50 posts!

Wow, that's exciting. I've wasted way more time than it is worth on this thing.

I got some new shoes today. Van Wastell Chukka Lows. I feel kind of bad skating in them since he died and all. Oh well. I'll post a video in his honor.





Dude was sick.

Anyway, it's been a while since I've ordered shoes, skate shoes at that. I've decided to dedicate this 50th post to all the skate shoes I've owned. These are not all of them, but I can't remember the other ones. Most of these are pretty tight.

Etnies Sal 23. sick

eS Koston Ones. sick.

Emerica Reynolds 2 brown/bling/bling sukkkka. these were the shit during their day. I rocked the Pissdrunx white button-up at this time too.

Vans Rowleys. These lasted maybe a month or so but they're sick.

Emerica Francis. these were alright. I think I still have them somewhere.

Emerica Templeton 2s, navy. everybody had these.

These were my first "skate" shoes. I rocked these with duct tape for way longer than I should have. I also pushed shit foot.

Jesus, Fallen Rivals. these things are fucking hulks.

Emerica Kirchart 2s. beasts.

Nike Mavrk. I traded my brother these for his Lakai Kostons.

Emerica Ellingtons. everyone had these too.

Lakai Koston Ones. I couldn't find the regular ones with the black sole but these are close.

I can't think of anything more punk rock than cats.

I'm sicker than shit. I've been mildly ill for over a week. Today, the bomb dropped. It's pretty cool.

In other news, there was all this hubbub about last.fm giving information to the RIAA concerning the leaked U2 album. last.fm denied saying that it goes against everything that they stand for. RIAA, of course, declined to comment. I hope U2 becomes the new Metallica.

Speaking of Metallica, I got a cat. He is the equivalent of Het circa 1983. Except with a slight weight problem. Which I guess makes him the equivalent to Het circa 2009. Pff, I'm talking about 'tude, not spare tires.


CATS!

Myspace: the scourge of music

We all know that myspace is a shitty forum for shitty metalcore bands to gain relative notoriety amongst other bands/shithead kids who are into the same stuff. At Dawn, There Will Be Blood can friend The Blackest Plague and they can pretend to book a show together. They're 17 (or 25?) and (hopefully) they'll grow up soon and realize that metalcore sucks and move onto better things. They can take promo shots with their hyper-styled hair and white belts and myspace girls will cream their shorts and the rest of the world goes on, unaffected. I have no problem with this.

I cannot even remember the events that led me to look at this on last.fm, but here I find myself looking at a band called Porcelain and the Tramps. Wait, what?!?! Porcelain and the Tramps?! This cannot be serious. I mean look at this person.

Are you fucking shitting me? Nevermind the purple hair. People are still into that whole gas mask aesthetic? Oh wait, I think I recall seeing a photo just like this in AJ yesterday. ooooooh, harsh. Straight from last.fm:
"she had the talent of singing, rapping, and dancing. But of course being a white female with blonde hair and blue-greenish eyes, she wasn’t taken too seriously." Christ. "Until the age of nine she grew up on the streets of 8 Mile". STREET CRED.

So like all other "bands" that gain their popularity on myspace this person does not have an actual album. So how, on last.fm, does the song "Fuck Like a Star" gain almost 4000 plays over the past 6 months? HOW?!?! Are they actually downloading the song off of myspace? That's a logical explanation but then how are there songs with 2000 plays that aren't currently on her myspace? I'm so perplexed right now, I can feel my body shut down.

Imagine being one of these kids, the ones who really dig Brokencyde (BC13!!) and wear all the bright colors and have fucked up hair and the high tops and shit, at age 20. That is equivalent to us being bummed on Korn or something. We were so into it in middle school but now it's just kind of embarassing. The question is, do these kids even stand a chance of moving on and finding even slightly better music? Not to say that they'll be into Hollywood Undead for the of their lives but just another version of it. Well, they might still be into Hollywood Undead in four years if that band had any staying power. But they don't, they'll be a blip on myspace's god awful radar, and the kids will move onto whatever shitty thing they can find next.

I could go on about this for days, but I'll spare myself having to think about this anymore. One last note, I found this kid that goes under the moniker Dot Dot Curve [ :) get it?!?!?hahahaha] that is from Greenwood. That is the perfect metaphor for what I've been talking about.

Fuck, I'm going to listen to Dillinger Four.

My heart pumps THC

This band is tagged folk-punk on last.fm and gets against me references. I don't get that shit, but they're pretty damn good. New album "neon creeps" just got it's official asian man release this month.



Shiiiiit. When did this thing become a music blog? Whack.

I got a cat. kewl.

IMPRESS YOURSELF

Kyle's gonna give me shit for this one, but whatevzzzzz. I would not have had access to a band like Braid back then. A band that broke up in 1999? Jesus, I was only 14. I don't even think I knew what "emo" was and if I did, it was as distorted as the rest of the world's view on it. In eighth grade, I think I was probably still listening to Green Day and Weird Al and shit.

I was going to go through this whole progression of my musical tastes, but that's a pretty lame thing to do. And boring. Especially because all I really wanted to say is that, a decade broken up or not, Braid is a good band. A good band that I just discovered a few months ago. Sorry to the original emo fans. I am sucking your pitiful souls dry.

Dear textmonster,

tights are not pants.

love,
kraig edward goddard.