Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Leatherneck
"Marched from a burning ship into a rained out parade. With a bottle and a bible the dregs are armed to the teeth. We traded distinction and praise for the tedious claim that we were wed in the trenches while college boys pine for loveless exchange. We carry the fragments from detonated eyes embedded under our bones. We've spilled blood for the sake of fitting skin to the frame but our moneys is no good here and our memorial has veered off the road. The locals will bury my wandering eyes at the docks of the potters field where the rifles of ranking men are equipped with 21 silencers. At 'em boys. Give 'er the gun. At 'em boys. Give 'er the gun. I'm the richest man in town. I'm the richest man in town. Faith, stand down. Give your wings to the boredom that resurrected my soul. Crash the car. If the motor won't turn over, glory be to god. Jumped from the disloyal waves back up to the bridge. Renounced the warmth of the turbulent grave. I found blood on my lips from a covetous kiss and I hope that my home tips its glass to it."
The Big Dirty
One of the newest by them! It mixes everything that they have written about before but with a new mature style. There is even a song about his fiance! Also mixing in Southern Rock in past albums, they finally commit to this style with a new hardcore spin!
Saturday, October 24, 2009
Oh Hot Damn!
This is the album that started it all for me...I have always said there is a thin line between being a fan and being obsessed. I am clearly obsessed.
Every single song is one that is fun to sing along to and to let out emotion with! The only downfall to this album is the fact that it is very chaotic and what you would expect a hardcore album to sound like. But this has to be one of my favorites from them!
Edit:
This album deals with again touring and parties, but they are starting to show class and maturity in this new style using old themes!
Every single song is one that is fun to sing along to and to let out emotion with! The only downfall to this album is the fact that it is very chaotic and what you would expect a hardcore album to sound like. But this has to be one of my favorites from them!
Edit:
This album deals with again touring and parties, but they are starting to show class and maturity in this new style using old themes!
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
The Last Night In Town
This album focuses on the idea of touring and how you can make and lose friends so fast. How sustaining a relationship can be one of the hardest things...But at the same time how you get to see the country, meet new people everyday, and experience things only few people can. Also this album has the story about a sailor and his last night in town and all of the negatives and positives that go along with that.
Thursday, October 15, 2009
A Gutter Phenomenon
...This was to describe Rock And Roll as a whole and how it was something that would just end. There is not enough variety to continue making music this way.
This album is about the music industry and the idea of touring around the country as part of your job; the found and lost relationships, the parties, and those days where nothing really happens at all. Well put together with a ton of underlying themes!
This album is about the music industry and the idea of touring around the country as part of your job; the found and lost relationships, the parties, and those days where nothing really happens at all. Well put together with a ton of underlying themes!
Sports Rumor
Buffalo Bill's Terrell Owens might be coming to the Chicago Bears! Now this guy is a complete moron, but he knows how to play Wide Receiver better than anyone else. He is unhappy in Buffalo and is might be looking at Chicago because of the big arm in Jay Cutler! The press asked Cutler what he thought about this and he said that we all come to play...Needless to say he had a glimmer in his eye!
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
The Tender Box, Kill Hannah, & She Wants Revenge: Concert Review
A crappy, rainy day is the best day for a She Wants Revenge show! Walking into the concert my girlfriend and I were greeted by tons of gross fans for one of the opening bands. (Kill Hannah to be exact) Now usually I don’t judge people too much, but these young fans broke one of my two major concert rules. YOU NEVER EVER WEAR A SHIRT OF THE BAND THAT YOU ARE GOING TO SEE TO THE SHOW. The other was not listening to that band that day.
The first band was really bad…They called themselves The Tender Box, but they should have been called Doods In Boots, because they all were wearing boots. If bands were able to have siblings then Hot Hot Heat would have a retarded little brother and they would be this first band that we saw. During their first song they used a tambourine (which doesn’t make sense to me to begin with) and at one point said, “Heads up” and threw it into the crowd…Needless to say it ended up flying at me. Now if I were them I would have wanted someone to have caught it, done a front flip onto the stage, and started to play along with me, but I just watched it fly by in slow motion and continued watching till it hit the ground and then I kicked it over to some teeny boppers that were next to me.
