Are you a prog type?

jojim wrote: Soooooooo, we didn't find out what makes people listen to prog. IF not the lack of girls, feelings, fear of the future. What is it then?Sometimes I suppose that it was the awful relationship to my parents (esp. father). Other time I think it is a kind of yearning to be in an other place - far away. Like a sailor discovering foreign countries and islands. And sometimes I think that I'm a pretty nervous person to keep track of most of the prog songs. If I'm seriousl: most of them sounds very harsh and chaotic, not soft, very energetic, very upsetting. Most people don't even bear it just to listen to it. They cannot stand it!!! - I can.So - what is the secret?Thanks for the overall interesting discussion anyway. Perhaps someone has a clue - and will let us having a short insight.

Prog certainly took me somewhere else. To, what I percieved to be a better place than the world around me. I had a difficult teenage life; my father died and school stressed me out. Music, especially prog hauled me through my teens like a good dependable friend. By the time I reached my twenties, and I settled down a bit, I actually drifted away from prog for a while; almost as if I didn't need the escapism. But, of course I went back to it purely through realising that it was emotionally and technically superior music to everything else I had been listening to in my 'prog free' days.
    

My first steps to prog probably started with Metallica. So I believe the secret to prog is Metallica.

Valarius wrote: My first steps to prog probably started with Metallica. So I believe the secret to prog is Metallica.

sleeper wrote: I dont know, do all progers hate most of the modern world?

Blacksword wrote: sleeper wrote: I dont know, do all progers hate most of the modern world? Yes, most aspects of it, apart from the Internet which is the perfect medium to share our disgust!

I dont think that i am that 'prog type', because always making joke, going out, talk with other and stuff. BUT here in town tha i study i feel like a freak. Everybody think of me like" ah, that guy who listens weird music?'. I hate that, i dont know people who love prog, or even love their music. I just lay down in the night and enjoy prog...That's life :)
    

Yeah the guy whos really into music, has a almost noexistant sociallife is its not music realted, none of the (few) friends he has are female. Thats me, im starting to get better about being social and stuff, just not with mainstream society i am seeking out other "weird" people like myself to hang out with weather their weirdness stems form prog or not

I'm probably not the prog "type", if such a thing exists.

I played football (soccer) for nine years, and have always loved sports. I don't have that many friends, just five very close ones. I don't like crowds, I'll admit that, and you wouldn't get me into a "disco" for any money, but that certainly doesn't mean I don't know how to have fun when the feeling strikes me. 

I look perfectly normal (I think ), and I get along with most people pretty easily, but I'm not too good at "small talk", because to me it sounds like a complete waste of time. I like to discuss real topics. I don't talk about prog much (outside this place), mainly because no-one's interested.  I'm not shy, but not too "aggressive" either. 

I would say 'No, I'm not the prog type' from what you're describing.  I didn't really think there was a 'type' for ages, until I settled into my new job.

People couldn't believe that I was a scifi/fantasy reading, prog and metal loving person.  They call me the 'posh, arrogant bloke with the long hair'.  What the hell else did they expect me to listen to?  Prog can be a bit nerdy, but at the same time it's also a sort of musical arrogance.

I have no problems with women, they like a bit of mystery I suppose, and most blokes are just open books, while I keep my secrets to myself.  I also have no problems approaching a woman I fancy.  IMO this is the big issue to a lot of people - women generally only go out with men who ask them out.  Learning to handle rejection is a major life skill - I know people with 1st class degrees with crappy jobs, because they're too scared to put themselves out there in case they don't the first job they go for.  Same with women, if one rejects, never mind, play the numbers game and learn from experience.  Remember all those beautiful, intelligent women hanging out with stupid, unsuitable men?  It's because those blokes are too stupid to feel rejected so they'll ask anyone out, and the beautiful woman is tired of waiting for the intelligent rich guy to ask her because he's too nervous, she ends up going out with the moron.

To paraphrase Anthony Robbins - 'Imagine all the things you could do if you weren't scared'