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Feb. 22nd, 2005 01:24 pm
[personal profile] rusty_halo
This is a meme that's going around. I probably should've posted it yesterday, but whatever:

Lurkers out there, yo, today's your day. Whether you're a LJ-lurker or from someplace outside reading this journal, you are the reason this journal isn't locked by default. So, come out and say 'hi' or something. Tell me what you're doing here, how you feel, who you are, whatever. No need to be shy. Feel free to post anonymously!

I'm a bit curious about this, since I've been kind of friends-locking by default lately.

Robot soldiers. So creepy. Didn't these guys see "Terminator"?

I'm trying to think of 10 things I've done that most people probably haven't. Some of these things are kind of unmentionable, or depressing, or both, so I won't mention those. Let's see... what is there that is semi-interesting and suitable for public consumption?... I'm pretty boring, really....

1. Went to a different school every year for 6 years. (Most dramatic was going from living in the middle of the woods in Indiana and attending Catholic school to living in a tiny apartment 20 yards from the beach in Puerto Rico the next year. And going swimming pretty much every single day that year.)

2. Co-wrote, filmed, and edited a 10 minute student movie about zombies. (And a bunch of other silly amateur movies, but that was the best.)

3. Got a perfect score (800) on the verbal part of the SAT. I think I got a perfect score on the writing part of the PSAT, too; I got a National Merit Scholarship out of it.

4. Hung out backstage at music venues all over NYC--Irving Plaza was probably the biggest--and met lots of different bands (including the Genitorturers, Switchblade Symphony, Godhead...) all before age 20. And slept in Penn Station, multiple times, and went to school the next day.

5. Was in the front row of a Marilyn Manson concert in their heyday, against the barrier, getting purple bruises on my hip-bones and dodging body surfers. Met John 5 afterwards and got a photo.

6. Read thousands and thousands of Buffy fics, and archived about one thousand of them. (Well, probably most of you guys have read that many.)

7. Worked behind the scenes at a bunch of Buffy cons; probably the most amusing thing was Alexis Denisof running off in the middle of a photoshoot to go pee, and making an announcement about it to the line before he went.

8. Watched the three original Star Wars movies at least 500 times each, and can still recite entire scenes.

9. Was onstage for an hour in London in front of 800 people with a panel that included BtVS writer Jane Espenson. ([livejournal.com profile] paratti has also done this. ;)

10. Was on the front page of the local paper, in a photo and interview. (With 3 friends, after Columbine, trying to lessen the persecution of Goth kids.)

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Date: 2005-03-08 09:58 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] aea
I don't remember when the KMFDM/Pig show was. Have to look through my ticket stubs.

I agree with the you about lusting after an image. Artists are usually fucked up and/or full of themselves, sometimes lost in their own celebrity fantasy life, but when you hear that one song or read that one quote in a crap magazine you think maybe they are just like you. :/
Or you hear them sing Find It Fuck It Forget It (Forever) live and your guts turn to mush. And, I don't want to meet musicians or actors whom I respect because I don't want to be disappointed. I want to live in denial.

Don't mind your tangent. :)

I'm in a NIN community and noticed that a lot of the fans are in their teens or early 20s and have never seen them before. I wonder if the fans my age just don't feel like going to shows anymore; would rather remember the good old days. I hope you're right; I don't want to be the geriatric fan at 28. :P

I didn't go to shows until 1994 when I was 18. I had to live vicariously through my friend, Marie, who had all these hulking, metalhead friends to go to shows with. She got to see NIN at Roseland in 1992, where Green Jello was the opening act. Remember them? My first show, and not counting Debbie Gibson or NKOTB in junior high, was Depeche Mode and Stabbing Westward. Did you read that or are you laughing at me about Debbie Gibson? I started writing about the shows I went to when I first got a journal, but I'm such a lazy writer that I never continued. If you want to bore yourself, you can find the entry here. Just two shows listed.
My sister is 11 years older than me, and she introduced me to the stylings of Meat Loaf. Okay, and Billy Joel and the Go-gos and Pink Floyd. This was all back in the early 80s. She thinks my musical taste is weird. I guess I found metal and industrial and darkwave through college radio, alternative magazines, and online. Very rarely will I find something through my friends. Sometimes I'll buy a CD I've never heard because of online recs (The Dresden Dolls comes to mind).

I wanted to marry Eddie Vedder in high school. I watched the Even Flow video over and over, when his hair was all long and twisty. The "grunge" era was what saved me from musical mediocrity (to sorta paraphrase Spike in "Crush"). If I hear Chloe Dancer, or Black, or Layne Staley's gorgeous voice, I'm 16 again and everything is flannel and well-worn and the Docs are rampant and Kurt Cobain is alive again. You know what I mean?

I was at that NIN show at the Garden! That was the last time they were here.

You're so good at encapsulating what it was like at these shows. I remember the feelings but have a hard time getting it out here sometimes. I hope I'm making sense with all of this; it was fun to read and talk about. I could go on and on.

If you find the time machine, I am coming with you. I'll pay for the gas or the flux capacitor or whatever.

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