h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I feel so good!

I've had a lot to drink, forgotten how good Citizen Erased and spinning on your chair during the chorus is. I've worked out why I write journal entries. It's either because I'm deeply troubled or I'm so bored I could cry. This is one of the latter.

Here's a mild rant about the 'rockers' at our school and their local hangout

listening to baby bands playing their 3/4 electric guitars with a couple of so called droogs is the most enlightening experience you can wish to have. Yo, if you're ever in St Albans on a Saturday night, go to this place called the Pioneer. Remember those discos you might of had in year 5, where there was fizzy drinks, crisps, kids staggered around pretending to be drunk, boys ran around kissing girls on the cheek, dancing to Steps and a teacher DJ'd? (or was it just me)
Well, it's virtually the same, except there's no Steps, just some irritating emo girl band who try to be angry, although they have nothing to be angry about, "Momma won't let me buy no more earrings from top shop... bi-atch", they then try to be poetic and end up mixing song lyrics from other peoples songs (It's a fun guessing game to play, "Okay, so which band wrote that song and what's the name of sed song") I usually go to school with them.
(By the way, has anyone had the misfortune to go into Top Shop recently? If so, tell me what you saw, and your opinion, answers on a stamped addressed envelope to [email protected])
You'll often get a female lead, male and female guitarists, and female drummer. The guys in mixed bands are either gay and in the closet or desperate to sleep with someone. You'll see the same members distributed between other emo bands. And maybe, if you're lucky an angry boy band, "Momma won't.... WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH! WARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGH!" The songs lyrics are usually just screaming and yelling. The bands are always crap. And those that are called good, aren't. They just have the easiest band members.
Maybe it's just the place I go to. I mean, maybe I'm not looking at it from an neutral point of view. When the only rock club in town is down the road from your school and you're forced to spend your weekend with people you go to school with, you're cynical and pessimistic to the point it makes your mother cry and you have great difficulty with making friends with people who don't find you funny, maybe you aren't the best person to judge.

Here's a milder rant about the opposites

sad little f*cks in burberry (okay, I have a coat lined with burberryesque print, but I made it rockin'cool, 'kay?) who hang around parks and generally treat girls like crap. Confessions from my 'townie' friends who freqent these places. Harassing members of the public. At least when 'Rockers' get drunk they don't involve passers by, they just stagger into things and pass out. I give up on this topic, there's too much to hate and too little time to complain

Here's a milder still rant about bands you really like

being at a concert and feeling you have a deeper understanding of the music and lyrics(which you don't, everyone thinks the same thing) more so than those irritating babies creeching along to the song they heard on Top of the Pops (not pointing the finger)



Here's where I give up and can't complain anymore...
But seriously, try spinning on your chair and staring at the ceiling, while listening to Citizen Erased at full blast. It's effing mindblowing. Okay. Natalie go bed now.

So many journal entries, so little sense. Appy polly loggies. Anyway, Merry Christmas y'all

-Natealy "I'm too mature for fun" Wood
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Not much experience with the rockers...

Chaffs (Townies) you've got spot on. Yuck. They're usually the ones shouting abuse at me. Seriously, as if I care about what you burberry suckers think.

Instead of rockers, I suffer with Avril Lavigne 'pop' punks. They /really/ anoy me... Look! I'm wearing a picture of a safety pin! Aren't I cool? Urh... no. Come back when (a) it's real and (b) you know what punk is really about. Morons.

'Tis the season to be jolly and all

Exist

Unfortunately we don't have them in our year. But we have a great deal of them in the years below. Aaah how I love to mock them.
"I see you've got that 'punk' thing going on there"
"Yeah!"
"What's your favourite punk act forwardslash band?"
"Avril Lavigne"
*hysterical laughter*
*goes and gets friends who also laugh hysterically*
*drags over a few passers-by who also laugh insanely*
*composes self*
*starts laughing again*

