On the LIRR you can usually tell what kind of event is going on by what people are wearing, whether it be knicks or rangers jerseys or what i like to refer to as the bald metalhead nation with their shaved heads and all black get-ups and pentagrams/goats etc. sometimes though you run into a crowd that was dressed at spencers or hot topic and that's when i start asking questions and its sometimes kids like these....

 

i like to question the "hardcoreness" of some  kids going to "hardcore" shows at the garden and the nokia theatre while on the lirr.  a few weeks ago these kids were going to see this band silverstein.  i never heard of them but its like three, 15 year old girls with their moms. i ask them what show they are going to see because i saw tickets in their hands. they say silverstein..... i say "oh, what kind of music do they play?" the MOTHER looks right at me and says "hardcore"..... i  nearly lost it, laughed right at them and told them that there is no way silverstein is hardcore. turns out they didn't play at the garden or nokia but the fact that someones mother has to tell me that they are taking their kids to a hardcore show kinda tells you something. can you imagine back in the day having a young  Paul Bearer being escorted to his first hardcore shows by mommy and daddy? i doubt it.
 
i later google them and find out they are some emo band from canada and a lot of reviews called them or put them in a hardcore genre which made me kinda vomit after i looked them up on itunes.

 

  

 

i also ran into wendy from guillotine on the train a few weeks back