Sunday, February 25, 2007

Cheer up Emo kid...

Stuff from Urban Dictionary that made me laugh:
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=emo



The Difference between Emo And Goth:


Emos Hate themselves

Goths hate Everyone

Emos Want to Kill themselves

Goths Want to kill Everyone
3. Emo:
An entire subculture of people (usually angsty teens) with a fake personality. The concept of Emo is actually a vicious cycle that never ends, to the utter failing of humanity, and it goes something like this:1. Girls say they like "sensitive guys" (lie)2. Guy finds out, so he listens to faggy emo music and dresses like a dork so chicks will see that he is sensitive and not afraid to express himself (lie). He dyes his hair black, wraps himself in a stupid looking scarf, develops an eating disorder, and rants about how "nobody understands".3. Now an emo guy, he meets Emo chick and they start dating, talking about how their well-off suburban lifestyles are terrible and depressing (lie)4. Emo guy is just too much of a pussy. His penis is too small, he's too depressed to bathe, and has more mood swings than emo chick, and he doesn't even have a menstrual cycle. Emo chick dumps him, saying "It's not you, it's me." (lie) as she drives off with Wayne, the school jock and captain of the football team.5. Emo guy goes home and cries, proceeds to write a weak song and strum a single string on his acoustic guitar. Another emo chick sees how he is so in touch with his feelings, and the cycle continues.This is the sad truth of the emo lifestyle/music, and now that I look at how pathetic it really is, maybe the emos DO have something to cry about!
When she sees how sensitive and emo I have become, she'll definately go out with me!
4. Emo:
Like a Goth, only much less dark and much more Harry Potter.
My life sucks, I want to cry.
5. Emo:
A group of white, mostly middle-class well-off kids who find imperfections in there life and create a ridiculous, depressing melodrama around each one. They often take anti-depressants, even though the majority don't need them. They need to wake up and deal with life like everyone else instead of wallowing in their imaginary quagmire of torment.
Emo conversation!XxSlavetoAnguishxX: omg my gf just left meacidburnedsoul: that sux manXxSlavetoAnguishxX: i blame myself only i'm such an ass *cries*acidburnedsoul: dude come over to my house and we can cut ourselves togetherXxSlavetoAnguishxX: okay *cries*acidburnedsoul: omg dashboard confessional has a new cd, i preordered it alreadyXxSlavetoAnguishxX: dude they're my favorite band to self-mutilate toacidburnedsoul: i prefer to cut myself while watching Napoleon Dynamite on my bigscreenXxSlavetoAnguishxX: dude that movie is so deep. i cry every time i see
itacidburnedsoul: me too. i hate myselfXxSlavetoAnguishxX: yeah we're such tortured souls, nobody understands how hard life is for usacidburnedsoul: yeah we got it tough dude. pass the tissues
8. Emo:
the type of music you listen to when, try as you might, you cannot get laid..and cry about it..
man, ive been listening to a lotta emo lately
11. Emo:
Normally a 15-17 year old teenager. Considers themselves to be much more in touch with their emotions than anyone else; whereas they really just feel sorry for themselves. Most emo's will claim to be depressed, or simply misunderstood. They think they are unique, and fail to realise that they actually look like half the teenage population of south england. You can recognise an emo by looking for these general characteristics:SKINNY JEANS (both boys and girls) The tighter the better. If an emo can hardly walk because of their jeans, then they've reached optimum emo status.STRIPEY JUMPERS. Normally black and grey. If you're a boy, this should again be worn as tightly as possible. Breathing comfortably is a luxury you may have to sacrifice.TATTY CONVERSE. Usually drawn on, as most emo's regard themselves as artists.BLACK LONG HAIR COVERING ONE SIDE OF YOUR FACE. Vision can be compromsised for style as an emo. Try and make it as greasy as possible. Finally, emo's MUST look down on everyone else, accuse them of being uncreative, judgemental, and the sole cause of their 'depression'. If you're a hardcore emo you'll cut yourself occasionnally. If you're not, then you at least have to pretend you do.
EMO: I wouldn't expect you uncreative facists to understand my art. It's a statement. I'm all alon in this world, all I have is my poetry and my paintings. I am destined to travel through the misty and cold fog of existence alone and cold. My heart has long ago turned to stone, and now your harsh words simple hit the surface. The depths of my soul can no longer be tarnished by your small minded and stereoptyped views...ME: CHEER UP EMO KID! :)
P.S i heart emo boys

Friday, January 19, 2007

Guilty conscience? Me?

Alfred Tennyson Tennyson (1809–1892)
That a lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies;
That a lie which is all a lie may be met and fought with outright;
But a lie which is part a truth is a harder matter to fight.
The Grandmother. Stanza 8.

Sophocles (c. 496 B.C.–406 B.C.)
A lie never lives to be old.
Acrisius. Frag. 59.

