In exactly two weeks we are going to see Rollins. I am beyond excited. I have grown up with Rollins. During the prime years of my punk fetish I followed Black Flag's every move.
While I don't always agree with what he has to say, I completely respect his well thought out and researched opinions. It is the off the cuff shit so many artists...
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While I don't always agree with what he has to say, I completely respect his well thought out and researched opinions. It is the off the cuff shit so many artists...
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stcyr:
Enjoy the show! As I'm sure you could guess, I'm a fan as well. I've never watched his show, but . . . yeah, he's pretty much an icon for our generation. Again, have a blast.
I love musicals. Love with a capital LOVE. I also have been known to dig on a rock opera or two (not TOMMY though - I was forever damaged as a young girl of only 7 years old when my mother took me to see The Who's "Tommy" at the drive-in...baked bean nightmares for WEEKS to the extent that I hid the 8 track soundtrack...
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stcyr:
Although Ive seen a few musicals that Id begrudgingly admit to enjoying - - if hard pressed, and/or tortured - - (Ive got to attempt to maintain whatever man credibility I may have left), I could go on for hours about The Greatest American Hero.
Oh, wait!
Man credibility . . .
damn.
Oh, wait!
Man credibility . . .
damn.
I do all of my best thinking in the shower. Sort of like how I do all of my reading in...oh never mind. Anyway, I do my best devising of entire game plans, weighing out of corporate facts, daydreaming, fantasizing and compromising all within the 20 minutes it takes me to wash rinse and repeat. This morning, I wrote a song, entirely in my head,...
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stcyr:
It's odd, I can't remember a single thought from the shower & I LOVE to shower. It is necessary in the a.m. to wake up, and often, in the evening to relax. I don't know if I even do think in there.
I do my "best" thinking while running - - because I hate it and have nothing else to do - - but I rarely remember those thoughts either. (Maybe because I take a shower soon after . . . ?)
I do my "best" thinking while running - - because I hate it and have nothing else to do - - but I rarely remember those thoughts either. (Maybe because I take a shower soon after . . . ?)
So...my daughter (yes, I know, I talk an exorbitant amount about her but it seems, these days, this is my plight) and I have this thing we do. We trade off videos in an effort to meld "old" with "new." We'll choose a theme - it can be great dance videos, mind blowing hip hop, sappy singer songwriter sagas or super duper emo sad kid...
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stcyr:
common ground - - wherever you may find - - is something to be treasured.
I'm still holding on to Repo Man & Suburbia in the vain (and perhaps futile) hope that some day she'll consent to sit down & watch them with me . . .
I'm still holding on to Repo Man & Suburbia in the vain (and perhaps futile) hope that some day she'll consent to sit down & watch them with me . . .
So, my daughter just chooses to put on "Something I Can Never Have" by good old Trenty. (He is sort of "y-ish" these days isn't he-kinda like Snoop Dogg)? You know what I mean. Supposedly dark and dangerous but now clearly changed by money and power to commercial and airy and "feel good?" But, that is not the point of this post. The point of...
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stcyr:
Im so envious that yours is following through on her childhood lessons. Though I raised mine on a steady diet of the good, well . . . again, Im hoping that what shes listening to now [Gaga, etc.] is only a phase.
As to your comment, a lot of that is banter back and forth & multiple comments from the same folks. Its been up since Wednesday. But, and uhm . . .
my lot? My fold?
As to your comment, a lot of that is banter back and forth & multiple comments from the same folks. Its been up since Wednesday. But, and uhm . . .
my lot? My fold?
mattacme:
What a great post, so awesome. I share music with my son at times but constantly back and forth with his 18 year old 1/2 sister and we both are better for it.
I so remember when the Phair one was cool. She always will be in my book.
I so remember when the Phair one was cool. She always will be in my book.
I was ready to launch into this tirade about my ungrateful mentally impaired 14-year-old daughter who got one of her ridiculous 16-year-old high school drop out trouble loving girlfriends to call me on Friday night (on my anniversary too god dammit)and pretend to be another girl's mom so my daughter could spend the night with like 5 guys at her buddy Schaffer's house. Fortunately I...
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stcyr:
and said she understands and that she actually feels light and free and happy because this MONTH that she is grounded will give her the time and space she needs to make better choices and better friends. Not toxic ones...
Were I a cynical man, I'd focus on the word "said," - - but that would be too big a suck on what would otherwise be the best thing I've read today, if not this month - - and so . . . fuck said. Let's say she means it & hope this epiphany is just that.
stcyr:
I think you have much to be proud of, and thankful for as well. I'm really happy to hear this.
