Comments on: Cool Kids http://www.latenightwallflower.com/site/2009/01/18/cool-kids/ We Report Econo. Mon, 30 Jan 2012 02:45:13 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: David http://www.latenightwallflower.com/site/2009/01/18/cool-kids/comment-page-1/#comment-2213 David Tue, 06 Oct 2009 00:56:54 +0000 http://www.latenightwallflower.com/?p=2717#comment-2213 Contact me asap please! Contact me asap please!

]]> By: Chase http://www.latenightwallflower.com/site/2009/01/18/cool-kids/comment-page-1/#comment-1592 Chase Tue, 27 Jan 2009 02:26:02 +0000 http://www.latenightwallflower.com/?p=2717#comment-1592 In 1998 the straight edge lifestyle was about 15 years old, and it was no longer what it originally was no matter who you are, or what you were doing it for. While people were doing it beforehand, Edge started with Ian MacKaye and kids in DC who were responding to the idiots they'd see around them who were hopped up on drugs or getting wasted all the time. Edge was a response to that, a way to separate themselves from a lifestyle that was obviously destructive, wasteful and really stupid. But like any ideology, it can be taken to the extreme. Like Christianity, I may myself be a Christian, but I do not in the least say that God doesn't love homosexuals, that only "born again" Christians will be in heaven, or that abortion is a black and white decision. Militant edgers are not representative of both the whole or the ideology itself, though it's glaringly apparent why anyone would be turned off to the whole thing haven't met any one of the extremists themselves (which I also did the first time I met someone who was straight edge.) It's interesting to me how not hardcore the scene is everywhere I go. No matter what city I'm in, I've yet to meet a scene (with the exception of one night in Evansville, IN in 2003) that was open, inviting, and seemed to have a good time at the shows rather then being there to strike a pose or smash kids and hate on bands who aren't apart of their crew (Eureka, MO hardcore crew.) I mostly hate playing shows because of the douchebags that come to them. In 1998 the straight edge lifestyle was about 15 years old, and it was no longer what it originally was no matter who you are, or what you were doing it for. While people were doing it beforehand, Edge started with Ian MacKaye and kids in DC who were responding to the idiots they’d see around them who were hopped up on drugs or getting wasted all the time. Edge was a response to that, a way to separate themselves from a lifestyle that was obviously destructive, wasteful and really stupid.
But like any ideology, it can be taken to the extreme. Like Christianity, I may myself be a Christian, but I do not in the least say that God doesn’t love homosexuals, that only “born again” Christians will be in heaven, or that abortion is a black and white decision.
Militant edgers are not representative of both the whole or the ideology itself, though it’s glaringly apparent why anyone would be turned off to the whole thing haven’t met any one of the extremists themselves (which I also did the first time I met someone who was straight edge.)
It’s interesting to me how not hardcore the scene is everywhere I go. No matter what city I’m in, I’ve yet to meet a scene (with the exception of one night in Evansville, IN in 2003) that was open, inviting, and seemed to have a good time at the shows rather then being there to strike a pose or smash kids and hate on bands who aren’t apart of their crew (Eureka, MO hardcore crew.) I mostly hate playing shows because of the douchebags that come to them.

]]> By: Austin http://www.latenightwallflower.com/site/2009/01/18/cool-kids/comment-page-1/#comment-1585 Austin Sat, 24 Jan 2009 22:56:24 +0000 http://www.latenightwallflower.com/?p=2717#comment-1585 Straight Edge is a personal choice, we all know that; but for some reason we all try to relate it to a brotherhood and unity of some underground society when in reality there is no brotherhood outside asshole crews that go to shows to crowd bash on people who aren't even dancing then want to start fights over it cause the people dancing can't hit the people in the pit so they go for the crowd cause they're pussies. Then its crew against divided crowd. Its human nature to try to belong. Two people might suffer from depression but they are worlds apart; I distance myself from saying I'm edge to anyone cause there's no commonness amongst me and anyone else I see out there who is edge. I made the claim because it was something strong I saw in a friend and I wanted to be like that; not to become some faggoty underground dick head army of bullshit cargo and mesh shorts New York and L.A hat scene. Straight Edge is a personal choice, we all know that; but for some reason we all try to relate it to a brotherhood and unity of some underground society when in reality there is no brotherhood outside asshole crews that go to shows to crowd bash on people who aren’t even dancing then want to start fights over it cause the people dancing can’t hit the people in the pit so they go for the crowd cause they’re pussies.
Then its crew against divided crowd.

Its human nature to try to belong. Two people might suffer from depression but they are worlds apart; I distance myself from saying I’m edge to anyone cause there’s no commonness amongst me and anyone else I see out there who is edge.

I made the claim because it was something strong I saw in a friend and I wanted to be like that; not to become some faggoty underground dick head army of bullshit cargo and mesh shorts New York and L.A hat scene.

]]> By: Lily Fierman http://www.latenightwallflower.com/site/2009/01/18/cool-kids/comment-page-1/#comment-1579 Lily Fierman Wed, 21 Jan 2009 18:36:04 +0000 http://www.latenightwallflower.com/?p=2717#comment-1579 I could not agree more. I want to know when that point in time was when I started becoming the minority? I was a straight edge girl for 5+ years, which was hard enough, and one day I woke up and decided that I did not feel the same way about drugs and alcohol. And no, it wasn't that I wanted to start binge drinking and smoking weed, but simply that there was no difference between me and the person who has a beer with dinner. I respect straight edge more than anything, some of my favorite people have been their whole entire lives, but those people that I associate with are the ones who are not going to take extreme offense and see that my straight edge attitude is still there. And this attitude that I speak of is one of non-addiction, or an attitude that understands that some decisions are more important. The whole entire point of this music scene is to unite, and not to divide, and all I see with some of my friends is this great division between us all. I could not agree more. I want to know when that point in time was when I started becoming the minority? I was a straight edge girl for 5+ years, which was hard enough, and one day I woke up and decided that I did not feel the same way about drugs and alcohol. And no, it wasn’t that I wanted to start binge drinking and smoking weed, but simply that there was no difference between me and the person who has a beer with dinner. I respect straight edge more than anything, some of my favorite people have been their whole entire lives, but those people that I associate with are the ones who are not going to take extreme offense and see that my straight edge attitude is still there. And this attitude that I speak of is one of non-addiction, or an attitude that understands that some decisions are more important. The whole entire point of this music scene is to unite, and not to divide, and all I see with some of my friends is this great division between us all.

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