Ringtones can be fun, but don't be fooled: Choosing a ringtone is a big responsibility. You never know when someone is going to call you, so you have to choose a ringtone that will be appropriate regardless of where you are or what you're doing.
For example, here are some situations where the wrong ringtone could be pretty awkward...
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Is there anything a movie fan looks forward to more than the summer movie season? It's the time of the year when the studios pull out all the stops - and the big guns. Not sure what the big ones for this year will be? Look no further - here's the breakdown.
It definitely looks like it should be a big summer, with lots of action, huge opening weekends, and a bunch of studio executives laughing and smiling their way to the bank.
Horror movie characters? Emo? It's more likely than you think... Here's a list of the ten most emo horror icons, with in-depth character analysis of their super-emo traits.
10. The Predator
How is the Predator emo? Well, for one thing, the Predator in the original movie sure as hell spends a lot of time by himself, hiding in trees, watching people from a distance. This is pretty much the vicious vagina-mouthed alien from another planet's version of an emo teenager's bedroom. Being that he's an alien, he must be feeling pretty lonely on this planet, especially since everyone is really annoyed with him for simply doing his job. I mean, he's a predator. He doesn't mean to kill off everyone in his path, it's just all he knows. Kind of like how emo kids end up alienated simply for being themselves.
And then there's the bleeding. In every Predator movie, the Predator or Predators spend a lot of time just bleeding all over the place. Admittedly, they're bleeding from war wounds, but ever see an emo kid get beaten up? There's usually some blood. And let's not even talk about the howling and crying when a Predator has a wound to heal... come on, emo kids cry less when someone forces a bottle of peroxide on them. Welcome to emo-ville, Predator. Now go cry some more.
09. Jason Voorhees
Here's Jason's story: as a weird-looking outcast kid, he was picked on and beaten up at camp. He drowned as a result of the bullying he faced while inconsiderate camp counselors ignored the situation to get their horny teenage rocks off. Most modern-day emo kids can recall their school/camp days as being full of similar torture, only without the whole drowning thing. And while some of the early Friday The Thirteenth movies muck around a bit with Jason's story, let's just skip to the iconic Jason in a hockey mask with a machete. He's a lot bigger and burlier than most emo kids, but he's still incredibly emo. How?
01. He didn't just come back from the dead; he came back from the dead to cut people.
02. Being challenged in the follicle department, Jason can't have emo hair. So how does he hide his face? With a hockey mask. To further earn some emo points, he manages to pull off the "hide one eye with asymmetrical bangs" thing by simply not having one eye. That alone makes him the most badass emo kid ever - even more so than Pete Wentz, king of the random fistfight.
I dare you to find me a more emo day than Valentine's Day. We can either celebrate love and be all romantic and cheesy, or mourn love and spit in the general directions of all the Hallmark stores that invented the damned holiday to begin with. I kind of prefer a combination -- I like to celebrate love, but at the same time, shun the odd -looking heart bears, over-priced flowers, and whatever else you're supposed to like and give people on this day. Anyway, it's Thursday, and that's a wrestling night in my house.
Anyway, I asked a bunch of punk and emo bands what came to mind when they thought of their first loves. As expected... some cute, some sad, some completely hilarious.
Brien
Worsham- Vocals, Secret Lives! Of The
Freemasons:
I was in 4th grade
when this girl Jenn* moved to my school. I was instantly in love with this girl.
From her permed hair right down to her big ass teeth… I was in love. Until the
day we kissed, that is. This girl’s spit was out-of-control. It was like kissing
a water fountain! You can imagine how bummed I was. Didn’t even have time to cop
my first feel or anything. Nothing but instant gross out. Thanks for letting
me vent about this, Shoutmouth.
Chris - Vocals, Vanna
I would say my first love was one of my best friends. I had a problem with falling in love with all my girl best friends, and that was a theme with me. I was afraid to branch out on girls I didn't know. The nice thing is, I'm still really good friends with all my first loves.
Daniel Hunter - Vocals, Everything Else, PlayRadioPlay:
When I was in 7th grade I think... I dated my first love for 8 months and we never kissed...
Brian Nagan- Vocals, Four Letter Lie:
"I remember I was in first grade, and it was about half way through the school year when a new girl joined our grade. She had moved here from another state and of course whenever there is a new student at your school, everyone knows about it. Her name was Jennifer* and she was so cute. I had a crush on her for sure, but the problem was, my two other best friends did too. Everyday at recess we would spend all of our time trying to impress this girl and out do the other. One day I brought her flowers, and even went so far as to stealing a pair of my mothers earrings and giving them to this girl, remember...she was in first grade and could obviously never wear any sort of fine jewelry.
The day I finally got the chance to hang out with this girl outside of class when I got to her house, one of my friends was already there and he told me to leave and that he "had her first". I felt pretty devastated. Every day after that I no longer talked to her or tried to entertain her at recess. And that was the beginning of my endless losing streak with girls.
