Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Other grunge/alternative songs I've been thinking of, and other maybe one or a few hit wonders that made up the rest of the vibe of the 90s

Ok, so I feel like posting a few songs that I love, and I also love how it was not only the famous grunge/alternative bands that made up that laid back vibe of the 90s, but also the memorable one hit wonders, or maybe bands with just a few hits, that still sound alternativey that I also love. I always want to stress overlooked grunge bands like Paw, Dig, Dandelion, Greta, and Sugartooth, and then I remember songs from my youth like One Week, Breakfast at Tiffany's, and I Alone. Bear with me, there are so many great bands I want people to know about, my posts might be a little long.


Sugartooth - Sold My Fortune


Cracker - Low

Beck - Loser. "I'm a loser baby, so why don't you kill me" should be the anthem saying for the slacker generation. I love the randomness of the lyrics and video.

Dada - Dizz Knee Land.Headed west into the black, I'm going to Disneyland!

Deadeye Dick - New Age Girl


Dig - We Don't Care


Greta - Fathom. I love how the singer of Greta wears dresses. Stick it to the man! He has the coolest dresses too.

 Paw - Jessie


Paw - Couldn't Know

Dandelion - Under My Skin

Bush - Everything Zen. God I love this one, so grungy.


Deep Blue Something - Breakfast At Tiffany's

Blur - Song 2. One of the grungiest songs I've ever heard.

Marcy Playground - Sex and Candy

Blind Melon - No Rain. This one I always loved. it's about a girl who doesn''t stop being who she is even though she can't relate to anyone until one day she finds out she is not so alone after all. Like me discovering that I totally fit in with the 90s/generation x.


Rusted Root - Send Me On My Way. This one is so very freeing. Matilda!

Live - I Alone



The Verve - Bittersweet Symphony


Candlebox - Simple Lessons. This one is so great. Just look at those facial expressions that the singer makes. This one made my ovaries hurt the first time I watched it. Ha. Passion is so sexy.

Puddle Of Mudd - You Don't Know. Early Puddle of Mudd is way grungier than newer Puddle of Mudd, but it all rocks.

7 Year Bitch - Hip Like Junk. I love these girls' style. I want to look like that. And L7, and Babes in Toyland etc. Good Seattle girl rock.

 L7 - Pretend We're Dead


Primitive Radio Gods - Standing Outside a Broken Phone Booth With Money in My Hand. This one is so smooth.


Tonic - Open Up Your Eyes

Smashing Pumpkins - Cherub Rock. My favorite Smashing Pumpkins song. So creative and alternative and noisy.


I hate it when they don't let you embed, so here's the link to Cumbersome by Seven Mary Three http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjNn4bbbgSw&ob=av2e I always loved this one. Somehow it makes me flash back to my youth, like the 90s were so laid back I cherished just doing stuff like going to stores in different strip malls and looking out at the world, even though this one is set in a bar. Plus the guitarist looks a bit like Dave Grohl. I love the part when he says "There is a balance, between two worlds, one with a narrow end to cross, darkness of the balance, life has become, cumbersome". And here's December by Collective Soul http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6exsatE-DUk&ob=av2e  I always loved this one too. Everyone always talks about Shine, which is great too, but I always remembered December more. I love the film type image, and the weird kaleidescope, and of course the long hair. And Breathe is worth watching too http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCavdw14vWo&ob=av2e  And here's Gotta Get Away by the Offspring http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6jz1hewTzA&ob=av2n

Grunge Forum and Creative, passionate, organic, artsy, original, independant alternative songs

Ok, so I'll start this off by saying I found a grunge forum that has a lot of useful info about bands and stuff. http://www.grungeforum.com/ I actually found it a long time ago, but I have a tendency to find a bunch of stuff and just bookmark it and come back to it later, but now I'm on the forum. Finally I found info on Lazy Susan and Kill Sybil.

So I keep finding stuff that makes me think, man how creative, it really was better back then. I found the video for Tahitian Moon by Porno for Pyros http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57kHFXElTVI and someone there who was around then told me how it really was artsy, original, and independent, so I'd like to share a few more songs that make me think of that.

Teenage Fanclub - Star Sign


The Flaming Lips - She Don't Use Jelly

Sky Cries Mary - Every Iceberg is Afire. Sky Cries Mary are a psychedelic influenced Seattle band. The first band of Scott Mercado, the drummer for Candlebox.

