Happy Friday! On this week's edition of "Carson and Laura Switch Blogs", I'm going to be writing about one of Carson's favorite bands, Pierce the Veil. Like usual, I'll write bullet points.

• Pierce the Veil are a post-hardcore (I think I explained before that this is politically correct for "screamo") band formed sometime in the late 2000s, probably.
• Unlike the similarly-named Black Veil Brides, Pierce the Veil do not wear theatrical makeup or ridiculous clothes.
• The lead singer's name is Vic Fuentes. He doesn't have any outlandish tattoos and he dresses normally, so I guess I'm okay with him.
• According to Carson, a few of the band members are of Hispanic descent and some of their music has Hispanic elements in it. That's cool.
• They probably ride skateboards.
• They have faces.
• They sing a few love songs.
• They're probably playing at Warped Tour (concerts for Coachella rejects) this year.
• They don't abuse substances, if my sources are to be believed, so they're at least a better influence on kids than Black Veil Brides are. Carson likened them to Sleeping with Sirens.
• Their name sounds kind of Islamophobic to me. I think it's a personal choice whether or not someone should cover up.
• Vic Fuentes is probably a nice dude and some of their music is probably tolerable, but the genre they're in is associated with many negative names and themes.
• They're one of those bands whose lyrics you will see written on girls' wrists all the time, which is probably another reason people mix them up with Asking Alexandria, Black Veil Brides, and Sleeping with Sirens.
• I have no intention to listen to them. I don't vehemently hate them, either. I'm sort of indifferent to this one.
• I'm still very confused about the name? For example, with Black Veil Brides, the name is a (stupid) way of representing something innocent and pure (a bride's veil) and tainting it with darkness. Pierce the Veil, though, I'm not sure. What would that represent? The end of the betrothal? Or is it perhaps a Harry Potter reference and Vic Fuentes is a huge Sirius Black fan?
• I'm still scared of them.

Happy Friday! For this week's blog, Carson and I have decided to write about each other's favorite band member. In bullet point format, I'm going to write everything I know about Kellin Quinn from Sleeping with Sirens.

• He's in Sleeping with Sirens, which is another post-hardcore band. Supposedly they're more mild and dress more normally than Black Veil Brides. I think he's the lead singer.
• He's from California. I think his birthday is sometime in April. 
• He's either 29 or 30 and he dresses like a seventeen-year-old.
• He has swoopy hair that his fans defend at any chance they can get.
• He has a lot of tattoos.
• He probably has pretty eyes.
• He has this one quote: "Wrists are for bracelets, not for cutting." I think that's a nice sentiment for people to hear, but I'd probably appreciate it more if I didn't see it posted everywhere in the universe all day.
• He probably skateboards.
• I think he has a wife and/or kids and doesn't do drugs, which is good, because that means he has his life put together more than most of the lead singers of his genre and is a somewhat good influence on children and teens.
• Apparently his lyrics are pretty soulful and actually intelligible, which is also good.
• He probably writes most of his band's songs.
• He's one of those artists that doesn't have very many photoshoots of them available for public viewing or in existence, I believe, but he probably has a Twitter.
• He's slightly more acceptable than Black Veil Brides.
• I've actually never heard one of his band's songs on the radio, though, so I'm not exactly sure how famous they are.
• Like Justin Bieber and pop sensations, his fans are mostly what ruins his image, which is unfortunate.

On this week's edition of Carson and Laura Switch Blog Topics, my assignment is to write all I know about Black Veil Brides! Here, I'll do it in bullet point format like I did last time.

• Black Veil Brides are a potentially American screamo band. The politically correct term is "post-hardcore".
• They probably say that Nirvana is one of their influences.
• They probably promote self-harm and sing about apathy.
• Their lead singer's name is Andy Biersack. I think he's German.
• They wear a lot of black makeup and clothing. Their hair is also styled quite ridiculously and is dyed black, among other colors. In short, they like the color black.
• I have a theory that they dye everything black because either A) they want to be Mick Jagger or B) they have arm pimples and want to cover them up. I still haven't finalized my thoughts.
• There will never be a frontman as good as Roger Daltrey, so I don't know why they try.
• A lot of my friends like them and I don't really know why. I thought that their "scene" image and its origins faded away in 2009, but apparently I was wrong.
• I don't know how their vocal chords are intact with all that screaming.
  
• I don't know why their parents even let them listen to them? They have a lot of tattoos and probably do illegal things.
• I am very confused about this band.
• They're probably playing at Warped Tour this year, which means that they wear Vans shoes, I guess.
• Do they have any singles?
• They wear eyeliner...

Hey, that blog title rhymes! Today, my friend Carson and I have decided to write all we know about each other's favorite poet. Since I can name literally two poets and Sylvia Plath is too dark for school content, I told her to write about Jim Morrison. I'm going to write about her idol, Edgar Allan Poe... in bullet format!

• Edgar Allan Poe was a fan of insanity motifs and themes.
• He had a talking raven that liked to say "nevermore". I can see where the previous bullet point comes from.
• Edgar Allan Poe was not as cool as Jim Morrison.
• He died in 1849, I think.
• He was American and from Boston, but apparently he spoke with a Southern accent.
• Teenage boys and girls all over the world like his poetry because they think insanity is cool. I've never experienced it, but I would guess that it is not much fun. I blame TV and the media for glorifying things like that, though.
• He had a cool mustache?
• He was Irish American.
• He was probably married, as most men are and were, but I don't think he had any children.
• Apparently he died in the middle of the street or something? I don't remember. But apparently his life was going average and he just began to cough up blood and die?
• The Beatles talked about him in one of their songs, "I Am the Walrus".
• He was pretty young, for our standards, when he died.
• A lot of people 50+ years ago wrote sad poetry because there was no medicine to cure their depressive thoughts. Is that a conclusion?