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It was either Slint - Spiderand or Portishead - Dummy. They were bought close together so I don't remember which one was first.

I get into prog stuff a whole lot, and used to listen to Phish tons back in high school. I could probably still enjoy it, honestly.

All things considered, for how much of a fan of music I am and how much of my life is spent thinking about music, I have pretty awful taste.

At least 6 of these chapters look like they're actually just new Mountain Goats song titles.

I felt not even surprised when it was happening, and not because my small city is so dangerous, but because you just hear about this shit so much that it just seemed like it was bound to happen sometime. It's a sad and devastating feeling.

Apparently he was an Uber driver, and was picking people up between shootings. Christ.

Thanks. I and most of my house was at home when news started to get out about this. I haven't really been able to bring myself to read more since this morning, but I do know someone has been apprehended that is probably the shooter. I think he was found a bit closer to where I and folks I know live. Seems like things were maybe going to escalate in the more downtown area. I don't know. I don't even want to know why because I don't want to give a shit what this guy was thinking, I just feel awful for the families.

BUY MY BOOK! BUY MY BOOK!


no but for real, cool you have a book!

I tried to watch this and clicked through to see if I could just find a clip that's okay, and of course stumbled onto the part where someone asks if they can fuck the local girls in the scene, and the kid responds to say to get them knocked up so they can't participate because they're not wanted.

Punk should have been burned and desecrated a long time ago, everyone. Don't know how I'm just realizing this now.

I love that Halo Fauna song and had no idea they did a pink couch session.

I remember watching this once and liking when Rollins was essentially saying to not talk shit about your own place, to make it better and actually do something. And, though that sentiment is something I still support, Henry has kind of a lot of nerve telling some young kid in Dearborn to just buck up and improve his situation. It takes momentum, it takes work, it takes first and foremost being pretty upset about how shitty your place is. The kid is at step one. He's not in a famous punk band. He's some kid trying to do an interview. He doesn't get to tour around and tell other people how to be punk, he's in the midwest trying to figure some shit out. Like sure, maybe this is the kick in the ass some folks need to get things up and moving, or, more likely, this is solid discouragement that makes this kid realize there's really no hope in punk and it's a big dud-bro show off competition like everything else.

I have seen this before and though compelling, it makes me really uncomfortable. Maybe it hits close to home because it's a Michigan kid.

Nevermind. Just looked up land contracts. So it just means you owe the current owner instead of a 3rd party? And it isn't really yours til it's paid? It still seems like a good deal as long as you are confident you'll be able to keep making payments until it is paid off.

Right. Which, hey, as far as an arts collective goes, it just about as unsafe as renting from most of the awful landlords here. But is still risky. But honestly, I'm not sure if we could possibly convince a bank to give us this sort of loan.

so, I've been on the board of a mostly dormant nonprofit in my town for a few years. Mostly dormant because are goal has been to set up an all ages, community run arts center in our small college-y city. What we've run into is that there is not an abundance of properties, and landlords in the area are serious, notable headaches to work with. Though we've hosted events outside of having our own unique space, and raised some money, we have not ever been able to find a place to call home, either rented or purchased.

But this week, we've essentially stumbled into an ideal place at an ideal price for ownership. There is a small christian youth center one mile from my house, but in an area with mostly no neighbors. It has a nice 3 bedroom apartment above it, and below it is totally accessible, and already basically a venue space. We've been offered, likely as a land contract without a mortgage, that $5,500 down payment would solidify us into the building, and then we would have a monthly rate that would likely mostly be covered in the price of renting the apartment. I have close friends who are involved actively in the community who already want to rent  the apartment(who are also reliable, family folk).

But now that this opportunity is upon us, and we pretty much should 100% do this, I'm feeling really nervous! Owning property sounds scary, especially for such an endeavor. I feel like I'm not even sure we entirely know what we are getting into at all. Does anyone have experience with owning a building? Having tenants? Running a DIY space? I could honestly use any and all advice and encouragement.

I bet it was martin shkreli

FRNTRNNR

We're going probably in early September, which I imagine is probably hot for the South West and fucking gorgeous for the North West. Both sound like a dream right now because of it being a snowy windy hell on earth in Michigan right now.

It seems daunting to try and book stops in small towns when I don't even have contacts in many big cities. But gorgeous long drives are really not the worst problem to have.

In the fall, I plan to do a tour with my band from Michigan to the west coast and back. I've planned a few tours in my time, but most of them went east and a few went south. The furthest west I've ever been is San Antonio, which I did just last year. Looking at a map, that's not that far west.

Since this theoretical tour is pretty far away, I guess I don't even really want advice for booking it or anything (although if anyone has done a similar route, please give me some pointers, because these long drives seem bonkers!) I just really want to know what's cool about going west? The desert seems super intriguing, considering that is is dry and warm while were I'm from is cold at wet. It seems like once I get to the coast, being a visibly queer punk sort is probably not a big deal, but how much trouble will that get me in the rural areas on my way? Will people make fun of my Midwest accent (I hope so)?

This is pretty vague and open ended.

I'm really glad my first round of encountering this board was just looking at tabs and never signing up or posting, because I was 17 and probably straight up horrendous.

Stopping the label seems totally reasonable. I think more people need to learn how to let things go when the time is up, and I find it kind of inspiring in a way.

It's pretty fun to think and realize how important a lot of this media has been for over 10 years of my life, though, and how many friends and connections I've made because of it.

The stache is a fantastic touch

I can't wait for it to be even more terrible.

Seeing you play guitar on public transit really solidifies to me that I live in a small city. There is no way anyone is doing that on one of our city buses.

Since I'm being pretty candid about my transition on here and in real life, I wanted to show off my awful trash 'stashe at just over 3 months.

Transparent is starting season 2, right? I watch the first season when it as new and that shit was fucking stressful. All the characters were so awful. It made it compelling and kind of real, but I don't know if I can get myself to watch the next season.

I also liked Master Of None a whole lot. Quite a bit different from what I was expecting, I guess.

My partner has cat-themed tarot cards and we do that stuff sometimes, but it's definitely a very non-serious dabbling. Conceptually, I like ritual, especially the kind that can lead to some amount of self-reflection, so I guess I'm for it.

+ I went on a two week tour with my band and band of friends and it was incredible
+/- Tour made me realize that I have to re-evaluate my friendships and relationships, and although I think it's good, I'm not really sure what that means entirely yet
+ Almost 3 months on Testosterone! I have the smallest trash stash and I feel really good about myself.
- My family still does not know about me transitioning, but it's kind of coming down to the point where I'll have to say something
- Working 40 hours a week at minimum wage, even though I like my job, is not my favorite thing in the world
+ My kitten is almost 3 months old and she is a perfect adorable little hellion and I love her so much.