http://www.sizzlingpopcorn.com/wordpress/2008/06/06/the-outsiders-a-francis-ford-coppola-classic/

You said grasshopper and I couldn’t resist… I read about this in national Geo.

Emo grasshoppers:

http://hoovaloo.com/2007/12/08/grasshoppers-turned-emo-by-parasite-worms-driven-to-suicide/

ch-ch-check it out!

“Americans will sneak sad songs across the border to fulfill the need.”

That was HILARIOUS. I can totally envision a truck full of My Chemical Romance cd’s being confiscated at the border. You’re funny.

Shaner — Please don’t make me delete that! It is a fantastic definition. I appreciate that you wrote it and want to keep it. It’s perfect.

I guess I am a little emo guilty then (definitely mentally). I have Bright Eyes in my music collection. I have to say, some of his music is amazing, some of it is super annoying. You gotta take risks with your art to do something different, Bright Eyes did.

Mos Def was with LL Cool J at The Newsroom for breakfast a while back… so was what’s her name… Sk8r girl too, uh, with hair extensions… um… shoot…Avril Lavigne at that joint. Good fresh fruit juices there. I get the grasshopper.

Life was hard and pointless but you had to find a reason to make it beautiful.

This was back when myspace first first getting around and everyone was either one friendster or makeoutclub.com. Those were my first experiences with the entire emo “thing”. I met quite a lot of interesting people and found the depths of my heart, I suppose, as I now can appreciate movies like the Notebook without being all “dude that’s for chicks” about it.

Movies like Fight Club helped fuel the emo “thing” for the characters in that movie basically modeled the way most of the kids acted. My god, how many Marla Singers I ran into at punk rock shows.

Don’t even get me started on the whole Bright Eyes, Conor Oberst portion of the emo crowd. I can only wallow in self-pity for so long.

However, this isn’t what has become of emo. Contemporary emo is now just a fad. MTV glams it up with bands like Falloutboy and Panic @ the disco and it is the current fashion of people like Ashlee Simpson.

It is basically meaningless, absurd and bleak (much like existentialism) only it’s not a way of life… it’s simply a persona the person chooses to wear. It’s cool, it is hip and even hip-hop has taken on bits from the image (you’ll notice skulls, microphones, guitars, lots of pink/black on the more urban styles).

Emo seems to be something that the moody, social outcast big brother was into so the little brother imitated the look and told all his friends about it so it suddenly becomes popular in high school. That’s where it seems to be most popular anymore, anyways, is in the preteen department. Those who are in their late 20′s and still doing this are probably hanging by a thread…

Like my Suicide Girl ex g/f!

It’s just what’s cool right now and it will eventually pass just as grunge did. Although I do miss grunge… before it got cool.