By ONE vote! Devastating 😭

Well this is rad and sad and weird and artful and a little creepy and it’s definitely swaying my vote. The Xness cover game is really bringing it this year and I love it.

Final scores haven't been posted yet 🤞🏻

Final scores haven't been posted yet! It's not over 'til it's over!

30 mins left in the game and "Glycerine" is trailing by only a few votes! If you haven't voted for Jason's essay yet THERE IS STILL TIME!

"Because craving connection with others, chasing it, is how we find communion; it’s how we survive our sadness."

March Xness as a form of communion. This tournament's got me thinking a lot about belief. I'll pray (and vote) for "Glycerine" tonight, just to see how it goes.

"Brick" surged through the night and now "Glycerine" is down bad. If you've got ANY more votes in you, please help Bush beat the beast.

Here's proof of Gavin Rossdale's impact on 10-year-old Jason, drawn at school under "I want to be..."

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Desperate times call for desperate measures. Still 2 hours to beat back "Brick" and send "Glycerine" to the Final Four!

Glycerine is actually the one down in its matchup! We need more votes!

March Sadness 90s Edition A yearly March Madness-style tournament of essays about songs we love (and occasionally loathe)

I didn't start a magazine of single-sentence prose 5 years ago to help me win @marchxness.bsky.social, but right now my essay on "Glycerine" is down against "Brick." If you're part of the Comp Sent hive, VOTE my essay and "Glycerine" SADDEST! Polls close 9am PST

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I'm voting @thejasonthayer.bsky.social and Bush because "Glycerine" absolutely hijacks my pulse and my respiration rate.

Enjoy this video and cover that will surely stand the test of time, promoting a really strong essay in this year's @marchx.bsky.social March Sadness '90s edition competition.

this year's March Sadness competitors are doing A LOT and it's just one more reason why this community is so fun

Only the bleakest of beaches for March Sadness. Don't forget to VOTE GLYCERINE in today's @marchxness.bsky.social matchup! marchxness.com#/elite8-fold...

Glycerine (March Sadness) YouTube video by Jason Thayer

Last night I shot a music video on the blacked-out beach for my synth'd out "Glycerine" cover. Big thanks to Dave Rosman for the violin, big thanks to YOU for voting Bush on to the Final Four of @marchxness.bsky.social!

youtu.be/E1DOPrrgCgg

March Sadness 90s Edition A yearly March Madness-style tournament of essays about songs we love (and occasionally loathe)

Will Ben Folds' brick shatter my dreams of making it to the Final Four? I've got a synth'd out "Glycerine" cover on deck that begs to differ...

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As a sad 90s middle schooler I'd have been so stoked to hear my essay on Bush would one day resonate with future sad middle schoolers of the PNW. Great match today against @emryal91.bsky.social's moving musing on the sadness punctuating our lives. Bush v. Blink-182!

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Okay so I loved "Adam's Song" as much as the next teenage millennial... But Adam snaps out of it at the end, and its message is more hopeful than sad. This round it's gotta be Bush.

Got some big second-rounders today tipping off! Games are live. Will the Cinderella stories continue for Des'ree and Mazzy? Cole vs Bush is a coin flip. Will a pissed-off Morissette take down Bonnie Raitt? You decide. Games on now at marchxness.com. Vote by 9am AZ time 3/13

3/12, 2nd Round: (4) Paula Cole vs (5) Bush — March Sadness 90s Edition

It's time for

"smooth pea gravel spread across the playground"

vs

"seven rounds of yippee-yi yippee-ya’s"

@marchxness.bsky.social

March Sadness 90s Edition A yearly March Madness-style tournament of essays about songs we love (and occasionally loathe)

My @marchxness.bsky.social essay on how a shirtless Gavin Rossdale saved my life faces off against Paula Cole and all of her furry sons. @erindorney.bsky.social nails the sadness of heteronormativity and I'm shaking in my (decidedly not cowboy) boots.

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March Sadness 90s Edition A yearly March Madness-style tournament of essays about songs we love (and occasionally loathe)

Don’t let the days go by without reading my @marchxness.bsky.social essay on life as a ‘90s sad boy, aching to be beautiful and charismatic Gavin Rossdale, crooning “Glycerine” shirtless in the rain as a sea of sweaty MTV Spring Breakers sing along to yr heartbreak.

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Round #1

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