30 Seconds to Mars

So fandom Wank is good for more than the occasional giggle, it seems. For instance, about a year and a half ago, someone there had an icon of Jonathan Rhys Meyers as Steerpike, which led to my whole big Steerpike / JRM obsession that lasted for months. And today, because of a post on F_W, I'm about to do something I haven't done in years: buy a CD by a modern, American band. I mean seriously, I think the last time I did that it was Nine Inch Nails or something.

Oh, the band is 30 Seconds To Mars. The wank in question was the craziness that followed frontman Jared Leto's (apparent) joke that he was gay. The link was to their video. It's not that I was necessarily even interested--Jared Leto never did it for me, though I used to watch "My So Called Life" once in a while--I was just bored and doing that thing I've done since childhood: fighting sleep. And what better way to not go to bed than to stay up watching a video I didn't even really care about?

But the video for the song "The Kill" was cute and funny, a takeoff on The Shining, and I liked it right away. Jared Leto, though he is not the cute teen idol boy he used to be (I can't get over how different he looks! Not ugly at all, but, as someone on F_W put it, "reasonably attractive.") But holy crap, he can sing. It's just a matter of opinion, of course, but he's got an awesomely powerful voice. And while he is not Kurt Cobain or Layne Staley (there will never be another of either,) he's got his own style and his scream is fantastic. I thoroughly fell in love with the song. Which is weird for me. Oh, and I enjoy his angsty lyrics. "What if I fell to the floor?!" Hey, be my guest! His insistent, "You're killing me, killing me!" turns me all kinds of on. I love it when people sound like they mean it, whatever "it" may be.

Joy! I love when I find music that I can really get into!

30 Seconds to Mars

So fandom Wank is good for more than the occasional giggle, it seems. For instance, about a year and a half ago, someone there had an icon of Jonathan Rhys Meyers as Steerpike, which led to my whole big Steerpike / JRM obsession that lasted for months. And today, because of a post on F_W, I'm about to do something I haven't done in years: buy a CD by a modern, American band. I mean seriously, I think the last time I did that it was Nine Inch Nails or something.

Oh, the band is 30 Seconds To Mars. The wank in question was the craziness that followed frontman Jared Leto's (apparent) joke that he was gay. The link was to their video. It's not that I was necessarily even interested--Jared Leto never did it for me, though I used to watch "My So Called Life" once in a while--I was just bored and doing that thing I've done since childhood: fighting sleep. And what better way to not go to bed than to stay up watching a video I didn't even really care about?

But the video for the song "The Kill" was cute and funny, a takeoff on The Shining, and I liked it right away. Jared Leto, though he is not the cute teen idol boy he used to be (I can't get over how different he looks! Not ugly at all, but, as someone on F_W put it, "reasonably attractive.") But holy crap, he can sing. It's just a matter of opinion, of course, but he's got an awesomely powerful voice. And while he is not Kurt Cobain or Layne Staley (there will never be another of either,) he's got his own style and his scream is fantastic. I thoroughly fell in love with the song. Which is weird for me. Oh, and I enjoy his angsty lyrics. "What if I fell to the floor?!" Hey, be my guest! His insistent, "You're killing me, killing me!" turns me all kinds of on. I love it when people sound like they mean it, whatever "it" may be.

Joy! I love when I find music that I can really get into!