I am, simply put, an anti-punk. Not that I have anything against listening to the music so longs as you realize it's origins, but rather the giant fad that has been created out of one of the biggest lies in music history. It's just the fact that every second kid I see at school or on the street has the exact same individuality or originality if you will, as the next. What I'm against is all these kids, or bands for that matter, parading around decalring themselves "punks" or trying to convince me of their originality. Everyone hates Bush not knowing the facts, everyone's a cynic and doesn't see the other side fo the story. Now I'm most definitley not supporting Bush, As you can see, my main prinicple is peace and open-mindedness, but I looked for facts for and against before I came to that decision.

My next big problem is that punk music is perhaps the biggest, and best kept lie in musical history. I did some research as a collosal fan of The Clash and found out that the foundation for the fist punk bands, we're created by a marketing genius named Rhodes, who was a band manager in the mid/late seventies. He put together punk bands like todays executives put together boy-bands. His products include The Sex Pistols and (I hate to say) The Clash. Rhodes capitalized on the disenfranchised youth of mid seventies London, England. He found clever song-writers like Jonny Rotten and my personal hero Joe Strummer and took them from the small genre of pub-rock and placed them with beginner musicians with attitude.

The bassists we're earth shatteringly tragic to me when i found their shallow history. Both Paul Simonon and Sid Vicious, were good looking kids with attitude and very little talent when Rhodes found them, took them off the street and placed an easily fakable instrument (the bass guitar) in their hand and told them to play. Two months later Simonon was learning while on stage and Vicious still had very little clue of where he was let alone how to play a bass guitar. This unfortunate history is my bassis for declaring myself an anti-punk.

If you doubt me or just don't want to believe me, look it up for yourself, you might be suprised.

Now that I'm done with my essay on my beliefs about specific genres, I think I'll tell you a little about myself as a person. First of all, I'm a musician and play way too many instruments (my favorites are in my "Likes" category below). I've just finnished recording an album with my freind Nick, and I'm working on my own album presently. To kill time and to chanel my creative energy, I write songs. Writing songs helps me to deal with what happens in my life and not blow up in a giant explosion of anger and dispair. I am highly spiritual, although that does not necissarily mean that I am religious. I believe in preace and tolerence as practices to becoming a functional and centred human being. If I were to put my spiritual beliefs into a specific religion it would probably categorize somewhere along the lines of Taoism (which is really more of a phylosophy than a religion, seeing as it does not actually worship a god, but a spiritual energy that flows through nature).

People always ask me what my music is like. I tell them I wish i could write like Ian Curtis. Sadly, no one can write like Ian Curtis. My music is what i feel, however it often becomes poorly worded (much like this sentence). Most of what i write lately is acoustic, I would say folk, but I haven't been around long enough to really write from a folk perspective. My music has a tendency to be dark and depressed but only because writing is my way of dealing with being dark and depressed. If you REALLY want to understand what my music is like, you can ask me for a copy of Nick and my newest acoustic album when it's done.

Before I go i would like to clarify that though my name may read "emo-emu" I am not a whiny punker, nor am I a flightless bird. Somewhere down the line, I aquired the nickname "emu" and since emo went ever so well with it, I decided, "What the hell, why not?". I have never enjoyed the pain and agony of emo music and hopefully never will. Lastly, If you've read this far, I most certainly commened you for your determination. I didn't quite expect that I would type quite so much, but now that I have, there seems no reason for me to turn back now. Anyhow, now you know me, and I'm sure that you've read quite enough for one, day.

Music is most of my life, this usually includes (aphabeticly);

Adam and the Ants
AFI
Alice Cooper
Bad Religion
Billy Idol
Black Flag
Blur
Bob Dylan
Bob Marley
Boomtown Rats
The Cars
The Casualties
Cheap Trick
The Clash
The Crash Test Dummies
The Distillers
Elvis Costello
Gary Numan
Happy Mondays
Inspiral Carpets
Interpol
INXS
The Jam
Joe Strummer and Los Masceleros
JOY DIVISION!!!
Led Zeppelin
Mad Caddies
Madness
Mars Volta
Men Without Hats
Misfits
New Order
Nirvana
No Doubt
Oasis
Our Lady Peace
Peter Tosh
Pet Shop Boys
Phil Collins
Pink Floyd
The Ramones
Rancid
Romeo Void
Scooter
The Sex Pistols
Silverchair
Smashing Pumpkins
Sparta
The Specials
Sting/The Police
Stone Temple Pilots
Sublime
Supertramp
The Talking Heads
The Tea Party
Tears for Fears
The Toasters
Toots and the Maytals
The Turtles
The Vines
Velvet Revolver
Zwan

Other than that. i have my guitars, my steeldrums, my drums, my violin, and judo.

LIFE WITHOUT YOU IS LIKE A BROKEN PENCIL... POINTLESS.

Not wanting to "hurt our friendship".
Wanting to be "just friends"
Any other excuses that I'm forgetting.
Arrogance
Vanity
Ignorance
The fact that they will never make a CD wallet that hold as many CDs as will own.
People that steal music because they like the song, not because they want to explore new artists and genres.
How pop-culture can take something that stands for originality like Che or punk and turn it into a fad.
Discrimination (based on... anything)
War for any cause