Stop sippin' on the haterade! Also, capslock. [kalpurna]

Nothing I hear about the new Panic! record is not amazing. NOTHING. It sounds like Aladdin? It sounds like a film score crossed with the Beatles? It sounds like France? Holy God, Ryan Ross, sign me up.

(Also, to be serious for a moment, I am so thrilled by the fact that he has CLEARLY gotten really bored with people asking what the next album will be like, and decided to just go ahead and fuck with our minds. Keep on keepin' on, you tiny ridiculous man! ILU!!)

I had kind of an unpleasant encounter at dinner last night with a friend of a friend, who was just incredibly fucking hostile about the bands I am currently in love with. Like, not even mockingly. He was dead serious. I don't understand that kind of attitude! I just don't fucking get it. Sure, hate certain genres of music or certain bands if you want to, I understand that even if I don't really do it - but what kind of pleasure could you possibly get out of spreading that negativity? How could you POSSIBLY hate a genre of music so much that you hate not only the music, but also the bands themselves, and the fans, and just. I don't get it! For example: I'm not into Supernatural. If you want the truth, I actually kind of resent Supernatural for stealing so many awesome awesome fangirls, and I don't enjoy the show very much, and it is just in every possible way Not My Thing. But Jesus Christ, I don't go around being angry that it exists, and I am genuinely glad that it makes so many of my friends happy. I love it when people love things, even if they're not the same things I love. It pleases me to see people happy and engaged and loving their fandom, being fannish in general, no matter what of – and I think I'd be the same way if I were a music fan, rather than a media fan. You know? So when I encounter that kind of open hostility, I don't even know what to do with it. Ugh, the whole thing just SUCKED.

Honestly, I'm just glad he didn't say anything mean about PStump, because then I would have had to cut him with my steak knife, and that might have been socially awkward.

Hey, question: when people type in all caps, do you read it as them shouting at you? Because I remember people telling me that it meant screaming and was very very rude, but a) that was around the same time as the :-[ type emoticons, and b) I don't have a b. But that just doesn't seem right, does it? For me, I usually read it as kind of louder, or maybe just more STRESSED, but definitely not shouting. Ahahaha, once I had an entire IM conversation with Allison where we decided that all caps meant RyRo-style hilarious monotone. True story!

I just went to find the chat out of curiosity, and it's kind of amazing, so I'll reproduce it here. This was JUST after the Send Your Love to the Dancefloor video was released, and we were. Kind of excited?

kalpurna: I CANNOT TAKE OFF MY CAPSLOCK FTR

shoemaster: I HARDLY EVER PUT CAPSLOCK ON. I HOLD DOWN SHIFT

kalpurna: USUALLY I DO TOO, ACTUALLY, IT HELPS TO MAKE MY EXCITEMENT MORE KINETIC OR SOMETHING?

kalpurna: PLUS I'M STUPID LIKE THAT

shoemaster: IT'S MORE ACTIVE

kalpurna: BUT RIGHT NOW EXCITEMENT IS MY DEFAULT STATE

kalpurna: SO I'M JUST, LIKE, WHATEVER

kalpurna: CAPSLOCK: ON

shoemaster: LIKE, YOU'RE HOLDING DOWN THE BUTTON OF WHEEEEEEEEEEE

kalpurna: YUP

shoemaster: IF I HAVE CAPSLOCK ON, WELL, I DO SORT OF SHOUT IN MY HEAD STILL. OR JUST TALK LIKE I'M AN IDIOT TALKING TO SOMEONE WHO THINKS SOMEONE WHO DOESN'T SPEAK ENGLISH IS ACTUALLY DEAF

shoemaster: BUT I LIKE HOLDING DOWN SHIFT MORE.

kalpurna: YEAH

kalpurna: RIGHT NOW I FIGURE I'M JUST TALKING VERY LOUDLY AND IN A MONOTONE

shoemaster: EXACTLY

kalpurna: I KIND OF ENJOY THAT THOUGH

shoemaster: LIKE RYRO WHO CAN'T HEAR HIMSELF TALK OR SOMETHING

shoemaster: IT'S HOW I ALWAYS IMAGINE CAPSLOCKY (EVEN VIA SHIFT KEY) CONVERSATIONS

kalpurna: YEAH JUST LIKE THAT

kalpurna: HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

shoemaster: SO IT HAS POSITIVE CONNOTATIONS

kalpurna: I KNOW

kalpurna: OH RYYYYYYRO

kalpurna: ILOVEIT

shoemaster: I NEED TO STOP NAPPING FOR THREE HOURS AT A TIME

shoemaster: JUST SAYIN

kalpurna: CAPSLOCK SEEMS MISPLACED THERE

kalpurna: LET'S TALK ABOUT ASSBUNNIES

shoemaster: OKAY

kalpurna: LET'S TALK ABOUT THE FACT THAT ASSBUNNIES IS NOW A LEGITIMATE WORD IN THIS FANDOM, AND NOT EVEN BECAUSE OF A FIC

