Buck's Entry
Alot of people like to call me a jackass and say I have no heart and so I thought yesterday I'd write an entry that might have a little piece of what is actually on my mind (read yesterday's entry). Then Buck wrote a comment that didn't really piss me off but didn't please me either. It's actually just a great example of when people don't know of the terms they're using but throw them out there anyway.
"to solve your leaky tire problem, stop being emo and letting your "stuff" flow out. just bottle it all up and then you won't complain about it cause you'll be keeping it on the inside. i thought you were cool for having an ironicaly emo journal name...but now you've let me down. or you can just stop flirting w/ every good looking girl and work out trying to find that special someone and they can fix your tire just like your mother."
Emo (originally short for emocore, itself a contraction of "emotional hardcore", now usually an abbreviation of "emotional") is a term now broadly used to describe almost any form of guitar-driven alternative rock that expresses emotions beyond traditional punk's limited emotional palette of alienation and rage. It is also used to describe fans of this genre, most commonly teenagers. The term emocore first came into to use around 1985, and was used to describe certain bands in Washington D.C.'s hardcore scene who, to the great consternation of hardcore purists, began introducing very un-punk emotional themes in their music, including sadness, hope, compassion and even love.
"Emo fashion" seems to be directly derived from pre-existing punk and goth fashions and retains staples from these two, including the tendency for dyed, flat matte black hair and multiple piercings; in particular, labrets and ear "plugs" are prominent. Eyeliner on the males is common.Wrist accessories such as plastic bracelets and wristbands are typical. So-called "emo glasses", identified as thick, black-rimmed "nerdy" glasses, are embraced as a quintessential emo accessory. Rolled-up jeans and t-shirts displaying sarcastic slogans or images of old-time cartoons are popular as well. More recently, many aspects of emo fashion have become mainstream and are regularly sold at stores like Hot Topic.
Emo fashion, according to its proponents, is deeply rooted in a "being proud of who you are", anti-consumer subculture. Critics of the fashion point out that it has become so mainstream that it has become shallow and antithetical to this notion. To this extent, various websites and magazines have taken to poking fun at "emo kids" and stereotypical emo fashion, some offering guides to "making yourself emo"
I'm sorry but I fail to see how I'm emo, I even went and researched it to find out and make sure I wasn't infected, If you're talking about the lyrics I have in my last entry, those are from billy joel and as we all know he was pretty damn emo I mean that's all pianoman and river of dreams were about. I find it funny how the man who swears he isn't a robot is telling me to just "bottle it up" nice emotionless rhetoric from the only man "with a soul." I'm glad that you stick around to watch every woman I talk to and claim that I'm hitting on them all I forgot to ask for Buck's precious permission before I interacted with people, a critical mistake on my part. Anyway, the next time that you choose to write a comment and call me something I'm not research the subject on which you speak. And yes I'm very sorry Buck I didn't know I wasn't allowed to express feelings in MY JOURNAL. I mean because anyone who expresses feelings in the form of PROSE is clearly emo. Like Shakespeare he was just some pointless emo kid whining about being in love and all that crap, While we're at it why not compare the whole Romantic Movement to Dashboard Confessional it really is like the same thing, they both talk about feelings right?