All hell broke loose when (“welcome to Chicago mother fuckers”) Kill Hannah took the stage. Now I like some of the music that they have, but there is something about them that I just do not like…And that something is the fact that they are tools. They dress like homeless people that steal things from Kmart then rip and poop on their attire. The amount of guy liner is amazing, and the fact that their hair spray cloud gave me a migraine for the last four days. I know for a fact that these dudes do not dress this way in real life. It is very obnoxious. Their fans happen to be four types of people; 16 year old girls that are way too happy that their parents let them come out on a Thursday night, 16 year old girls that are sneaking out of their house on a Thursday night and are still having too much fun, 16 year old girls that did neither of the last two things and had to bring their 45 year old mothers with them, and finally (and the worst in my opinion) just the 45 year old mothers that are sneaking away from their 16 year old daughters.
Finally She Wants Revenge took the stage! Let me just say, half of the show is what I thought it would be and then the other half no one could have predicted. The part that I did expect was how sexual things were. They are a very sexually charged band. The lead singer danced very similar to Todd Fink from The Faint, meaning neither of their hips lied. Now for the part I did not expect…When asked why their lyrics are the way they are the lead singer replied, “We just want to make young girls cry” that and they must have wanted large Hispanic men to use my back as a humping tool. I had a plethora of Hispanic men getting busy all over my back side. With that and the hairspray migraine I had a hard time sleeping the last few days.
Cool parts besides the usuals:
-Seeing a DJ AM sticker on the dudes bass from SWR!
-During SWR’s last song (Tear You Apart) the lead singer had the crowd sing most of the chorus, and the best part about that was hearing an entire crowd clearly yell, “I want to fucking tear you apart”!
This show had its good parts and bad parts, but SWR is such a fucking cool band. I liked them a lot before the show, but after seeing them I could say they are in my faves! Their new music is so different and so much better than there already sweet old stuff! Please, I implore that everyone check them out as soon as possible!
The first band was really bad…They called themselves The Tender Box, but they should have been called Doods In Boots, because they all were wearing boots. If bands were able to have siblings then Hot Hot Heat would have a retarded little brother and they would be this first band that we saw. During their first song they used a tambourine (which doesn’t make sense to me to begin with) and at one point said, “Heads up” and threw it into the crowd…Needless to say it ended up flying at me. Now if I were them I would have wanted someone to have caught it, done a front flip onto the stage, and started to play along with me, but I just watched it fly by in slow motion and continued watching till it hit the ground and then I kicked it over to some teeny boppers that were next to me.
All hell broke loose when (“welcome to Chicago mother fuckers”) Kill Hannah took the stage. Now I like some of the music that they have, but there is something about them that I just do not like…And that something is the fact that they are tools. They dress like homeless people that steal things from Kmart then rip and poop on their attire. The amount of guy liner is amazing, and the fact that their hair spray cloud gave me a migraine for the last four days. I know for a fact that these dudes do not dress this way in real life. It is very obnoxious. Their fans happen to be four types of people; 16 year old girls that are way too happy that their parents let them come out on a Thursday night, 16 year old girls that are sneaking out of their house on a Thursday night and are still having too much fun, 16 year old girls that did neither of the last two things and had to bring their 45 year old mothers with them, and finally (and the worst in my opinion) just the 45 year old mothers that are sneaking away from their 16 year old daughters.
Finally She Wants Revenge took the stage! Let me just say, half of the show is what I thought it would be and then the other half no one could have predicted. The part that I did expect was how sexual things were. They are a very sexually charged band. The lead singer danced very similar to Todd Fink from The Faint, meaning neither of their hips lied. Now for the part I did not expect…When asked why their lyrics are the way they are the lead singer replied, “We just want to make young girls cry” that and they must have wanted large Hispanic men to use my back as a humping tool. I had a plethora of Hispanic men getting busy all over my back side. With that and the hairspray migraine I had a hard time sleeping the last few days.
Cool parts besides the usuals:
-Seeing a DJ AM sticker on the dudes bass from SWR!
-During SWR’s last song (Tear You Apart) the lead singer had the crowd sing most of the chorus, and the best part about that was hearing an entire crowd clearly yell, “I want to fucking tear you apart”!
This show had its good parts and bad parts, but SWR is such a fucking cool band. I liked them a lot before the show, but after seeing them I could say they are in my faves! Their new music is so different and so much better than there already sweet old stuff! Please, I implore that everyone check them out as soon as possible!
Sunday, October 4, 2009
What JohnO's Dad Said II
I say “Hey mom I was thinking about getting some Glow Fish as pets!” My dad replies “Do you know those things are not real? The Japanese made them all.”
What JohnO's Dad Said
I ask “Hey mom can I have an umbrella?” My dad replies “Are you scared to melt or something. What are you made of sugar?”
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