The life and music collection of a kid from New Jersey. This will get stuck in your head.
The bear is Chester and the lizard is Nigel.
This is the best awkwardly written song ever.
“Bonzo Goes To Bitburg” - The Ramones, Animal Boy
This is everything I love about The Ramones. It’s a fun song that everyone knows the words to, but it’s also super totally badass at the same time.
Here’s me wishing for another night of drunken midnight grilling after sitting through hours of Vh1’s Top 100 Songs of the 90s
Five nights ago, I went to what could possibly one of the best concerts I’ve ever been to. Of course I’m talking about Hot Water Music. Again I found myself in a cool as hell venue in the city. The Gramercy Theater used to be a movie theater which then was converted into a concert hall. I also found myself as the youngest member of the audience for the first time since I saw The English Beat. I constantly kept telling myself that it was only because it was a school night and not that nobody my age knows Hot Water Music.
I’m not gonna waste much space talking about the openers. The first band, Luther, was your standard pop punk band. Not bad but nothing special. Then was The Menzingers who put on a hell of a set. By the time they finished, people were chanting for an encore. I’m not gonna lie, I would have loved to see them play for just a bit longer.
And then finally Hot Water Music started. The crowd surged forward as the band broke into “Remedy” and followed up with several songs from across their discography. Hot Water Music had everyone singing along and becoming best friends with complete strangers as they powerhoused through classics like “Trusty Chords” and “Rooftops.” The band played several tracks from their new album Exister which were met with a surprising amount of approval. After Chuck Ragan yelling at a security guard for being way too fucking rough, Hot Water Music’s set came to an end after a few more songs. Of course, everyone demanded an encore and the band came back out to play three more songs before calling it a night.
Overall, a great show. I went home half deaf, wishing it could’ve lasted a little bit longer. The only thing that would have made this concert better is if Hot Water Music had a even longer set.
“Within You Without You” - The Beatles, Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
It’s one of those days where you wake up at 5 in the afternoon, realize you didn’t miss much because it’s been raining all day, and then decide to listen to The Beatles and write concert reviews.
That awkward moment when your French thermo teacher who looks like Anthony Bourdain spends 15 minutes telling the class why James Cameron is useless
BAMBOOZLE EVERYWHERE
I GO ON FACEBOOK TO MAKE FUN OF PEOPLE NOT TO SEE HOW MUCH FUN YOU’RE HAVING DROPPING A C-NOTE TO SEE BANDS YOU BARELY LIKE
The all-ten-volumes-in-one-slipcase-edition of SANDMAN comes out in November! I’m thrilled. You have no idea how long I’ve been asking DC to do one of these. (Er, about 16 years.)
(Edit to add: lots of questions coming in. I believe it’ll be about $199, so the books are cover price but the slipcase is free. Probably cheaper places that discount books. These are the recoloured editions that use the Absolute edition recolouring of the first few books. And last time DC did something like this they also sold the slipcase separately.)
Somebody get me this
