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| I am now fully convinced that ANYTHING can be published on the internet. I found this on wikipedia and all of this info is true but there is way to much for me to bring over so ill also post the website. I recommend you read this post-haste. Metalhead is a popular term for a devoted fan of heavy metal music and is often used interchangeably with the term "headbanger" or hesher. Headbanger is the older term, dating back to 1968 when it was coined to describe a group of fans violently banging their heads against a crowd barrier at a Led Zeppelin concert[citation needed]. Since the early 1990s however, the use of the term has declined in favour of the more fashionable "metalhead" tag. The term "headbanger" maintains popular usage in Continental Europe, where the more traditional forms of metal music remain very much in style and where American terminology is often incorporated into the local vernacular at a slower rate than elsewhere. In England, the term "metaller" is in wide usage. [citation needed] There is one school of thought among the heavy metal subculture that the "metalhead" and "headbanger" labels represent distinctive groups within it, with metalhead being a generic term for metal fans as a whole and headbangers representing older fans or fans of older metal styles. This idea does have some merit as older heavy metal fans often dress in a distinctively 'retro' fashion from younger fans, favour different or more traditional bands and eschew some aspects of the culture that have developed in recent years. Nevertheless, both groups share common interests that go beyond a preferred musical style and together comprise a distinctive counterculture. Fashion Apart from the music itself, the most distinctive aspect of metalhead culture is its fashion. Like the music at its cultural core, these fashions have experienced levels of change and diversity over the decades. The evolution of metalhead fashion has in fact been quite pronounced, from a style that could almost be defined as a uniform in earlier times to a far more broadminded look recently. Some aspects of this fashion have spawned a backlash that seems to be renewing an interest in older trends among some members of the sub-culture. Typically, the heavy metal fashions of the late 1970s – 1980s comprised blue jeans or drill pants, motorcycle boots or hi-top sneakers and black t-shirts, traditionally augmented with a sleeve-less jacket of denim or leather emblazoned with woven patches and button pins from heavy metal artists. Like in other cultural groups, this jacket was often seen as the individual’s defining symbol within the sub-culture. The intricacy of decoration could be seen as both a reflection of one’s dedication to the genre as well as one’s status within the group. This outfit could also be supplemented by jewellery and accessories that included studded leather wrist- and arm-bands, bullet belts, chains and even rings depicting skulls and other death- and horror-inspired designs. The metalheads of this era generally wore their hair quite long, with lengths beyond the shoulder being not uncommon. The relatively small number of female metal devotees of the era were generally discouraged from dressing in a similar fashion as traditionally this costume was reserved almost exclusively for males; indeed it wasn’t that unusual for female metalheads to adopt dress similar to that of Goths or punks. Eplanation In the early 2000s, some metal heads began to be known as moshers due to the type of dance metalheads adopted (moshing). Mosher is a term more commonly assoiciated with mainstream styles of metal such as metalcore and nu metal. These moshers tended to wear baggier jeans which would come over the feet and often trail behind them and rip. The jeans would normally have a chain attached to a hitcher at the front of the jeans and would wrap around to the back of the jeans. They would normally be held up by studded belts. Black T-shirts were often worn with emblems of their favorite bands or other motifs such as flames, skulls and other various images. Shirts could be worn also over a t-shirt being open to show the motif. Hoodies were worn by most metal heads and would either be plain black, or another dark colour and even sometimes red, or would be emblazoned with the logo of a popular metal band. Big clunky shoes such as Vans were worn and became known as fat shoes due to their size. Piercings were common and would normally be the bottom lip or between the lip and the chin. Hair dye, although normally constricted to punk, was also often used. READ THIS ONE IF YOU SKIPPED OVER THE REST!!!!!!! Both the nu metal and pop metal subgenres tend to be frowned upon, and often shunned by bands and fans alike of the less media friendly, less fadish subgenres that make up the rest of the metal community. Where most metalheads would agree that metal is and always should be anticomformist and in no way influenced by the mainstream society, genres such as Nu Metal and Pop metal tend to be viewed as pop music, adopting the feel of metal. Certain metalcore bands (particuarly Avenged Sevenfold, Bullet For My Valentine, From First to Last and bands that generally have more in common with hardcore emo than metal) are also frowned upon, as are most followers of the "metalcore" subgenre usually due to the similarities to emo in musical style and style of dress. Subgroups As mentioned above, metalheads are often keen to divide themselves into smaller subgroups with the subculture, some of which may include: Followers of more mainstream subgenres: RECAP THIS SHOULD PUT INTO PERSPECTIVE Jack = Trad Metaller Adam = Doom Metaller Lane = Black Metaller Kelsey = Fashioncore Kid Emos (THE HATED) = Mall goth DEFINATLY WORTH READING THE WHOLE ARTICLE (''BEHAVIOR'' IN PARTICULAR) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metalhead | | |
