
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If you want to dig into their albums then listen to "Wonder What's Next" then "This Type of Thinking (Could Do Us In)" the clincher is on that album and then Sci-fi Crimes!! Love Sci-fi crimes.

Apparently they released an album in 2011 but I haven't heard it yet so I can't co-sign for it but definitely check out those three and get back to me with what you think.
After listening to Chevelle for years I have come to like SFC the most. And the album you mean is my guess Hats Off to the Bull, also amazing. They did release a greatest hits with a few unreleased tracks but they are god damned due for a new album. The wiki says they are recording it currently.
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