July 2011
turf-wars:
Boner Jamz ‘09 - Averman
I don't know what to believe in anymore.
But I’ll be damned if that’s gonna stop me.
Today is just so dandy.
I fucking hate money.
littlejamhands asked: I'm pretty sure I saw you at Warped yesterday. Haha.
Kind of disappointed with Warped Tour this year.
I mean, it had all the usual tomfoolery/expected shenanigans, but I just wasn’t feeling it. The line-up was alright, the set-times were really poorly organized, and nothing really stuck. Plus, I came home with a shit-tastic sunburn and an aching jaw from getting punched out in the ADTR pits.
At least I got to see Big D and The Wonder Years. They both killed it. And the Kleen-Kanteen station...
A note on these reviews.
Whenever I write a bad one (or, for that matter, get even the slightest feeling like these critiques actually count for something), I’m reminded of my own hypocrisy in the sense that at least these people are making music and putting it out there for people to judge.
I’ve been desperately attempting to do the same, and I am in no way better than them for knocking them down for their...
Day 21: Cute - Stephen Jerzak
This is one of the many names on this year’s Warped Line-up that I’m so far in the dark about, it’s ridiculous. I can’t tell you half of the bands that are playing now. So, in effort to put myself back in touch with whatever the scene-queens deem ‘relevant’, I’m using this as my opportunity to culture myself as to what I might run into on Wednesday. I...
Day 20: Up All Night - Blink-182
These dudes don’t need an intro, and I’m not scamming anyone into thinking I’ve never listened to them before. Get real. However, their long-awaited new single dropped while I was on vacation, and that’s a big deal. No. Really. We waited years for this shit. We cried over what this track could become. We speculated, we rumored, and I’m pretty sure someone at some...
ATTENTION! YOUTH OF TODAY!
START USING PLEASE AND THANK-YOU IN YOUR EVERY-DAY CONVERSATIONS!
Why, you may ask?
-It’s attractive!
-It’s upstanding!
-It puts you above the 95% of illiterate text-language saavy nimrods out there!
-It shows courtesy!
-It says ‘I care, and I pay attention’!
-It works well with the ladies!
-It shows respect!
-It makes Grandma 10x more likely to give you a fiver!
...
Soul Punk drops on my birthday.
I am so fucking pumped.
That, and Kenan and Kel tonight! :D
Life = WINNING.
Day 19: Listen Like Thieves - INXS
A few years ago, a washed-up rock band from Austrailia launched a show at the height of the reality-TV-craze to hire a new singer and attempt to become relevant once again. One album and a series of county-fair/community barbecue tours later, that band faded into obscurity once again. Apparently, INXS was some hot stuff back in the day. I wouldn’t know, but the fact that they ended up in my...
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Day 18: Buried Alive In The Blues - James Cotton
(I am now going to begin making up a week’s worth of back-reviews. Thank you, vacation, for sufficiently making me lazy. I promise this is one challenge I won’t let slip through my fingers.)
I’ve neglected this thing for a week. I had limited internet access, and was busy completing my childhood dreams. Whatever. On one of the last days of our excursion, we ventured to Park Ave...
The next few months will consist of some awesome...
-Warped -Reel Big Fish/Streetlight Manifesto -Patrick Stump -The Pop Punk Fest Pt II w/ I Call Fives, Handguns, Forever Came Calling, In Courage, etc. -Flogging Molly -Frank Turner/Andrew Jackson Jihad -Four Year Strong/Gallows
I’m probably mising Blink/MCR. I ain’t even mad though.
thelionlady:
I bought these on vinyl:
Drunken Lullabies - Flogging Molly
Rumours - Fleetwood Mac
Sigh No More - Mumford & Sons
Now I need a record player.
I am so proud of you. :) And I’m more than happy with my swag, especially the Black Flag LP and the Frank Turner shirt.
Yesterday I watched people throw watermelon at...
It was disgusting.
They thought that pegging their unwanted foodstuffs was what the monkeys wanted.
They couldn’t recognize the fact that the monkeys just wanted to be left alone.
What even.
I am at my Grandpa's house.
And it just hit me how much has changed since I was last here.
For the first time, I feel older.
The sky is so nice at night-time here.
If Harry is a horcrux and basilisk fangs destroy...
Except he would have, had he not been saved by Fawke’s tears. His body was the vessel. The horcrux would have died with him. GET. COHERENT.
Day 17: Cutie - Sonny Rollins
Jazz has always been a closeted love of mine, and by closeted I mean shoved-so-far-back-that-I-never-really-listened-to-it kind of love. I didn’t have the means. Yet, whenever a generic elevator tune started bumpin’ or a ’50s swing track got cranked in my Grandpa’s sedan, I still knew it was the jam. Until recently, I lived a life without the gentle genius of greats like...
Day 16: Flume - Bon Iver
I don’t know what the cool kids are exactly into these days. I’m not all that great at keeping up with the trends persay. Lately, it’s been kind of hard NOT to see something Bon Iver-related SOMEWHERE. Personally, I had enough when I heard my VCU Tour Guide tell me that no one else was worth listening to. Seriously. Those are some pretty pretentious claims for anyone to make. I...
Day 15: Something For Nothing - Rush
So, after not having internet for the greater part of 3 days, I reviewed this song and posted directly from my phone. Apparently, the thing decided against working correctly and delivering this review to the masses. From what I remember writing, before hand I knew nothing of the band save for their constant-touring status and that which I knew from I Love You, Man. Post-song, I was left utterly...
The moment where you find a partially-disassembled...
Vacation has officially commenced.
Thank you, Harry.
WHEN MOLLY YELLS "NOT MY DAUGHTER, YOU BITCH!", I...
