Which publication will send me to the DC Warped Tour to write a dispatch from commercialized nostalgia & the natural reoccurrence of 2000s emo/pop punk's fashionability thanks to culture's cyclical nature, through the lens of someone who went to the Columbia, MD stop every year?
ICYMI: I spent almost two years thinking about/working on a story about the historical cultural significance of doing flips. I thought it would be interesting/fun and I never finished it. It ate at me more than it should. I wrote about that instead.
www.snakesandsparklers.com/p/on-on-flips
I mean this sincerely: if Red Hot Chili Peppers want to make their best album in decades they’ll work with Will Yip to make an album that sounds like RHCP impersonating Turnstile impersonating early RHCP.
Turns out the Touché Amore “Game of Pricks” cover feat. “Barry Johnson” was just also Jeremy Bolm. Mission Impossible masks but voices.
With this new Chili Peppers doc coming out on Netflix, it seems like a good time to resurface my opinions on who should be cast in an RHCP biopic, and a look at when shitty AI generation was shitty and we could all laugh about it.
www.snakesandsparklers.com/p/i-am-makin...
A supergroup that includes the dancing guy from Mighty Mighty Bosstones
I wrote about spending enough time on something, or thinking about something, no matter how futile, long enough that you finish it. Kind of.
www.snakesandsparklers.com/p/on-on-flips
Despite the Menzingers’ and The Hold Steady’s best efforts, I had to do it myself and it wasn’t “On the Road” that got me.
Took a while but I think I finally “get” Kerouac as much as I’m gonna. Backdrop might help.
I wrote about spending enough time on something, or thinking about something, no matter how futile, long enough that you finish it. Kind of.
www.snakesandsparklers.com/p/on-on-flips
Nobody wants this. They want my Power Rangers reboot
Semi-related, but I'll be in Chicago this summer for the first time as an adult and I'm excited to try Malort because I love disgusting beverages.
Also, thank you to @calculizer.bsky.social for Ratboys insight from his POV.
SPIN let me put @ratboysband.bsky.social on the cover, where they belong.
www.spin.com/featured/the...
Would be funny if she got Officer Scott Raynor to play drums on it as a goof.
Probably a big article one could write about the emo/pop punk resurgence in the era of stylized lower case album/song titles, borrowing from a past trend/genre when you were around the first time vs. being a younger artist who wasn't alive, etc.
Thought my friend was just using genre description when he said a new Hilary Duff song "is like 90% blink 182," but ... yeah this is basically a blink cover wow. huh. That's fine.
Starting a Bad Religion cover band called Worse Religion
NHL marketing teams this week
American Football 2 is my favorite one
Seems like my prediction that the even-numbered American Football albums are the best ones will be correct.
Imagining a guy who confuses John Fetterman and John Frusciante
Which music publication is brave enough to send me to Shaky Knees to profile Cruz Beckham
I'm only a mid-level Menzingers historian, but I think this new song is the first time that the words "golf ball" have appeared in one of their songs.
Had so much fun on 10/10 You’re Great with the fellas and my co-guest @rhiannon-comma.bsky.social talking about “After the Party” by the Menzingers. A true 10 and impossible to whittle down to 3 tracks. Lots of laughs, riffs & very real nostalgia and wistfulness.
open.spotify.com/episode/5PFC...
Went back on @chrisfavata.bsky.social's pod and had a ton of fun talking After The Party with the boys and co-guest @brendanmenapace.bsky.social! 🫶
Tap in:
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Episode 101: 2 guests 1 album. This week we invited back @brendanmenapace.bsky.social and @rhiannon-comma.bsky.social to talk about After the Party by The Menzingers. Mostly talking about getting old & post party-um depression. Plus the wokeification of Apple Jacks (timely) & more!
We talk a lot about The Simpsons predicting the future, but the “Rural Juror” episode of 30 Rock really predicted this moment in time.
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I grew up in Central Pennsylvania and worked at Texas Roadhouse in high school, so I just have a bit of a thing about bands from the Northeast feigning a southern accent/affectation.
