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It's Friday night, I'm bored as fuck with nothing to do, and it's been a pretty crappy day overall. I want to get out some other things I've been feeling since I have nothing else to do.

Recently, I've been wishing that I were born in a different time, specifically in the 1960s. I could be growing up in the hippie movement, the evolution of classic rock, and witness the birth of heavy metal. That's what I want most out of being my age in the late 1970s through the 1980s, to grow up with old school metalheads, the people that I actually fit in most with.

With people today, it's all about what they want out of you. They have standards, and if you want to be friends with them, you have to meet those standards so they won't be embarrassed to be with you. These kind of people are fucking retarded. I'm very glad my friends aren't like that, because they know that they don't have to meet anyone's standards, and I don't either. Back then, I'm sure it was all about being yourself. Hell, I can say that safely after seeing pictures of the metal scene in the 1980s. These people dressed in leather and jeans because it was what they wanted to wear and what expressed them the most, not because they have to. I wouldn't go that far to wearing leather and jeans because I personally don't like it, but even with the way I dress now, which is usually a band shirt and mostly basketball shorts, but jeans at shows, I'd definitely fit in with them. I want the experience to discover Death or Sepultura for the first time back when they first came out in the 1980s. I want to see broken up bands like Death or Coroner live. All music is now is pop or rap garbage, like Miley Cyrus or Lil Wayne. It's atrocious and I wish I wouldn't be growing up with this garbage.

Another important difference is technology. Of course, I have it made now. I have a laptop and a cell phone. Back then none of those were made a necessity. I want the experience to go out and not have a cell phone with me. I can just imagine this world without social networking sites. People wouldn't be freaking out about the stupidest of things, such as who's dating or who's fucking each other, especially when it's online in the public. People today are too dependent on technology. I'm on my laptop a lot, but I can definitely live without it, especially when I could be spending my time at the local record store or concert.

That brings me to my next point, record stores. All it is now is downloading music. I admit, I do it a lot as well, but I don't have the money for these records because all the money I make is going towards college. If I had a job that I was happy with and made a decent living off of, I wouldn't be going to college right now, but I am to find that kind of job. If not, I'd be spending all my money on housing, concerts, and music. And even then, there are no record stores around here. It's all in big stores such as Best Buy, and even then, there are very few metal records there. Again, it's all pop or rap garbage that plagues the music scene here.

Maybe it's where I live. I'm usually the only person around my town to be playing metal out of my car and not give a fuck about what people think of me. It's definitely obvious that this place is not for me and when I'm finished with school, I'm moving out of here as fast as possible to a place that's just right for me. Of course I'll be judged no matter where I go, but I'd rather find a place where I can actually have something in common with more people than no one at all. Thinking about it, I definitely would've had a much better experience if I were a teenager in the 1980s, and I would do anything to go back in time and experience it with all the benefits.

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