Down Another Road

For my regular blog readers, Bless Your Heart, you'll notice that I've changed things. I moved my diet/emotional/crappy stuff to another site. I'm still working it, but not on this blog.

Welcome to other emotional crappy stuff on this site.

Emo: (ē-mō)
1. (n.) Abbreviated from "emotive hardcore", relating to a genre of music coined due to a band's usage of emotional and personal lyrics.
2. (adj.) An individual who is a follower of emo music.
Example: You're so emo.
3. (adj.) A style of dress used by followers of 'emo'. This dress sense includes trucker caps, long fringes for boys, short hair for girls, black clothes and tight trousers.
Example: Those emo trousers are kickin'.

Last week my sweet, precious, can-do-no-wrong 11 year old told me that he was an "Emo."

I was informed that I need to purchase skinny black jeans, let his bangs grow out and since he knew I would not let him get a body piercing, let him have fake ones.

OK~

I bought the jeans, let him comb his hair in his eyes - but drew the line with the fake piercings.

My thought - another little 11 year old will tell him he looks ridiculous and it will all be over.

WRONG~ He loves it.

I try to understand, push a little - but not too much - and say - why would you want to do this?

He says: You let "big brother" be "Scene" and that's almost the same.

"Scene?" First I've heard of this.

"Scene" is a culture made mostly of teenagers and is relatable to emo. It is a culture derived to reject the "norm". Scene kids might often be quoted as saying "I hate people that arn't themselves" or "I dress this way because this is who I am!". Ironically, there has become a set mold which scene kids seemingly strive to fit, and they all look/act the same. "Scene" guys often wear: -Tight jeans-tight t shirts, often from elementary school/middle school, or picked up from the local thrift store.-tight blazers and jackets, even during a warm summer.-Long, greesy hair, cut and dyed at home, with bangs that cover 1/2 of a "scene" guy's face at a 45 degree angle. "Scene" girls often wear: -Bright colored makeup-Short, choppy hair, usually thicker on one side, and containing 2+ colors.Scene kids are almost required to own a myspace page. Here, they will network with hundreds of other scene kids, post dozens of pictures of themselves (from different, crazy angles and more often than not, incorporating a bathroom mirror), and write blogs about pointless teenage drama which nobody else truly cares about.
"I'm Scene. I'm a unique individual. And you stole my awesome, Scene, haircut."

OK~

Didn't know my sweet, precious, can-do-no-wrong 14 year old was Scene.

I corner my "stick his head in the sand" husband to discuss this. He says, "how it that different than you dressing up for the GoGo's concert in 1982?

The difference: I was a total "Poser"

"A poser is someone who tries to fit into a profile they aren't. People who try to give off the impression that they are one thing when they are really another."

I'm thinking. . . wow, my children have personality, don't they? I turned out OK, didn't I?

Otherwise, I'd freak out.