in which i live up to my name

[kaizoku]

I downloaded like... 20 cds worth of music tonight. *music hangover* And then I went and saw La Misma Luna (Under the Same Moon) which is lovely and heartbreaking and bilingual and you should all go see it at the theater if you can.

*Looking at bandom picspam* I'm really glad that people like and are interested in the girlfriends of the bandboys. But it bothers me when the justification for not hating one of them is "she makes him happy." I see this ALL OVER. I get where it's coming from, because yeah, of course your first allegiance was to the person in the band. But I don't like the implication that she's just there to make the boy happy, that that is her function. And it raises the question -- if they break up and she's not making him happy anymore, are you going to go back to hating her? I don't think most (sane) people would actually do that, but that's what we're setting ourselves up for here.

I have a longer rant about how white boy fandom feels like it's all-pervasive and how frustrated I'm getting with that but I'll spare you all for now.

Comments

[kaizoku.livejournal.com]

Cool. I feel like I should figure it out more in my head first but thank you for the encouragement. Part of it is I feel like I'm getting *myself* into fandoms that are all about white boys and I knew that going in so I have only myself to blame. (I don't want to harsh on anyone else's squee but sometimes I just feel like saying "oh great, another band/show full of white boys I can't even tell apart. Why should I care and don't just say because they're precious.")

The human beings who just also happen to be some bandboy's gf.
Yeah, exactly.

Hey are you into bandom? *memory fail*

[monanotlisa.livejournal.com]

(I don't want to harsh on anyone else's squee but sometimes I just feel like saying "oh great, another band/show full of white boys I can't even tell apart. Why should I care and don't just say because they're precious.")

You shouldn't. *eg*

And Jesus Christ, no, very much not in bandom. By now wish I had a killfile for bandom entries.

[kaizoku.livejournal.com]

Hehe. Sorry. It would be nice if there was a way to filter on tags. Though I would miss your voice of sanity!

[monanotlisa.livejournal.com]

Sanity! *giggle*

But no, I'm just being grumpy; I'm not really going to filter out people on the flist--they're on it for a reason. And you definitely don't strike me as an ABATT person (All Bandom, All The Time).