The Trials of Being an Elitist.

[rockyracoon01]

It's hard being an elitist. It really is. Some people may think 'oh man, it must be easy hating everything.' Let me tell you now, it's hard. I can't like the things that everyone else gets to like, and it sucks. Take Bright Eyes for example. At the Bottom of Everything, among others, are absolutely fantastic songs and they produce full and

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[geshertzarmeod]

"Awwwww, Wesleyyyyy.."
That's what I said when I read the lyrics and identified the song.
I love "Such Great Heights."
And you ♥

[deathbyfries]

Hey, I said the exact same thing!

Wesley, I feel your pain. :-P

[ex_mysolace268]

i never quite understood the distaste for the mainstream. i mean, i understand it in the superficial sense, but you hit upon the same thing i said a while back. some people hate mainstream bands but love indie bands. so theoretically if the same band kept the same style and just happend to sign themselves to a major label, people would keep loving them... but they often don't. people often say that bigger labels influence the bands to change their style, but again, that happens, but not every time. and you definitely can't judge it purely upon hearing the news of the change.

yep. people love conformity. but not too much of it. there's 2 levels of conformity - essentially conforming to all of society, and then conforming to a small group of people. nobody likes being alone, but still few people want to be the same as everyone else. so they do in the middle. that's why it's often tough being an elitest business freak, because i'll want to say "this movie is so much better than that one..." but if that were really true, the majority of

[rockyracoon01]

i agree.
that's all.

[ex_mysolace268]

holy fucking shit i wrote a lot. my apologies. i wrote that over a period of about an hour while i talked on the phone and read a book and stuff. i had no idea it got that huge. haha. oops.

[rewrites]

so you're pretty much my hero sometimes,
because you use a lot of big words,
and don't just make dumb posts about how much fun you had at the mall with your friends.

let's go live inside the internet.