I like the Life of Thorns stuff based on the youtube videos. What was pretty annoying was that for the between song banter Blake started talking about poetry as poesis in the work of Martin Heidegger. I think someone told him to shut up and go back to college.
I grew up liking Crimpshrine as a teenager, they were like one of my favorite bands. Now however, while I think the music is good, alot of the lyrics, and all of Jeff Ott's lyrics are cringeworthy embarassing and idiotic. I even like some of the Fifteen stuff before I finally grew up. The last straw was when I bought the album Lucky. Like everyone said, that it the most annoying piece of garbage ever. I think that guy Lucky thought that Jeff was a piece of shit, that's why he quit his band. Jeff Ott is such a piece of shit. He's even a rapist, and he actually goes on tour and plays some video where he talks about abuse and how he was a rapist. I never saw it live or anything but I found a review of his show one time when I was looking on the internet (no lie) for people who wrote about how much Jeff Ott sucks.
What about this video? Jeff Ott doing his own version of Kiss the Bottle, but instead making it be about Blake Schwarzenbach, Billie Joe, and Aaron Cometbus --- in the song he talks about the girl who was "the subject of the song Pretty Mess" ---- you guys were right, this is next level suckage
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vf8i2gnBIKA&feature=related