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Here I Am! Who Am I?

WannabePunk's picture

Hey YWP!

According to the little profile page, I created this account 8 minutes and thirty seconds ago.
So. I'm here.

Time to reveal my identity. I live in Richmond, VT (moving soon).
I'm 15 (16 soon)

I'm obsessed with music (So, this blog is going to be alot of lyrics and song snippets - by the way, who can teach me to sing?)

I play guitar.

I'm completely disillusioned with America, and the western world. (And beyond.)

Therefore - Music + Disillusioned = Punk fan. I love punk.

Then again - I love alot of music. Name a band. I bet I've heard of them, and I bet I like them.

I'm a concert whore.

I made my username "WannabePunk" because I'm in general a pretty happy guy, I like my life, I'm friendly, and don't really look that "hardcore" (I DO draw all over my pants, rip them with my Swiss Army Knife, make my own clothes, spraypaint t-shirts...etc.)

I'm fairly soft-spoken...unless you're a good friend, in which case I'm rowdy, I'll probably make fun of you (nicely!) and make ALOT of sex jokes. Half of which aren;t even funny.

I used to write prose all the time (most of it sucked - I'm trying to get back into it some now)
I'm a GEEK. Macs fuck yeah. PCs blow.

I make alot of websites. That's my main Geekery (PHP, Perl, HTML, CSS, Apache, etc...)

I read a ton. More than is healthy.

Fuckit. I'm done writing now.

Wow, did anyone ACTAULLY read that textwall? Shit. Bye.

Listening To:
Give It All - Rise Against
Dancing For Rain - Rise Against
Believe - Staind
For You - Staind

gradster1's picture

Hello!

In chronological order, skipping some:
Awesome. Cool. Love it. Et cetera.
Teach yourself to sing, then sign up for private lessons (that's the best way).
Challenge: Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band. No way. Ever.
That's what SHE said! (....................)
You know. Fucking. CSS? Like, fully? Help me. Now.
Good.
That's okay, because I am too.

Yes, I did.

Okay.

/gradster(1)/ - fucked over (mayo, if you remember)

http://nmhwu.wordpress.com/

WannabePunk's picture

You win on the band...I'll

You win on the band...I'll look them up.

State of the union address
reads "War Torn Country Still a Mess"
The words: power, death and distorted truth
are read between the lines of the red, white and blue.

qwertygirl890123's picture

Welcome to the wonderful

Welcome to the wonderful world of YWP!
That sounded oddly tour guide-ish... Oh well, it was unintentional...
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"Music's the only thing that makes sense anymore, man. Play it loud enough, it keeps the demons away."
-JoJo (Across the Universe)

Special's picture

Nice

hehe, i like your style

prose is fun
and so is Rise Against (love them)

Ywp is awesome, even in eight minutes you've had to have seen that.....

I love music but i'm musically challenged...
but Richmond is a very pretty town ( i used to go there for the parade when i was a little person)

well wow

<3
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"I've decided that as long as I was going to Hell,
I might as well do it thoroughly."
-Edward Cullen, Twilight

NonSequitur's picture

Gorky's Zygotic Mynci

Ever heard of it? (Them? Is a band "it" or "them"?)

(Real band, by the way. Google. If I were making this up, I'd choose a much better name than Gorky's Zygotic Mynci. Holy...!)

I loved your post; it was, for lack of a better word, spunky. It made me laugh aloud.

I wish I could claim to be a punk fan, but I'm currently listening to the Moulin Rouge soundtrack...so no.

"I'm fairly soft-spoken...unless you're a good friend, in which case I'm rowdy, I'll probably make fun of you (nicely!) and make ALOT of sex jokes. Half of which aren;t even funny."

Haha! (We sound, in some respects, like kindred spirits...) :D

In short, welcome to YWP!

(Unless you have uncommonly strong powers of resistance, you will become addicted. Fast.)
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"Heehee - I love the word assassination. It's like two asses, me, and a nation!" -gradster1

starmo93's picture

Hola

Well, although i'm not the 1st, welcome to YWP!

Love the blog. We need writing like this sometimes, otherwise seriously how boring would life be?

