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~ Thursday, April 19 ~
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Pop-punk is for pudgy self-haters. Hardcore sucks worse than it did 10 years ago, which seemed impossible at the time. Punk is now Green Day. Indie rock is the new Ke$ha. Chillwave is for former swoop-hair kids who’ve aged out of their scene. Shoegaze is the new jazz music, meaning people only pretend to like it. Bands with earnest, gruff vocals are the new swoop-hairbands. Everything you like really truly sucks.

Do you know what all the sentences above have in common? Besides the fact that they’re true, I mean. Can’t guess? OK, here’s what links those ideas:

You shouldn’t care. You shouldn’t validate them by arguing. You should ignore them completely.

There’s only one thing worse in this whole world than a misguided nerd, and that’s an apologetic one. You like what you like. You should always be looking to expand your palate but, at the end of the day, you can’t force it.

If you’re into Saves The Day, you’re into it. There’s no need to put on airs or dress it up. And if you like ignorant mosh music, it’s just part of your DNA. You’ll probably always like it. Don’t hide your Hatebreed lyric tattoos. Maybe you still dye your hair colors not found in nature. Don’t hide your Mindless Self Indulgence tattoo. Or that ICP hatchetman logo on your ankle.

Here’s the thing. As lame as everything I listed at the beginning of this essay is, the stuff people believe to be cool is just as corny. Hardcore kids want to be indie rockers; indie rockers want to be house DJs. Someone put it in their heads that they should always be chasing cool. It’s all a crock. There is no “cool.” It just doesn’t exist. Chasing it makes you uncomfortable in your own skin and paints you as an insecure clown to the rest of the world.

I’m confident everything you like sucks. I know it. But there is not a reason in the world you should care about my opinion. There’s no reason you should value ANY person’s opinion over what your ears tell you. Never change for the guy at the record store, the geek in a popular band, or some faceless blog. Don’t bother defending your position. Just like what you like.

— Patrick Kindlon, Alternative Press

(Source: cantseecalifornia)

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~ Thursday, March 15 ~
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So about that…

So it’s true I’ve been wallowing in self pity for the past what, almost a month. Yet alas it all came to an abrupt and welcoming end when one day I simply woke up happy, no amazing story or triumph just a simple change to an outlook.
It’s annoys me that people want this epic story about everything, they ask ‘so what happened’, ‘why not?’ and so on about things that are technically simple, so, you get the realists answer. A simple one, one thats got all the frills taken off and yet you all persist that theres something more and therefore state things such as ‘mysterious’, ‘secretive’ but sadly its nothing like that. There some something you talk to some people about and other things with others, it’s not rude at all. Just understand that perhaps, you wouldn’t understand but thats another story all together.

So after waking up as if someone had done a restart on me, it’s mildly amusing that the first persons to speak to me is the one I’ve least spoken to in a while, you could almost say not at all. The irony, but hay the other aren’t as quick. No offence.

Sad but true, you were the only one I wanted to see but I was to busy putting myself down the past few weeks I’ve just ignored everything/everyone but now it’s all go again and what away to start off, plus around the corner is the Touché Amoré gig at the institute (clearly won’t be as good as at Brighton but hay, I love um’) and along with that the job fronts been looking up, no one wants me yet but people are giving me the time of day now and honestly thats all I ever asked. Also it looks like Reading fest’ is happening again with everyone and more from last year so thats cool, although (this gets me so bad) I’ll be paying for myself, unlike a few people I know that just leach hard from people, perhaps thats a sigh you should get off your ass an do something! Stop complaining about students and crap jobs an try and accomplish something with your life, go dman.

So about that, thank you because I woke up and realised, theres bigger things happening that me because with out knowing the people I know getting out of this rut would have been like completing the water temple for the first time (if you get it, your cool but don’t worry yourself)

Thanks. 

