how does one become "emo?"

[Ms. Jellybean]

poolman said:

Makes my choice of "band nerd" when I was in high school seem so much more sensible.

You are so, so right. And I am saying this as a college freshman. Already.

[Razzberryfinn]

too bad about the Earl thing. I want to move to Scranton just so I can get myself a jim!


Here are two reasons I can't be emu, um, elmo, I mean, emo!

a) I have big hips, and b) I have big feet. While I totally rock in a skirt, skinny jeans, not so much. Imagine a walking ice cream cone, on sasquatch feet. (Albeit vastly less hairy) Black is supposed to be a slimming color though, so maybe thats how they pull it off? (Or they could just be skinny, but I prefer the former)

on a different note, I am totally in with the thrift/antique store thing, and hot topic

[DarthShady]

I want a Jim too! I'm about 3 hours away from Scranton, but taht's up in the mountains where it's cold

[kylerexpop]

someone just asked me: what is being emo as far as you're concerned?

i replied, brilliantly:

emo = being awesome, but also looking vaguely "sad" (not dressing that way; just communicating obvious and sincere depths of feelings in a complex way via body language and an interesting tee-shirt) in a way that makes people (girls, mostly) go "wow, kyle is a deep, complex, and attractive person. i hope he'll make out with me!"

and THAT is emo! (to me)

[Spiderdancer]

Being emo = faking depression so girls will like you?

Ick.

[StarOpal]

I like how the definition somehow comes back around to Kyle. In Kyle's world it all comes back to Kyle.

[Spiderdancer]

Nonsense. Everything can't be all about Kyle, because everything is all about me. Yo soy la mas importante.

[kylerexpop]

wait: i didn't say i was depressed or going to fake being depressed.

i said (i think): "sincere depths of feeling" which translates to "existing consistently and often simultaneously across the entire human emotional range; being able to cry at touching scenes (like when you go to the zoo and animals are cuddling in a cute way) and laugh at amusing things (chiclets) and enjoy to the essence of your being things that complete you (blue mountain dew)."

it's probably unfortunate that in modern society, such a thing is frowned upon. but i guess it tends to go (stereotypically, at least) in tandem with the funny lopsided hair, so i think we need to give the "societal strainer" a couple of good shakes (think of those metal strainer things you fill with powdered sugar and then lightly shake from side-to-side over desserts to give a pleasantly-distributed coating of sugary goodness) to allow the good stuff to float down over us while the bad stuff gets caught in the mesh.

and THAT's emo!

[kylerexpop]

wait. it doesn't ALWAYS come back to me.

but if it appears to, well, that TOO is emo!

[Spiderdancer]

A lot of us don't have a problem with that. It's just that you didn't say "Existing consistently and often simultaneously across the entire human emotional range" the first time, you said "looking vaguely sad" in such a way as to make girls want to make out with you.

Although hanging with someone existing across the ENTIRE human emotional range simultaneously might be sort of disconcerting.

[kylerexpop]

often (and this is very true of my reviews and my writing in general) it is necessary to plumb the depths of your own feelings and human experiences to understand the vast hidden yet intentional meanings of my concise yet mysterious words.

so when i say "looking vaguely sad" that's just the metaphorical tip of the iceberg, where all the ice under the "water line" is stuff that can not be easily expressed in simple words but instead is best communicated in emotional aggregates that sum up to concepts including "purple" and "here all the bombs fade way" and "kyle is awesome."

i'm using the word "depth" a lot today. that's weird.

but everything i'm writing also points out clearly: i am EMO! in the cool way, though. not the lame way.

[pfrsue]

Of course, the most important question in my mind is this:

Was Donnie Darko emo?

[DarthShady]

pfrsue said:

Of course, the most important question in my mind is this:

Was Donnie Darko emo?

Donnie Darko was emo minus the girlie pants and listening to horrible music part. So he's one of the few cool emos.

Anyone else notice this about the title of this thread? If you take out "how does one bec" and the quotes and the question mark, it becomes a palindrome? "ome emo".................................

I never said I wasn't weird....

[kylerexpop]

see, the "ome emo" observation is completely awesome.

and to me, THAT is fairly emo in itself. because being emo is the same as being awesome.

i think such a proclaimation is problematic only because of the horrific societal tie-ins and such are attached to "emo." that's what we've been saying.

oh well. i guess we need a cool kind of new word to communicate appropriately what it means to be a cool-looking indiana jones type of philosophical hero with interesting clothing, fast wit, and a passion for food and drink of bizarre colors.

"emo" probably isn't expansive enough to cover all that (and more!) anyway. still; it's fun!