Remember that Hollywood writer's strike around 04-ish? Yeah me too. I didn't really feel the effects of it at the time as I was deeply engulfed in reality television (which we all know has hack writers to begin with). I am noticing it now though, as I near the close of Season Four in LOST.
stcyr:
I thought the series definitely started to drift at that point . . .
I have so much to say, this being our eighth anniversary and all. And yet, I feel ill equipped to expound on such an immense topic. How we found each other. How he taught me to believe in karma and dues paid and lives lost and battles dually fought. How he impresses me every day with his infinite knowledge. How he loves me for me....
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stcyr:
Awww . . .
happy anniversary.
Congratulations to both o' you.
happy anniversary.
Congratulations to both o' you.
jonnytrrrash7:
Happy anniversary!
I don't know man, I just don't know. (That felt like something right out of Charlie Brown). I don't know how to just let all the fucking walls come down and just be. I have worked in Corporate America for nearly two decades now. When I found out I was pregnant with my daughter I completely changed my perspective and exterior. I couldn't be a...
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stcyr:
Damn, I was all ready to go picture crazy on your prior post (because it's so easy, & oft times appropriate - - and probably just as often - - completely inappropriate) but I got distracted . . . & then you go and post this ^^.
I have so many thoughts on this, but - - I'm sort of stuck in an identity crisis on the whole issue - - that is I've got 9-5, office, professional, suit & tie "me," and I've got heavily tattooed, weekend, fly your freak flag high "me." I've always said the former is the "alter ego," but the longer it goes on I have a more and more difficult time discerning which one is the "real me" and which is the alter ego.
y'know?
I have so many thoughts on this, but - - I'm sort of stuck in an identity crisis on the whole issue - - that is I've got 9-5, office, professional, suit & tie "me," and I've got heavily tattooed, weekend, fly your freak flag high "me." I've always said the former is the "alter ego," but the longer it goes on I have a more and more difficult time discerning which one is the "real me" and which is the alter ego.
y'know?
Sometimes I feel overwhelmed
And
Sometimes I feel sad
And
Sometimes I can't figure out where the disconnect occurred
And
Sometimes I feel misunderstood
And
Sometimes I feel misguided
And
Sometimes I feel far beyond disturbed
(Not in that Rhianna Way)
And
(Not in that pretend pseudo heavy metal way - Disturbed I'm looking at you)
And
(Certainly not in the god damned Coldplay Way)...
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Sometimes I feel sad
And
Sometimes I can't figure out where the disconnect occurred
And
Sometimes I feel misunderstood
And
Sometimes I feel misguided
And
Sometimes I feel far beyond disturbed
(Not in that Rhianna Way)
And
(Not in that pretend pseudo heavy metal way - Disturbed I'm looking at you)
And
(Certainly not in the god damned Coldplay Way)...
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stcyr:
Okay, what the hell? As I'd already mentioned it . . .
and,
and,
I have spent a very long and good portion of my life in the "punk rock." I was fascinated and captivated by its presence in my teen years, so much so that I would watch "Suburbia" and "Repo Man" and "Decline of Western Civilization" and "Liquid Sky" ad nauseum, just to envelop myself within this crazy need and want and effort to rebel. Only, my...
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stcyr:
this sounds remarkably, almost painfully, familiar . . .
& aye, all teens (and really, everyone) should find their "screaming voice" - - it makes me crazy that I've spent the past thirteen years teaching and schooling the Spawn in the finer points of protest, and angst, and energy, and rebellion [she can identify the Stooges, Clash, Billy Bragg, Ramones, Descendents, Sabbath, etc. & she pays lip service to liking them] , but she repays with dance/electronica & *shudder* top 40.
It's hard to scream through a voice synthesizer, or worse, computer.
& aye, all teens (and really, everyone) should find their "screaming voice" - - it makes me crazy that I've spent the past thirteen years teaching and schooling the Spawn in the finer points of protest, and angst, and energy, and rebellion [she can identify the Stooges, Clash, Billy Bragg, Ramones, Descendents, Sabbath, etc. & she pays lip service to liking them] , but she repays with dance/electronica & *shudder* top 40.
It's hard to scream through a voice synthesizer, or worse, computer.
For as far back and long ago as I can remember, I have wanted to be a singer. I was surrounded by and raised within such an intensely heavy music scene that it was the most natural dream in the world to me. I didn't even just want to be a singer just for the love of signing. I wanted to be a famous renowned...
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jonnytrrrash7:
you just made me want to see The Hunger again.
i think i can play guitar better now, but no longer have the will to impose it on the general public enemy. ah, youthful energy and bravado is something to be treasured!
i think i can play guitar better now, but no longer have the will to impose it on the general public enemy. ah, youthful energy and bravado is something to be treasured!
stcyr:
happy birthday lady:
