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In 2019 I lived in Portland, Oregon for a summer and was a guitarist and keyboardist for a band that could be best described as pure angst. The frontman turned out to be a total monster, we wrote basically the same song for an EP, we put out a single music video, I got electrocuted doing a show at a now closed venue, but it was an experience you should enjoy at least once!
Apr 28, 2024
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i just went to my first punk show in my city, since a friend of mine’s band was playing and he invited me. it was at 8pm at a coffee shop, and i felt very out of place at first among these people who are so much more incredibly cool than me. then, the music started, and i realized that i was headbanging just like everyone else. girls asked me to hold their things when they went to mosh, and i helped people up off the floor when they fell in the pit. it was a very unifying experience and i met lots of real weirdos (which i love). highly recommend
Nov 10, 2024
It was mere months before "Nevermind" would change the entire pop universe, sweeping away the hair bands, the bullshit, the last vestigial remnants of the 80s that came before like so many tumbleweeds.
THE SETLIST OMG: Aneurysm, Breed, Love Buzz, In Bloom, Stay Away, Radio Friendly Unit Shifter, On a Plain, Sliver, I think Polly was the encore if I remember right (it was a long time ago).Â
Satyricon was a shitty, dumpy, dark little club (the CBGB of Portland basically) with smoke crusted ceilings and a permanent bad smell, I think it might have held 400 sweaty bodies, max? The venue handed out free bottles of champagne to celebrate new year and during the opening sets, a bunch of bottles had been thrown against the wall and broke -- Krist Novoselic came out onstage, swept away the glass, and played barefoot as he always did.Â
The year punk broke. It went mainstream. All my favorite noise/sounds were now headed to MTV and the radio and our little lives changed forever that night. (Supposedly Kurt met Courtney there so his did too, ha).
May 15, 2024
I booked tickets to see Knocked Loose in Paris on a whim because an opportunity to see a band I had grown to love last year on my 25th birthday felt too good to pass up. This was my first metal gig, I hope I go to many more, it was extremely enriching and cathartic. I chatted to a British couple, turned it was one of their birthdays too. They were more experienced metal fans and talked me through what would happen and who the support acts were.
So yeah. Go get it out of your system. My neck does hurt now.
OH OH sub recommendation: if you're not already using ear plugs at gigs, start.
Mar 22, 2025
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so much to talk about, the sunglasses, the scarf, the fresh baguette and coffee, the always lovely cafe setting. I think this is the most swag ever captured on camera I aspire to be at this level
Feb 11, 2024
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alright hear me out: carbonation and coffee with a squeeze of orange shouldn’t work, but it does. Been making them daily and i feel a lot better in the morning each time i do
Mar 7, 2024
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the greatest love song of the 21st century??? wait…. They don’t love you like I love you
Feb 25, 2024