Lovin' It

Pro-Mags

Anyone seen this movie? Never came across any info on it other than this well shot badass as fuck video

Young Til I Die

Do you believe in reincarnation? Well I entertain the thought like I entertain most others, and I figure if I am a reincarnated person it was most likely some Ozarkian grandmother with a whole heapful children's songs and a scratchy, cocklely voice. Ever since I can remember Sunday School songs, Bluegrass, and general old-timey Americana folk music has resonated with me real hard. Something in the way they sing just hits that absolute center of my soul, hard to put into english...I also like the stories, I love the way they blend super adult-themed stories but color them with frogs with mice for uncles or rings of rosies and pockets full of posies. "There was an old woman who swallowed a fly" was a favorite as a kid, and the story of Don Gato has always sparked my imagination....

This all brings me to an album I just found called "Old Mother Hippletoe" which is a collection of children's songs and the ilk, all recorded back in the day by children's choirs, and real-deal share-croppin', god-fearin', butter-churnin', chitlin' cleanin' salt-of-the-earth type of folks. It has Little Rooster as performed by Almeda Riddle if you needed any more indication of what you are in for. Anyways this little ditty right here is just about as definitive on the subject of Children's Folk Songs as I've ever seen and I must once again praise Times Ain't Like They Used To Be for turning me onto some shit that my soul needed for sure.
Gather Round

Robin Hood and the Peddler, Old Granpaw Yet, Go To Sleep Little Baby, and Mister Rabbit are some of my favorite tracks so far...

and if you've never heard the tragic tale of Senor Don Gato...

Eating Snowflakes with Plastic Forks and a Paper Plate....of Course

I Couldn't Grow Up If I Really Really Wanted To

Yes yes I can't say anything new about the Descendents....except that maybe they should change their name to the TRANSCENDents because their music transcends any all forms of pigeon-holing or whatnot. It's just pretty much essential to the identity of anyone who is worth their salt and claiming punk. I lean heavily towards the super sappy songs in their repertoire but their musicianship carries even songs about hot dogs or farting to a level of high art.There really isn't a bad Descendents record but I think this one is their most adventurous and well-rounded album they've got. Bill Stevenson is just about the best punk drummer out there and he also penned most of my favorite Descendents tracks including "Silly Girl" "Can't Go Back" and one of my all-time favorites ever "Good Good Things"...if I ever found a karaoke with that song it would be over.

His Story vs. My Story

For Those Who Fear Tomorrow: You Have No Idea

A whole lot of things in my world that I haven't really spoke upon, playing with a band again really stoked on that shit's starting to come together. Penetration Panthers, if I get my way you'll hear that name a lot more.

Last weekend we played down in SoCal for the Integrity/GEHENNA show at the Chain Reaction. That show was huge and I am real grateful that I got to be apart of it. It's always nice seeing people out in a about in other cities. If you are an aging punker feeling down and out I suggest getting out and going to a bigger show like that to remember what it's all about. Or at least what it's about sometimes. Earlier in the day we played a super secret show down the street. Penetration Panthers, Violent Ruler, Gehenna, Integrity, Slaughterhouse Death Kamp.....got super duper faded and had an all-around good time. I can't begin to describe how surreal it was to be apart of the weekend. Just thinking about what my 16year-old self would've thought about the whole thing makes me kind of laugh. I remember when Integrity played Reno like 7 years ago with Ringworm....never in a million years did I think I would play a show with them at some hole-in-the-wall bar in Anaheim California.

I was trippin out on how Integrity and GEHENNA are getting super popular again and I realized it's because the lyrics and the music and the overall affect of these bands is almost TOO relevant for our current state of affairs. Each day it becomes less and less likely that we will pull-out of our collective tail-spin into oblivion. Honestly we probably never had a chance this ship was sinking looong before I ever got here, and long before most people got here too. But in these last two years and especially this last 6 months it's becoming increasingly apparent that we are fucked. Then you think about bands like Integrity and GEHENNA and you start to feel their message and you realize that they have literally been SCREAMING at us for the last 20 years trying to wake the world up to the reality of our situation.

Not that you know I completely condone being an out-right motherfucker, being honest about who we/you are, and what's actually going on is a step in the right direction. And I must say Im glad to have dudes like the ones in GEHENNA to show me how to WIN in such a rotten world.

By The Way this video was filmed in Reno! Take that!

Give Me Whatever David Koresh is Having

I've got a confession, I judge books by their cover almost always. I'm sorry but after working at a record store for a couple of years you really get the ability to surmise the contents of a record by purely aesthetic reasons. Most of the time. There are many times where I've been wrong, a lot of bands that I let slip through the cracks because I felt they had less-than-favorable representation. Sue me.

I did it real real bad with this band CULTS, I am tired of one word band names, and girl/boy synth/pop/ duos, and didn't think I had any room for one more in my heart. So for the last four months or so I've completely ignored them and disregarded their existence. That was until a couple of days ago when the FYF Lineup was posted. Overall I was pretty excited about the line-up but there were some unknowns Cults being one of them so I investigated and uncovered quite possibly one of my most favorite songs of the year so far. Not that I will stop judging books by their cover, that'd be impossible to, Im pretty sure everyone does it....that's why covers are there, doi! But anyways check em out you can get there seven inch single free off their website. and check out FYF because it's only 25 bucks and if it was half as cool as last year it'll be worth it....fuck I've spent more at the movie theaters just on myself.

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