“ Like staring at a flickering light: you don’t know when it’ll burn out, or how much time you have left to let it light up your life. Because when you’re at your darkest, it’s all you have to survive. Like throwing copper in a well: you’ll never know if wishes work only time can tell. But if superstitions can give someone faith, then I’m throwing my wallet and begging for change.”


(image is relevant in what is stands for and correlation of band) 

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~ Thursday, January 5 ~
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holyroarrecords:

DO THIS.
thebrowncoat:

I used to listen to each album I bought obsessively. 20, 50, 100+ times…and when I listened, that’s all I would do. No reading, no surfing the web, no blogging or monitoring play counts…I just listened.
Now, I doubt I listen to most albums I buy more than a few times each. Is the music worse or less creative? (debatable, but I think there’s still plenty of great new music out there.) Do I have less time? (probably, but this is more about how I spend the time that I have.) Have shuffle play and access to every album I own all the time ruined my attention span? (Definitely.)
It’s easy to say “so what” and go back to checking my Twitter feed and my Tumblr dashboard, idly flipping through songs on iTunes…but I think I’m losing something. I’m no longer engaging with music the way I used to in the past; forming deep connections with songs and albums that become an integral part of my life. Same goes for literature, art, even tv and movies - there’s so much out there - and I’m constantly acquiring more of it - that I never take the time to truly engage and understand and appreciate and love what I have.
That’s one of my challenges for 2012. Engagement. To stop brushing across things on the surface level and to truly give myself time - and make the effort - to engage deeply and completely with the things I love. And, for that matter, the people I love (because this applies there too - and it’s actually a lot more important.)
It requires being more selective, devoting more time to each album or book or show I choose…but I think, ultimately, it’s going to be so much more rewarding.
So, for the record, the first album of 2012? Let’s Go Eat the Factory - Guided By Voices (yes, I’m aware of the irony of “engaging completely” with a band that makes songs that sound like they were thrown together in the garage in 5 minutes - but you can and should do it - listen to Bee Thousand or Alien Lanes.) The first book? I just bought it - it’s called Reality Hunger by David Shields.

holyroarrecords:

DO THIS.

thebrowncoat:

I used to listen to each album I bought obsessively. 20, 50, 100+ times…and when I listened, that’s all I would do. No reading, no surfing the web, no blogging or monitoring play counts…I just listened.

Now, I doubt I listen to most albums I buy more than a few times each. Is the music worse or less creative? (debatable, but I think there’s still plenty of great new music out there.) Do I have less time? (probably, but this is more about how I spend the time that I have.) Have shuffle play and access to every album I own all the time ruined my attention span? (Definitely.)

It’s easy to say “so what” and go back to checking my Twitter feed and my Tumblr dashboard, idly flipping through songs on iTunes…but I think I’m losing something. I’m no longer engaging with music the way I used to in the past; forming deep connections with songs and albums that become an integral part of my life. Same goes for literature, art, even tv and movies - there’s so much out there - and I’m constantly acquiring more of it - that I never take the time to truly engage and understand and appreciate and love what I have.

That’s one of my challenges for 2012. Engagement. To stop brushing across things on the surface level and to truly give myself time - and make the effort - to engage deeply and completely with the things I love. And, for that matter, the people I love (because this applies there too - and it’s actually a lot more important.)

It requires being more selective, devoting more time to each album or book or show I choose…but I think, ultimately, it’s going to be so much more rewarding.

So, for the record, the first album of 2012? Let’s Go Eat the Factory - Guided By Voices (yes, I’m aware of the irony of “engaging completely” with a band that makes songs that sound like they were thrown together in the garage in 5 minutes - but you can and should do it - listen to Bee Thousand or Alien Lanes.) The first book? I just bought it - it’s called Reality Hunger by David Shields.

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~ Tuesday, January 3 ~
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~ Thursday, November 17 ~
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A’ wup up TT AWAKE ep, been waiting for this for so long now. It finally came this afternoon.

A’ wup up TT AWAKE ep, been waiting for this for so long now. It finally came this afternoon.

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