kalpurna: NOT

kalpurna: EVEN

shoemaster: HE'S ON A MISSION

shoemaster: A MISSION FROM COBRA

kalpurna: I KNOW WHAAAAAAAT

shoemaster: (WHICH IS ACTUALLY TAKING ME TO A WEIRD GI JOE PLACE)

kalpurna: HERE'S WHAT I LOVE:

kalpurna: FIRST OF ALL, HAHAHHAHAHA GI JOE

kalpurna: SECONDLY, I LOVE THAT MR. T IS IN THIS VIDEO

kalpurna: AND YET

kalpurna: IT IS SO NOT THE MOST RIDICULOUS THING IN THE VIDEO, BY SUCH A HUUUUGE MARGIN, THAT NO ONE IS EVEN MENTIONING IT

kalpurna: IT'S LIKE, PRIORITIES

kalpurna: ASSBUNNIES FIRST, MR T LATER.

kalpurna: AMAAAAAZING.

shoemaster: I DIDN'T EVEN NOTICE

kalpurna: I KNOW, RIGHT

kalpurna: I KNOW

kalpurna: BUT HE'S THERE!

shoemaster: THAT IS AWESOME

kalpurna: AHAHAHAH FTR: IF YOU TYPE "&HEARTS;" IN ALL CAPS, IT DOESN'T MAKE A HEART

kalpurna: AND YOU LOOK LIKE A TARD

shoemaster: HAHAHAHA

kalpurna: FUN FACTS FOR FRIENDLY FOLKS

shoemaster: I NEED SOMETHING BIGGER THAN CAPSLOCK FOR THAT LAUGH AT YOU

kalpurna: AHHAHAHAHA SRY

kalpurna: OMGGGGGGGGGG GABE

kalpurna: WHHHHHHHY

kalpurna: WHY SO AMAZING

shoemaster: IT'S OKAY, MSC WON'T LAUGH

shoemaster: TOO HARD AT LEAST

kalpurna: SIIIIIIIGH

kalpurna: JUST SO YOU KNOW, EVERY TIME I TYPE "SIGH" WITHOUT THE ASTERISKS, YOU SHOULD PICTURE ME ACTUALLY SAYING THE WORD "SIGH" OUT LOUD

shoemaster: OH GOOD

shoemaster: SOMETIMES I SAY NOD

kalpurna: SOMETIMES THAT HAPPENS

shoemaster: WITHOUT ACTUALLY NODDING

shoemaster: ...TO MY DAD

kalpurna: OKAY THAT IS AWES

kalpurna: I AM PICTURING IT RIGHT NOW, AND IT'S AWES.

shoemaster: PICTURE IT WHILE HE'S TEACHING ME HOW TO DRIVE

kalpurna: I HAVE TO GO PEE BRB

shoemaster: K

I will miss that loser HARDFUCKINGCORE next year, for reals. :( :(

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I HAVE TOTALLY DONE THE &HEARTS; THING TOO, FTR, SO I DIDN'T LAUGH EVEN A LITTLE. ♥

Until you posted this, and then I laughed until I cried. Oh my God, why are you all so far awaaaaaaaaaaay? *clings to you*

Honestly, I'm just glad he didn't say anything mean about PStump, because then I would have had to cut him with my steak knife, and that might have been socially awkward.

Dude, my dad said something about Patrick being "peculiar" yesterday (I was watching YouTube interviews in the living room, WHAT, I AM SICK AND VERY BORED) and I whipped my head around and he put his hands up in the universal gesture for "Don't hurt me! You're scary!" and said "But in a good way, I meant it in a good way, honey," in this sort of panicked-sounding voice. In other words, my dad thinks I would cut him with a steak knife if he said something mean about Patrick.

He's, uh, probably not wrong.

OMG, BANDOM, HOW ARE YOU TURNING ME INTO THIS FANGIRL? HOOOOOOOW?

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&HEARTS; &HEARTS; &HEARTS; I miss you TOO! Ugh, I hate everyone who lives far away from me, you are all doing it to SPITE me. Just kidding I adore you.

No, I honestly get pretty freaking defensive of that kid. Like, I'll defend Pete, of course, and all my other boys! but do not mess with Patrick, because I will actually cut you. Gerard is the other one that I'm like, bitches, do not even, I will choke you out.

