I meet some brilliant people in my day to day shenanigans, some unique people, and then…shall we say, some alternative people.

So I’m chatting to this chick the other day…no…wait…I was going to call her alternative, but if I must be honest with myself, this chick was a complete CLUTCH PLATE!

I somehow got off the topic of myself and how awesome I am, and we were onto fashion, her calling me a slave to trends and all this rubbish, which to be honest, is true, but if you’re going to be calling me this, you better damn well be an individual in the truest sense of the word. In the Keith Richards sense of the word.

So there she is, Mrs “I strive to not conform so much that I actually conform anyway” She was telling me how she parties only in Obz and how she wears what she wants. What she was wearing however, was the classic bohemian outfit, so favoured by the so called “non conformists” The bohemian outfit no doubt inspired by Sienna Miller. The hippy, fairy worshipping earth children. Flowing earth dresses and Ugg style boots. Stupid fairy clips in her hair. Glitter on her face. She was the type of person who will go to Rocking The Daisies, buy some ridiculous shirt saying “I’m Green”, but then fail to do anything else with her life that is actually eco-friendly, other than hugging trees while she’s tripping on acid.

I was waiting for a daisy to sprout from her head because she’s so in touch with planetary cycles.

I was waiting for her to fill her car up with biofuel, fermented from algae.

Sienna Miller Obz Style

So anyway, it just struck me as odd that while she was going out of her way to tell me that I’m a typical city person, following trends and all that, she was basically a walking trend herself. Why is it that every non conformist goes to Obz? Why is it that every non conformist chick that goes to Obz wears the same fairy rubbish as all of the rest of the people?

Surely if we’re all individuals, we’d all dress differently?

Seriously, am I on crazy pills?

I just feel like I’m going mad. Every alternative person does the same stuff as every other alternative person, in some twisted sense making them conformists. All emo’s wear black, GHD their hair and look as if their best look would be that of being attached to the party end of a shotgun.

They all look about as happy as bloodshed.

In the end, we all conform to something anyway. I conform to awesome, but hey, thats just me.

So while you’re drinking your cider in Obz and being friendly to everything, I’ll be at Chevelle drinking a ridiculously overpriced Red Bull and something or other, and judging everyone that walks past me.

Vain, superficial and shallow? Guilty.

Honest? Always.

And it’s in the honesty that we should be judged.

Sean Lloyd

Editor