My Single Mom Life

My friend Jerm and I were just chatting on AIM, and talking about Warped Tour, which I missed because I couldn't get to St. Pete to go. *sadness*
Anyway, we were discussing the new hardcore style of dance.
They all just stand around, shuffling their feet, and swinging their arms.
Nobody touches anymore.
What the hell happened to moshing?
Does anyone remember good old fashioned mosh pits?
What is wrong with kids these days?
Are they afraid to get hurt?

See, I saw Pantera back in 1994, and we moshed back then.
I wasn't in the pit, but close enough to it that I felt every move of the crowd, it was wild, and it was fun.
When I got home that night, I went in the bathroom and looked in the mirror and there on the left side of my face, was a boot print.
Yes, a boot print.
I didn't feel it when it happened, it didn't hurt while I was looking at it, or ever.
It was just there.

That's when people moshed at shows. They bumped, they pushed and shoved, they helped each other from falling on the floor, they carried people above the crowds, (crowd surfing) and just had an over all awesome fun time.
You go to shows now and everyone just stands there.
Even when I went to TOOL, I saw movement in the crowd on the floor, but nothing like what we used to do.
It was more like swaying.
Nobody surfed, nobody moshed.
Kinda sad really that kids today who claim to be so hardcore, are afraid of a little moshing.
Pussies.