It was quite funny actually, a couple of rockers were telling me what they did at the weekend, and they said that they burnt a burberry hat. I gave them a blank look and asked why, and they said it was making a political statement. I said "Was it part of hate week or something? I mean, you're not making a political statement, you're making a social one. And it's more showing yourself up than anything. You're just showing how difference is not to be tolerated, you're just trying to stir up hate in people for no reason."
I then got rather mad and went off on a rant about how that sort of mindless behaviour is not commendable, that several of my friends wear burberry but they're still good people, and that it isn't the item of clothing that should be the object of hate but the attitude that can be shown by the wearer, then I shoved a copy of 1984 in their faces and said that this is where they are heading. And I ranted some more. Essentially contradicting everything I've ever said.

ah...... don't you just love 'em......... ~sarcastic grin~
"I'm so unique.... I'm wearing exactly the same thing as the 12- 15 yr old standing behind me!"
I really don't like music that is marketed at people... it undermines freewill, I swear.

You were quite right to rant. I don't /hate/ chaffs, but I do resent that they hate me. Okay, so I poke fun at them behind their backs, but that's natural. Socks outside of tracksuit bottoms? Who are they kidding? I'd much rather be able to accept them, that fear that I'll be beaten up by one if I go out looking 'like that'.
I really must read 1984. I've been told many times it's good.

It's sickening. It's marketing individuality. An individual look is meant to be INDIVIDUAL! Which part of that do they have difficulty with?

I agree, but I only hate them if there's something to hate about an individual, like if they look utterly stupid, say something stupid, or do something stupid. But doing something so petty like burning a hat, just because they happen to have a tendancy towards burberry, is so sad.

You really should read 1984, it's a really important book to read. Once which will always fit in with the time in which it's read.

It is rather sad that they think they can buy themselves a unique identity. I mean, what kind of standard does that set for our society when we just throw money at our own issues? A need to be different shouldn't stem from a company marketing it. Okay, it has an upside for me, since all this Avril Lavigne crap has made me out to be painfully hip (hence the super hatred from the chaffs) and I thus do get a lot of respect from some groups of people for being such a weirdo. It has, in effect, turned me into an underground role model. And I'm not on an ego trip here.

There's no problem with being against an individual, but spreading hatred againnst a group of people /is/ a bad thing. It's very petty indeed. Let us burn skateboards, for we can no longer stand the damn skater music. It doesn't get us anywhere, it only makes them more angry at us and, well, creates a 'them' and 'us' situation.
The burberry thing is sad, but not as sad as the fact that I actually on a /real/ burberry scarf, in baby blue. Hey, it was a Christmas present a couple of years back!

Yes, I've been told the torture part is very good

http://www.rathergood.com/blode/

Listen to the music when the evil crab comes in.

*hadn't noticed, but is now aware of the fact and is very thankful for bringing it to her attention*

Funny, I've owned at least one pair of Converse trainers at any given time for several years, Kelly Osbourne starts wearing them and suddenly I'm cool. I don't like it. People are trying to be friends with me because I wear trainers... big woop. I don't want to be cool. I'd rather be anti cool, gives me more of an edge If I wasn't cool in school I can write about it in a novel and sell it to other angry out cast teens.

It is just a preference in clothes and music. I'm only nasty to someone if they're nasty to me, I don't deliberately go out looking for people who are different to me and start fights, unlike some.

Ah dear, well, I have a brown coat with a burberry print inside. It's my Dad's, and I have a habot of wearing his clothes. *shakes head sadly*

Merry Christmas n'all.

Natealy
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Argh, it's very shallow to like someone cos of their trainers... try and ignore the sad s

Ah well. I don't care anymore. I wear boots more than trainers anyway.

mmm, chunky threatening boots....

I love my boots... not extreme boots... but dangerous looking person boots...

What're they like?

black, thick heel and sole, mid calf... pretty nice... lace up boots..

oo very nice!

oh they LOOK lovely, but they are evil... I cut open my finger on the hook...

tsk. Ah well all the better for kicking your enemies.

*thinks rather wistfully of Will the homophobe*

I'm tempted to make a spike attatchment... I suggest you do the same

Sounds good to me!

for kicking idiots...


That reminds me... I was reading the School Rules today... how dull am I... and I came across a passage that said

"The dress and appearance of sixth formers should be smart, restrained and not cause offence."

I found it tremendously funny and went around telling sixth formers that their burberry bags were offending me...

*takes notes*

Gawd, none of the teachers are going to know what to do with me in 6th Form