no twistedness here!

During the visit with sprkid and anotheryourself and jacito this weekend, we were talking about where our lj titles came from. And I've told the story of mine before, but I think it's worth doing again, because the source is JUST THAT BRILLIANT.

We read this article the first week of my women in rock class last quarter:

http://www.usatoday.com/life/music/news/2004-03-29-classic-rock-kids_x.htm

The last paragraph, if you don't care to click the click, states as follows:

"Young people like to feel uplifted, but the culture has a sneer on its face so they turn to music, albeit frozen in time, that has an exuberant optimism. Artists in the '60s and to a degree in the '70s dared to hope, perhaps naively, that things could get better. Teens *should* be joyous and optimistic. There's plenty of time to be bitter and twisted later."

So, yes. Those last two sentences I carry very very close to my heart.

(I wonder if that means I have to definitely change my title and subtitle when I turn 20 in December? Oh, decisions.)

*heart*

Tonight there was nothing new on my friends, so I wandered around my bookmarks, and I wound up rereading first flambeau's The latest party and then katallison's Heavy Bag, and now I'm just. Man. Breathless and in love and stunned silly, and *god*, I love fandom sometimes.