album covers

There's a pretty simple rule I follow:

If the artist(s) is on the cover don't listen to the album.

However there are some exceptions;

this is whats wrong the scene...

pick and choose who you want to be!

Bye Facebook...

So today I left facebook, it feels kinda good.

It came after two boys who couldn't get their noses off their iphones for more than 10 mins at a time. The site has become a drag, so I'm going back to the old school, y'know, like phoning people n shit!

I spend far too much time sitting in front of my computer, so before I waste my summer away, I'm taking a step away.

There's plenty of other ways to get hold of me, my number, msn and email address is all still on my page, so if you wanna chat, just hit me up.

I'm hoping that this move will help me be a little more creative with my time, perhaps spend more time playing bass, writing songs, or even actually writing letters. I want to bring back the letter writing thing, so I promise this:

Anyone who sends me a postal address will have a letter to them!

I will want a reply though :P

I still love you all, I just don't care what you had for diner ;)

what's your ideal girl?

I think I had this before, can't remember what I said though. Truthfully I can't define it, I want someone that makes me never want to be with anyone else ever again. I want someone I fall asleep thinking about, and is the first thing I think of in the morning. I don't know what she'd look like, or what she's into, but whatever it was, that would be my ideal girl.

However, if I were to try and build such a girl, I have a vague idea.

Ask me anything

*core

So I'm back onto the music topic again. And again, it's the retardation of genres.

I read today about emocore. It's a phrase I've heard before, but this time it kind of got to me. It was an argument on last.fm about whether a band was, post-hardcore, screamo, emocore or one of many other genres that all seem to describe a very similar group of artists. I get that screamo is music with screaming in, but also has an emo-y-ness to them, and that emocore is emo but with more hardcore influence, and post-hardcore is... ahhhh what the hell!

Does it really matter? I've heard good and bad bands of every genre, so surely picking out these little bits really is pointless yeah? I'm all for using genres to describe music, it's very obvious thing to do - if two bands sound similar you need to be able to describe that style. But the over complication is just stupid. A band is not defined by it's genre, and it is more than possible for a band to play any number of styles throughout the course of it's history (like brand new) or an album (like Queen) or even through a song (Tub Ring anyone?) So, lets just chill out a bit, and stop worrying about it.

If I call them metalcore or hardcore and you call them postscene-emocore then I'll probably think you're an idiot, but at least I'll know what a band sounds like! Pretty similar to a lot of what I like, which has some screaming some singing, some guitars and some drums. When it comes down to it, there's only two labels that really matter - Awesome and Not

Piercings!

I like them, but I think I've exhausted my face now!

Snakebites, tongue, 20mm & 8mm stretchers in each ear, right nostril twice, left once, cheek, top of left ear...

Is it time to stop now?

If anyone can think of something that wouldn't clutter my face up, I might just get it...

If you can't say anything nice, don't say anything at all.

Which is why I've stopped posting on most forums... People just don't seem to be able to do anything cool these days. Maybe it's just that people on forums are mostly massive losers!

Anyway, what kicked me over the edge was someone thought recording an instrumental cover of a blink-182 song and putting on youTube was a good thing. I'm all for people learning songs, and recording them if they want - it's all good practice. They can even play the songs to some people to see what they think. But when the description is a big apology for not being very good and badly recorded then you've got to wonder why they posted the damn thing in the first place! If you think it's crap, why would anyone else like it?

it's the same reason I don't follow people (on tumblr or twitter) that post too much, or post lame-ass shit about their personal lives, I even filter my facebook friends so I can cut out all those 'friends' I haven't spoken to since primary school. It's not that I don't like them, but their lives are irrelevant and uninteresting to me, just as I expect mine is too them. It's nice to know they're there if I ever need to get in touch, but I don't need to know what they had for diner.

Remember that there is a home for everything, especially on the net, as far as I'm concerned my tumblr is fairly impersonal, it's for random shit I think is cool or interesting. My blog (which is imported to facebook) is for wordy stuff and my thoughts - like this. Twitter is personal, but non-specific and is pretty much just what I'm doing or planning, and Facebook is for me to contact my friends. I'm a lazy texter, so I'm all about facebook!

Went a bit off-topic there... If you're filling up the internet with stuff that isn't awesome, then you're just adding to the endless sea of shit that is the majority of user created content. Speaking of shit user created content - people who make youtube videos about youtube videos, please just fuck off! Your stupid effects and bad jokes are just annoying, if I want to see a funny video I know where to look, if I want to watch someone pull out all the humour from a funny video, I'll watch your lame show. It's not hard to make a youtube video, but that doesn't mean that you should!

If only the 'net had a shittness filter.