 Love Battery - Out of Focus. The original video is on BVMGrungeTV, but they won't let me embed it, so I found this one that just took it from there. This one is so passionate and real feeling. Psychedelic grunge band from Seattle. I love the part where they close up on the singer's face.

Pavement - Cut Your Hair

Sugar - Helpless

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Give it Away

 Butthole Surfers - Pepper

 Meat Puppets - Backwater



Clearly things were more down to earth and cool and creative back then.

Thursday, August 25, 2011

Newer Grunge Bands

Ok, so I hate social media, reality shows, skinny and low rise jeans (so 80s), vampires, and all the other fads/clothes/music of today, and I hate that I have to use the internet and social media because my generation doesn't know any other way, but it does help find stuff. I mainly just use it for music. Facebook is where I found out that Calamity Jane, the band that toured with Nirvana in South America  back in '92 with bad results and broke up shortly thereafter, got back together. http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Calamity-Jane/148181179299  and I found the Doll Squad, another all girl band from Seattle, on myspace, they're back together too. http://www.myspace.com/dollsquad   All the music people call alternative today, just sounds like what little mainstream rock there is, and they all sound like weird synthesizery emo 80's synthpop stuff, I don't know why the 80s came back, the whole point of the 90s was to get rid of the 80s, and the new bands on SubPop sound like very light indie pop bands with that weird 2000s sound.  I've found several new grunge bands on myspace and things like that. Of course, grunge never stopped or died, it just went back to being underground like it was for a decade before Nevermind came out, kind of where it should be, except that it was so cool that good music was actually played on the radio and in the mainstream in the 90s, so you have new grunge bands forming all throughout the years when it stopped being famous as well, so no one can call them New Grunge bands or anything because grunge never stopped. So the two main newer more mainstream bands I like today are Cage the Elephant, http://www.youtube.com/user/cagetheelephant?blend=1&ob=4  http://www.youtube.com/user/CageTheElephantVEVO  who sound like they totally could fit in with the 90s alternative thing, and Violent Soho, from Australia, who sound very grungy, and they were even at Lollapalooza 2010, the one that Soundgarden went to  http://www.youtube.com/user/ViolentSohoVEVO . When I discovered Violent Soho last year, I looked at their youtube videos, and people kept writing stuff like "GRUNGE IS BACK!!!", and they still do. They would be great ones to bring it all back.

Violent Soho - Muscle Junkie


Cage the Elephant - Back Against the Wall. This one always reminded me of Heart-Shaped box. The singer sort of reminds me of Kurt, especially in their video with the zombie girl, and when I first heard their music, I thought it sounded a bit like nirvana.

Pet Salad - Hollywoodland
My favorite new band though is Pet Salad. I found them on myspace. http://www.myspace.com/petsalad   http://www.youtube.com/user/PetSalad  They are a Swedish grunge band formed in '07 with an ep out. I also found out about this girl led grunge band from Portland called Sick Sick Sister. http://www.myspace.com/#!/2882731 So good to hear girl grunge again. And then there's The Chocolate http://www.myspace.com/#!/thechocolatemusic grunge from France. Sick Sick Sister and The Chocolate are on itunes. http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/my-friend-my-enemy/id284393337  http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/chocaholic/id261414542     Paradox is an Irish grunge band. They remind me of that Days of the New style. http://www.youtube.com/user/paradoxrock  http://www.myspace.com/paradoxrock  http://www.facebook.com/paradoxrock  also on itunes http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/circle-of-growth/id138768888  Pissed Jeans are like the only current band on Subpop that I've found that sound rock related. http://www.subpop.com/artists/pissed_jeans They are really good, sound like grunge, sound like the Jesus Lizard.
Pissed Jeans - False Jesii Part 2


Another band is called Mosquito, from Istanbul I think http://www.facebook.com/#!/group.php?gid=43519246740   Trash Queen are from Australia like Silverchair and Violent Soho   http://www.youtube.com/user/trashqueen10 Drunken Hippies make noise from Berlin  http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Drunken-Hippies/107296139343675  http://www.youtube.com/user/DrunkenHippiesMusic  There was also this band I found called The Vertical, which had a Paradox/Days of the New vibe I think, but I totally can't remember how I found out about them. Soul Pollution sound pretty good too  http://www.myspace.com/soulpollution  I have more facebooks and myspaces in my bookmarks of old grunge bands and others that I might post one day. So as you can see, grunge is still happening, all over the world., and never stopped, and never will. It's just a matter of if and when it takes over the world again.

