I was in a store today when I saw a young girl run up to a table. "OH MY GOD, THAT'S SO EMO!!!" She said while holding up an ice tray that turns water into cubes shaped like skull and bones.........Is this what those Emoites in Mexico were after...? What is EMO?
This evening at the Boston Independent Film festival showed the latest Herzog doc.....I went out for dim sum with my mother.....I let you down Sarcamus.....I'm sorry
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“…it’s hard to resist your own substance, you’d like to stop all this, give yourself time to think about it and listen without difficulty to your heartbeat, but it’s too late for that. This thing can never stop. This enormous steel box is on a collision course; we, inside it, are whirling madly with the machines and the Earth. All together, along with the thousands of little wheels and hammers that never strike at the same time, that make noises which shatter one another, some so violent that they release a kind of silence around them, which makes you feel a little better. You give into noise as you give in to war. As the machines you let yourself go with the two three ideas that are wobbling about at the top of your head. And that’s the end. From then on everything you look at, everything you touch is hard. And everything you still manage to remember more or less becomes as rigid as iron and loses its savor in your thoughts.” Celine, Journey to the End of the Night
“It’s not that I like the empire—I hate it—but there’s nothing I can do about it right now.” Luke Skywalker, Star Wars
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I don't know what's up with the whole emo thing. It's been around for more than a decade. Supposedly, apocryphally, when hardcore punkster Ian MacKaye was playing a show with his post-Minor Threat band Embrace someone in the audience shouted out "You're Emo-core!" This stemmed from the style of hardcore punk mixed with emotional scream-singing. This style was codified in Guy Piccioto's band Rites of Spring, which MacKaye produced. Emotional Hardcore was born. Later, it became just emo with bands like Dashboard Confessional, Bright Eyes, and other mewly stuff. Screamo was born in the aftermath of At the Drive-in (half of whose members went go on to found Mars Volta--which I would say is definitely past the whole emo thing, or, possibly, in hipster speak, post-emo.) The emo phenom in the mass culture is something from the last five years, I think. I could not claim to understand it. But if it doesn't destroy Mexico, I believe Mexican youth could only improve it.
oh yeah, we want to see pictures from the Dominican Republic, if possible, subhino.
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