Taking vegetarians and vegans to Waffle House ( Read more... )

Victory Through Triumph - Burn Down the Oppressors (Victory): Truly the best hardcore album of the year. Lead singer Max Von Max learned how to read in 2010, and it pays off dividends in the lyric sheet, with verbs following nouns in a logical fashion. They also expanded their sonic oeuvre beyond two beat chugga chugga hardcore. Songs like " ( Read more... )

This weekend was perfect. I got to see Delay/Bomb the Music Industry/Good Luck/Max Levine ensemble with my best friend and a bunch of other really awesome people. Attention everyone who reads this: PAY FUCKING ATTENTION TO GOOD LUCK. THEY ARE FUCKING GREAT. It's the best of pop punk meets the best of when indie rock didn't suck. That means ( Read more... )

An open letter to the kids who tried to get me to buy them beer outside the 7-11: 1) Have money in hand as a show of good faith, 2) Don't call anyone "sir" that you expect to buy for you - stick to "dude" or "man", and most importantly 3) Make damn sure you ask any potential buyer BEFORE they go into the store.

A friend sent me the following e-mail: "editors are making a new copy of Huck Finn and replacing "Nigger Jim" with "Slave Jim". what're your thoughts Hobson ( Read more... )

Last night was...wow. Just...wow. I haven't had this much fun since festival season. Best date I've had in ages. THANKS, GIN.

Now I'm jacked up on caffeine and watching the Twilight Zone marathon. Fuck yes.

PS OH HAI MARK

A snotty pop punk band named after the best character in Freaks and Geeks on a pay-what-you-want label. Shit is killer:

The Haverchucks - http://www.deathtofalsehoperecords.com/downloads/dtfh072.html

I love the guy who does Scary Go Round/Bad Machinery, but his end of the year music list is basically a compendium of everything I hate about non-popular music all rolled into one ( Read more... )

I had a dream where I was telling my straight-edge friend Ryan that "one day you're gonna have a dark night of the soul and it's gonna be the Bible or the bottle. Your choice." The fact that I will probably tell him something like that at some point makes the dream less weird ( Read more... )

There have been a lot of times in my life where I've just quit and wanted to go lay in the woods and wait for the world to take back my atoms - like everyone else, they're only mine on a loaner program. Sometimes it's been at the pit of rolling-around-on-the-floor self pity, sometimes it's just been sitting in my car waiting for Andrea to get off ( Read more... )