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Worse than Pop Punk / Re: anyone ever enter an epoch where you only listen to lee hazlewood?

« on: February 23, 2021, 10:27:12 PM »

There was a month where I would get drunk and listen to "Some Velvet Morning" every night while thinking about an ex. Sometimes I would have it on repeat. Exclusive diet, though? Nah.

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Worse than Pop Punk / Re: absolute bottom barrel posters are...here

« on: February 23, 2021, 10:25:57 PM »

Reporting for duty.

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Non-Music Shit / Re: what are you reading?

« on: February 20, 2021, 07:20:41 PM »

Rush may have puked on his own donut, but the culture wars continue. Even in obscure punk forums. 2021, baby!

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Non-Music Shit / Re: Todd Solondz flicks....

« on: February 18, 2021, 09:09:43 PM »

Shitty, I was praying "Palindromes" was going to be a winner. He made a sequel to "Dollhouse" that didn't strike me as being that great from what I have seen on youtube.

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Non-Music Shit / Todd Solondz flicks....

« on: February 18, 2021, 07:31:33 PM »

I've seen (and enjoyed) "Welcome To the Dollhouse" and "Happiness". I kind of slept on his other stuff. Worth watching?

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Non-Music Shit / Re: what are you reading?

« on: February 18, 2021, 01:24:34 PM »

Just for balance, and so people don't think this is The Heritage Foundation and not TB: My friend Andrew would also recommend the Satanic Bible for good measure. I haven't read it since I was a 14 year old "bad ass", but I remember it being fairly tight.

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Non-Music Shit / Re: what are you reading?

« on: February 15, 2021, 05:10:12 PM »

Proverbs is required reading for anyone interested in Literature. I would also suggest a run through Psalms and to at least read The Ten Commandments in Exodus. And then dip into John. Even if you think it's bullshit, KJV Bible is very well written and it is a historical document. If things get confusing, cross reference it with a more updated version.

Psalms gives excellent, common sense advice about alcoholism, hanging out with the wrong crowd ("a companion of fools shall be destroyed"), listening to wise counsel and not being slothful. I cringe at the stuff about laziness, but it's true, and I only spot it because I got it. It gets some heat for being sexist, but as my last girlfriend pointed out, the bits about avoiding "strange women" could also apply to the dangers of "strange men" (pregnancy, etc.). It's a brutal lecture, but you will be better off after a good study.

As a certain drunk once said: "Be quick to see where religious people are right."

My new best friend is Sikh, and this is also a great tradition to look into if you are into religion. Particularly the five thieves.

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Non-Music Shit / Re: Ever Never Have I Ever

« on: February 13, 2021, 04:03:40 PM »

I would fall asleep during song two, disc one of the 500 CD Bob Westerberg boxed set, but this was a hot jam last year: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zD7TxGTPsV4

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Non-Music Shit / Yeah, right, Verdicaria (sic)

« on: October 06, 2020, 05:31:06 AM »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTmCxVsagRw

Still going strong as of two weeks ago.

MAY IT NEVER DIE!

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Music Shit / Re: Punk is NOT dead!

« on: October 06, 2020, 03:35:20 AM »

Pure poetry, bro.

(combs back hair, lights Pall Mall, grimaces at you).

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Music Shit / Re: Punk is NOT dead!

« on: October 06, 2020, 01:58:41 AM »

(walks in in blue jeans, cowboy boots and a leather jacket, tosses cigarette on ground)

Are you mothers still talking about these two bands? Cuz I got news for you...in L.A. county jail, nobody gives a fuck about your record collection. All they care about is what they can get out of you...

Have you seen two Mexican kids? Somebody fucked with my car.

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Non-Music Shit / Re: Movies I've been watching

« on: October 05, 2020, 11:17:49 AM »

So many 80's horror movies present this picture perfect view of high school and family life: Nightmare is a great example. The gyst is always that an otherwise perfect suburban upbrining is interrupted by a monster. This would have really rattled me if I was living in an abusive environment as a kid...a real horror movie. Not a huge Rob Zombie fan, but kudos to him for having a shitty home environment in "Halloween". You don't see that a lot. It's always very fake.

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Non-Music Shit / Re: Movies I've been watching

« on: October 05, 2020, 11:17:19 AM »

So many 80's horror movies present this picture perfect view of high school and family life: Nightmare is a great example. The gyst is always that an otherwise perfect suburban upbrining is interrupted by a monster. This would have really rattled me if I was living in an abusive environment as a kid...a real horror movie. Not a huge Rob Zombie fan, but kudos to him for having a shitty home environment in "Halloween". You don't see that a lot.

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Music Shit / Re: Punk is NOT dead!

« on: October 04, 2020, 03:37:26 PM »

Jeez yeah some people are taking the words too seriously, but I totally get it. Pop punk is full of the nice guy finishes last lyrics, and I guess you could say that’s something the Descendants helped established m, so it’s just more evidence that they’re innovators really.

Yeah, kudos to the Descendents for blazing the trail for many subsequent years of misogynistic incel neck beard cringe! Let’s everyone raise a glass to some real pioneers! 

I was so stupid as a kid that I thought "I'm The One" was about a long term girlfriend. I never listened to the lyrics. Yes...it's about being a whiney friendzoned orbiter.

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Music Shit / Re: Punk is NOT dead!

« on: October 03, 2020, 02:57:17 AM »

ps- best book on this subject is "Why Beautiful People Have More Daughters". Amazing read. Probably my favorite non-fiction book. Also, the "Evolution of Desire" by David Buss. Skip Greg.