Chris Carrabba: Jedi Knight
by Dashboard Confessional has recently become a favorite band among many. For as long as I had heard of DC's music, I despised it, even forming my own "I hate Dashboard Confessional Club" to make my view known to everyone. I'm sure many remember all my away messages about how horrible Chris' whiney voice was and how the lyrics were poorly written.
Recently, however I've been listening to his music more and more often, and do so without the distaste I initially had. I now willingly listen to the music that I once hated with such a strong passion. I've finally come to get joy out of the music, like so many have been doing for a long time now.
Here are my theories on why I, like so many others, have come to like Dashboard Confessional.
1. Chris Carraba is a Jedi Knight, who through the use of Jedi mind tricks, has been convincing people that his attempt at music is actually vocally beautiful and lyrically deep.
2. I, am just a naive fool, and should have realized that Dashboard confessional was brilliant from the beginning.
3. DC uses hypnotism in its music and with repeated listenings, anyone will become hooked and begin to declare DC as a great band.
4. I was unaquainted with the true heartbreak that Chris Carrabba sings about, and until this heartbreak is felt, the true value of his music can't be appreciated.
5. It's a huge ploy against me to test my strength of my individualism against conformity. Everyone says that they like DC even if its horrible, in order to see if I eventually will start saying I like it too, just becuse everyone else does. (But, I of course will not know that I am doing this, as it will be unconcious- SEE FREUD's theory on "Unconscious Mind")
Those are my theories, and as of yet, the correct one is still unknown to me, all i can say is that I, as have many others, have succumb to the power that is ~DASHBOARD CONFESSIONAL~.
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listen, courtney, i know you're upset because i won't go out with you. but there's still thai! you can be desprate and still settle for mediocraty!
ahem....i call a "off topic" highlight....what does this have to do with journal dibs?
And by the way dan, i don't want anyone but you....if you won't have me, then i shall just have to kill myself.
Dashboard is the essence of evil along with Bob Saget.
chris carrabba: *waves hand* "these are not droids you're looking for"
i think dashboard is highly overrated. but that's just an opinion. i would probably be less annoyed by it and care less, if the fans weren't such huge loud mouths about it all. taking every single chance to just lay eyes on him and his colorful sleaves and then insisting on talking about it all the time with every soul they come into contact with. but, hey, they're excited--live and let live, right? nah, forget that, where did i put that silencer...?
as interesting as the rest of your theories are..i have to say i agree the most readily with #4. i think it has a lot to do with that..because mostly everyone has gone through heart-ache so they can relate.
i think most people that dont really like his music is because they dont sulk like the general public. haha
But lots of band's sing about heart-ache in much more original ways. They don't just whine and cry and put it to music, their lyrics are deep and soulfull..sometimes.
#6 you are hypocrite
because i'm not allowed to change my mind?
sorry, you are worse then a hypocrite, poor choice of a word. You hate his music then one day you start to like it, obviously you are now part of the zombie masses that are brainwashed into liking that crap. Another has fallen to fruity DC!
i think he stole your personality...
umm yeah, thanks for your opinion.
so, i used to like n'sync when i was like 13...am i a hypocrite (or worse) for not liking them still?? or is there such a thing as changing? Cause last time i checked, change was good.
no change is badddddddd. And you can like something and then not like it, BUT you cant hate something then like it, thats just wrong.
I too was sucked in. I haven't been suckered into buying the latest cd, but i will...
i promise this at least...i will never BUY a dashboard cd, i only buy my very favorite artists cd, and i plan to only download and burn dashboard...once i start buying it...its gone too far
NO COURTNEY!!! We agreed the other night to hate Dashboard together. How could you abandon me?!
i know! i know! it was just the other night! Alas, i had a weak moment...i needed you! I just got weak :-/
i refuse to get sucked into the DC scam. from the songs i've heard, he's a whiney punk that needs to get over it. a successful white suburban kid should not have that much to complain about. seriously.
I had to see him live..a very unfortunate experience. He opened for Weezer and every male in the audience just sat there with a frown on their face while all the little girls were jumping up and down and singing their hearts out for him, including my little sister.
I don't care what all you haters think, I love the music, the guitar and the musical and lyrical style. Even if I don't care about his ex-gf's, I can still appreciate his words and the way he sings them.
