#skylines and turnstiles interview question

[earlycuntsets]

‘Skylines & Turnstiles’ 

R.P – In Skylines and Turnstiles awkward silence is mentioned – who out of the band is most likely to break an awkward silence first? 

F – To break it…Mikey Way 

R.P – And how? 

F – Catchphrase!

G – Hmm, I think Ray Toro right probably break an awkward silence.

F – I had a different answer

G – Who in the band likely to break an awkward silence. It’s a tie between Ray Toro making a joke or Frank making a smart ass comment. One of those two things will break up an awkward silence, me and Mikey will just sit there and let it go. 

R.P – Slightly different from Frank’s answer 

G – What…Who he say? 

R.P – He said Mikey 

G – Ah

F – Catchphrase

G – That’s right!

F – He just walks in a room and goes nooner

G – Yeah that’s true, that’s true

F – Ahh so you were wrong!

G – Well no it’s all agreed really, I think me and Mikey have the catchphrase thing. "

[3rdgymbros]

━ 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐆𝐮𝐲 𝐈 𝐓𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐖𝐚𝐬 𝐇𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐓𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐎𝐮𝐭 𝐓𝐨 𝐁𝐞 𝐌𝐲 𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐁𝐨𝐬𝐬.

— pairing; bonten! sano manjirou x reader  

— summary; in which you mistake the leader of bonten for a homeless man, and offer him money

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❋ Of course, it would rain on the day of your job interview.

❋ A loud retort of thunder brings the rain pouring down, sending people into a panic. Umbrellas go up in the crowd, and those without them hastily find shelter in shops or quicken their pace to get out of the rain.

❋ You have a pocket umbrella in your bag, but it’s completely forgotten in your panicked haste to escape the thunder and the drizzle.

❋ You end up taking shelter in an ornate parapet with a young man about your age, as you try to brush droplets of rain from your clothes and face. He spares you only an indifferent passing glance, but the bleakness in his eyes frightens you. You’ve never seen anyone look so desolate, so utterly broken. It’s almost if there’s no life in him. He looks as grey as death with deep shadows etched upon the angles and planes of his breath-taking face.

❋ You stand beside him in silence, sensing that he probably isn’t one for small talk. Instead, you check the weather reports on your phone, relieved to find out that this is just a passing shower. And indeed, the sudden downpour already seems to be lightening into a drizzle.

❋ “Here, take this.” You unzip your bag and push your umbrella towards him. And though he takes it from you, his eyes remain as blank as ever. “It’s fine, I’ll be out of the rain in a bit!”

❋ You fumble with your purse, and withdraw a thin fold of cash, which is also pressed into his hands. This time, his mask slips for just a second. But as soon as the dull surprise registers in his face, it’s gone, sealed away behind cold grey eyes and an expression carved from marble. “You should also probably buy something nice to eat or find a place to stay for the night.”

❋ It’s with a last smile and a quick wave that you’re on your way. The icy rain trickles down the back of your scarfless neck, but the discomfort lasts for only a short time. You soon duck into a twenty-story office building, a sleek spire of gleaming grey that pierces the clouds.

❋ The interior is just as awe-inspiring, with golden-veined marble floors and walls, and brushed aluminium security desk and turnstiles. A very pretty receptionist shows you into a spacious glass-walled meeting room furnished with a spacious table of dark wood table and at least twenty matching chairs.

❋ The meeting room boasts floor-to-ceiling views of the impressive Tokyo skyline, as you take a seat, you find yourself nearly wilting in relief that you’ve managed to arrive on time. You have no idea what Bonten will do to late-comers, but considering your first encounter with them . . . You have a vague inkling that it can’t be anything good.

❋ The man who enters the room introduces himself as Takeomi Akashi. He’s tall, and dressed in a fine grey suit, a pink shirt and a maroon tie. His hair is slicked back, away from his face, and his eyes almost seem to be assessing you with a shrewd gaze. An unlit cigarette dangles between his lips.

❋ He pages through your resume and must like what he sees, for he nods approvingly and almost smiles at you. “Ordinarily, you would be interviewed by someone else, but you came . . . Highly recommended from Ran and Rindou.”

❋ Ah. Right. How could you forget the day those two barged into your clinic at closing time, held you at gunpoint, and demanded that you treat a pink-haired co-worker of theirs? And then proceeded to offer you a job as Bonten’s doctor before the blood had so much as dried upon your latex gloves.

❋ You grimace. “Thanks?”    

❋ Akashi, thankfully, doesn’t comment on the expression on your face, but instead begins asking you questions, ones you’re sure would never be asked in a normal job interview. What benefits can you bring to the organization? Have you ever fired a gun? Have you ever thought about killing someone?

