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Friday, September 07, 2007
Metal Immaturity

I am a big fan of heavy metal. On a recent car ride, I was poo pooed because heavy metal is little boyish. As if to say, rocking out to shred guitar and negative lyrics is the equivellent of being into GI JOE. My response:1. So what? I enjoy it. 2. The same people calling me imature for rocking out to metal today are the same people equating metal to devil worship when i was a kid, telling me it was dead when grunge came out, and over all putting it down ever since I picked up my first ozzy tape.

I've come to the conclusion YOU JUST DON"T FUCKING LIKE IT. Don't pretend your taste is superior to mine. These people were trendy little twerps when we were kids, and now that they're adult hipsters that are so so mature and so so unique, they think they're in a position to judge. they wern't then and they arn't now.

let me tell you something about their judgments. I was in a UD dorm with a group of groovies that were so darn cool they had no time for cool, and the girls started reminissing about mc hammer and vinnilla ice and how bad they sucked in retrospec. I laughed at them for ever being into it in the first place, and they chided me because surely I don't like the things I liked back then.

Not true, losers. Because I've always liked what I like becuase I liked it, and was never hoodwinked into liking something by MTV or the cool kids at school, I have no reason not to still like it. When the sheep herd was convinced paula abdul and milli vanilli was good, I prefered metal. When the herd changed its mind and went alternative, i still preferred metal. And now that the herd has "grown up" and enjoy the sphisticated sounds of cute indie bands, jazz acts, and jam bands (but will permit themselves a giggle at those old tunes becuase camp is cool), I STILL PREFER METAL.Now,

to be honest, I've grown to like all kinds of music and styles that hipsters like too. Thats called being open to new things. The smae spirit of curiosity and love for music that lets me enjoy "adult" "just underground enough" rock like spoon or modest mouse lets me enjoy everything from classical composers to emo.

The bottom line is, people who poo poo metalheads are usually people who learned snobbery from the in crowd, but never made it far up that pyramid, so they dropped out of it in college. now they impress themselves with their own coolness and snicker at those who stepped outside of the scheme early on.

And check this out: metalheads may very well be like the deadheads of the 60s (as opposed to those who jumped on board that train in the 90s): they were snickered at, went on to become some pretty important people, and generally live their life either outside of or at the head of the herd.

I find it telling that there were a ton of metal heads in law school.