EDIT: Check the comments for more suggestions of new grunge bands, and feel free to add your own suggestions.And I just created this new facebook page called "Spread the word of good newer grunge bands" incase you want to check it out. http://www.facebook.com/pages/Spread-the-word-of-good-newer-grunge-bands/192998060774625?sk=wall    there are a lot more bands that have been posted on that.

Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Styles and Vibes

Ok, so even though I hate shallowness and people actually caring how they look, I love the anti-fashion grunge/alternative/90s styles. Stuff like flannel shirts, general loose fitting over-sized clothing, band shirts, old worn out high-waisted kind of baggy ripped up jeans, shorts with long johns, doc martens and other boots, converse, knitted stocking caps, backwards caps, guys with long messy dirty hair and goatees, tattoos, piercings, crazy colored alternative hair, cool 90s grunge dresses with the little flowers all over them, patchwork dresses, other alternative dresses, and other indie bohemian cool 90s clothes that seem really unique and individual just have this total laidback, let your hair down, down to earth, don't care what other people think, real, raw vibe to them, and I love it. The whole point was to not care how you look, but it ended up looking cool anyway. Of course you don't have to wear any of that stuff, but personally, I think everyone should have that style, not just grunge rockers. It just makes life seem more real, and less materialistic, if you wear thrift store clothing and hold on to your worn out clothes for just a bit longer. I also like those cool sunglasses that I keep seeing in the 90s everywhere that Kurt Cobain and Layne Staley would wear. I also remember seeing those short shirts and knee socks. And I love the kinderwhore/riot grrrl style too, like I mentioned before, I found out about that by watching the Bruise Violet video by Babes in Toyland. Stuff like babydoll dresses, smeared red lipstick, ripped up black tights, messy hair with little girl clips all over, big black boots or mary-jane's, I guess a lot of riot grrrls would wear it, and I always thought it looked cool, and it really seemed to convey that thing that us females feel when we are in our teens and 20s and sometimes want guys to look at us in that way, and other times don't and feel creeped out by it, and just wish we could go back to being 5 again when life wasn't so complicated. Now that I've re-discovered the 90's, I've flashed back at actually remembering this stuff, I remember the laid-back down to earth vibe of the 90's, and I thought life would always be like that and had always been like that, and then it started changing around '98-'00, and at first I thought it was just a glitch and life would go back to normal, but in 2000 it was bigger than ever, everything all glossy and people actually caring how they look, so I realized this decade was going to suck, but I assumed it would have changed back by now, so I'm still waiting. I remember every movie I saw when I was little that came out in the mid 90s, there was a teenage girl in a flannel shirt, and I thought of them as the cool girls, and I wanted to look like that, and I remember a few times, seeing a guy with long hair and a flannel shirt and looking up at them and thinking that looked so amazing, and wanting to look like that, and wondering why no one else looked that way, because it would have been more towards the late 90s, and those are my most precious memories, for some reason, they made my life at that time, and now as I remember them. I remember all sorts of cool alternative and maybe goth looks, like Marilyn Manson, and this one time when I saw a punk couple, and I loved it, and I liked the big neon green hair spikes, but I hated how it was only in the middle, for some reason mohawks always bugged me. And I saw lots of piercings and tattoos in the 90s, and I always loved that stuff, I loved it when I was 5, and when I was 6 in '98, I saw even more stuff like that, and there was this commercial with this alternative girl, and she had piercings, and I couldn't take it anymore, I officially said I would get lots of piercings and tattoos when I got older, and I will, but I'm still waiting. So like I mentioned before, When I saw Kool Thing by Sonic Youth, I thought Kim Gordon had mad style, and their other videos have cool styles too. Sugar Kane actually has the Marc Jacobs grunge line from either '92 or '93.



Sonic Youth - Sugar Kane



Sonic Youth - 100%

Sonic Youth - Dirty Boots



And I once found this picture, so thanks to whoever is in it, I love this style/vibe. I don't know if this was in the 90s or not though.