George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron (1788–1824)
And after all, what is a lie? ’T is but
The truth in masquerade.

Don Juan. Canto xi. Stanza 37.

George Herbert (1593–1633)
Dare to be true: nothing can need a lie;
A fault which needs it most, grows two thereby.
The Church Porch.

Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809–1894)
Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.
The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table. vi.

A lie has short legs.
Estonian. Trans. by Ilse Lehiste (1993).

A lie will easily get you out of a scrape, and yet, strangely and beautifully, rapture possesses you when you have taken the scrape and left out the lie.
C.E. (Charles Edward) Montague (1867–1928), British author, journalist. Disenchantment, ch. 15, sect. 4 (1922).

You told a lie, an odious, damned lie;
Upon my soul, a lie, a wicked lie.

William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. Emilia, in Othello, act 5, sc. 2, l. 180-1.
On learning of Iago’s lies about Desdemona.

No lie ever reaches old age.
Sophocles (497–406/5 B.C.), Greek tragedian. Fragments, l. 59 (Acrisius).

Of course I lie to people. But I lie altruistically—for our mutual good. The lie is the basic building block of good manners. That may seem mildly shocking to a moralist—but then what isn’t?
Quentin Crisp (b. 1908), British author. Manners from Heaven, ch. 4 (1984).

Pain forces even the innocent to lie.
Publilius Syrus (1st century B.C.), Roman writer of mimes. Sententiae, no. 171.

An injurious lie is an uncommendable thing; and so, also, and in the same degree, is an injurious truth.
Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910), U.S. author. “On the Decay of the Art of Lying,” (1882).

I deny the lawfulness of telling a lie to a sick man for fear of alarming him. You have no business with consequences; you are to tell the truth.
Samuel Johnson (1709–1784), British author, lexicographer. (Originally published 1791). Boswell’s Life of Johnson, June 13, 1784, pp. 1301-02, Oxford University Press (1980).
There are two kinds of liars the kind that lie and the kind that don’t lie the kind that lie are no good.
Gertrude Stein (1874–1946), U.S. author. (Written 1925-1926). A Novel of Thank You, ch. CXCIII, Yale University Press (1958).

There is none who does not lie hourly in the respect he pays to false appearance.
Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862), U.S. philosopher, author, naturalist. Letter, April 3, 1850, to Harrison Blake, in The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, vol. 6, p. 177, Houghton Mifflin (1906).


The real history of consciousness starts with one’s first lie.
Joseph Brodsky (b. 1940), Russian–born U.S. poet, critic. (First published 1976). “Less Than One,” sct. 1, Less Than One: Selected Essays (1986).

It takes good memory to keep up a lie.
Pierre Corneille (1606–1684), French playwright. Cliton, in The Liar (Le Menteur), act 4, sc. 5 (1644).

I have longed to move away
From the hissing of the spent lie....

Dylan Thomas (1914–1953), Welsh poet. “I have longed to move away.”

Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.
Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951), Austrian philosopher. Culture and Value, 1947 journal entry, eds. G.H. von Wright and Heikki Nyman (1980).

An omnipotent God is the only being with no reason to lie.
Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, Fourth Selection, New York (1987

Truth does not consist in never lying but in knowing when to lie and when not to do so.
Samuel Butler (1835–1902), British author. First published in 1912. Samuel Butler’s Notebooks, p. 304, E.P. Dutton & Company (1951).

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie—deliberate, contrived and dishonest—but the myth—persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917–1963), U.S. Democratic politician, president. Commencement address, June 11, 1962, Yale University, New Haven, Conn

Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth.
Do not follow those who lie in contempt of reality.
Let your lie be even more logical than the truth itself,
So the weary travelers may find repose.
Czeslaw Milosz (b. 1911), Lithuanian–born Polish poet. Child of Europe, sect. 4, Selected Poems (1973).


The truth is balance, but the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
Susan Sontag (b. 1933), U.S. essayist. “Simone Weil,” Against Interpretation (1966).

Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler (1835–1902), British author. First published in 1912. Samuel Butler’s Notebooks, p. 114, E.P. Dutton & Company (1951).

You see, a person of my acquaintance used to divide people into three categories: those who would prefer to have nothing to hide than have to lie, those who would rather lie than have nothing to hide, and finally those who love both lies and secrets.
Albert Camus (1913–1960), French-Algerian novelist, dramatist, philosopher. The Fall, p. 125, Gallimard (1956).

There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself; anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie.
Franz Kafka (1883–1924), Prague German Jewish author, novelist. The Third Notebook, January 14, 1918. The Blue Octavo Notebooks, ed. Max Brod, trans. by Ernst Kaiser and Eithne Wilkins. Exact Change, Cambridge, MA (1991). Dearest Father: Stories and Other Writings, trans. by Ernst Kaiser and Eithne Wilkins, New York, Schocken Books (1954).