Poison Idea:
They are (were?) a metal band that started in Portland.... and they kick butt. i have half a mind to tell all ya'll bout that one time where i myself may have come across one o' these fellas'.

Sierra and i were on the bus and this really really really wasted guy got on, and started petting this guys dog (which he claimed was a service animal but obviously wasnt). well the Dog Owner started yelling at Drunk Guy to stop. Drunk Guy just started cracking up so hard that i though his guts would fall out. so Dog Owner gets super dooper pissed off and tells the bus driver to do something. Drunk Guy eventually stops laughing and just sits down being a good little boy. and this dude (a much older version of the guy in the picture below, with Poison Idea tattoos all down his neck) turns to us with a gold toothed grin and with a "stay in school kids", he moved to the back of the bus and pulled an unlit cigarette out to suck on.

Favorite Poison Idea song: Plastic Bomb




Elliot Smith:
this guy is my only sort of EMO interest.... but i'm not sure if his music could be classified in any category. but the point is, his songs are really pretty sad, or at least melancholy. during his life this Elliot Smith was pretty seriously addicted to heroine and a lot of his songs are about that. like Needle in the Hay, which talks about specific places in Portland, (Oregon), (where he's from), where he would go to get his fix. most of the songs are just really....... um....... realistic i guess? cuz they're often pretty autobiographical. i think.