Awesome about the music. I couldn't live w/o music and am totally into the punk/emo bands. Not really punk on the outside, other than some clothes. It depends on my mood. Preppy/punk/emo/whatever = Me

Well, hope you love the site. As NonSequitur (wow only had to respell that like 5 times) said, you will most likely become addicted fast. I don't know many that don't. Well, have fun! wow that was wayyyy too perky... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"Oh, look! A pony!"

Professor_Zoom's picture

I swear I half-know you.

I swear I half-know you.
...Keenan?

Usagi's picture

That's

That's what I'm thinkin'.

Hey, K.

gradster1's picture

Aww

Hey, shh! You spoiled the secret - we were going to pretend we didn't know each other.... ;)

/gradster(1)/ - putting on my grumpy face

http://nmhwu.wordpress.com/

NonSequitur's picture

Um

Why?

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"Heehee - I love the word assassination. It's like two asses, me, and a nation!" -gradster1

NonSequitur's picture

No way!

I knew you looked familiar. TDI, right?

I won't say my name, but you and I saw each other at the bakery on Wednesday.

Welcome to YWP!
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"Heehee - I love the word assassination. It's like two asses, me, and a nation!" -gradster1

i love the lyircs to staind-

i love the lyircs to
staind- for you

very truthful to a lot of people, not me im happy! =) - c im smiling

"happiness shines in a cirle of ponies"..words to live by!

secular.mosh.pit's picture

Well, I fall under the group

Well, I fall under the group of people that you're loud, rowdy and offensive around, so I'd feel bad if I didn't welcome you.
Welcome!

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The world doesn't speak to me like my own brain.

WannabePunk's picture

Heyyyy I know

Heyyyy
I know you!
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State of the union address
reads "War Torn Country Still a Mess"
The words: power, death and distorted truth
are read between the lines of the red, white and blue.

Poet_Jessica's picture

Welcome!! haha this made me

Welcome!!

haha this made me laugh.

hmm... sorry, everyone else should know this by now, but i am a little OCD about spelling and grammar. i flip out a little when something can be fixed grammatically and the word 'a lot' has a space. [in reference to the 7th line/space thing from the bottom.]

im really happy that you like Macs. im also really happy you hate PCs. :-P
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"Fall down again Bella?"
"No, Emmett, I punched a werewolf in the face."

NonSequitur's picture

Macs are PCs.

Macs are PCs. :-P

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"Heehee - I love the word assassination. It's like two asses, me, and a nation!" -gradster1

Special's picture

well

that may be, but the mac in the commercials was way hot.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"I've decided that as long as I was going to Hell,
I might as well do it thoroughly."
-Edward Cullen, Twilight

Poet_Jessica's picture

so sooooo true.

so sooooo true. lol
__________________________
"Fall down again Bella?"
"No, Emmett, I punched a werewolf in the face."

gradster1's picture

This doesn't deserve response, but I will anyway.

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/gradster(1)/ - ...............

http://nmhwu.wordpress.com/

WannabePunk's picture

Technically, I know. You

Technically, I know. You know what I mean.
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State of the union address
reads "War Torn Country Still a Mess"
The words: power, death and distorted truth
are read between the lines of the red, white and blue.

writingdog's picture

welcome to YWP! (I know a

welcome to YWP! (I know a billion of people have already said that)
This was really... interesting.

Your style is different then people that I've read, and I like it.

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"You're awfully small to be so hugely irritating."- Edward Cullen, Breaking Dawn.

WannabePunk's picture

Heh

Thanks everyone.
Haven't been on in a while (got caught up in school starting, oh goody!)
anyway...this is kind of strange...there's definetely (defintely defintley...what the fuck?) people on here who I know...and I know who some of them are...and I have guesses about others...
I'll just call you all Raymond in my head and pretend your all my best friend :D

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State of the union address
reads "War Torn Country Still a Mess"
The words: power, death and distorted truth
are read between the lines of the red, white and blue.

Geist's picture

Welcome, fellow rocker! I

Welcome, fellow rocker!

I suggest going out and nabbing the book "American Empire".

You seem to be the type to love it, as I did.

WannabePunk's picture

Hm. Ok. (That seems far too

Hm. Ok.
(That seems far too minimalistic. Oh well. Fuckit. Now this comment is way LONGER than it needs to be.)
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State of the union address
reads "War Torn Country Still a Mess"
The words: power, death and distorted truth
are read between the lines of the red, white and blue.

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