Dear Rihanna,

Stay 

Everytime 

Britney did it better.

Shameful

Fall Out Boy's new video for the single Phoenix came out recently and I just watched it. This band frustrates the hell out of me because Evening Out With Your Girlfriend, Take This To Your Grave, and From Under The Cork Tree are three of the best albums in pop/rock history... then they just sold out, and they are proud of that fact. They featured shirts with "Sell Out Boy," on them. I don't really care about their yearly projections or their home lives, but since Infinity On High they've been making music that is a total 360 from the substance they used to deliver. Stump's lyrics have always been hard to follow, but they used to at least challenge thought. His vocals are now obnoxious.

I'd like to take this moment to acknowledge the bands out there:

1. Not in this for money, but the passion and physical need to express ones self. 

2. Bands that stay true to themselves and their supporters by continuing to challenge and keep their sound, but improve upon it. 

3. Individuals as well as bands that are rising through the airwaves providing listeners with more than just words to chords, but actual meaning and thought provoking  hope giving, and change inspiring, powerful lyrics. 

As much as I hate giving this more views, form your own opinions. 

Phoenix 

Tavi Gevinson and WHY

Tavi Gevinson is a 15 year old girl that's more successful than you. She's establishing her way into fame by being extraordinarily knowledgeable and a walking trend-setter emitting "cool" through everything she does. Starting a blog at 11, The Style Rookie gained a following and led to Ms. Gevinson's publication of Rookie Magazine. Tavi explains the blog and the zine as a sort of mecca for teenage girls, not promising an answer or an opinion, but a place to discover ones self. Watching her Ted Talk, Gevinson displays the new wave of Feminism, a "cool" that resembles nods to Margot Tenenbaum among others, a fresh fashion sense that evolves as fast as it catches on, and an enlightened teen spirit of not giving a decisive shit on anything.

Ted Talk

If that's not enough to hate yourself for doing nothing at fifteen but playing video games and prank calling Pizzahut, wait until you obsessively YouTube video clips of her. She's got gumption, and I like that. So three "You go Glen Coco's" to Tavi Gevinson, one of the few youngsters to remember for something more than a hit single or a sex tape. Not to mention her music taste is INCREDIBLE. 

Picture taken from thestylerookie.com 2013

What a schizophrenic hears

I ran into this audio clip that researchers put together based on information they gathered from actual patients. Listen to it with headphones, it's pretty powerful. I don't think it's exactly accurate, based on the little I studied when I was a psych major. Nonetheless, it's good to get perspective, to somewhat understand how devastating every second is for people suffering from this.

What Schizophrenia sounds like:

-m 

Warped Tour 2013

The Used is playing my dates. Done. I'm in.

Vah Beach 7/9

DCizzle 7/10

Also excited for Motion City, Chiodos, Story of The Year, Woe is me, We Came As Romans, August Burns Red, Bring me the Horizon, Silverstein, Oh Sleeper, and Billy Talent.

Super sad that Ice Nine Kills won't be playing our dates :(

The rest of the line up

See you there,

-m