Snaps!

I'd like to point out to the world, to all you people striving to be "different", that all of you merely just caught up to me. Seriously. I was apparently a trend setter, or at least jump on before ANY OF YOU thought those things to be cool.

A Black man playing the guitar
I started playing guitar in 2003, while I was in highschool, on my free time. Self taught. In fact, I remember the last day of my 11th grade year, me and my friends brought our guitars and jammed with our English teacher. Fun times.

But, what did you all do?? Called me white washed. Called me an oreo. Said "only white boys played guitar". But I listened to rock n' roll music, and this made me listen to it more and more. All of a sudden, I walk around after having a few years under my belt and EVERY black dude wants to play guitar. All the people who called me "white-washed" wants to play guitar. All my friends the rapped wanted me to play guitar for them on tracks (although NOW, I regret not doing it....rap/rock still has potential). Needless to say......I was first. And I still play, although not as much.

Stunner Shades
Wanna know how much I set this trend?? My nickname was Hollywood. Nobody ever saw me without sunglasses. Had a different pair for each occasion lol. My everydays(2 pairs), my church/night times and my aviators. I even had a prescription pair (I use to wear glasses). People use to think I was weird for always buying sunglasses. It was my thing. SO, from the age of .....14 people poked fun at me because nobody wore shades the way I did. Now....EVERYBODY wants a pair of "stunner shades". Everyone wants a pair of shades. Get on my level tho, I only mess with name brands. No more of the $10 stuff (although, you find a good one now and again). Get on my level.

Being a nerd
I was a HUGE nerd as a kid. I still am lol. I LOVE sci-fi stuff. Star Wars, Star Trek, anything dealing with the future, space....that was my stuff. I also enjoyed math(yet now I hate it lol), I LOVE science and technology. I use to love anime a great deal(I grew out of it tho, but some are still AMAZING). I LOVE comic book characters and their cartoons. Heck, I love cartoons period. I'll admit, I even played World of Warcraft for a period of time. I loved video games and spent most of my childhood playing them. And now.....I want to make them. I was a nerd before that stuff was cool. But NOW, it's cool to be a "nerd" lol. I don't think it's the whole "nerd" thing as it is dressing like one.

Being Anti-government
I never fell behind the whole.... patriotism thing. Woke up late and missed the plane. Even tho I was only 14, a part of me felt like Gore should have won and Bush cheated. Then.....stuff happened. But I still couldn't fall in line. Others saw it as being un-patriotic. I saw it as keeping it real. I wasn't going to let an event, albeit catastrophic, change the way I thought and felt. I still don't. I believed all the conspiracy....because it made more sense than the lies they told. I never though the government, especially Republicans, had the best interest of the people. Now that I'm a tax paying citizen, I believe that even more. I'm not much of a.....protester, but I do voice my opinions about it when asked. I do try to stay informed politically as much as I can. I work for the government now and I still don't fully trust it lol. Just sayin. I'm 25....so I've felt this way for about 11 going on 12 years.

Music these days being absolute garbage? I thought that since high school.

Being able to make music at home and distributing via social networks being a cancer to the music industry? And all other opinions on it. Most of the music being mediocre at best. You have those.....GREAT people, and all the mediocre people. Yet the ones in the middle get lost in the noise. To good to be mediocre, the bad to be great. I have friend I put in that category.
Thought that since I was 22.....because I lived it.

Ya'll just don't understand.......I'm not like any of you......you all are like me.