[First filed: October 02, 2008 @ 09:35]
The Tilt Festival running in Garema Place appears to have hit some turbulence.
All round good sort, Greens candidate for Molonglo, and Tilt organiser, Elena Kirschbaum, has sent out the following plea for help:
Subject: Battle the emo kids
Hey guys,
This is a little request, a little favour.
The Tilt Festival is bringing in some of Australia’s best street performers. They are really exceptional.
We’ve been trying to deal with horrible drunk emos every day who are yelling abuse and generally being a bit nasty.
I need a crowd to battle them. Seriously. I need a bucketload of people to come and be loud and supportive and great and battle the emo kids until they get the picture and f*** off.
So please come down. Feel free to dress in bright colours, with slogans like ‘I heart life’. You can also wear beads (or will that make you too hippy?)
Come on down. Apart from battling emos tonight you will also get to see ADDJ and Mr Fish, two of the best shows I’ve ever seen on the street. And tomorrow night is a big one – see Mr Fish, ADDJ and Canberra’s own ex-pats the Circus Firemen doing a big group show with all new skills and stunts!
So which side are you on boys and girls?
UPDATED: The Canberra Times has picked up the story and added some comment from Elena and Greens leadership. I’m rather curious as to where Natasha Rudra got the story from as there’s no mention of RiotACT in there.
I do, however, want to apologise to Elena for any trouble I’ve caused (and for the idiot things certain commentards have said about her). I hope the increased exposure for the festival makes up for it.
ANOTHER UPDATE: The Greens have published Elena’s apology.
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Be careful about ostracizing emos – it vindicates their angst and they become more surly.
Ostracizing emos?
Or ostrich-sizing emus?
And is it just me who wants to kill someone when they hear an American say emooo?
And you have to be very careful if you upset them:
But if you’re troubled and hurt
What you got under your shirt
Will make them pay for the things that they did.
I thought emo’s were pretty quiet.
An emo once sultrified me…
Took months of listening to British 80s pop to get over it.
This is where i insert the obligatory emo grass cut itself comment.
There is a facebook group called something like save garema from teh clutches of the emo….
Yeah…
I know it’s so easy to pick on them, but really, they’re a lot more harmless than the pop-collar lads. Just think of them as todays goths. I for one can remember long monologues about how life sucks, black metal is the answer and killing yourself is inevitable.
Normally I’d agree DMD, but it doesn’t seem to be the poptops causing trouble here.
Do you think it might be a case of Emos being confused with Scene Kids. (I’ve heard they’re two different things)…
Or junkies?
Maybe the emos are just reclaiming the night?
If they’re shouting abuse they’re not emo.
They’re… screamo.
I’ll make an appearance, sounds interesting.
Aurelius said :
That might be just you. I do however want to kill someone whenever I see people using an American “zee” in their writing, when an English “ess” quite rightly belongs there.
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Thumper said :
Listening to The Feldons CD, I’d never have imagined
Elena has it all wrong. You don’t fight emos with non-emos; that’s what they have spent months training for, and even if they win, they’ve forced you to their level! Bring in some goths, let them know that the Garema Emos are tarnishing their name, and let nature take it’s course. Though then you might have a new problem. I am sure South Park has done or will do an episode on this kind of emo infestation.
If there upsetting Greens candidates then I am automatically on their side. Go emo! My tolerence for street performers is pretty low too.
And really, this Green candidate really isn’t showing a lot of tolerence and understanding to what I might well be the Greens target market.
Sounds like it’s the Junkies, not the Emos they’re having trouble with. All that Garema entertainment is interfering with the Junkie panhandling.
The emos just sit there looking miserable, seldom engaging in conversation with anybody bar their blackened brethren.
amarooresident said :
Well you know there’s Youth. They are conscientuous and will lecture you at length about recycling and The Future.
And then there’s people who are just young, and they don’t give much of a rat’s arse.
Check out:
http://icanhascheezburger.com/2008/04/22/funny-pictures-just-for-the-attention/
Well you know there’s Youth. They are conscientuous and will lecture you at length about recycling and The Future.
And then whip out their mobile phones, have 30 minute showers, wash their ‘bestest most fav’ clothes every day, eat McDonalds, etc…
Loquaciousness said :
Be glad you don’t work in science, where “a-mide” is becoming “ammmm-id”, the migrating F has claimed victory in the sulphur vs sulfur battle, and we are just waiting for lazy speaking to win out and drop the “ph” from “phth”, as in phthalate and naphthalene.
What a sorry excuse for a lady, I wonder if she has tried talking to them or is she Just going Straight to the “battle”
Good one Elena Kirschbaum fuel there already immense hate of people like you
NoAddedMSG said :
naffalene or palate?
I will stick to using meh.
OT, this woman wants to clean up Garema Place? Get the emo’s out? where will they go next? Garema place is fine, you wouldn’t want them cluttering up other areas of the city.
Oh and a thought. create a lockdown in ainslie village. that should remove at least 50% of them…
peterh said :
Those emo kids give me the shibs- I nearly tripped over two of them in Target the other day because they made camp on the floor sharing their i-Pod and looking miserable. Limbs and bad hair everwhere.
Why can’t they hang out somewhere damp and dimly lit?
I for one am rooting for the emo kids.
I figure if they win, the elation of victory will negate their life viewpoint and they will literally disappear from our universe.
On an only semi related point. I’m getting pretty sick of people calling every ‘alternative’ subgenre ‘emo’.
THE NIHILISTIC CYBERGOTHPUNKS DEMAND RECOGNITION!
Pretty interesting someone from the Greens going on about segregating a part of our society and driving them out of the city.
Way to go…
AngryHenry said :
She’s not asking anybody to segregate anyone. She just wants to combat the negative atmosphere these screamo’s are creating.
The only way to create a tolerant society is to drive out and shoot the intolerant people.
(I don’t know if I’m joking there, sometimes).
tastyjam said :
Yeah she is!
She’s labelled them emo’s and wants a whole group of people to drive them out of Civic.
How ’bout we get some timberworkers to drive the greenies out as well!?!?!
They’ve got just as much right to be in civic as anyone else.
Do you see where I’m going with this now?
Tasty Jam, What is she implying when she says “so they will get picture and F**k off”
Segregate = to require, often with force, the separation of (a specific racial, religious, or other group) from the general body of society.
Leave them alone