I'm scared I'll get scared and I swear I'll try to nail you back up

Way back when the year was 2004 I had my own, I guess you could call it a zine. It's was a little webzine that's main focus was music. I have to say that I was very proud of this. I met some really great people, met some really great bands, had the chance to check out some really great (and not so great) music, and gained more experience doing that that anyone could ever imagine. And because I went to college I had to give it up, for many reasons. The main reason being that I did not have much time to dedicate to it, and I did not find it fair to let one thing slack off because I had something else, something bigger and a lot more important on my plate.

That thing...that was bigger and more important than my zine was my education. I made the clear decision that it was in my best interest to put the zine on hold for a while and focus on one thing at a time. Normally I can juggle several different things at one time, but I found out the hard way that it isn't good for me.

Now that my college career is almost over with, I really really want to start writing again, and I don't mean writing research papers, or news stories, I mean I want to write about things that are important to me, I want to write about the one thing I love most...music!

I realized today that I really miss going to shows and reviewing them. I do go to an abnormal amount of concerts, but I go for the fun in them (and of course the music), not to write about them. I want to write about them, not just because, but because I have a reason to. I miss listening to a CD and tearing it to shreds or praising it to the high heavens. I miss getting out there and interviewing some great bands with real talent, not like most of the music found of MTV (oh wait, that's right, MTV doesn't play music!) or on the radio.

I'm honestly sick and tired of Britney Spears' getting more press than actual talent because she wears no underwear. I can't even believe that people like Lindsey Lohan have a record deal when there are many bands struggling to make a name for themselves...the good old fashioned way...by touring in a beat up vans for months, even years on end, building up a fan base, and giving it their blood, sweat, and tears. And I'm sick of Fall Out Boy, and how Fall Out Boy isn't about the music or the band anymore, but Pete Wentz and his overexposed pictures. And I'm sick of Panic! At the Disco, just because I simply don't like them and feel that unlike most bands in the genre of music they play have not earned their position in the "scene" (I use that term loosely). They went from like 0 to 100 in a matter of minutes! And I'm sick of going to shows where I'm the oldest person playing (with the exception of the people on the stage). I'm only 23, I'm not that old!

I'm not saying that the music I listen to is the best music out there and should be plastered all over MTV. I'm not saying that there is anything wrong with anyone who likes any of the above mentioned people. All I'm saying is that people need to stop giving press to people who don't wear underwear. Do you know how many "regular" people don't wear underwear everyday? You don't see them flashed across every news station, every music station, and every gossip magazine out there, do you? And not for nothing Brityney is just GROSS!

I swore to myself a long time ago, when I first wanted to start my zine in 2004 that I will try my hardest, as a writer, to write about all those bands that I feel are overlooked. And that's what I'm going to do.