The Middle Class Disappointment
Well hello.
My name is Ed. I'm a 20-something living in London trying to eke out a living as best I can doing things I enjoy. I like to write. Here be my ramblings.
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Here’s something I wrote the other day. A workmate asked me to give her a topic of inspiration for writing song lyrics and I said something along the lines of a fish swimming in the River Thames looking at all the rubbish. I also wrote something on limited space on a piece of scrap paper. Here be it.
“This makes me sad. My kind have been on this earth for many thousands of years. This river has been here for thousands more…maybe. I don’t really know that much, on account of being a fish. Sometimes I can’t even remember my own name. That is, of course, if I even have a name; what with being a fish in a river and all that…This is all an aside really. I was talking about what makes me said. It’s these “humans”. Not content with eating my entire family, they’ve filled my home, my river, with all their rubbish…the unused and unwanted stuff of 7 million people. It’s a shame. It used to be so beautiful here.”
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John Sentamu is nice. That’s his schtick. He’s one of those religious men that it’s OK for atheists to look at and say: “Oh, isn’t he cuddly with his archaic belief in an invisible man who tells us what to do.”
Read his article on marriage rights though and you’ll see the cuddly facade…
A simple reblog. No extra words necessary as it’s spot on.
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It’s pretty much a requirement of employment at NME or any of your hipster music titles of note to sort of sneer at Oasis.
While NME can still bump its sales with a cheeky Noel Gallagher cover, the wrinkled nose of disapproval greets any Oasis song outside of Definitely Maybe and The…
This is a great blog post, I found myself agreeing with pretty much all of it. Oasis were one of my first musical loves and to this day I still adore that band. People call it music for lads, but I wasn’t a beer swilling, fag smoking rowdy lad in the 90s, I was just a young kid - yet the music still spoke to me in ways other bands just hadn’t before.
Aside from Now 32 (which was brilliant and hilarious in equal measure) I think What’s The Story Morning Glory was the first album I ever purchased on CD. The excitement I must have felt of getting home and listening to it for the first time. I’d be lying if I said I remembered the moment clearly, but it’s probably fair to say that as the closing bars of Champagne Supernova washed around me, something inside of me had changed. Although I don’t remember that moment, I do remember in 1996 when Oasis played at Knebworth and the gig was broadcast live on Radio. I stayed up listening to it and recorded it to cassette, it was such a thrill to be staying up late, listening to my favourite band and the amount of times I listened to that cassette afterwards probably ran into the hundreds.
Oasis formed part of my musical education that gave me the music taste I have today. I don’t care about the criticisms or what other people think when I say I like the band, I really really could not give a shit. They made some fantastic records and for me the music still stands the test of time. Haters be damned, you can rant until you’re blue in the face, it will never change my opinion and if you think I’m somehow less of a person or my opinion on music is less valid for liking this band, I suggest you go away and redress your attitude.
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“He’s never quite got the trick of conversation, tending to hear in dissenting views, however mild, a kind of affront, an invitation to mortal combat.”
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“Perhaps one never seems so much at one’s ease as when one has to play a part.”
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“This was a frequent fault of his: the more precarious the position, the more unlikeable he became.”
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Sometimes you receive a gift so beautiful and thoughtful that you hardly know what to do or say. This is one of those times.
Our close friends at Invisible Children just sent us a couple videos of members from two of their initiatives—kids from the Legacy Scholarship Program and women from…
Ha, wow. This is just too ace not to share. Thrice are a great band and evidently amazing people too. I knew nothing of their charity work until now. I believe the phrase is “good dudes, backed hard.”
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Greg Puciato, vocalist in mental spazzmanaughts Dillinger Escape Plan just solidified his position as a completely legit dude. On top of letting us all know about his hilarious drug trips and discussing the reasons why, when it comes to apples, he will never eat anything other than Granny Smiths, he just posted the following blog.
He was posed this question:
“Greg, I am a huge fan of your work with Dillinger and a metal fan overall. I am also homosexual. WHOA, right? My question is this - metal fans seem to pride themselves on being outsiders and letting anyone into their fold, yet homophobia is still huge in metal. Why is this exactly? It seems in this day and age especially, this mentality would have dissipated but sadly, it hasn’t. What is your take on this?”
He responded thusly, and I include the entire post verbatim as I think it’s well worth a read in its entirety:
“I really think masculinity insecurity issues are the problem, and listening to testosterone charged music and putting on a tough guy front enables the people with those issues to live in a sort of constructed “man suit”, helping them to feel more adequate in their gender/sex role confusion. It masks the fact that they probably need therapy to deal with whatever went wrong in their transition from boyhood to manhood. Combine that with lack of education and culture, two things that we have a massive problem with in the US, and there you have it. It grosses me out. I think the younger generations are obviously progressing, everything progresses with time, but it’s annoying to wait for the world around you to play catch up when you’re already on that level. Understanding of homosexuality is one of the largest humanist issues of our time. Well, that and educating people about the evils that organized religion have perpetuated in society. Those two things go hand in hand really. It’s frustrating that the United States leans so much on Christianity politically, a religion that teaches at its fundamental core complete intolerance toward homosexuality. Every time a candidate endorses Christianity or uses it as a tool to get votes of bible belt states, he’s saying “go fuck yourselves” to all of the gay population. The problem needs to be dissolved through different angles. Proper education and culture exposure will catch everyone up, but again, waiting is annoying….and I totally see what you are saying about the comical false masculinity that is unfortunately prevalent in metal and hip hop and country music. It’s not a coincidence that homophobia is most rampant in those three genres, and that those genres are primarily embraced by low income groups, groups that have low exposure to quality education, and almost no exposure to travel or different cultures. Punk and hardcore ethics have always been more refreshing and progressive, however, which is partly why we as a band feel more aligned with those movements than with “metal” as far as mindset. The real movements, not the “check it out I’m wearing a CBGB’s shirt I bought at Nordstroms” mall versions. Sorry I’m rambling…too much caffeine to type this very coherently, but it is something I actually feel fairly passionately about so I’m glad you brought it up. I scroll through most of these but this I felt I needed to say something about. If we ever do a show that I feel is gonna have an overtly high level of homophobes in the audience, I promise to wear a shirt that has a picture of a dude sucking a cock on the front of it or something. Funny how the same people who would act violently offended by that would probably cheer if there were two girls making out or going down on one another onstage. Like I said, fucking insecure babies trapped in man bodies. Masculinity insecurity issues. Hopefully they’ll all have gay kids.
Let me also throw in how proud we are as a band that our fans appear to be accepting and tolerant and progressive as well. Haven’t met a DEP fan ever that didn’t seem like a quality human being. I’m pretty sure that we turn everyone off that isn’t that way. I’d like to at least. Don’t come in here with that shit.
As for you, the person who submitted this question….don’t let that shit get you down. Feeling ostracized may sting at times, but the truth is that you’re a forward person in a primitive time. Moving at a faster speed than others. Being ahead of the pack? That’s called being a leader. Embrace it.”
The response of a complete dude. Stay rad Puciato.
Find his blog here: www.gregpuciato.com
