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Google Wave is so frustrating. Mostly, because they aren't feeding invites fast enough.

Andy and I really only seem to have each other to talk to on it at the minute, which - while I love the guy - is kind of weird and doesn't give us much chance because he's in the US and I'm in the UK. If I wasn't working and was still living more or less on Chicago time, this wouldn't be so big of a problem, I guess, but I'm working and need sleep, which means he sends me stuff and I'm not there to answer it and vice versa.

It would be the same with most people, I'm sure, but the lack of variety means you get virtually no chance to develop it.

I got my invite from a friend of Julie's - the very generous

smuffster - but Julie's own invite hasn't come in, yet. (Correction: it literally just arrived!)

It's really hard to establish a working understanding of a program based on interaction when you have a limited number of people to interact with. I'm waiting for an invite to give to

ashe_frost so that we can take over the world and for

supercasio so we can be randomly awesome and talk about forcefeeding In 'n' Out to Patrick. We are TPP. Totally pro-paunch. There is no tummy like a squishy tummy.

But yeah. Unless usership increases pretty soon, I can see Wave sinking. There are no tangible benefits right now. It basically merges email and chat and that's all it really seems to be.

Oh and I've kind of started using my Last.fm thing.

What is it supposed to do?

You know... so often lately I see people identifying themselves as a "Beautiful Mess" or "Hot Mess" or similar, derogatory terms. I see them refer to other people as a "hot mess" as if it's some kind of compliment.

And I really don't understand how that's a compliment.

For a start, a 'hot mess' just reminds me a of a steaming dog turd waiting for you to step in it. Secondly, yeah - it's nice to be hot, or beautiful, or whatever but... a mess? Seriously? Why would that be something to be proud of? Or pleased about?

Drug-addled, vodka-soaked, racoon-faced, scene "queens" (does that come from the fact they all look like drag queens?) are a mess in the same way roadkill is a mess. And equally unpleasant.

I am so very bored and bemused by the near-universal desire, online, to take pride in being a failure, or a bitch, or an arsehole, or a neurotic drama-magnet, or a 'mess'.

What the hell is wrong with everyone? Cheer the fuck up! Try to find something about yourself that's likeable and legitimately attractive (and don't waste your time with the "but there's nothing about me that's attractive! Wah wah wah!" bullshit, because you'll just be kidding yourself and irritating everyone else) and then embrace it. If you have nice hair, show it off. If you have pretty eyes, accentuate them. If you're a good, kind person, encourage others to get involved in your projects. If you're efficient and well-organised, help people who are less so.

Just, for the love of all that is rational: STOP PRETENDING TO BE SOMETHING LESS THAN YOU ARE. Not least because most of you are probably putting on the self-deprecating bullshit because you think it's cool. It's not. It makes you look like goth wannabe twat. And that's never cool.

Have some goddamn self-respect and learn to like yourselves a little more, will you?

But apparently I have some kind of virtual dragon egg thing. I have no idea what it does or what it's for, but it wants to be clicked.

Edit: I adopted an abandoned one, too, because I'm such a bleeding heart for virtual fantasy creatures.

The thing is, forcing these bands on people isn't encoraging people to get into them; often, it just means that your own fans get sick of hearing about them and become more resistent to them.

The early Decaydance bands were genuinely good acts - I count Cobra and TAI amongst some of my favourite current acts - but the newer stuff is less original and come with obnoxious fanbases that nobody wants to have to endure at your shows.

Also, it has to be said: FIVE BANDS is way too many on a bill. Nobody gets a decent length set and your own fans are forced to stand up through acts many of them can't stand in order to enjoy a reduced length set from the band they are actually there for.

I get that these bands are on your label, and you want to promote them, but it's to the detriment of your own fanbase.

Originally posted as a comment by icedmaple on A Homeboy's Life using Disqus.

for the record, only two of these bands are on my label. two are not.

WE will continue to support our friends and bands that WE think are good and offer something to the bill.

As far as you feel about decaydance is a personal opinion. I wish more people had supported bands like the hushsound but it simply was not the case. i get it, the new stuff is not your cup of tea. thats ok. i never did this label for anyone except myself. i was told not to sign panic at the disco and gym class heroes by everyone i spoke to. there are bands that i feel deserve to be championed and therefor choose to.

i have found that often it is less what the music is but what age or state you are in when the music hits you. i have found this in my own life personally. my tastes change and mature as i grow and bands that i fell in love with, that took me through the most miserable parts of my teenage years wouldnt hit me the same if they came out now. its often nostalgic ears that we listen through.

people have complained when we have had three band bills, people complain that they cant get into the secret smaller shows we do, people complain that venues are too big.

all that i have taken out of this is that we as a culture have our own opinions and we dont mind expressing them.

i appreciate that.

we have toured with nfg, shiny toy guns, midtown, bayside, from first to last... honestly, we tour with bands that we like and sometimes with bands that we hope our fanbase will enjoy.

honestly, if you dont like the tour you should either show up late and just see FOB (if you live in the states), not come to the show at all, or lobby to become our booking agent and book the tours from now on.

didnt mean for this to be brutal but id like for you to know the truth. either way, i am sure people who love our hate certain bands on the tour are able to schedule their lives so they see the ones that they want to see.

take care.

ps "pete" doesnt decide the line-ups for fall out boy. the entire band, our management and our booking agents do. we also do not decide the routing for our tour but when someone makes a suggestion we put that forth to our agents.

not sure how to login to my account here so i wont be replying again as im sure some fakes will begin to do so. if you want i will reply over at the clandestine.buzznet one.

Originally posted as a comment by petewentz on A Homeboy's Life using Disqus.

( My other response )

Hahahahaha. Oh man, AP.net fell for the eyeliner prank, and so did

icecreamhdaches.

Fail.

Lin! I have a challenge for you. Can you translate this for me?

It's an article written by a guy who spent a night on an investigation with me - but it's in German! DX

Edit: having translated it with Babelfish, he doesn't sound too convinced by me. But then, I'm not generally too convinced by me. I still feel pretty shocked when I get things dead accurate (like the wolfhound).

And for the record, It's Chief, not boss. And it's an in-joke between me and him.

You know, it's bad enough when people try to add you for scene points on Buzznet, but when random strangers add you on Facebook, that's just plain not cool. >:|

It's funny, isn't it, how you can give someone your password when you're friends with them, so they can access a picture they want from your account, and later, after you've stopped talking to them, they email to tell you to change your password because they still have it.

And then, weeks after that, they contact one of your friends to tell you again to change your password.

Question: how do they know whether you've changed it or not, unless they've tried to log in again? Even if they hit the first letter of your email address in the username fielf, they'd have to actually log in to find out whether the password was the same, wouldn't they?

Food for thought, eh?

It also makes me laugh when people get their sources so very, very wrong.

People who know more advanced HTML than I do: I need to create links in those little scroll boxes so people can copy the text and paste it to their own LJ/MySpaces. How do I do that?

With some help from the lovely

tiny_tear, I have just purchased a video camera (and like 10 mini DV tapes to get me though the Chicago trip, at least for starters).

This is so going to win.

Note: I have no plans to become a video blogger.

I now have AIM.

It's finally working. I have abandoned my old username from the HP fandom, so you can now contact me on this one.

Internetz is back. Hurrah.

FW is go.

My TV and interwebz keeled over and died right before bed, last night.

I don't know why, but this is why I randomly disappeared, Kimmy.

Hopefully, it'll be back by the time I get home... then again, it'll mean I get the FW story done. Maybe.

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I have no idea what this is for.

Hmm. Pete actually responded.

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