Leather-Clad Whale Tails.

Soundwave festival: Probably the most metal day that Perth sees. Partly because it's a heavy metal festival, but mostly because nothing else particularly metal happens here. Bleeding laziness, here's my play by play roundup of said festival:
Best Show: Foxy Shazam
Best Song: Welcome Home by Coheed and Cambria
Best Moment: Tie between Eric Sean Nally eating 4 cigarettes during the Fozy Shazam set (and then continuing to sing!) and Rody Walker from Protest the Hero declaring that he'd rather "shoot himself than go back to Toronto" and that he'd stay in Australia by "shaving apples into my likeness and selling them on the beach."
Worst Show: Slash. Just straight up disappointing.
Worst Song: Some nondescript thing by Stone Sour, I don't know the name. God damn they're a shitty band.
Worst Moment: Corey Taylor saying "fuck" as every second word when addressing the crowd. There's a few good ways to engage an audience but SWEARING IN A LOUD VOICE would only impress 13 year olds.
My standard festival observations apply here: condom balloons are silly, most young people are tremendously annoying and young girls should really wear more clothes. It's particularly weird at a thing like Soundwave, though, considering it's a festival that plays music traditionally associated with misfits and the terminally uncool. I'm well aware that not every girl wants to put on nipple pasties and dance for all the boys (they're so cute! Tee-hee!) but I've noticed this really bizarre dichotomy among girls who belong to, shall we say, alternative cliques, namely that they'll dress and act like they're rejecting all that pop-princess, high school stupidity, and yet at the same time still wear barely anything and basically act like bait, rather than real people.
I've said it once and I'll say it again: the wisdom of wearing a lacy g-string to an all day festival is lost on me. The wisdom of wearing one underneath goth pants, or hot pants made out of cut off goth pants, or one of those black and purple tartan skirts-meets-tutu, whatever they're called, is doubly lost. It's like, you're rejecting the popular take on beauty but still perpetuating a stereotype that girls should be sexy and enticing at all times? Wouldn't it make your point a little better if you just, oh, I don't know... did something different to all those popular, tarty blondes you so despise? I'm projecting, of course, wear whatever the hell you want.
I suppose I'm not the best person to ask about this argument, I'm the kind of guy that thinks girls look better without make-up, hair dye or basically anything to make you look different to how you do normally. Sure, some girls can pull off a bit of make-up tastefully, but the majority just glob it on and it just looks terrible. I'm sorry. I suppose this ties all in to my "nice girls date jerks because of poor self esteem and the wussiness of nice guys in general" stance, but when you're interested in girls with an actual personality, watching girls wear leather pants and a ridiculous amount of eyeliner then proceed to act like every 15 year old high-school waste of space that you see every day... man that's disheartening. For the record, my girlfriend rarely wears makeup and has called me a "dirty socialist" on a few separate occasions, so I'm all good. Smug face.