The Pretender

In retrospect, In Search of Emo's was a really terrible idea for a movie. The main reason being that for all my talk about putting them in camps where they will be forced to do manuel labor until death, I really could care less about them. When we decided to actually shoot it, I didn't think I'd be able to be even remotely amusing. As it turns out, I'm pretty good at pretending to hate things. I have claimed on multiple occasions to hate the following:

-Emos
-Ninjas
-Hipsters
-Black People
-Jews
-Poor People
-Women
-Asian Men
-Liberals

The list goes on. How many of these do I actually hate? None of them. I really could care less about any of them. I'll tell you what I really do hate though. Its a type of person that's hard to pinpoint because to actually fully identify them, you need to have some sort of social contact. I like to refer to this person as The Pretender.

I have an honest dislike for this kind of person simply because they are ingenuine, arrogant pieces of shit. The Pretender will constantly overestimate them self. Typically, they are bad at sports, but that's okay because "sports are for losers and after high school is over, they don't matter". Statements like this are common for them. They never apologize and never take responsibility for their own faults. If they do, they will minimize it and blame someone else for the majority. Parents are often a major scapegoat.

The Pretender will 95 percent of the time have a blog. Unlike this one, it is updated on a regular basis, even if the person has nothing interesting or worthwhile to say. On truly slow days they will simply post of picture or video of something they find amusing or ironic.

They will almost always have ridiculously obscure taste in music and movies because liking things that are mainstream would "ruin their individuality".

Okay, I don't think I need to describe them any more. I've known plenty of people like this over the years. Hell, we're all probably guilty of it at one point. When we try to impress someone by listing Sufian Stevens as a favorite singer. Its when someone gets to consumed with being different or more ironic than everyone else that I want to strangle them with their own intestines.

It is almost 4 am. I am going to sleep now.