The songs are soo good tho, I love almost every single one. I still get chills. That's good.
im not just a hater im a violent hater, i swear i was very close to trying to get on stage a few years ago and beat the crap out of him with his guitar
I'd give you a boost onto the stage. I support violence against civilians and rockstars.
hmm...is engaging a Jedi Knight in a brawl really the smartest thing to do?...Take it from a guy w/experience, you WONT win
if you strike him down, he will only become stronger and more powerful
Exactly....My mom, actually, is a retired Jedi Knight...& boy, lemme tell ya...I never got away w/ANYTHING...she'd hit me w/the ESP & it was all over
i am definitely not making any comments on your mom.
But..I'm one of the sith soo it's perfectly fine!
::says in yoda accent:: OH, sith be you?..Well you maybe will stand chance against.
it's essentially just music and entertainment right? you like.. go forit. you dont... who cares like something. me personally i love the powder puff girls . the little pink one is reallllll cute
tai can't talk about music without getting all mad
i know.. i just get angry at all people who like dashboard and i hate all people that hate dashboard... and i despise people who just dont care about anything..
so you're basically saying you hate everyone?
no no .. i just get angry at people who like dashboard... and i only hate those who hate dashboard.. but i despise those who just dont care. but i L you
I think its great you say hes a jedi knight, cause, everyone looks at me weird cause I am one.. too, maybe someone will find me attractive now (in an emo sorta way)... me and Chris...we got things in common!!!!
you've turned very whiny lately, i've noticed
im supposed to be, its EMO! oh... boo hoo, no girls like me, im just a poor scrawny tattooed guitar player that writes about being dumped and being picked on!
i'm a jedi knight too! my brother declared me one, saying that i can easily trick my parents.
(The following statements are being made in promotion of my ongoing "Start Listening to Further Seems Forever Instead Of Dashboard" campaign.) So you've finally come to like dashboard, eh?!...Listen up - This illeged Jedi Knight, he was in another band b4 this one, a band called Further Seems Forever. He sung for them. He played guitar w/them. HE ROCKED W/THEM. If you like Dashboard, you'll love Further Seems Forever. Go to Sam Goody, this instant, and tell them Bryan sent you. You will recieve absolutely no discount by doing this..But, you will most likely recieve a statement from the cashier along the lines of "You know that fool?...He comes in here and buys the same darn "Farther Seems Never" or whatever ya call'm CD every other day, he's really annoying"....Get their first one, it's pink and has an airplane on it..
hahaha...tell them bryan sent you! haha
chris "you make me wanna" carrabba
"You Make Me Wanna"!!...haha, isn't that a song by that guy Usher?...I used to like that crap..back in the day when I was like into gay music..ate it up like candy..
you know what i ate up? the cheese you grate off usher's abs. hahahhahahah haha haha ahahahaha. i love when people ask if you need some cheese grated to show off the abs.
yes, usher is ab-olicious.....My physique was so close to his 2 years ago when I used to work out every day....& now, now I'm a out of shape slob..skinny, but, out of shape none the less...lol...Thinking of just waiting till the new system to get back in shape
that's a really good idea, only for me it's just 'get in shape' no 'back'
haha, what're u talking about ya look fine!...although..I'm told the same thing about myself & I dont believe it, lol, so I guess I know where ur comin from....Some of us have metabolisms that give the false appearance that we're like totally fit & meanwhile, we can't run 2 blocks w/out a heart palpitation....haha.,.that's me
i think i have one of those metabolisms too...i eat fast food practically everyday....haha
are you serioius!...that's awesome, you don't show it at all, lol...See, the thing w/me is, my dad used to look exactly like me, when he was my age...and umm, if you were to see him NOW..he aint fat..but, I definately don't wanna look like him...all those genetic laws probably mean I'm goin down the same road as he did physically...So I'm probably gonna have to start watching my habits eventually...but for now, i'm livin it up
haha, yeah...if you're young...and can get away with it...i say go for it. I do...my brother and i both got super quick metabolisms...and if i'm anything like him, it'll stay that way. But, sooner or later i should probably start eating healthy...cause you can be skinny and still drop dead of a heart attack.
Thank you and you do look fine, and the way you were running around in manhunt I don't think anyone could say that you weren't fit. I, on the other hand, thought I was going to have a heart attack after my sprint to the jail and then semi-run back to base. It's definetly the metabolism thing cause I know I have it in me to be fat cause I used to be on the chunkier side.
ummmm...lol, ok, you may have caught sight of me running'round like an idiot through the fields, but, what you might have missed is me curled up in the bushes for 10 minutes catching my breath, lol
ahhh! very tricksy hobbit