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Celery Man

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  1. I’m really not a lyrics guy and I haven’t spent a lot of time pondering what is meant by a guy with teeth like god’s shoeshine getting another orange Julius or whatever but at this point I’m curious - what about Modest Mouse makes them seem like passive victims? This would make sense to me if we were dissecting Bright Eyes, I don’t quite follow for Modest Mouse.
  2. I’ve posted about some family stuff with someone having a failed run at rehab and sobriety and then checking her ass into LaHa. That experience reinforced the feeling that I had that there are a lot of places that exist to warehouse addicts and cash checks and some places that exist to guide people at their bottom into a successful recovery journey and a chance at salvation. La Ha is that place, it’s still that place. serenity. Best of luck to your bil. My relative just celebrated 6 months.
  3. I don't know shit about fuck and none of this makes me think he's a bad guy, but - a) wasn't invited back for the King of the Hill reboot, no reason stated b) crashed an event and seemed drunk/incoherent c) house burned down d) murdered in some sort of altercation sounds like some addict shit to me. I bet his neighbors are shitheads to and probably are homophobic but I think it's high odds that his husband was recently married to an addict circling the drain, which also weighs into how I understand anything he might be saying. Sad shit. Sucks to die like that, and kinda especially sucks (if it's death related to spiraling addiction) to die in that way in just the moment where it raises visibility into the circumstances of your death.
  4. Jimmy Eat Azz
  5. That Franz Ferdinand album was also summer ‘04. And American Idiot. i totally get hating/not digging Modest Mouse, but Lonesome Crowded Wesr, Moon and Antarctica, and Good News are all more important to me than any album from the Killers or Foo Fighters. summer 04 was also the… Rilo Kiley album with Portions for Foxes. I am excited about seeing Rilo Kiley this year.
  6. we had a version of this where ztejas and I argued over who was a better band between Weezer and Jimmy Eat World. Although I don't think we actually disagreed that much and it's kinda the reverse of my stance in the foo fighters/killers thread. Weezer is clearly more culturally significant and a bigger band, just they basically suck (I actually like Weezer enough, but an identical band that sounded identical would be just absolute trash) and Jimmy Eat World's run from Static Prevails through Chase This Light is incredible.
  7. Ha that just awoke the memory that When We Were Young and Story of my Life were both on Guitar Hero III. Many a drunken party with both of those songs, littered with more and more guitar string plinking noises as the night wore on.
  8. Cause you’re gen x. It charted equivalently or higher than Monkeywrench.
  9. I’m not commenting at all on complexity or musicianship because in this context I do not care, but I think that Mr Brightside and When We Were Young would easily fall into that discussion at the same tier as those Foo Fighters songs. If we’re talking about influence and cultural impact.
  10. Well I was taking some pictures for help troubleshooting why my a/b/y box sounds like shit, but it turns out I just needed to spray deoxit all over everything. So here’s some pedal innards pictures of an interesting a/b/y box, or at least interesting as far as a/b/y boxes go.
  11. I think we’re winding up here because she wants to stop spending money at Starbucks on cafe americanos and my requirements are a drip machine that I can program to brew in the morning. The additional requirement that is making this stupid (why not just get an espresso maker and I can have a $30 Mr Coffee) is that she only wants one thing on the kitchen counter and it needs to be pretty. What complicates this is I can feel myself wanting to get the best version of this thing and potentially doing down a rabbit hole, although I think this fits our needs likely. I do have a baratza encore (or whatever it’s called) that I used to grind beans, so probably this will be good enough to work for now and then gradually hook me and then I’ll fight with my wife over having additional appliances.
  12. wife has a bug about upgrading our coffee machine and is keying in on this one https://www.delonghi.com/en-us/all-in-one-coffee-espresso-maker/p/COM532M looks like some folks have commented positively about DeLonghi, but bumping for any general commentary that folks would like to share about the brand or this specific machine
  13. I would challenge that they are really contemporaries. It’s close, but Foo Fighters are much more of a gen x band and Killers are strongly millennial aligned. Purely regarding the importance and prevalence of their music in my life and nothing else, it’s easily the Killers for me. Neither band is one of “my” bands but… I remember the footos video as a kid and the foo fighters have always been around, but those first two Killers albums were Very Big Deals for people my age.
  14. I saw a bunch of people I recognized and remembered from long ago, I was not expecting to recognize and remember the lady who runs sound at The Parish. But it was her, same lady who always did it, and she was always the best.
  15. Also, show this weekend was great. Both guitars survived, we came just short of selling out the Parish (sigh… should’ve kept the guest list a bit smaller). It was bizarre just getting right back onto the bike playing with those guys again. And then seeing the exact same crowd from 15 years ago but all middle aged or near middle aged. Loved seeing 40 something year old women in their scene era shirts from 2004 that I can date precisely because we pressed that batch exactly one time. We had someone shooting photos, so I’m hoping to get some good pictures. The video fucked up but there have been some good ones.
  16. I saw that headstock and immediately remembered that weird brand of guitars I had forgotten about with the thumbs up. In retrospect, super weird headstock but pretty interesting body if you're into the whole Dano thing. I really like that band (Ratboys) - the lead guitarist plays a cool old Ibanez LP copy and is very much in my wheelhouse. She plays what i had assumed was some kind of old Danelectro, but upon further research it's actually some small danelectro style boutique builder in Iowa - Nepco. (hers is a V with humbucking lipstick pickups). Cool.
  17. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindert_Guitars https://reverb.com/item/90063517-rare-early-usa-lindert-locomotive-t-cream-semi-hollow-electric-guitar-hand-signed?utm_source=rev-ios-app&utm_medium=ios-share&utm_campaign=listing&utm_content=90063517
  18. i haven’t looked much into it yet and I’m sure it ends up being mostly pilot error but this is a bummer
  19. Just heard about this, he was a big booking agent in the punk/hardcore/etc scene. Bummer.
  20. Guitars made it through unscathed. I did have to remove my sister’s knitting and send it through the scanners separately.
  21. They’re finna make me run through New Vegas again
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