♡ woah there buckaroo ♡

hopefully really soon :)
i need to print the pictures and stick them in there, but they’re shaped like hexagons so it’s kind of an odd shape and i still need to get some slider things to put them on the chains. but soon, i promise!! :)

omg thank you :’D

no prob, man :) you didn’t sound mean at all. trust me, i understand the annoyance some fans can have towards the fans that are only interested in julian. it’s like when i was a freshman and thought the sophomores were really overreacting about being annoyed with freshmen. and now that i’m a sophomore i see how annoying freshmen can be and i’m like “IT ALL MAKES SENSE NOW.” but don’t worry, it’s cool. the julian fan-girls will learn soon enough how amazingly amazing all the other guys are too. and thank you for reading it all :) i was just typing really fast and i didn’t realize how long it got and the next thing i knew i was telling my life story and i was like WOAH NEED TO TURN THIS HORSE AROUND so i did. hannah montana was my favorite show when i was 10!! I WANTED HER CLOSET SO BAD ALSJFKSJFLKJL then she became a whore and i lost interest :/ WOO IS THIS IT *highfive*!!! naw, you didn’t sound judgmental at all :) you were just a curious anon, and curious anons are always welcome in my kingdom!! (i don’t really have a kingdom i have a blog but i like to think they’re kind of the same)

so… up myself?

i’m sorry i have no idea what that means

actually i can’t remember :B

if i did it was probably to lose weight. nope.

no problem, honestly i could tell that some of the older strokes fans were kind of peeved when people only started listening to them because of boombox. i actually find myself getting kind of annoyed with the newer fans that are like “omg julian is soooooo hawt.” but i just remind myself that when i first started out, i was just looking him up to see more of his face because i saw boombox and had never heard of him before and was intrigued. believe it or not, when i first google image searched him and saw this picture

i thought he was, like, 19 and had a much higher voice. then i looked up an interview and was like WOAH THAT VOICE JUST SHOOK THE GROUND. but honestly, i fell in love with the music. when i first saw the music video for yolo, i really dug the music, but i couldn’t understand a word julian was saying and why he was dancing and was making such weird facial expressions. so i was just like “eh, i guess they’re just not my thing.” but for some reason, every day after that i came back to that music video. i have no idea why. i just did. and then i looked up the lyrics and listened again, and BOOM it was like the heavens opened up and showed me the light.

ok, in order to explain what a momentous occasion it was when i first discovered the strokes, i have to explain most of my life story. you have been warned.

ok, my parents have always been rockers. some kids listened to kids cd’s on the way to school. my mom played motley crue. but i was obsessed with *nsync and britney spears too. so the only real music i knew was pop and hard rock. hard rock eventually turned to metal, as i got older. i was this total tomboy, a lot of my dude friends were heavy metal freaks and i was disgusted by all the newer music. i think i just wanted to be cool, the cool tomboy chick that acted like a guy that all the guys wanted to hang with. i was kind of desperate to be cool, actually (i was really shy when i was younger and wasn’t very good at making friends. my mom actually put me through therapy classes to help me make friends. no joke.) let’s just say this, i would listen to disturbed REALLY LOUDLY in hopes that some cool punk dude would hear it and think i was cool. seriously. trying to listen to it now on a very low volume makes me crinkle my nose. anyway, the only music i really ever listened to was either sad i-want-to-die rock, happily-pissed-off-and-ready-to-party rock or angry allow-me-to-tear-off-your-face rock. sometimes some pop if i was in the mood. i never really knew that there was such a thing as happy, let’s-enjoy-life rock. that changed when i discovered the strokes. actually, i was already in the transition of change when i found them, so they really just turned my entire life around. as i got older, around 7th/8th grade i began to become more like i am today, obsessed with guys and makeup and being somewhat girly. but i had been with the majority of my class since kindergarten, they knew what i was like before and already had a mental image of me that way. so the summer before my freshman year, i thought to myself “you know, this is a clean slate. a brand new start. i can be anyone that i want to be. i think i’ll try and be me. the real me. and if people don’t like the real me, i can choose not to care.” so i did. i was me. i didn’t try to act cool, i didn’t try to go with the flow. i decided to be a rock in the flow. i didn’t try to stop the flow altogether, i was just completely indifferent. i just went along, being a rock. and people seem to think i’m cool cuz of that. i think i’m cool cuz of it, too. it took me a really long time to figure out how exactly to be cool, but now when i see people acting the way i used to act i feel a bit of pity.

there’s 2 types of cool. there’s the uncool cool and the cool cool. the uncool cool is forced, like you think you’re cool and are trying to show that in every aspect of your life. you do whatever is “cool” at the moment, and move onto the next when everyone else does. but really, it doesn’t matter if you really are cool or not. if you’re trying to convince me that you’re cool, i’m not going to believe you.

the COOL cool, on the otherhand, is completely natural. you don’t care about anyone else’s methods of “cool” but yours. i like to think of myself as naturally cool. i make the jokes i wanna make, i don’t really care about some things that a lot of people care about, and i don’t hate things that a lot of people hate. big whoop.

