May 20, 2004 20:27
Reasons for Kids Staying in "The Scene"
Collectively written by the kids on the vlv board
#1 - The Chicks!
#2 - "you've never heard of _____?!"
#3 - Name dropping the time you (almost) went on tour with Orchid dosn't work on the girl at Pizza Hut.
#4 - the plethora of tight ironic t-shirts you own would be a waste, and the hours you searched for them in shitty thirft stoes would have all been done in vain!!
#5 - because id rather starve and have a record on red than to have a black record and a gourmet dinner
#6 - self-referential "scene" jokes about how you are so ironically detached from it while still UTTERLY KNEE DEEP IN THE SHIT
#7 - too much time and money invested in record collection to walk away.
#8 - who really wants the 'dad' haircut?
#9 - wrangler brutes
#11 - not sure which drum & bass records to buy.
#13 - that true till death tattoo.. its got to mean SOMETHING after you break edge
#15 - pbr isn't going to buy itself.
#16 - can't hold a non-musically related conversation.
#17 - waiting on all the BOTY fanclub releases i'm owed
#19 - cause the only shirts you own are band t shirts
#22 - You would have to tell everyone your gay. (years of rolling around in pits with dudes turned you gay years ago, till now this behavior has only been manifest in your desire to decorate your homes (ie, Ikea)
#23 - panhandling gutter punks would be relegated to dirty hippy status.
#26 - diversity is so cliche
#27 - where else do you get to hear such awesome terms as emo-violence/screamo/post rock/posi/negi...?
#28 - wouldn't feel right wearing butt flap if otherwise.
#32 - realized that if they stopped going to shows they would spend ALL their time posting on messageboards.
#37 - don't want to give up using "punk rock, dude" as an excuse for being an asshole.
#39 - who else is gonna keep the spirit of "95 alive?
#40 - still trying to figure out where that fucking blood of the young kid lives
#47 - cause those plushy fetish message board are just downright creepy
#52 - because you'd look like a dumbass posting on VLV otherwise
#54 - at a hip hop show my fascination with robots and pirates just seems ridiculous
#68 - because no one else thinks that references to the situationist international are totally obvious and played out.
#74 - I don't need no stinkin' reason mang
#77 - because otherwise, yelling "UP THE PUNX" at random passerbyers would just be cause to get thrown in the looney-bin.
#83 - getting drunk and riding your bike around isn't accepted anywhere else.
#89 - Because guys wearing girls jeans in any other social scene get their FUCKING ASSES KICKED.
#90 - Because guys with girls haircuts in any other social scene get their FUCKING ASSES KICKED.
#92 - I stained my 19th black shirt.
#127 - the irony of your mustache, neckbeard, mullet, or trucker hat would probably be lost on the general population.
#213 - your job washing dishes doesnt pay you enough to be a "metrosexual"
#246 - is anything else really all that interesting?
#327 - Otherwise Skull Tattoos just make you look like a serial murderer.
#328 - no other scene is gonna accept your five nautical star tattoos.
#666 - People don't know what the fuck they're talking about when they start going off on metal.
#9283749823 - there's still six months left on that suicide girls subscription