Mopey Kids Should Read More

[BridgeTheGap]

Hey you gloomy skateboarding adolescent, are you feelin’ down? Maybe you should turn off the Joy Division album and pick up some Emily Dickinson. The chances of being a happy, well-adjusted teenager, reports The Independent, are much greater if you keep your nose in the crease of a book. The Independent summarized the findings of a new study by Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine:

Announced April 4, the US study compared six types of media—television and movies, music, video games, internet, magazines and newspapers, and books—and reported that the music-loving teens were 8.3 times more likely to be depressed that teens who spent the most time using the other types of media. The book lovers, on the other hand, were far less likely to be depressed than all the other groups, researchers said.

Read more: http://www.utne.com/Great-Writing/Adolescent-Reading-Linked-To-Happiness.aspx#ixzz1JcR8eqhO

[flamingdem]

1. Is Joy Division still popular?

I totally applaud any adolescent listening to JD and feel that as opposed to Britney!

[meegbear]

3. I bet the author was the first to play The Bauhaus on their college radio station

[flamingdem]

4. Bauhaus Joy Division remix, didn't know Bauhaus covered Love with Tear us Apart

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKN4AY4YpwI

[meegbear]

5. Cool!!!

:thumbsup:

[flamingdem]

6. Joy Division Live on BBC version and a favorite

Love will Tear us Apart - Ian Curtis vocals
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ii8m1jgn_M

Dead Souls (for fans only)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKe-lq8VZFo&feature=related

viva mope-punk!

[meegbear]

7. Yeah! - I wish Goth made larger inroads in the industry

[flamingdem]

8. Yes. 9 inch Nails was the biggest near that zone

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsT_PvMR4j4&feature=related

Here's a good goth from JD

I liked industrial ish goth - post punk like Skinny Puppy Clock DVA
Ensturzende Neubauten ministry and it's clones revolting cocks
cabaret voltaire throbbing gristle


Still have a massive collection from those days and now and
then get in the mood to dance to it again

[pnwmom]

2. Hah! I wish I could send this in the way-back machine

to my teenage years.

[exboyfil]

9. What about my depressed 13 year old daughter

wanting to read more Edgar Allan Poe - is this going to be effective?

[yodermon]

10. ok, well I can't get my 7-year old's nose out of Pokemon books.

does that count?

[eppur_se_muova]

11. I'm sure this depends on what *kind* of music they listen to, as well.

Nor are all books created equal.

[LibertyFox]

12. Emily Dickenson?

Can't speak for anyone else but when I was in high school I always found the classics to be dull, vague, and hard to stick with.

It'd be more important to find literature that students would find relevant instead of making them read the classics.