I DON'T KNOW UGH I AM SUCH A TEENIE FANGIRL FOR THEM IT IS DISGUSTING

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I am now officially calling my shift key the Button of Wheeeeeee.

*nods sagely*

:D

I'm guessing by your icon that Patrick approves of your Button of Wheeeeee.

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Aaaand my work here is done. \o/

I always sort of assumed that all caps was an indication of excitement. Hmm.

Um, fuck people who are all negative about bands. I actually had someone call me an asshole last week for liking My Chem, and when I questioned why, the only thing they could spit out was that My Chem "sold out". PFFT.

Man, I really can't cope with it. SOLD OUT is my least favorite descriptor ever, because come on, what does that even mean? As far as I can tell, it means "got successful," and I'm sorry, but I do not actually buy into the paradigm that says things are only cool until other people like them. Here's the thing: I fully support people who like to listen to obscure genres like Math Rock that make me, personally, want to knife myself in the eardrums. I think it's cool if you're fannish, basically, no matter what you're fannish about! I love people who love things! So why is it so hard to return the freaking favor and accept that maybe it's okay for me to like pop? Ugh, music snobs, do not want.

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I am going to read the capslock as RYRO's monotone from now on, you have cursed me.

Also, I so don't get the "I love to hate" kind of thing. There are plenty of things I don't like, and yeah, sometimes the venom bursts forth, I admit, but I generally do it in my own space, I don't take it to the people who love that thing. What does it get you to hate something so much and hate the people who love it?

My work here is done! :D :D For maximum hilarity, try writing out the dialogue for a capslock sex scene, and then imagine Ryro delivering the lines in his bored monotone interview voice. OH BABY YES. HARDER. THAT IS SO GOOD, OH.

Man, I am so very on board with hating stuff, do not get me wrong! What I don't understand is hating the people who like that stuff, because they like it. It just. Does not. Compute. I could name you six pairings I hate, and sixty people I like who write those pairings! The whole blanket dismissal thing is ridiculous.

I totally feel the same as you about Supernatural- it's like a zombie plague! But then, so is bandslash, so I can't complain really. And yeah, hating bands can be kinda fun, especially if you have someone who also hates them to make fun of them with, but being horrible to people just because they're a fan of a band you dislike is beyond fucking stupid. Way to look shallow. I mean, I appreciate that music means a lot to people, but just because you only listen to underground dubstep or something doesn't actually make you a better person. Some people find this hard to grasp. I totally have an icon for this as well but I'm kicking myself that I didn't think to upload it and I din't wanna get rid of any of my current icons, so here it is. I didn't make it, but I don't know who did either.

(http://pics.greatestjournal.com/userpic/32400556/1180726)

Damn, that wouldn't post.

Also, you know what's even more retarded than hating on people for liking bands you dislike? Hating bands because of the fans, or because someone you dislike likes them. WHAT THE HELL. It's not the bands' fault if some assholes happen to like them!

Hahahaha, exactly. People in glass houses.

I think maybe part of my confusion here is that I don't really hate ANY bands – I hate some music, and some individual songs, and like to make FUN of some bands and singers, but there's no one I can think of off the top of my head that I'm like PLEASE JUST GO DIE. Not because I'm a creature of sunshine and light, because there are definitely, like, PAIRINGS I feel that way about! And characters! But just, I don't know. Bands? Not so much.

Regardless, I don't tend to go up to people who love those pairings and tell them how lame they are. So even if I did hate bands, I don't think I'd be such a freaking asshole about it.

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I go to school in Boston, right, and like, the paper that's on all college campuses is The Pheonix [like, if you want to seem cultured and up to date and edgy, you read it and it makes you feel cool [there is a point to this, I swear] because it's not cool, you know, it's progressive], and a couple of months ago, they did this list. One Hundred UNhottest men [I think it was right around when People did their 50 Most Beautiful People thing, but it could've been a little before], and Patrick was like, number ninety-nine, or something, and I completely and totally saw red.

It's totally fine if not everyone in the entire world thinks he's a sexy beast [my sister is one of those people, and she fully admits that he has a gorgeous voice], but the write-up they did for him wasn't just about his look, it was about his voice, it was about Pete, it was about the music they make and the fact that Pete, Andy and Joe are tiny and Patrick isn't. And god, I was so, so completely upset, I can't even express it to you.

I threw the paper in the trash and never grabbed another copy, I was so mad.

So I guess the point to that was that I love my PStump and when people insult him I am likely to attack.