Jared - Drums, Innerpartysystem:
The only thing I remember about my first love was that it was painfully blinded by 13 year old teenage hormones. No one knows what the fuck love really is the first time around, and like anything else, you make a lot of mistakes when you're learning
Doug Robinson- Vocals, The Sleeping:
My first love married my best friend about five months ago which is funny because he started seeing her after he told me she was cheating on me with one of our other friends.... haha. We are all still close to this day.
Oh and my second love would smash her own head against the steering wheel every time we got into an argument basically scaring the shit out of me and forcing me to fear for my life... haha.
Alida Marroni- Vocals, 1997
I'd have to say that I was incredibly lucky to have fallen in love and stayed with that person for the years that I did. I barely have any regrets when it comes to the situation, which is fairly unusual for such a long relationship. There is nothing like being in love throughout all of high school. In a lot of ways it's as typical and adorable as it sounds. However, I neglected a lot of friends and experiences during this time because I was so caught up and dependent on another person. That's probably the only downside of it all. I haven't been in love since, but I hear that the first one will always have a big part of you.
So... what do you remember about your first love?
And... Happy Valentine's Day!
I've had this song in my head since I woke up, so it's my gift to you guys:
Today, the Matches' new album, A Band in Hope, leaked, over a month prior to its release date. The band handled it really well, with one of the classiest messages I have ever read:
By chance, today marks the official unofficial CD release party of our new album A Band In Hope! It has leaked. The tiger is out of the ziplock.
How may you make payment to the musicians who created it? Glad you wondered.
When you download or rip the album, do something nice for a stranger. Give a dollar to one.org. Jumpstart a car. Give a rose to an old woman eating alone. Leave an open ended love letter in someone’s shoe at the gym. But actually, those examples are not as great as the ones you will come up with! Take a video of it on your camera or cameraphone or if you don’t have that, take a photo, or draw a picture, and send it to us (or yousendit.com it if it’s a big file) to us at abandinhopepayment@gmail.com
Of course, when March 18th rolls around, it’s still hugely helpful to us if you buy the record. Yet we only ask that you purchase it if you love it and/or want to/ have the means to support us. By all means, download it first! Eagerly awaiting brilliant directorial debuts of good karma stirring.
Seriously -- how cool is that? I really love the way they took it in stride, accepted that people were going to download it, and turned a negative into a positive. I mean, album leaks are pretty much the standard these days, so why act like petulant children over it? There are obviously a bunch of issues with how things are done these days and it seems nothing can stop an album from leaking.
And this brings me to something I was talking about just last night. Why do labels still adhere to the old rules of release schedules, when clearly, the game has changed so much in the past decade?
Especially when it comes to punk, emo, hardcore, metal, and all associated genres, there isn't really that great of a need for advertising, right? Most of us know about the bands we like because of strong Internet communities and the fact that we actually have vague communication with the bands themselves via sites like MySpace. I'm pretty sure that anyone who would buy the new album from the Matches in March is already well aware of said album -- so why hold it back? Just release it when it's done. That way, you satiate the super fans who just want your album -- and don't want to wait. With this plan, the labels would ultimately end up removing almost all of the motivation for downloading a leaked album, which is simply, "I want it, and I can have it now, rather than in a month or two."
The rules have changed! You can still advertise and promote the album to a wider audience after catering to the core fans with a sped up release. Do first-week sales really matter that much? Why not enter the charts at #50 and then work your way up through word of mouth from the fans who bought it, as well as new fans you convert in the same time period you would have used based upon the initial release date?
I don't really see much of a flaw in my logic here, if I may say so myself. I know the CDs usually leak in the printing plants, but if the labels could get the product into the store around the same time as the leak, rather than sitting on the album because of a date that was set for it? I can't help but think it would increase sales, rather than harm them.
I know the record labels are still struggling with the new way things work... the inevitable leaks, downloading, and all associated woes. But I'm not sure they're thinking all that creatively, because the old way of doing business is so ingrained in their heads.
Here's what it comes down to:
We, the fans, know when a band is in the studio these days. They tell us, they shoot videos, and post updates while in there. As such, we also know when they're done with the album.
We, the fans, want that album as soon as humanly possible. The Matches' fans want their album now, rather than in March. Hence, people will download it for free to satiate that want. After all, it's there. Now. Why not just give the fans what they want, or at least, take a chance on it -- and see if that doesn't increase sales quite a bit, across the board?
Either way, I have a new respect for the Matches simply for coming off like all-around cool, chill guys, even though they probably aren't all that thrilled their album is floating around there over a month before they expected it to.