 Babes in Toyland at Lollapalooza 1993. You can see the sunglasses here too. I love the 90s Lollapalooza crowds, I feel like I saw an interview on youtube of Perry Farrell at Lolla '91 talking about the alternative nation, and they spanned the crowd, and all I could think was, wow these are my kind of people.

Speaking of Jane's Addiction, I always loved the styles in the Stop videohttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwI02OHtZTg&ob=av2e, especially the crazy colored hair women by the pool, and Mountain Song is probably the most alternativey video ever http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kAIMlISHhU&ob=av2n

 Local H - Cynic. And I love Scott's clothes here, great song and band by the way


 Dig - I'll Stay High. And this one just vibes of that too. Way too many good bands that didn't get enough attention.


I love the 90s-tattoos and piercings




Veruca Salt - Seether. I always loved Veruca Salt's dresses in this video.




Days of the New - Touch Peel and Stand. And this one just totally vibes. I love that dirty guy sitting in the chair.


Alice in Chains - Man in the Box. And I love Alice in Chains' clothes and Layne's hair in this vid


Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit. But most importantly, the Smells Like Teen Spirit video is the main one for the vibe/look of grunge. I always loved how they had dirt-like smoke floating around to give it that orange-brown-yellow grunge look.

Kurt Cobain's crazy colored kool aid hair









Jane's Addiction Stop video woman with purple colored hair, the woman to her left I think has red colored hair


Eddie has my second favorite flannel, right after one that Kurt had, and I love his tattered shorts in this video as well.

90's Kid Shows

Ok, so if I can't choose to be a 20-something in the 90's, then I'm at least glad I got to be a kid in the 90's. After all, the 90's was good all around, it was the best time to be a 20-something as well as a kid, and we had all the best kids shows in the 90's too. Nostalgia for those of you around my age, and for those older, here's how great we had it. Before stupid shows like Hanna Montanna, we had shows like Kablam, All That, Pepper Ann, Rocko's Modern Life, Recess, Kenan and Kel, Doug, Hey Arnold!, The Amanda Show, Ahh! Real Monsters, Are You Afraid of the Dark?, Animaniacs!, Pinky and the Brain, Clarissa Explains it All, Catdog, Ren and Stimpy, The Wild Thornberries, Pelswick, Angry Beavers, Rugrats, Freakazoid, Cousin Skeeter, Sister Sister, Smart Guy, Bill Nye the Science Guy, Eddie Good Deeds, Wishbone, Spongebob.

I always loved the guitar driven theme of Pepper Ann, and it was one of the few shows that had a female lead.




All That was the best kids show, and we're so cool , a few of our kids shows theme songs were played by cool musicians of that time. Theme by TLC


Theme by Coolio, he's even in the intro



The B52s did this one.




I always loved this show too.





I always thought Debbie Thornberry was so cool. No wonder, the flannel shirt, crop top, ripped jeans, boots, she's a total 90's teen.



So thank god TeenNick is bringing back the 90's with their "90s Are All That"http://90sareallthat.teennick.com/  thing where they play 90s kids shows from midnight Eastern  Time to 4 am Eastern Time.

Humorous Grunge

Ok, so for some reason I love it when people make fun of the stereotypes of grunge. I found out about this show called Almost Live! that was a local Seattle sketch show from 1984-1999, (people of note that came from there are Bill Nye the Science guy, his show started as a sketch on there and he acted in several other roles there, Joel Mchale from Community and the Soup, and I guess that Ross Shafer guy went on to do other things as well) and it really showed how laidback and make fun of yourself Seattle was, which I love, and there is one guy on youtube named george buford that has over 1,000 clips of this show on his channel, and they are really funny, and I love how the Seattle rockers pop in every once in a while, like they aren't to big to appear in a local show even though they were the biggest musicians at the time, but George decided to disable embedding on his videos, so I'll post a few from other people, plus other funny laidback let your hair down vibe funny grunge clips.

The Lame List - Almost Live!
Yes, that's Kim Thayil of Soundgarden along with other Seattle rockers in my favorite reoccurring skit from Almost Live!.

