There are some fan behaviours which I think are really ridiculous.
First there’s the female fans who hate on the girlfriends/wives of their favourite rock stars. Like poor Lyn-Z who’s married to Gerard Way, the lead singer of My Chemical Romance, who appears to be every emo teenage girls crush. When they got married there was so much hating on her going on online. Teenage girls who called her a nasty bad person, proclaiming she was all wrong for Gerard and that the relationship wouldn’t last. Jealous much? And who are they to say she’s a bad person? They don’t know her. Their reaction to their marriage shouldn’t be a stream of hate. If they truly look up to Gerard they should be happy for him! Not to mention trust his judgement. He obviously loves her so who are they to say she’s wrong for him? Do they honestly think they are better fit to decide that than he is?
The other fan behaviour I find ridiculous is when the fans of alternative underground bands become upset over the success of their favourite band. You’ve all seen the discussions. A band make it big and all the sudden some of their hardcore fans consider them sell-outs. This is another situation where the fans should be happy for the band rather than trash talk them. Do they really think the band doesn’t want to reach out to even more people with their music? Do they think the band doesn’t want to be able to live on their music? These people often also proclaim that the “new fans” doesn’t get the bands music like they do. Oh no, discovering a band when it’s already famous or through popular media automatically means you’re a lesser being who’s just jumping the bandwagon and doesn’t really get it.
It also appears to be wrong to like a bands most popular songs. Like I am much more fond of HIM’s earlier CDs which just happens to be the most popular ones. I once told someone that and got the reply “Oh, so you like their most famous stuff” in a condescending tone. Yeah, so? Is there something wrong with that? Maybe, just maybe, that material is more popular than the newer stuff because it just happens to be better? No matter the reason for popularity apparently it’s all wrong liking well-known songs.
I’ve got the same reaction by telling someone Temple of Love was my favourite song by The Sisters of Mercy. “The one everyone knows” was what the person called it, in a condescending tone. So? Just because that was my favourite song by them (it isn’t any more) it doesn’t mean that’s the only one of their songs I’ve heard. At the time I had actually been a Sisters fan for years and heard pretty much all of their songs. And once again, perhaps it’s the most popular song because it’s a really good song? But of course, liking a bands most well-known material is not alternative at all and made me a lesser Sisters fan.
Elitist bullshit.
Anyone wanna exchange Christmas cards with me by the way?
It’s such a shame my inactivity in the blogosphere has made my site loose like half of it’s visitors. The daily hits used to be twice as many and I used to get a lot more comments as well. I really miss that. Oh well, it is as it is.
Today because of computer malfunction I’m in a really crappy mood and therefore don’t have much to say. I’ll leave you with some photos instead.
In August I bought tree more books in the Vampire Chronicles series. Just a few more and I’ll have all of the books.
Here’s my entire collection of books. 413 in total. Organized according to colour.
Would anyone like to exchange a mixed music CD with me? I burn a CD with my favourite songs for you and you burn one with yours for me.
I listen to alternative rock, industrial, gothic rock, death rock, darkwave, punk, indie pop, folk and metal. Of these alternative rock, gothic rock and industrial is what I like the best so expect a lot of that kind of music on my CD. And a lot of Manic Street Preachers songs, of course. There won’t be much contemporary chart music though because I hate 90% of the crap on MTV. Meaning no Lady fucking GaGa and no hiphop.
Interested in widening your musical horizon? I listen to awesome music.
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This is one of my all time favourite songs. It’s in my top five of songs I love and have been so since I first heard it back in 1998. Besides the song being great the lead singer also happens to be drop dead gorgeous. Just look at him! Wow.
Goo Goo Dolls – Iris
And I’d give up forever to touch you
Cause I know that you feel me somehow
You’re the closest to heaven that I’ll ever be
And I don’t want to go home right now
And all I can taste is this moment
And all I can breathe is your life
Cause sooner or later it’s over
I just don’t want to miss you tonight
And I don’t want the world to see me
Cause I don’t think that they’d understand
When everything’s made to be broken
I just want you to know who I am
And you can’t fight the tears that ain’t coming
Or the moment of truth in your lies
When everything feels like the movies
Yeah you bleed just to know your alive
And I don’t want the world to see me
Cause I don’t think that they’d understand
When everything’s made to be broken
I just want you to know who I am
And I don’t want the world to see me
Cause I don’t think that they’d understand
When everything’s made to be broken
I just want you to know who I am
I just want you to know who I am
I just want you to know who I am
I just want you to know who I am
I just want you to know who I am
After Manic Street Preachers Nirvana is my favourite band. For many years they were my number one band but being number two isn’t too bad either. It still means a folder with more than five hundred songs on my computer. Name a Nirvana song and I’ve heard it. Live, B-side, outtake, all of them. I’ve got tons of CDs. Official, compilations, bootlegs. Not all of them but many.
Here are two of my favourite Nirvana songs. Like the other songs I’ve posted here these don’t have any official videos. As far as I know the video to Sappy is a tribute montage to Kurt Cobain shown at MTV video music awards in 1994.
In His Hands / In His Room (My favourite version of the song. Another version of it is called Verse Chorus Verse).
Sappy (An earlier name of this song was Verse Chorus Verse but that name was given to one version of the previous song and this one is now known as Sappy. Confusing, I know).
If you like Nirvana, which are your favourite Nirvana songs? In His Hands is my absolute favourite. I also like Sappy (obviously), Big Long Now, Lounge Act, Smells Like Teen Spirit (who doesn’t?), Come As You Are, Where Did You Sleep Last Night, About A Girl and last but not least The Man Who Sold The World. That’s quite a few songs but well I’m a big fan and have trouble narrowing it down more than that.
Fan girls. I think we all are or have been fan girls at one time. These are the most fan girlie things I’ve done.
First of all it has to be my cat Nicky. When I decided I wanted to get one more cat I immediately decided that I wanted a boy cat this time. Why? So I could name him Nicky Wire after the bassist of Manic Street Preachers.
Another fan girlie thing I’ve done myself guilty of is starting to wear army and camouflage wear because that’s a trademark of Manics.
Yet another thing related to Manics was when I was doing grocery shopping and saw Ocean Spray (cranberry juice) on the shelf. I immediately decided that I needed to buy that juice even though it was expensive and I’m not even that fond of cranberries. Why? Well because Manics have a song named Ocean Spray where James sings about drinking it.
And then of course there’s the obvious things like waiting at the back door after after a concert to get so see the artists and have my picture taken with them. I’ve done that three times. After Juliette and the Licks, Dia Psalma and… Melody Club… I swear to god it wasn’t my idea to wait backstage after Melody Club! I just hung out with my friends who were fans… > _ <
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Watching Casper. It's a bit weird because when I was a kid I always watched the dubbed version so this is the first time I watch it undubbed #2012/01/27
Tonight I need to clean but I'd rather do some web design. #2012/01/26
In Swedish "sopa" means "piece of trash/garbage". Very fitting. #2012/01/25
The first verse of Welcome to the Black Parade must be the best song intro ever. <3 #2012/01/25
Figuring out the CSS of the latest WP default theme. Boring and tideous work. #2012/01/25
There won’t be much contemporary chart music though because I hate 90% of the crap on MTV. Meaning no Lady fucking GaGa and no hiphop. 
Welcome to Whirlwind, the online home of a 28 year old Swedish artist, web designer and blogger who goes by the name Angelica. The site consists of 544 MB words, photos and art. Please do take a look around.