❋ And so it goes. You answer the questions as best as you can, and you think that you’ve been sitting with Akashi for about ten minutes when the door to the conference room opens, and the man from the bus stop strides into the room.

❋ You do a double take, but the man doesn’t even give you a second glance as he breezes by you and conducts a hushed conversation with Akashi. You hastily glance out the window and try to lose yourself in the stunning views, trying to give them some semblance of privacy. The conversation is brief, and is over as suddenly as it had begun. The man from the bus stop leaves, and it’s just you and Akashi once again.

❋ “Congratulations.” Akashi says, and the frown on his face smoothens out. “Welcome to Bonten.”

❋ You have no doubt in your mind that the man from the bus stop had come in to pull some strings, and you frown, still confused. You crane your neck, trying unsuccessfully to catch a last glimpse of the stranger. “Uh, can he do that?”

❋ “Hire you?” At your nod, Akashi says, “He’s our boss. Didn’t you know that?”

❋ Oh. Oh no.

❋ What have you done?

[ktbensondc]

The ‘Emo’ Subculture

Also known for a time as Emo-core during the 1980′s, Emo is the ultimate reject of society and the disowned child of punk. The culture is synonymous with the music of nasally-vocalled, misery men and loud guitars, with lyrics often whining about the unfairness of rejected love. The fashion is dark, heavy on the black, and heavy on the accessories. The only way to differentiate Emo subculture and Scene subculture is through the fact that Emo’s preferred black. The art of the subculture also has a bleak outlook on life and love, and aims to find comfort in a cuter style and language. It typically carries a style reminiscent of Tim Burton’s animated films, and is considered crudely drawn but this would be because of the very young age of most members of the subgroup. The 1990′s comic, Johnny the Homicidal Maniac written by Jhonen Vasquez, could be a contender for a comic that influenced Emo art style.

The interest in Emo as a subculture is that it was at the time, and still remains to be to this day, an embarrassment. This stems directly into the ‘emotional’ aspect of the subgroup which is often seen as a weak trait. It also brings up the question of who defines a subculture - the subculture itself, or the mainstream. As an ongoing argument between older Emo’s and Emo’s of the 2000′s generation (which saw the subculture rocket into the mainstream), and even with outsiders of the culture, of which bands can be defined as emo - many, most notably My Chemical Romance, rejecting the label - it becomes difficult to truly know what Emo is with so many interpretations.

Is it such a bad thing to be Emo? In this sense, the question could be, is it such a bad thing to express oneself openly and publicly? To that, the answer may very well be, it depends. In an interview with consequenceofsound.net, Chris Carrabba of early noughties’ band Dashboard Confessional expressed ‘I’m a guy who writes about what he feels and is not embarrassed by that’. Perhaps that is the point as the article discusses the subculture’s initial intent to not be cool.

However, as with any movement - social or political - the original intent always shifts and mutates as the movement gains speed and traction.

Emo became a style to be mocked and was often linked by the mainstream to acts of self harm and poor mental health. Did this mean the subculture bettered society because it brought the subject of mental health to the forefront? Of course not, because it was mocked. Emo was not taken seriously, and therefore neither were the real problems youths of the subgroup faced. The mocking of a subculture, means the mocking of the problems that made the subculture.

Rites of Spring are credited to the birth of Emo despite the lead singer’s rejection of the title, saying in one 2003 interview, “I never recognised “Emo” as a genre of music. I always thought it was the most retarded term ever.” However, a case can be made that The Cure were the first Emo band although the argument here would be whether The Cure are Goth or Emo, as the lines between both subcultures can often be blurred.

During the 1990′s, Emo steadily began to grow as more bands adopted the nasal vocals.

From the 2000′s onwards, Emo sky-rocketed into the mainstream. Leading bands like My Chemical Romance, The Used, Wheezer, Jimmy Eats World, Fall Out Boy, Panic! at the Disco, Paramore, became synonymous with Emo subculture, whether or not they wanted to be, and whether or not older Emo’s wanted them to be.

Typically, bands who were heavily referred to as Emo in the early 2000′s, began to move away from their darker or simply, sadder, lyrics. For bands like My Chemical Romance, they moved from singing of angrily fighting the mainstream and moving through the after-life in their album The Black Parade (2006), to singing in a more hopeful and upbeat spirit but still putting forth the message of fighting back against the mainstream and fighting away depression in their album Danger Days (2010). The sound moved from rock to pop-punk. This would happen with other bands such as Paramore and Fall Out Boy as the Emo subculture began to fade away.

However, bands such as Modern Baseball, are making a resurgence with the classic Emo music style in the late 2010′s. Emo is not as popular as it was mid-noughties, but it continues back in the underground. 

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