A week ago I went to see the band Say Anything. It was a Wednesday. I never go out on Wednesdays and I think the last time I went to a show was my Senior year in highschool. So this was pretty random for me. I was excited to go as this band brings me back to those days, embracing the age of my indie/hardcore roots, before I gave up on trying to be different and decided its just easier to conform. My friend who took me to the show sent me this article today. Here are a few more reasons I relate to and love this band:"...wildly eclectic telling the ultimate love story, complete with madness, exhilaration, depression and redemption."
"...became obsessed with something he once considered to be contrived: boy-meets-girl, boy-loses-girl songs."
"Smoking pot and staying up nights stressing, he began to unravel. Then he had the psychotic episode that would largely influence In Defense of the Genre. 'I woke up one morning manic,' he says. 'I started to feel like I was being videotaped. And that's sort of how the rest of the afternoon unfolded, with me walking around Brooklyn being like, whoa, I'm in The Truman Show.' " Bemis was diagnosed as bipolar, and finished the album — a theatrical bunch of quirky, confessional pop-rock songs that showed off his vocal talents and stunning emotional range." [The album's description defines my own personality!]
"In therapy, I've been enslaved. I think I’ll medicate this rage."
"...burying himself in random sex and "exploring the void."
"...because nothing is certain in life and it's more about knowing how important a person was to you than whether you actually end up with the them."
"The music I grew up on was early emotional hardcore, and since it's become popular, people rarely recognize the culture behind it. There's no need to make fun of 'emo kids' all the time, but that's trendy now. It's important to know that you love something because you love something and it shouldn't matter what other people say."
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