BROKEN

I feel like my shirts are very reflective of my moods...

This next one I count as a band shirt because 1) I can't wear it without thinking of music and 2) while it doesn't reflect a band, the lyrics are on the inside.

TWLOHA (To write love on her arms) is an organization started for awareness of teenagers who cut themselves, have suicidal thoughts, etc. If you want my opinion, I think its pretty messed up that our society even NEEDS an organization like this, but I have also been working in customer service for long enough to see parent/child relationships recently, and I have definitely seen a few interactions go down where I thought to myself, "your giving your child a complex"....

In short, there need to be lessons on how to parent... My parents couldn't teach it, but I bet my Grandparents could.

Back to my shirt. TWLOHA pops up at most emo-culture shows, Warped tour to name the biggest. The shirt I own was sponsored by Paramore, and It is 1 of the 2 paramore shirts I own. Having said that, let me tell you about Paramore. They wail. Sure they could be your run-of-the-mill pop punk, but there is one thing that sets them above the rest: their 19/20 years old singer, can sing. I remember seeing them before they were on MTV, when Hailey (singer) was only 18, with her bright orange micraphone, and thinking that this is what I had been looking for from punk rock. Avril started down this road and sold out... and Hailey's voice is far superior for such a peanut of a girl.

So the Lyrics to their song "We are broken" are on the inside of the TWLOHA shirt, which i thought was a very interesting choice. The song I think might have been written for the cause, but if it wasn't it was written perfectly for it. The Teenage angsty lyrics talk about how broken the singer is, it asks how do your restore innocence, etc. etc. And I appreciate the choice of it going inside the shirt because i'm sure if it weren't people would be trying to read them all day off my back and I would never get anything done. I wore it friday for one pretty simple reason: Dancing recently has been grueling, and I personally, Physically and egotistically speaking, have been feeling a little broken myself recently.