I learned my passion in the good old fashioned school of loverboys.

When you really love something and connect to it you hate to see it condensed down to a fucking badge sitting in a smug cunt’s music shop where they sell DJ equipment to halfwits who go home and make more heinous ear pollution to keep my head in it’s current state of toxicity. I saw a badge in “Element Records” that said “No one is ugly after 2am” and I wanted to burst into tears. Like every spoiled, petty young (and maybe not so young) person I wanted to cry but not because someone else likes what I had first (yeah right) but because it’s been cheapened into a badge that slappers and rednecks will wear with the same kind of humour with which they attach mistletoe to their crotches.I hate slogans on t-shirts and badges, even the ones that are amusing enough will only become polished turds eventually by being trotted out by student after student whose friends will say "heh, wow, yeah...cool shirt" and go buy one of their own. Offensive t-shirts can be amusing, sure, but "I fucked the girl in Hanson" may as well be “I’m with stupid” after a while. Badges (or pins for my American friends) are even worse. I once knew a slack jawed girl who had a badge that said "psycho bitch from hell". When I say “slack-jawed” I’m not trying to be funny and imply that she was an idiot, although she was, she was in fact slack jawed. It just hung there with her braces glinting and winking at everyone and her bobbed haircut on that long, rectangular face completing her look as a ‘tard. But, I digress, she had one of those bloody badges. She would go to teen discos with that badge and her slack jaw and delicately headbang (fear of further jaw displacement?) to Guns and Roses tunes knocked out by overweight and over the hill Irish (IRISH) DJs. She was and is the epitome of the kind of people who wear those badges.I’m keeping my eyes peeled and as soon as I see that “2am” badge out someone is going to die. I will print out this journal entry and bring it to court with me and walk free of any assault or murder charges.