EVERYBODY HURTS: AN ESSENTIAL GUIDE TO EMO CULTURE by Leslie Simon & Trevor Kelley
Once a confessional form of punk rock that was emotional as it was loud, emo is now an undeniable cultural phenomenon with its own accompanying language, style and ideology.
By tracing the scene's angst-y roots from William Shakespeare to bands who dress like William Shakespeare (cough--Panic! at the Disco--cough) coauthors Leslie Simon and Trevor Kelley have created the definitive handbook for the heart-on-your-sleeve set.
Touching on topics such as fashion and the Internet, music and movies, eating habits and adulthood, Everybody Hurts sucsessfully identifies what it means to be emo in the present tense.
So stop writing that teary-eyed LiveJournal.com entry. Quit stalking Conor Oberst. Press "pause" on Donnie Darko. This is your book.
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About me:
The underground music scene is exploding everywhere -- not just in New York City and L.A. (although we've got those cities covered, too!):
In Washington, D.C.... Iam MacKaye and Fugazi inspired the straightedge culture, which had kids everywhere drawing black X's on their hands in magic marker.
In Omaha, Nebraska... A young Conor Oberst, aka Bright Eyes, started writing and performing gut-wrenching love songs at the tender age of thirteen.
On Long Island, New York... Taking Back Sunday and Brand New battled for emo supremacy and the fragile hearts of a million teenage girls.
From the coauthor of the cult-worthy Everybody Hurts: An Essential Guide To Emo Culture comes Wish You Were Here -- a combination travel guide and tortured history covering everything from what constitutes proper rock critic etiquette in Minneapolis to why pop-punk bands in Chicago have so much suburban angst, to how freegans in the Bay Area can feed themselves on a budget that would make frugal Rachael Ray's face blush.
For press inquiries or reader shout-outs, please email: Leslie Simon
Who I'd like to meet: Anthony Bourdain and Liz Lemon
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Mackenzie and Ricky are getting married in May. How have you been doing? We are going Saturday and start looking at dresses. They didn't give me much notice but thats Mackenzie, right? LOL Oh hey! I already took the pics to be printed lol! Some of them were soo freakin hilarious! And i loved the picture of us ... it was sooo cute..so yah, guess what? 'member those surveys i was doing online? well, i got 2 checks so far! told ya it was real!! it aint like a ton of money, just like 175 so far, but its good coin to start with, right? you should really do it, now that i've gotten paid ..i guess you'll have to type the link into internet explorer or whatever, but here it is:
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www.surveyblings.com
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