| The great thing about xanga is that you can put your secret thoughts on the internet and no one will ever find out. Sure you have te ability to find out if you want to, but no one really cares and thats the genius that is created. I can in fact leave a post with my deepest fears and worries and no one, not even friends will find out, and if they do it is just mere coincidence. I'LL PROVE THIS!!! This entire week ive been sitting w/ the girl that i adore and in a sense ive become addicted to this woman. Every moment around her is filled w/ the deisire for more; one more smile, one more laugh, one more conversation, one more obscure fact about what makes her who she is. She creates a Utopia of positive mental energy. I have self esteem while around her, and that should say something in itself. It's not so much that her pressence gets me on a "high", but actually gets me to a neutral state. She has become, in fact, so wonderfully intoxicating that moments w/o her start a feeling of "withdrawal". Where depression, mental anxiety, mild paranoia, and self doubt take place. It does not take a genius to realize that its not really a withdrawal but a sinking into the previous state of mind. You see one of my AMAZING rants about somthing i will ever care about, and its availiable foe the uncaring world to see. No one will though, they will either think its stupid and quit reading or will only look at the size of the post and just skip it altogether. Its the equivelent of talking to ones self in the mirror. | | |
| God knows i dont need more food^^ Perhaps one night when you were very small someone tucked you ino bed and read you a story called The Little Engine That Could, and if they did you have my profound sympathies as it is one of the most tedious stories on Earth. The story probably put you right to sleep, which is the reason it is read to children, so i will remind you that the story involves the engine of a train that for some reason has the ability to think and talk. Someone asks the Little Engine That Could to do a difficult task too dull for me to describe, and the engine isnt sure it can accomplish this, but begins to mutter to itself, "i think i can, i think i can, i think i can," and before long it has muttered its way to success. The moral of the story is that if you tell yourself you can do somthing then you can acctually do it, a moral easily disproved if you tell yourself you can eat nine pints of ice cream in a single sitting, or that you can shipwreck yourself on a distant island simply by setting off in a rented canoe with holes sawed in it. The phrase "in the dark," as im sure you know, can refer not only to one's shadowy surroundings, but also to the shadowy secrets of which one might be unaware. Every day, the sun goes down over all these secrets, and so everyone is in the dark in one way or another. If you are sunbathing in a park, for instance, but did not know that a locked cabinet is buried fifty feet beneath your blanket, then you are in the dark though you are not actually in the dark, whereas if you are on a midnight hike, knowing full well that several ballerinas are following close behind you, then you are not in the dark even if you are in fact in the dark. Of course it is quite possible to be in the dark in the dark as well as to be not in the the dark not in the dark, but there are so many secrets in the world that it is likely that you are always in the dark about one thing or another, whether you are in the dark in the dark or in the dark not in the dark, although the sun may go down so quickly that you may be in the dark about being in the dark in the dark, only you look around and find yourself no longer in the dark about being in the dark in the dark, but in the dark in the dark nonetheless, not only because of the dark but because of the ballerinas in the dark, who are not in the dark about the dark, but also not in the dark about the locked cabinet, and you may be in the dark about the ballerinas digging up the locked cabinet in the dark, even though you are no longer in the dark about being in the dark, and so you are in fact in the dark about being in the dark, even though you are not you are not in the dark about being in the dark, and so you fall into the hole that the ballerinas have dug, which is dark, in the the dark, and in the park. | | |
| Im sorry, i was hoping to do this in person but i.........really messed up. I knew you were mad, and i knew i was wrong in my posts i always knew i was wrong even when i was writing it down. I was scared, though not what of exactly which made it all-together even more scary. The problem was i thought i was right, which is ALWAYS the problem,and im sorry.I panicked for some reason.and starting...annoying the HELL out of everyone with what i said, and wrote, and did. But even if i was afraid, and panicked and annoying i was still wrong. I wanted to start doing the right thing again by appologizing to you and i even screwed that up. I tried to tell you...SO MANY TIMES...and i was scared all over again.Except this time it REALLY mattered and it WAS my fault. You and anyone being my friend is more important than any stupid thing that could happen. I even knew why i was afraid and that it didnt make any sense. I was afraid that you wouldnt take me seriously. Which was another reason why i wanted to appologize in person. From now on friends come before any completely useless fear that i might have. I know that a web post is not as personal. But i am earnestly saying that im sorry for being a HUGE idiot. Please, i will do anything for another chance at this and i will NEVER mess it up like this again. I could never forgive myself if i lost a good friend. You are one of the important individuals that makes the world fun, and spontanious, and just go around. I just want it to last as long as it possibly can before the world becomes boring and predictable. i cant write anything as great as kelsey can....but i couldnt just say nothing | | |
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