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I'm one of those "hippy-sometimes" people who believes that the fans of bands or music artists should be able to get along for at least an hour because of their shared taste in that one band's music. To those of us who believe that humanity has some good attributes, I think we can agree on this.

Why then, is it almost impossible to have a civilized disagreement with the mass amounts of people on Official band message boards / forums?? Most would probably say because many other people are:

a) Idiots
b) Too stupid to be able to disagree without fighting
c) Too narrow-minded to be able to see any standpoint other than their own
d) All of the above.

I'm going to say that d) sounds very tempting, but it's not likely considering that there are thousands and sometimes hundreds of thousands (maybe millions) of fans on forums and the like and only the most obnoxious shitheads tend to reply to things first or at least respond to 50% of all posts made.

It just boggled my mind that I can go onto a forum to look for some civil, friendly conversation on something we're all supposed to agree on there and then fight with supposed "fans" about the actual band. It really sucks. There's so many fracking idiots on the Deftones message board that I refuse to go back. I've been a fan of theirs going on fourteen years now and most of the schmucks on there don't know their ass from their elbow and have nothing better to say than, "heh, Chino's fat."

Ok, so now that I'm done ranting about that, I'm just going to stop. It's so ridiculous to have to really SEARCH long and hard for devoted fans who are willing to talk about the positive things.

Sometimes that kind of shit just makes me want to stop trying to connect with these people. Music is so important to me, it really keeps me alive. There's some days where I feel like the blood in my veins is getting very slow and getting ready to stop and solidify, but music pushes it back up to speed and even makes it faster at times.

Eh. I guess it could also be because I'm just strange and not very socially attractive. HAH. That could be quite true, but it doesn't quite solve a lot of the issues I have with other people.

I find that a lot of people will listen to certain music because it gives them the social image they want. For example, someone will say they listen to bands/artists like Manson, Iron Maiden, or the Dropkick Murphy's because they want to give a certain impression regardless of whether or not they are really INto the music rather than just listening to it on occasion.

I don't listen to anything for image, I just enjoy music. All kinds of music. Meh. Maybe it's all just my heartburn talking, HAHA, kidding. . .