EXPLOIT THE SCENE With Kyle “Kore” Parsons Episode 13: The Hollywood “Type” Pt. 2: Caught Being Ugly One of the first columns for EXPLOIT THE SCENE was a story based in Hollywood, and I’m finally bringing it back to the club. I spend a lot of time up in LA because of the huge slue of venues, bars, clubs, and bitchy faces. No matter what you hear about LA, it’s a nice change of pace from growing up in Orange County...
EXPLOIT THE SCENE With Kyle “Kore” Parsons Episode 12: Stickam It has been quite some time since I have last discussed any type of social network. I wanted to put off the inevitable “Stickam discussion” as long as possible because I routinely use it for my scene research, if you will, as it has become the unofficial hang out for scene kids...
EXPLOIT THE SCENE With Kyle “Kore” Parsons Episode 11: Band Saturation No matter who you are, scene or not, you have most likely been hit up by several (or several hundred) bands on Myspace and other social networks. I’m willing to bet that a good third of the accounts on Myspace are band accounts – because everybody has a band and everyone wants to live that amazing glamorous band lifestyle...
EXPLOIT THE SCENE With Kyle “Kore” Parsons Episode 10: Scene Fads Pt.2: “I’m Bisexual” I guess this is another one of those “touchy” subjects where I should attach a disclaimer, but I realized after I railed on the “suicidal” scene kids that I don’t really need to give some impression of an apology before I dig into the subject – especially when I’m not sorry. This continuous obsession with establishing a false identity on Myspace will keep progressing until every scandalous nook and cranny is turned inside-out and adopted by these scene kids. The next piece of the puzzle that I would like to exploit is the fabricated “bisexual” lifestyle...
EXPLOIT THE SCENE With Kyle “Kore” Parsons Episode 9: Crowd Dynamic If you have been following my column, I was going to continue disputing and detesting scene fads but as we all know, things come up, and since Bamboozle Left was this past weekend I couldn’t skip one of the largest alternative rock festivals in the scene. Unfortunately, all of that other bullshit will still be there to bitch about so I will save it for another day...
EXPLOIT THE SCENE With Kyle “Kore” Parsons Episode 8: Scene Fads Pt.1: “I’m Suicidal” In the next few episodes to come I’m going to post small disclaimers for each one, because I don’t believe you’re all fakes – just most of you. For the demographic this is in reference to, kids who call themselves suicidal are 99 percent bullshitters, and the one percent that do have suicidal tendencies are… well, unable to read this column. This is dedicated to you, 99 percentile...
EXPLOIT THE SCENE With Kyle “Kore” Parsons Episode 7: Myspace Sluts We are living in a sex-obsessed world. Depending on who you are or who you represent, that may not be such a bad thing to you – but something I think most people can agree on is the overwhelming affect that sex, and how media’s obsession with sex, is directly affecting the younger generation...
EXPLOIT THE SCENE With Kyle “Kore” Parsons Episode 6: Politics in the Scene I love how “scene kids” are grouped together in one giant clump of kids with a single devalued stereotype of having a broken family, razor blades handy for those tough times, and being so “emo” that they cry instead of handling life. When, and why, did it become a catch-all for unloved daddy-syndrome girls and confused boys?...
EXPLOIT THE SCENE With Kyle “Kore” Parsons Episode 5: What Happened to Rock? I guess I’ll set my hair straightener down for a minute and discuss a void in this year’s Grammy Awards. Every genre of music has its “popular” representatives… or, “sell outs,” depending on what kind of fan you are, that tend not to fade out of the lime light as quick as their peers will...
EXPLOIT THE SCENE With Kyle “Kore” Parsons Episode 4: Twitter I am a communications major, focusing in journalism, public relations and entertainment studies. It sounds alright I guess, but it actually just means I have to write a bunch of bullshit that I don’t care about – scholastic standards, I suppose. One of my professors has assigned a communication’s topic...
EXPLOIT THE SCENE With Kyle “Kore” Parsons Episode 3: The Hollywood “Type” Pt. 1 I’m from Orange County, California, AKA – “The OC” (we really don’t call it that.) Orange County became popularly developed as the suburban region south of LA. It’s a nice little setup, really, as we get the best of both worlds – an upper-middle class lifestyle and a giant playground of clubs, venues, and illegal drugs. It also gives me a lovely setting for many of my written pieces...
EXPLOIT THE SCENE With Kyle “Kore” Parsons Episode 2: SocialVibe Pink balls galore! Welcome to the newest installment of web-community-mayhem at its absolute best. Since the explosion of Myspace, web communities of all kinds have become a social necessity for everyday life. “Like OMG you’re hot, do you have Myspace?” (Phone numbers are so year 2000.)...
EXPLOIT THE SCENE With Kyle “Kore” Parsons Episode 1: Groupies "Sex, drugs, and rock ‘n roll! One enjoys all the perks of living the rock star dream, but in reality, offering absolutely nothing of value to the music – only fitting the niche of someone’s entourage. Webster, come quote me..."