Comments | xpositivelyrach: This next one goes out to the Erie hardcore scene.

xpositivelyrach

This next one goes out to the Erie hardcore scene.

Jul 28, 2005 22:13

I've been really bored with hardcore lately. A lot of the new shit I've been hearing is just so boring and generic. Nothing has been getting me excited about hardcore and that's so upsetting. It's sad to think that I'm growing past all of this, but I mean come on! When xrepresentx gets signed to a label, you know hardcore is going downhill (again ( Read more... )

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xbenx July 28 2005, 23:50:41 UTC

i dont wanna be the old metalhead dude, but i was 15 once. every band we love was new once...just a drunken (sort of) thought. i dont see the unity thing either, but the headbangers never do!

xpositivelyrach July 29 2005, 02:55:24 UTC

be that as it may ben, these girls dont even seem remotely interested in liking the music. All they do is sit (or stand) there whispering to each other about the other girls there. Too many little girls are going to shows which is bringing far too much high school in it, as if there wasn't enough.

xbenx July 29 2005, 09:16:27 UTC

point taken, i agree with you there.

cole814 August 2 2005, 10:24:53 UTC

I love you Rach, but you're just proving everyone in Erie who has talked shit on you right. I don't really like every new kid, but I'm not about to drop out of hardcore becuase of them, that shit just fuels me more. You're not old, you are a kid (just like me), so don't act like you've been down for 15 years or something. Not every show you go to is gonna rule, and not every person you meet is going to be cool. If you really care about this community then you'll learr to deal with this stuff (and even fight against it), not just cut and run when things change.

Sorry for being so harsh, but I only say these things becuase I care about you and dont want you to drop out.

xpositivelyrach August 2 2005, 10:45:04 UTC

I'm not cutting and running. I'm not dropping out. I just don't know what to do anymore. First of all, I dont know what people say about me behind my back so I dont particularly know how I'm proving them right haha. I never meant to sound like I have been around forever, I've only been around for a few years. Also, this isn't the reason I dont go to shows anymore. I dont go to shows anymore because its hard to drag my broke ass to erie for a day when I work all the time and have no cash. Okay back to the topic at hand: my point was that I miss the family atmosphere of it. I used to be so excited to go to shows and hang out with friends. Then all this drama got in the way of it, and it's just a chore anymore. Kids dont like me, and I don't like them. I love the music, and will always be down for the bands, but I dread being around these people anymore. As shitty as that is, it's true. Some kids in erie refuse to move past this and realize it's not all there is to life. I'm pretty much a pariah now and i don't know how to change that, ( ... )

cole814 August 2 2005, 11:08:46 UTC

I understand what you mean. I'm not mad at you, I just don't want you to stop going to shows becuase not everyone likes you. I'm sure some kids don't like me (though I think I have more freinds now than ever before, hahaha) but I could care less. Friendship isn't the only reason I go to shows, it's deeper than that. If I didn't have hardcore than I don't what I would do with myself (probably nothing good). I hope that clears things up with us.

xpositivelyrach August 2 2005, 11:55:11 UTC

it's not just tht people don't like me, it's more that it used to be a family to me. I feel disowned now. It's hard to enjoy hardcore when it was something I could escape to to get away from everything else. Now I need an escape from the "scene". I love hardcore, don't get me wrong about that, it's just....people's attitudes towards it and towards other people in the scene has just become so shitty. It feels like high school. That annoys me haha. I know it's not the only reason to go to shows, it would just be better if I could feel apart of it and not feel like an outsider in a group of "outsiders". But I know what you mean.

RACHIE!!!! stephalufagus August 19 2005, 16:28:27 UTC

RACHEL,
HEY HUNNY ITS STEPHIE.... I HAVENT HEARD FROM YOU IN SO LONG. I MISS YOU!!! GUESS WHAT IM NOT IN PENNSYLVANIA ANY MORE... IM IN TENNESSEE... WRITE ME!!!