thread to get over a breakup

now that is a shitty breakup

I thought I felt bad when the house I lived in at college was turned into offices.

ostentatious ... was the word I was trying to think of to describe the dorkitude of the pirate a cappella years.

the guy i started the thread about:

just looked at his new band's website, and it says "influences: emily"

:(

aww

kinda creepy

is the band any good?

well, kinda

sounds like underworld with ian curtis singing

lol!

dude you broke him

i suppose that i influenced him in that i encouraged him to listen to music that was not metal

I'm with elmo ... kinda creepy

in the words of the Mungolian Jet Set... IT'S CREPEY!!!

oh its definitely creepy

and a little late in the game to be pulling shit like that anyway. its been 8 months dude, get out of the house or something

Equal parts creepy and plain lame.

would it make you feel better if the band was better or worse? I'm trying to think how that would be for me.

I feel way better when creepy exs' bands turn out to be totally lame. Makes me feel more justified in not being with them.

yeah i wish it was worse but it makes me feel pretty good that hes basically just spinning his wheels ripping off things i like

it'd be funny if he broke out with it and you were the kim to his em

well not 'funny' but u get me

no it'd be pretty funny

I remember when I discovered an ex was posting bad erotic fiction he had written online ... I felt a) more justified in not being with him and b) better that when I was with him, I was an improving influence, and after I dumped him, he went to shit

we should listen to the new band and try to figure out what lyrics are about you

ha, you started thread to get over a breakup, he started band to get over a breakup

haha

im ashamed to link you to the site, but one of the songs is definitely about slaying someone and one of the songs definitely says something about knowing a person has a secret

tbh

i actually ran into his bandmate/roommate at the food co-op today, haw! he goes "we're playing the 4th, you should come" and i was like "should i?" and he said "well yeah. you should. or just come early and leave before we play, if you want to avoid...anything...awkward" and i was like "yeah ok, no"

or just come early and leave before we play

i know you probably meant "leave before we finish playing" but lol

haha no, he actually said leave before we play believe it or not

i think he meant come to see the first band and just hang out with him. hes kind of a pal tbh

okay, him being a pal makes the exchange make sense ... otherwise it was kinda wtf.

haw, sorry to confuse

Yeah, I totally read it like "oh no, they're going to play like seven songs with "emily" in the title and that's the awkward bit" too :-)

thats still a distinct possibility afaik

definitely don't go

i dont think i will. i dont want to see dude. havent clamped eyes on him since february

whoa thats pretty much total crepestore right there

http://www.looptvandfilm.com/blog/joelies.jpg

Yeah, I totally read it like "oh no, they're going to play like seven songs with "emily" in the title and that's the awkward bit" too :-)

have seen this happen (ok it was just one song) and it was really, really awkward not just for the singer/ex, but for everyone else in the room that knew the backstory/that this particular song was about him.

this will happen as long as people write break-up songs, it is pretty much necessary for music

a while back, a couple of friends - who were married - were in a band together, and some of her songs were pretty clearly about problems with their relationship ... they are no longer married.

damn u knew lindsay and stevie

that was my first thought 2

plenty fish in the sea btw u guys

been listening to the mac so much lately been thinking about starting a band with a couple tumultuous couples i know that play music together and like slipping them love potions or something

like oops you're all divorced and we just made the most kickass album ever...d'oh

uh i play drums obv

oh jeez rox

Ran into the recent EX at lunch and she told me that her "friend" (I suppose she means the other man, the one that she is in love with and broke up with me for) is gonna be in town this weekend. She thought I should know in case I ran into them on the street, so it wouldn't be awkward. Well, it won't be, cuz if I see them, I am turning around and walking far away.

Why couldn't she just use his name, wtf?!
Man, she dumped me over lunch, too. Never eating with this chick again.

maybe she feels guity?

I'm sure she does, I'm just having a bad week.
It's nice that she told me, I guess, but there's no way the three of us running into each other wouldn't be awkward. I'm a little butthurt over this long-distance relationship blossoming while we were still seeing each other. But the fact is that we needed to break up, so I should just STFU and get over it, I suppose, but it's rarely that easy, is it?

no, it isn't. Your story reminded me of something that happened to a friend of mine ... he was married for 13 years, and then his wife left him and moved to a different state with a "friend." He later found out from other people (not her) that she was having an affair with this "friend" and not long after the divorce went through, she married this "friend." He ran into her at a show while he was on tour, and the "friend" was there. She introduced the "friend" as her roommate, but she was aware that he was aware of the relationship.