I would like to think of YouTube as a happy place. I know that I can go there anytime I get an urge to watch that Rihanna video, reflect on the good times with the Britney Spears Superbowl Commercial for Pepsi, or go full out nostalgic with some retro TV theme songs. Pretty much the best place ever, right?
Recently, while perusing this video site of aforementioned greatness, I decided it was long past time I checked out that Soulja Boy video which has been getting so much attention lately. What I stumbled upon was this video of Soulja Boy himself, with a small legion of adoring dancers at the bottom of an empty pool teaching me everything I needed to know in order to 'Crank That' all by myself! Too good to be true...or so I thought.
So here it comes again; another Presidential election. The great American past time where we get to choose which disturbingly well connected elite "man of the people" gets to run the show for the next four years. It's the ultimate reality television show, but instead of winning a million dollars, or "true love," the winner here gets control of thousands of nuclear weapons, all the intern poon they can handle, and the hatred of millions world wide.
Everyone has their issues and camps that support them. Sure, that's great, but which candidate represents the much coveted "Emo Vote?" Well ladies and gentlemen, I have done the research for you, and am now prepared to give you the results of what was the result of literally dozens of minutes of my afternoon. Ready?
Ron
Paul.
Now, you may wonder how I came to decide that Dr. Paul is best suited to represent the interests of the emo vote. Out of sheer generosity and the kindness of my heart, I will tell you.
1) You may go around wherever you live, and quite possibly see Ron Paul's signs all over the place. This is the political version of pins on the strap of a messenger bag for an emo kid. You'll see Ron Paul signs up and down telephone polls, on the neutral ground between roads, in culverts, and on newspaper bins. Now think about that messenger bag you saw when you last went to a show. Pins everywhere, right?. This sort of "plastering" behavior seems to come standard issue with the emo model, just like it does with being part of the Ron Paul Revolution.
2) Hell, just think about the name for his movement. The Ron Paul Revolution? You probably wouldn't blink twice if you saw that on a poster billed with Saves the Day and Hawthorne Heights. Or you might think that Prince's old band got political.... Either way.
3) Dr. Paul also has mentioned that he doesn't watch a lot of television. Emo kids used to watch a lot more television, you know, before MTV stopped playing videos. Actually, that's probably a good thing, no matter what you are. That said, Ron Paul's YouTube consumption is unknown at this point.
4) If you have watched any of the debates on CNN or Fox News, you would have seen that Ron Paul gets rather worked up over the things he is passionate about. He is, I would dare say, emotional. Need proof?
Look, he even gets laughed at when he gets whiney. Admit it, that's happened to you once or twice.
He also didn't get invited to a recent Republican debate. The reason? Not popular enough. Remind anyone of senior prom?
5) Finally, we all know that since the Internet has become as ubiquitous as celebrity meltdowns and pornography, it has become the refuge of many in the emo community. Web sites like MySpace, Buzznet, and of course, Shoutmouth, attract millions of people. Guess what? The same can be said of Ron Paul.
He has raised nearly twenty million dollars using the Internet, and hundreds of Web sites supporting him have sprung up virtually overnight. Go to any forum site, and there will be hundreds of Ron Paul supporters clogging the threads. They seem to be everywhere. But have you ever met any of these people in real life? Me neither. I know they exist, but... I'm not suite sure where they congregate. Nonetheless, on the internet, they are fucking everywhere. It's like when you go to a diner, and you see those emo kids sitting in the corner drinking coffee. There's only a few of them, and they are separate from the rest of the patrons. Online, they are everywhere, like some sort of zombie army.
So there you have it. The results of my toil and woe, just for you. It's good to know there is someone out there who truly represents the emo in all of us.
Some people like to drink.
Famous musicians are people.
Therefore, some famous musicians like to drink.
Fortunately, when famous people drink there are usually cameras rolling. While we cannot personally attest to the level of intoxication of the musicians in these videos, I think we all know some outlandish behavior when we see it. Enjoy!
For most people, being a professional athlete would be a great and thoroughly satisfying accomplishment. But for a lot of professional athletes, it's just not enough. You may have heard about suspended Tennessee Titans cornerback Pacman Jones, who recently decided to use his time away from the NFL to focus on a rap career. While Pacman is the latest athlete to give music a shot, he's certainly not the first (nor will he be the last).
Over the years, several athletes have ventured into the world of music. Some, like former White Sox pitcher Jack McDowell or former New York Yankees outfielder Bernie Williams, have been praised for their attempts.
Others, not so much.
Many people are shocked when a former All-American pop idol
ends up as a scandal-plagued tabloid punch-line. But they shouldn't be, because it has been
happening for years.
The names may
change, but the "Behind The Music" remains the same. Like a bottle rocket soaring to astonishing
new heights and lighting up the night sky, only to eventually run out of juice
and come crashing down onto the neighbor's roof, thus is the trajectory of a pop star.
Let's take a closer look at the trajectory of a female
pop star.