Rock Star Fantasy Camp - Almost Live!
With Dave Grohl, Mike McCready, and Kim Thayil



Pearl Jam - Animal




Sinatra doing Pearl Jam



Grungy slacker dude


The Grungies - The Ben Stiller Show

Grunge Christmas singers



And who could forget that cool Lollapalooza episode of the Simpsons where they had on Smashing Pumpkins and Sonic Youth.



Eugene Merman's "memories" of grunge



For more go to the youtube channel GeorgeBuford and check out a better version of Rock Star Fantasy camp http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfoiuoSiNHc, plus all the Lame Lists http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRz6IP9k400 , How the Grunge Stole Xmas http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3xR8alg84o (different than the one I posted of the grunge singers), Headbanger Hair Shampoo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGJlmQDWaKc, How to Be a Video Store Clerk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30nz5JmIpEE, Me! A Visit From Dave Grohl http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNmtJHIqhhs, In Style Now http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHl_adK9RrY, Signing a Band  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDftVZZbl3o  The Worst Girlfriend Joins the Band http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adkh0klkR_w,  Sing Along With Nirvana http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFFjZh2v7Pg, A Few Moments With (Andy Rooney in a Dark Alley) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPSB5Rm9jgo, Suburban Rebels http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqLvZGdyD3w, What's Up? (which has a cameo from Tad) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dp2Xqrf765s, Courtney Love - Public Service Announcement http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=771ZQlB3vrM, and others that have grunge guys or are about it.

Youtube channels of note and other useful links

Here are some youtube channels that should be in your subscriptions

BVMGrungeTV  http://www.youtube.com/user/BVMGrungeTV
74elcaminohef  http://www.youtube.com/user/74elcaminohef
GrungePlungetv http://www.youtube.com/user/GrungePlungeTV
The90sGrunge http://www.youtube.com/user/The90sGrunge
myhairsprayqueen http://www.youtube.com/user/myhairsprayqueen
s142057 http://www.youtube.com/user/s142057
mypartofthething http://www.youtube.com/user/mypartofthething
JotaGrunge http://www.youtube.com/user/JotaGrunge
GeorgeBuford http://www.youtube.com/user/GeorgeBuford
YipVid http://www.youtube.com/user/YipVid
PippVid http://www.youtube.com/user/PippVid
tomgrantpi (Cobain Case) http://www.youtube.com/user/tomgrantpi
ViolentSohoVEVO http://www.youtube.com/user/ViolentSohoVEVO
PetSalad http://www.youtube.com/user/PetSalad
frankharlan (Bomshelter Videos) http://www.youtube.com/user/frankharlan
bobbydiablo (KASRV music show) http://www.youtube.com/user/bobbydiablo

and the two main blogs I follow on here are Northwest Noise http://myhairsprayqueen.blogspot.com/ and Lamestain http://lamestainnorthwest.blogspot.com/
and I also found a website called fadedflannel http://fadedflannel.com/  that is pretty cool, and everyone should type in 90's grunge on ebay and look around http://shop.ebay.com/?_from=R40&_trksid=p3907.m570.l1313&_nkw=90s+grunge&_sacat=See-All-Categories, that's where I found all sorts of those cool grunge black rayon dresses with the little flowers all over them, and of course you can go to subpop.com http://www.subpop.com/ and buy stuff or look around, and the first place where I really started finding grunge bands was the grunge section on itunes essentials http://itunes.apple.com/us/playlist/the-basics/id74234822?wm=1, and I once found this riot grrrl online community website, but it seems they've moved it, and I was looking for zines and found this zine library website with this great diy zine that had all sorts of stuff and showed me how to make wheatpaste, but it seems that's gone too. I'm here to spread the knowledge I've gained over the past 6 1/2 years so other people can enjoy what I enjoy.


