When I was a kid, I was actually *scared* of "The Wrong Child". Like, I'd run to the stereo and turn it off. Something about that first chord just deeply unsettled me... which I guess means it's a successful song in some way?
oof
The current US president making a sideways reference to a Curtis LeMay quote was not on my bingo card for today.
Former (and current) touring musicians really have an unfair leg up(?) on this one, but I remember a particularly brutal non-stop overnight drive from Phoenix to Dallas that involved a swarm of locusts, the Texas State Patrol, and sleeping with cold water bottles as pillows when we arrived.
Such a pleasure to be on the Monki Gras stage again after (checks notes) 14 years. One of those "wow this is a room full of overwhelmingly interesting and smart and kind people" moments. @monkchips.com you are a true friend and a force of good.
Man in a smart blue striped suit from vinted with a striped pink shirt.
@mattlemay.com crushing it at #monkigras on planning and uncertainty. Closing out the conference in style.
still waiting for glenn danzig to tell me all about it now
lollllllllll
ok, hear me out, an australian drag queen called "sharon howell"
Lin-Manuel Miranda and Martin Shkreli.
This is excellent.
I parsed this as a chromebook joke, which may or may not mean that I "got" it
when people ask me why i'm so invested in pitchfork allowing comments on old reviews
brb gonna start charging a monthly subscription fee to disagree with me
there's no arguing with "holy macaroni poop shit"
so... who will i be seeing at life without buildings in november?
... though these days it's more frequently the "oh shit i am suddenly somehow driving a car quite badly and i don't have a license, this is going to end badly" anxiety dream
yes.
Please repeat after me: Everything bagel, not toasted, plain shmear.
They’re going even crazier for Bernie 👀
The Gen Zs at the financial district bar where I’m watching the inauguration are going absolutely fucking crazy over Lucy Dacus and I love it so much
i watched the family stone last night, why did nobody tell me that this movie is completely insane and unhinged
I remember showing up early to shows there and being truly excited for all the unknown-to-me openers. For all of my personal nostalgia around that era and "scene", there's a pure distilled positivity to my memories of the knit that nothing else really touches.
forgot about that moment!
I remember seeing you and @johnvanderslice.bsky.social there in... 2000? 2001? So many shows/moments there I would earnestly and unapologetically describe as "life-changing"
like, seeing nostalgia for the williamsburg knitting factory is so confusing to me b/c it's like "NO THE KNITTING FACTORY IS ON LEONARD STREET AND IT IS WHERE I FIRST SAW THE OLIVIA TREMOR CONTROL, SHELLAC, THE DISMEMBERMENT PLAN, DEATH CAB, THE PROMISE RING, @themountaingoats.bsky.social, etc etc"
i am "the knitting factory is on leonard street" years old, as opposed to "the knitting factory is on houston street" years old or "the knitting factory is on metropolitan ave" years old
oh my god I was at that show. I drank a lot of free sparks and remember thinking I was going to die, and getting vomited on at least once.
oh hell yes!
