The Menzingers’ “Nice Things”
Check out that babe of a bartender, Ian Graham. Ha.
Almost 10 years to the day since I did my very first professional interview, I decided to step into the digital age and buy myself a digital voice recorder.
Almost 10 years ago to the day too, Eugene Butcher and Big Cheese took a chance on me, a soon-to-be college sophomore with basically no experience, a love for punk rock and a brazen desire to be a music journalist. My first assignment? Interview one of my then-favorite pop punk bands, New Found Glory.
My tape recorder has gotten many laughs, but also it has never once failed me.
Almost 10 years to the day since I did my very first professional interview, I decided to step into the digital age and buy myself a digital voice recorder.
Almost 10 years ago to the day too, Eugene Butcher and Big Cheese took a chance on me, a soon-to-be college sophomore with basically no experience, a love for punk rock and a brazen desire to be a music journalist. My first assignment? Interview one of my then-favorite pop punk bands, New Found Glory.
My tape recorder has gotten many laughs, but also it has never once failed me.
So Tom’s gonna be Laura now… and in 2012 I still find people on the internet commenting on another persons life how they insult and condemn a person for his choices.
How about the people who go through this and never find peace and end up committing suicide? Would you rather that? Or maybe he could become a raging drug addict and ruin his life and family? Would you rather that? Or maybe we could have rules from a dictator where everyone gets killed for anything they believe against the government, oh wait that doesn’t work…
How about you leave the guy alone. How about you let another human being make a decision about their lives without your snide prejudices and bigotry? This is one of the hardest decisions a person can make. From my limited understanding of the subject, it means feeling your whole life like you were born in the wrong skin. That’s something that 99% of us can’t understand. Weither you agree or don’t, it’s not your life. It’s not your family. it’s not your band, it’s theirs.
I don’t see the AM! guys very often, or if at all, but I always wish them well. They’re a great band. Leave it at that. Just let them be a great band.
To those being kind, this is not for you…
If this is joke though, it’s in very bad taste to the people who actually go through this. But I will say that I still feel this way about anyone who makes a decision against what we call normal. You can’t hate them, and they have the right, here in America, to make their own choices and live their lives free of prejudice.
So go live, Tom.
XOXO
Gossip Girl(photo copyright (c) 2012 Rolling Stone)
Buddy’s new fav thing: Tucking himself under my covers. At the right angle he can still watch birds.
