Jeg hader Au Revior Simone

Yes, I do. I’ve been trying to ignore them for the past month or so -- I’ve even nearly perfected the art of reading the newspaper without looking at the ads -- but I kind of do have to read the articles. So when they have glowing write-ups in both the Mercury and Willamette Week, I can’t help but notice.

What am I on about? Oh, it's the same old thing -- not being 21. Not Au Revoir Simone's fault. So, okay, I suppose I don’t hate them. I’m just... a bit upset. I mean, you’d think that in three US tours -- in the same year -- they could have managed at least once to play an all-ages show. But oh no. (Oh my. Is my only consolation -- knowing that anyone who sees Au Revoir Simone will also have to sit through the monster song. I, happily, won’t -- but it’s not much consolation.) I guess they assume all their fans are cool enough to have fake IDs or something. Well, I don't.

So here’s Sad Song, a download which is ILLEGAL -- but, like I said, I’m upset, and it seems appropriate. (And I’m destroying the link tomorrow morning, so perhaps no one will even have enough time to download it.)

And while you’re listening to Sad Song, something extra to do: grades are out, and I figured it’s safe to upload this now, so the whole mp3 sociology report is now online. It’s pretty detailed -- 19 pages long (unfortunately for my professor, who only wanted 10-15 double-spaced; I didn’t double-space. I got an A, though). I was going to make a nice PDF, but I couldn’t get my tables (yes, I have tables) right that way, so it’s just a word document, but that works just as well, I guess. You'll just have to download it instead of reading online.

Two things to keep in mind here. One -- please don’t anybody be offended by anything I’ve written. I tried really hard not to misconstrue things, but if I have, I’m sorry. Two -- this is pretty much the same as what I turned in for my final class version; however, this is a project that, if I had my way, I would like to continue working on for, say, five or ten more years. I see it as more of a draft than anything complete. Any comments or suggestions you have would be appreciated. In fact, even just letting me know you thought it was (or wasn’t) interesting would be great. I put a massive amount of work into this thing, and it would be nice to know that someone besides my professor actually read it.

Also, a huge thank you, again, to everyone who participated by taking the time to fill out that detailed questionnaire. You people are awesome.

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Sad Song (Au Revoir Simone)
The Social Roles of MP3 Blogs (Sara's blog paper)