OH MY GOD RAGE. Ughhhh I hate people sometimes. Why would you DO that? I mean, even if you DON'T find him attractive (which, uhm, is a valid lifestyle choice I GUESS) I really, really don't understand why anyone would single out the one person who looks nothing like a rockstar but who's making it as one, just to point and laugh. I mean, imagine it with the sexes reversed – imagine if it was Beth Ditto. UGH. Way to go, dumbasses! Take the shallowness and self-hatred induced by things like the 50 Most Beautiful, and make it EVEN WORSE.

This is a PSA to the entire world: insult PStump around me, and we will throw down.

One Hundred UNhottest men [I think it was right around when People did their 50 Most Beautiful People thing, but it could've been a little before], and Patrick was like, number ninety-nine, or something, and I completely and totally saw red.

I heard about that. Just...no. Fucking no. I HATE when people use looks to tear someone down. He's fucking beautiful and everyone can step up right fucking now so I can start choking ignorant, hateful bitches.

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I read that CAPSLOCK! convo in the lounge and was laughing so hard my stomach ached, and now my housemates are looking at me all weird. So thanks for that.

I love Allison so very much. And you. You are so very awesome. Or "awes" as you krazy kids seem to be saying nowadays.

Where can I find our dear Ryro talking about the new album? Because it sounds AMAZING!

PS- I love the fact that no one on your flist has checked the "I don't really do all caps" option

Additionally: You should call me before I leave. Which is this Saturday. Werid, that seems really soon. Allison and I are possibly hanging out tomorrow to celebrate me being dead form my spanish exam which will commence death sequence at 0800 tomorrow. So anytime after like, 10 tomorrow. Call me. We'll do shit. Or, you know. Sit around and fail to do shit but pretend that at any moment we might gather the motivation to do shit. Whatever. I'm easy. (Not like that.)
(~~Unless you're in an emo band~~)

Heeeeeee, NO PROBLEM. :D Happy to help.

Ryanross (http://www.absolutepunk.net/showthread.php?t=238066), never change. I wish I could find the other quote, but it was also Pete, and he said something about how Panic's next record might make them bigger than FOB, and that it sounded like a movie soundtrack crossed over with a modern version of the Beatles??

PS I love that too.

Babe, I'm sorry, I can't. Waaaay too much work. I wish I could! But it would honestly be a really bad idea. :( :( I'm going to miss you!

i didn't know ALLCAPS meant shouting until i read someone mentioning how HARRY POTTER does that all the time in the books.. and even then, i thought it only meant shouting when it's HARRY POTTER!!!!

i guess it's because i read a lot of LJs owned by fangirls who are mostly polite (especially in dS) and so when they use ALLCAPS they're squeeing, not shouting.. ;D

Well, Harry has RAGECAPS. *pats him* But yeah, I guess caps used to always mean screaming? It seems pretty outdated now, though. I dunno! Language, it does change. *sage, linguistics-major-y nod*

My italics are for emphasis. My capslock are for SQUEE!

I could pretend like I have a system, but I'd be lying. I admire your consistency! ;D

AHAHAHA, YOU ARE CUTE.
*steps away from the shift key*
Yeah, I've run into those types of people before. I don't understand them either. Mostly I just get angry. I totally snorted my drink when I saw your comment about the steak knife.
That chat is the funniest thing I have read, like, ever.

HEE. THANKS!

I guess this is the real underlying problem: I hate it when people who are treated like freaks turn around and treat other people poorly for being honest about who they are and what they like. If you want to get pissed about insincerity, or shallowness, or following trends just to be cool, I am down with that! But being snide about people loving what they love? NOT COOL.

hahahahaha we amuse ourselves. ♥

HHOKAY (for the record, from now on, "okay" may not be said without sounding like endofworld.net (endofworld.net))

SO. I just had a long conversation with aforementioned hostile friend about bands and punks and things of that sort and I feel better about him, actually. Basically my impression of what happened was that a) he thought that you were lecturing him about hardcore which is his life and he is Music Snob extraordinaire about it and b) he doesn't really know anything about My Chem and therefore groups them, I think, in with bands like Linkin Park for whom I do (please to not be offending anyone) hold kind of a deep-seated hatred for I know I know I clutch at my indieness, I can't help it. *Sticks tongue out at trendy people, buries self in piles of dirty black laundry* Also, c) he has few social skills, we know this. End of the day: DON'T HATE ON OTHER PEOPLE'S FANNISHNESS. Also, DON'T BE AN ASSHOLE. Keep these rules in mind, everyone will be happy like bunnies.

Re: shift key. I love the shift key! BUT when I do type in all caps which I do as excited shouting, not Harry Potter rage shouting, sometimes I type apostrophes as quotation marks and that is the tale of my loserdom for the day.

