Dude, your font colour sucks.

It's something I worry about everyday.

..

Not.

Anyway, since I felt like taking 5 minutes to let my dinner cool, I figured I could go and type words up and hope that something awesome comes from it. With that in mind, I decided to go find another band that isn't popular. That band is Avenged Sevenfold. Or A7X, for those people who don't feel like saying the full title.

Last Friday, I went out of my way to go to a music store (HMV, I guess. I honestly didn't bother paying attention to the name of the place.) with the hopes of picking up some more CDs that I can stick in my computer and rock out to in my pajamas at 6 pm because I'm the only person in the house. Sadly, there weren't any Good Charlotte albums on sale, but whatever, I picked up Nightmare and some stuff made by David Guetta for 20 bucks. I'm not complaining.

As one of many who actually read wikipedia to see what their favourite bands are up to, I was one of the dudes who shed manly tears over the fact that The Rev (Jimmy Sullivan) passed away. I would say that he "died", but that seems a bit too violent. And I gotta make sure not to offend anyone. But like I said, manly tears. Doesn't happen often.

However, it got me thinking. Well, not so much the fact that The Rev passed away, but the whole "I dedicate this album to such-and-such person" mentality. I have nothing against it; in fact, I kind of think it's a good thing (That's a story for when I have time to write more, though). Alas, just go look up the song 'Fiction' by A7X.

I liked it.

Spontaneous self-worth interlude!

So now that the good Halloween candy (The Caramilks, of course) is gone, and I have a few days where I don't have to put too much time into schoolwork, I can write this post and pretend that I care about stuff. Yay. I mean...really, is there such a thing as a blogger who is a caring person? Not if Myspace has anything to say about it.

Anyway, with the ability to have a bit of time to think about music, I eventually turned my thoughts towards myself as a musician. Of course, that didn't go too well. The one song that I actually personally wrote and produced is lost somewhere in the vast whatever that is known as cyberspace. Which means that I didn't really care enough about the song to hold onto it. In recent months, however, I've been writing lyrics a lot more. Which is basically since I graduated from High School this year until...now. I've managed to write enough lyrics to produce 7 songs or so, but..that's only lyrics. The only progress I've made on finishing the songs is figuring out a relatively general genre that the songs would fall under. Of course, that genre would be 'mopey emo pop'. I don't think that's an official genre, but I suppose you could just point at Breathe Carolina and say "Pretty much that". Which is sadly true.

On one hand, it would be relatively easy to finish the songs. Find another dude around my age who can scream and is able to play the guitar/bass/percussion. Heck, he doesn't even need to play the bass or percussion. Just as long as he knows how to play a guitar and doesn't sound horrible when screaming vocals. On the other hand, that would just be perpetuating stereotypes and other things. Seriously, who the hell wants to promote being emo? Don't answer that, by the way. Just for that smartass who thought he or she would tell me.

Or maybe I could just not produce them, and perpetuate stereotypes and stuff by overthinking everything and be undecided on how to act.