Well the Polyphonic Spree were perfect. As usual. I love a band that can make you smile for an hour solid. Very impressive. Then we went to the Tower Records on Clark St. and I spent plenty o' money. Oh, and we ate at the Lawry's Steakhouse downtown - pure tourism craziness, complete with spinning salads and a wait staff WAAAY too overdressed for the occasion.
So I've been sitting here for an hour randomly blog-surfing people in my town who I've never met before.
I'm officially weirded out that there seems to be a really impressive coalition of punk/indie/emo kids in the Quad Cities. At least there's a whole hell of a lot of blogs for 'em. And they're all younguns - 16-21-ish or so.
Where do these people hang out at? I sure as hell never see 'em. I'm almost obsessed in a strange way... Well, I guess for one, you can never get enough of 18 year old girls who look like Bjork. If that makes me a pervert, then so be it, call me what you want.
But more to the point, I'm just obsessed that there's this counter-culture movement that I simply NEVER see in town. All these kids remind me of me in college... but they're all locals. Townies. So why don't you see any of them out and about? I mean, I'm sure we don't hang in the same circles, but fuck me, I'm certainly at record and bookstores a whole hell of a lot, and you just NEVER see these kids lurking around.
It's almost kind of charming in a way, 'cause it reminds me of me at that age, and makes me wonder why the things they find so fascinating in their blogs just doesn't cut the mustard for me anymore.
Like this one girl's blog I was checking out - she just graduated from high school, and she's got one of those blogs where it seems like she takes 200 pictures a day. And all the pictures are in sets like, "Here's some pics from the night we walked around downtown Moline and it was CRAZY!" I wish I could still have a "crazy" time just walking around downtown doing nothing. I remember being in college, getting together with friends, and just wandering around like that - it would inevitably be one of the greatest nights of our lives... but why? Maybe just the sense of freedom... the notion that we're suddenly NOT checking our watches to make sure we're home by curfew, y'know?
I'm also really intrigued at the amount of personal info these kids put onto their blogs. Not, like, here's my street address and social security # or anything like that... but, like, to be underage and write huge blog entries about getting wasted and having sex and stuff. Maybe I was just overly worried, but if you were still living at home, wouldn't you be hesitant to post stuff like that for fear that your folks might see it? Or ANY random relatives who get bored and decide to Google yer name...? Maybe I was just a weenie to be that afraid of things like that when I was 17 or whatever...
It looks like a bunch of these kids work at Hot Topic. That kinda makes me laugh. Isn't Hot Topic pretty much the lamest of the lame? Like goth culture for the mall sect? I didn't think people who tried to come off as authentically "cool" would be seen in a Hot Topic. It all just reminds me of emogame.com where you have to go into a Hot Topic and fight Rivers Cuomo and his army of Japanese fangirls.
But then again, in the foreboding sea of lame-osity that IS my town, maybe Hot Topic IS the coolest of the cool. I mean, we're a town that actually can support not one but TWO Hot Topics, so maybe that says something right there. It just makes me feel bad for the one surviving indie record store in town (well, there's two of them, but it's a locally-owned chain.) It's like, first Best Buy steals all their music business, then Hot Topic comes along and steals all their accessory business.
Maybe Hot Topic's passably cool if you're into the punk/emo thing. I'm an indiekid at heart, so it ain't happenin' for me, gang. YOUR thoughts on Hot Topic? (I say to the wind, since I've only had like 3-4 comments on any of my journal entries ever...)
So I've been sitting here for an hour randomly blog-surfing people in my town who I've never met before.
I'm officially weirded out that there seems to be a really impressive coalition of punk/indie/emo kids in the Quad Cities. At least there's a whole hell of a lot of blogs for 'em. And they're all younguns - 16-21-ish or so.
Where do these people hang out at? I sure as hell never see 'em. I'm almost obsessed in a strange way... Well, I guess for one, you can never get enough of 18 year old girls who look like Bjork. If that makes me a pervert, then so be it, call me what you want.
But more to the point, I'm just obsessed that there's this counter-culture movement that I simply NEVER see in town. All these kids remind me of me in college... but they're all locals. Townies. So why don't you see any of them out and about? I mean, I'm sure we don't hang in the same circles, but fuck me, I'm certainly at record and bookstores a whole hell of a lot, and you just NEVER see these kids lurking around.
It's almost kind of charming in a way, 'cause it reminds me of me at that age, and makes me wonder why the things they find so fascinating in their blogs just doesn't cut the mustard for me anymore.
Like this one girl's blog I was checking out - she just graduated from high school, and she's got one of those blogs where it seems like she takes 200 pictures a day. And all the pictures are in sets like, "Here's some pics from the night we walked around downtown Moline and it was CRAZY!" I wish I could still have a "crazy" time just walking around downtown doing nothing. I remember being in college, getting together with friends, and just wandering around like that - it would inevitably be one of the greatest nights of our lives... but why? Maybe just the sense of freedom... the notion that we're suddenly NOT checking our watches to make sure we're home by curfew, y'know?
I'm also really intrigued at the amount of personal info these kids put onto their blogs. Not, like, here's my street address and social security # or anything like that... but, like, to be underage and write huge blog entries about getting wasted and having sex and stuff. Maybe I was just overly worried, but if you were still living at home, wouldn't you be hesitant to post stuff like that for fear that your folks might see it? Or ANY random relatives who get bored and decide to Google yer name...? Maybe I was just a weenie to be that afraid of things like that when I was 17 or whatever...
It looks like a bunch of these kids work at Hot Topic. That kinda makes me laugh. Isn't Hot Topic pretty much the lamest of the lame? Like goth culture for the mall sect? I didn't think people who tried to come off as authentically "cool" would be seen in a Hot Topic. It all just reminds me of emogame.com where you have to go into a Hot Topic and fight Rivers Cuomo and his army of Japanese fangirls.
But then again, in the foreboding sea of lame-osity that IS my town, maybe Hot Topic IS the coolest of the cool. I mean, we're a town that actually can support not one but TWO Hot Topics, so maybe that says something right there. It just makes me feel bad for the one surviving indie record store in town (well, there's two of them, but it's a locally-owned chain.) It's like, first Best Buy steals all their music business, then Hot Topic comes along and steals all their accessory business.
Maybe Hot Topic's passably cool if you're into the punk/emo thing. I'm an indiekid at heart, so it ain't happenin' for me, gang. YOUR thoughts on Hot Topic? (I say to the wind, since I've only had like 3-4 comments on any of my journal entries ever...)
alkatraz:
You have alot of insight..that weirdly fascinates me. you make me think.. not somthing i really like to do! lol