PS Please ignore the above bastardization of my beloved English language. My brain is completely unfunctional. Stupid school.

I still don't even get it, though, dude. WHY DOES HE HAVE NO SOCIAL SKILLS. And like, I sympathize that it's fun to hate on bands, or whatever, and I don't have a tremendous amount of interest in and/or respect for Linkin Park – but I saw an interview with Gerard and some of the dudes from Taking Back Sunday and some of the dudes from Linkin Park, and they. They seemed really nice! They were all friendly and adorable and posed for pictures together! I can't work up much of a hate-on for bands like that, because it seems like they all love what they do so so much, and they love each other, and they love music, and I think that's sweet and amazing. Even if I don't particularly like their work. You know? Here's my point: if someone I like tells me they love Christina freaking Aguilera and everything she does, I'll pretty much be down with that. The music you like does not determine my level of respect for you.

HAHAHAHAHA I DO THAT ALL THE TIME. *ALL* THE TIME. IT IS LIKE A LIFESTYLE FOR ME.

YOU KNOW, I DO SAY THAT CAPSLOCK = SHOUTING, BUT I NEVER HAVE ANY TROUBLE UNDERSTANDING THAT IT CONVEYS EXCITED EMPHASIS IN FANNISH POSTS... NOR IN USING IT MYSELF SOMETIMES, WHEN ITALICS JUST WON'T DO TO EXPRESS MY MOOD AND INTENT. I THINK THAT THE CAPSLOCK = SHOUTING THING MAY JUST BE SOMETHING I SAY TO WEB AND EMAIL LESS-THAN-LITERATES SO THAT MY INBOX ISN'T FULL OF WISHES-GRANTING, CURSES-PROMISING FORWARDS FULL OF ANIMATED GIFS AND EXCESSIVE SENTIMENT THAT LOOK LIKE THIS.

Hee.

YEAH I FEEL YOU ON THAT ONE. WORD.

HOW AWES ARE WE? PRETTY AWES.

I don't even remember half of that conversation, either (button of WHEEEE, Mission from COBRA/GI Joe etc) so I was cracking my ownself up. I KIND OF WANT TO DO A DEMONSTRATION OF HOW I IMAGINE PEOPLE SOUNDING. I THINK I SHOULD. How about you?

I'm going to miss your loser face so much. When are you coming over to crash?

OKAY I DID IT. WHAT IS IT WITH ME AND ALL THE FUCKING PHONE POSTS LATELY? (http://shoemaster.livejournal.com/291795.html)

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It really depends on the context for me. In non-fannish things, it's shouting. In fannish things, it's generally squee. :g:

You just can't vocalise things like 'hislittleface' if they're not written in as HIS LITTLE FACE! etc. See also: inDEED! and oh *INSERT BANDOM BOY HERE*

EXACTLY! Man, I don't know how you could POSSIBLY convey a full range of squee without asscaps of joy. It's CLEARLY NECESSARY.

But Jesus Christ, I don't go around being angry that it exists, and I am genuinely glad that it makes so many of my friends happy. I love it when people love things, even if they're not the same things I love. It pleases me to see people happy and engaged and loving their fandom, being fannish in general, no matter what of – and I think I'd be the same way if I were a music fan, rather than a media fan.

From my Tiny Border Planet of Reality TV Love, I cannot nod emphatically enough.

Seriously. I tried, but my head almost fell of, and it was... unpleasant.

Nobody likes a fannish leper*, you know?

Hahaha, YES. I may not be into Reality TV myself, but I FULLY support YOUR love of it! I think it's awesome to be fannish, no matter what you're being fannish about.

That entire conversation is so amazing, not even capslock would do it justice. So I'm saying it all quiet-like. You guys = hilarious.

*ahem*

NOW THAT THAT'S DONE WITH. OMG I LOVE CAPSLOCK. AND I NEVER EVER USE THE CAPSLOCK BUTTON. IT'S ALWAYS THE SHIFT KEY FOR ME. I'M DEXTEROUS. I SHALL RENAME IT TO THE BUTTON OF WHEEEEEEEEE NOW THOUGH. YAY.

(PS. HAHAHAHAHA RYANROSS)

We ARE kind of great, I won't lie. ;P

SHIFT KEY USERS UNITE. DO YOU EVER ACCIDENTALLY TYPE QUOTES INSTEAD OF APOSTROPHES WHEN YOU"RE HOLDING DOWN THE SHIFT KEY? BECAUSE I DO THAT. MAYBE I JUST DON'T HAVE YOUR ~DEXTERITY~. :D :D :D

PS RYANROSS: NEVER CHANGE!

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