NOW HERE’S THE FUN PART: when someone is uncool cool, people can tell and they go on telling them about all the reasons that they’re UNCOOL. you’re UNCOOL because you don’t do this, you’re UNCOOL because you don’t have that. and basically, no ones ever gonna think they’re cool. but if you’re cool cool, naturally cool, people are going to see that and take after you. why? because they want to be cool. and the fact that you don’t care if they’re cool or not and don’t care what’s cool or uncool and just do your own thing, that’s pretty cool. so they follow that. and it’s cool.

now then, you’re probably wondering where i’m going with this whole analysis about the components of being cool. well, to be honest, the strokes made me cool. not popular in-crowd cool, but the made me me. and i think i’m pretty cool. how did they make me cool, you may ask? because they were the first band i discovered completely on accident. i didn’t hear one of their songs on the radio, i didn’t play it on guitar hero and think it was cool (i played reptilia before, but had never bothered to look it up), i didn’t have it shoved down my adolescent ears by my parents. they were my band. and, at the time, no one i knew knew about them. and that made me excited. it sounds hipster, i know, but they were kind of like my dirty little secret. i could obsess over them in peace, no one would tell me they sucked or go on and on about how hot the singer was. gradually, i fell in love with all of them. but it was the music that hit me first. i only really fell in love with them once i got a tumblr (julian was more like my celebrity crush than the love of my life at that moment in time.) it was the music, really. so i had several single songs (you only live once, juicebox, reptilia…) and finally i was just like “screw it i’ll just buy an album.” so i went on itunes and purchased is this it. believe it or not, i had never purchased a full album by a band. i think the only albums i really ever owned were oops i did it again by britney spears and the best of both worlds by hannah montana (SHE HAD JUST COME OUT AND WE WERE ALL IN LOVE WITH THE SHOW DON’T LIE YOU KNOW YOU LOVED THAT SHOW IN THE BEGINNING) and those were gifts. so right after i did i was like “shoot, why did i do that, what if the other songs don’t compare” and it took probably a week for me to know the entire album by heart. eventually i completed room on fire and fioe and then i was gone. i knew this band was the one for me. forever.

so yeah, it was the music that really got me. i love the guys, really i do, with all my heart. i would have thought they were alright, maybe just julian and nick as hot. but after listening to their music and watching their interviews, i feel like i actually know them. like the same way i would know my friends. it’s weird. it’s like i know their souls. and i think it’s because they’re music is so from the heart they put little bits of their personalities and soul INTO their music. it sounds cheesy, i know. but seriously. sometimes i think that good musicians make music that sounds like their soul. not the sounds their souls make, but it’s like it’s their soul in sound form. then they write out what they feel or whatever they want really and put it to the music. wow, sorry if you gagged at that. my apologies to my lactose intolerant peeps out there, for all the cheese that was in that. i’m lame, i know.

so yeah. the music. it’s all about the music. i would still love their music if they were all butt ugly. they just happen to be beautiful people that make beautiful music. and sorry about the novel i just wrote. ok i’ll stop talking now. bye.

thank you :)

not to sound like one of those julian fangirls, but… yeah julian. cuz he’s the entire reason i started listening to the strokes. cuz i saw him in boombox. then looked up the strokes. and thought he was weird. then i fell in love with him. fell in love with the others later. google image searched them everyday. realized that most of the pictures came from some site called tumblr. saved a bunch of links to about 5 different tumblrs (fuckyeahjuliancasablancas, fuckyeahthestrokes, racingsunbeams, hellozestrokes… can’t remember the last one :/) asked a lot of anon questions without actually having one. made an awesome anon post on fuckyeahthestrokes. made a tumblr to get credit. voila, here i am. so yeah, thanks julian. love you babe :*** (not that i don’t love all the others cuz i do so much a bit too much actually but whatever)

maybe

good question. probably either lizzie mcguire, the amanda show or spongebob.

cats the animals? yes.

cats the musical? yes.
(if that’s what you meant, i’m really creeped out cuz i’m wearing my cats shirt right now from when i saw it live 0.o)

too much.