EDIT: Oops, looks like I forgot Grunge Report, a site for news on grunge  http://grungereport.net/

Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Women Power, we get to play heavy music and totally rock out in pretty dresses. Women in rock: We're about taking control, not trashing yourself; chicks that rock

7 Year Bitch - No Fucking War

Calamity Jane - Out of Money

Helium - Pat's Trick. Totally 90s


Veruca Salt - All Hail Me

The Breeders - Cannonball


Dickless - Saddle Tramp. This and all the Dickless songs are on my youtube channel in case anyone wants to check it out
Babes in Toyland - Bruise Violet. Bruise Violet is how I found out about Kinderwhore, which I love but I hate that Courtney Love also donned the fashion
L7 - Shove


Bikini Kill - Sugar. Bikini Kill is the main Riot Grrrl band, and I'll always love them for the great music and meaningful lyrics
Sonic Youth - Kool Thing. When I saw Kool Thing for the first time, I kept thinking about how cool Kim Gordon's clothes are. I kept watching Nirvana interviews with the guys talking about their influences, they were great about that, and after a while of hearing them mention band names, I figured maybe I should check them out since my favorite band liked them so much, so the first band i checked out was Sonic Youth since they seemed to talk about them a lot, and this was the first music I checked out by them, and I thought it was really cool, so that was like my que that the guys of Nirvana have really great taste in music and to check out their other favorite bands, and now all the other bands I love and listen to I heard about from Nirvana.
There was even an episode of Roseanne dedicated to riot grrrl. I saw that when I was little, and that was always the one episode that I kept in the back of my mind my whole life and I remember thinking is this punk, because if it is I like it, and it turned out to be riot grrrl, and I remember hearing Roseanne talking about how it was strong women writing about real things, and when I discovered riot grrrl by way of grunge a few years ago, I wondered if that was what the episode was about, so I searched for it, and sure enough, it was.
Splendora - You're Standing on My Neck. Splendora is a really great band that did the wicked sweet theme song to the show Daria. I always wanted to cover that song. The rest of their songs are great, and I think they only put out 1 album back in '95, and the songs are all on youtube.
Hammerbox - Size of the World.  Hammerbox are a really great female fronted Seattle 90's grunge band. Totally 90's!
The Gits - Second Skin. And of course I have to put up the Gits, a Seattle band fronted by the oh so amazingly passionate Mia Zapata who was murdered in 1993, but thank god they caught the guy. She died around a year after Stefanie Sargent of 7 year bitch did of a drug overdose, and I think they were both 27, more to add to the 27 club, so sad.
Janitor Joe - Boys in Blue. So I hate Courtney Love, grew up knowing her as the crazy woman and I didn't even know she had anything to do with music, and it turns out she married my favorite musician, and it's too obvious to mention that she did it, but anyway, I don't really listen to much Hole because of her and that annoying nasally winy voice, but I found Kristen Pfaff's main band, Janitor Joe, and I instantly loved the wicked sweet bass line on this song. She died of suspicious circumstances (Courtney again) but we'll just say drug overdose, a little while after Kurt died, I think she was also 27, creepy.
Mecca Normal - Waiting for Rudy. Now this one is totally creative



That Dog - Grunge Couple. That dog is great because they rock violins and sweet voices in their grungy, punkish, alternative songs.

Red Aunts - Roller Derby Queen

Bratmobile - Eating Toothpaste

Monday, August 22, 2011

We need a new 90's/grunge/alternative/riot grrrl/Seattle/generation X Renaissance

So here I am, just a kid born in '92, trying to learn how to play guitar and trying to find a job so I can save up money and move to Seattle and have a better chance at forming a grunge band. I've been hating my generation since it started sucking back in '98 when all those horrible pop people started coming out like Britney Spears, N'sync, the Backstreet Boys, Christina Agulara, Aaron Carter, and so on, and I was the only little girl in school that hated that stuff because I realized that they were so obviously fake, phony, shallow, empty, stale, glossy, and gross, and I never knew why no one else seemed to understand this but me, so I've been feeling so different from every other human being on the face of the earth since I was 6. Somebody's gotta do something, something's gotta give. I hate fame, oh so much, like no, I've never wanted to be a big star, quit trying to tell me that's what everyone wants, but maybe I should try and start another grunge/alternative/90's revolution, because no one else is, and I'm sick and tired of hearing the names of the new bad pop stars, and they are just ripoffs of the first ones, and oh, the only thing worse than pop is emo, and I remember back in the 90's when hiphop/rap were actually good and not all glossy, but anyway, I realize the only reason I found out about grunge, when I was 12 back in late 2004, was because it got famous, so I owe that fact, even though I didn't know it was famous because no one was talking about it then, and you have no idea how precious it is to have good music in the mainstream as well as the underground. So I'll just keep practicing guitar and we'll see what happens.