YouTube birth year meme - 1981
I searched for 1981 on YouTube and had to go through a lot of Eurovision song contest entries before finding the Stray Cats performing Rock This Town. I love a bit of rockabilly, especially with a skinny baby-faced guitarist looking gorgeous in his eyeliner. Man, back when I could play the guitar I wanted to BE the Stray Cats
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I spent a little while boggling over why I'd given the impression that I was a Slayer fan and scanning through my interest list very carefully, until I realised it was my username, haha! That's nothing to do with the band Slayer, but the story behind it's too long and boring to go into right now. I don't mind Slayer as such, I have Slayer moods (and Cradle of Filth moods and Herman's Hermits moods and Clannad moods and Bach moods) but what I'm mainly into is Iron Maiden, Judas Priest and, well, older rock stuff. Envy that you've seen Maiden live!
Being unpierced for me is a sort of small rebellion against the way my peers "rebelled" and tried to make themselves different by all getting their eyebrows and bellybuttons pierced. Also liking to keep things simple and not make unnecessary holes in myself, and the memory of my sister's earlobe swelling up like a golf ball! I didn't care enough about being cool to get piercings or tattoos, and I decided to call it some sort of political stance instead of cowardice or unfashionableness.
I see that you know browniemcgee. It's a small world -- neither she nor Nick knows me, but I quite like Nick's fun, happy art. And everyone I know on the internet seems to be Canadian!
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Since I'm making you jealous about seeing bands you like live let me also say that aside from seeing Maiden live 3 times I've also seen Judas Priest on the Painkiller tour and Ozzy on the No Rest for the Wicked tour (you only listed Black Sabbath on your interests so I'm not sure if that counts). I don't know what other metal bands you are into, but I've been to quite a few shows. :P
The combination "metal" listed in your interests and the user name of slayertatiana leads to unfortunate assumptions. I'm sorry for that, but I'm sure you could see how people could think that you are a slayer fan if that's all they have to go by, right?
I added very few people from my old journal back, but you seemed very interesting. I never understood the whole piercing/tattooing yourself to be different thing. I have always thought that it is just another way to conform. Instead of conforming to the standard corporate type set, you are conforming to the accepted norm of the anti-standard. To me that is exactly the same thing. Just because one group is smaller than the other doesn't make it any less of a conformity. Plus punching holes in your body just seems stupid. :P The saddest thing to me is that the biggest rebellion you can do as a human being these days is to not alter yourself in some shape or form. For example, I know for a fact that if a woman doesn't wear make-up and doesn't shave her legs & armpits she will be far more ostracized than some woman who pierces all sorts of body parts and tattoos her whole body. We've gotten to the point where the thing that is least acceptable, in society, is looking like what human beings actually look like. This, of course, is far worse for woman than for men.
"I decided to call it some sort of political stance instead of cowardice or unfashionableness."
I love this statement and you are 100% right. Going against "fashion" in today's society is a political stance. I think that is because fashion as we think of in historical perspective is dead and corrupted. These days fashion is about selling the next product instead of being what our society has evolved to give aesthetic value to.
I was actually limegreensquid's friend before Carolyn, but she saw my nudie pictures on my old journal and added me! Since then we've actually become good friends (in as much as people can be over a computer) and has been really sweet and helpful while I deal with a shitty time in my life. Just so you know, my journal might very well be quite depressing right now, because the person I've spent the last 12 years with has decided to leave me. This is complicated by the fact that she has a good job and supports me. I don't want to dump that on a new friend, so please don't worry about it. I just wanted to warn you if you if you find my latest updates to be depressing.
I hope to get to know all about New Zealand, it sounds like an incredible place and somewhere I'd like to visit in the future.
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Yes, Ozzy counts! I've hardly been to any live shows, but then I'm not keen on crowds and I'm probably happier envying you and watching DVDs. No offence taken about the Slayer thing--I'd never realised it could be taken that way! "Metal" in my interests has a double meaning, actually: I like the music, but I also like brass, bronze, steel, pewter...
One other thing that bothers me about piercings: I don't know much about acupuncture, but I think it's a bit unethical for piercing places to make holes in people without studying all the meridians and knowing what might happen if they make a permanent hole in a certain spot!
If not for the social pressure, being a wildly different non-conformist would be the easiest thing in the world. Don't need any special clothes or makeup, don't need to spend time trying to make yourself look different, don't even need to buy razors. I must confess that I own two lipsticks and sometimes shave in summer. It's hard to go against the flow.
...Nudie pictures? Should I ask??
Don't worry about your LJ entries being gloomy. Bad things happen, no need to pretend you're happy when you're not. I know telling people to cheer up doesn't work, so... I wish you the best of luck getting through.
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Okay, now I feel like I have to be on my best behaviour so you don't start disliking me. To be honest, a lot of people can't stand me, but usually they're the kind of people that don't like accepted norms to be challenged. You don't strike me as that kind of person. That said, I noticed you only have 5 other LJ friends and one is your mother and another your boyfriend, so I'm wondering if you trouble liking most people you meet. I usually give people the benefit of the doubt and wait for them to disappointed me, which many of them do.
I hate crowds as well, but I make exceptions for rock shows. In the summer they close this street a few blocks from my condo and thousands of people swarm there just mindlessly walking in large groups, being loud, obnoxious, and self-centred, but my friends like it and try to get me to go there because all the stores that line the street have all sorts of stuff for sale. Needless to say, the experience makes me really nervous.
"I also like brass, bronze, steel, pewter"
Ironic, considering your dislike of piercings. I have a pewter computer desk and my dining room table has unique pewter legs designed by a Montreal artist. They are made to look winding plant branches wrapping around the bottom of the table.
"I think it's a bit unethical for piercing places to make holes in people without studying all the meridians and knowing what might happen if they make a permanent hole in a certain spot!"
I agree, but since these people are not licenced there is not much we as a society can do other than to educate people (which is not happening right now). I don't agree with making it illegal, because there are too many people in prison for things that should not be crimes. Making someone's personal choice, no matter how wrong it is, a crime doesn't maker things any better.
One thing I would do is disbar "doctors" who perform elective plastic surgery. It goes against the Hippocratic oath and is completely unethical. Again, I wouldn't put them in prison, I'd simply not let them practise "medicine". To me, what they do is similar to piercers, only with even graver consequences.
"Nudie pictures? Should I ask??"
Let me assume you are asking how miss browniemcgee got to see said pictures and not trying to get a look at strange men naked on the net ;P. For some reason I had put Nick on that filter in my old journal and she had seen the pictures while he was reading his friend's page. I guess she liked them. As far as if it is the latter. I guess I don't mind, but it might just be a bit too soon and I've never even seen a picture of your face. I wouldn't feel comfortable giving out pictures of myself naked to people when I've never even seen their faces. Is that weird? I'm not saying no, just that I need to know you better. Do you use MSN messenger? Maybe I'll install yahoo messenger...
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I don't believe in most accepted norms, and if you challenge a few I hadn't thought of I'll be interested in a discussion about it!
I like shiny things, I just don't see the need to puncture myself and carry them around with me. A brass knob to fiddle with is enough for me.
No no, looking at naked men is not what I use the internet for!* I was wondering what you meant by "my nudie pictures" and now that I know you did mean actual pictures of yourself with no clothes on, my curiosity is satisfied and we need speak no more of it :D
I do indeed use MSN: pebblerocker at hotmail.com, and I'd enjoy a bit of a chat.
*Well, not that I haven't, but it's for educational purposes, anatomy, teaching myself to draw, not for titillation. (Mantitillation, when it's bulging pectorals you're looking at?)
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