Back in my day people were in bands and then you booked shows with the bands that you were 'mates' with and you had a 'vital scene.' Bands are fucking dumb. Now that I'm ten hundred times more famous for writing jokes underneath news stories on the internet than I ever was for writing lyrics about my feelings underneath a drum beat the closest thing to that sense of community is when you link to the internet words of your imaginary pen pals, which is a lot easier for old dudes because you don't have to drive anywhere in a van (via bad backs) to go 'crash' in someone's cat shit apartment all for negative $0/indie cred.
That said, thanks to one of the funniest bloggers IN THE WORLD Sergeant D of Stuff You Will Hate for the shout out today, and for the eerily accurate assessment:
Now this is what I call blogging: think of PTSOTL as Maxim if it was written by a 30 year old who stills listens to Taking Back Sunday and Poison The Well. Rly should get more comments than it does, very underrated- don’t sleep on this site!
This was 'meaningful' to me. Sarge wrote some stuff for us here a few times/ allowed me to steal his content from his site. That's the greatest gift one invisible man on the internet can give another invisible man on the internet that doesn't involve #dickpics. Check out some of them:
- PUNK ROCK PARENTING: How should I keep my kids from being into art or music??
- Five musical genres you don't know but already hate
- The Jr. No Fun Club: How to not be old
His hil@r1ous site may also be relevant to your interests. Think of it as Hipster Runoff for people who shop at Hurley.
Also backing his shout out to LEISURE. Can't vouch for any of those other sites he talks about because they seem to be about metal, and I'm on a strictly death to authentic metal vibe. Death to authentic anything really. Except Tr00 blogging.
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I don't think Maxim was the right publication to compare you to. More like the New Yorker with the occasional pics of bewbs.
Though I am glad to see our "30 year old who listens to Taking Back Sunday" demographic finally getting a shout out.
More like Gawker if it were yesterday's Gawker.
2 of my favorite blogs right there.
i wish i was only 30
I think you need to fly all of your menpals out to Boston for a PTSOTL team-building drinks n'BBQ weekend. We could do firewalking and build rafts!
i wish i was only 30
So does Sarge! Dude is ancient.
yeah man, but I really liked your music. It really meant something to me.
I think Sarge and I are around the same age. late early thirties?
yeah jules? was it 'meaningful' to you?
i believe it, if you're into sensitive rock for dudes.
I was just kidding. I've never heard your music. But if you had any balls you'd post that shit on here stat.
Oh, I'm not ashamed of it or anything. We were a thing for a minute or two around here. Just, you know "being in a band." Here's a few songs leftover http://www.thegoodnorth.com/
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