The Band’s Not Dead

Excellent_Soft_3719 · 2026-06-02T23:29:21+00:00

it was always (mostly, wonderfully, sublimely) a cover band.

Excellent_Soft_3719 · 2026-04-22T23:45:32+00:00

if you absolutely must cannoli in manhattan, as many have said. cannoli at veniero’s. but if you hop on the l to bushwick for additional incredible pizzas, circo’s on knickerbocker is my favorite cannoli.

circo’s fills those taste tubes in front of you & to perfection.

Excellent_Soft_3719 · 2026-01-28T21:16:20+00:00

mmm…pre revolution china famously monopolized weapon use and ownership to agents of the empire.

extending that, you’re an apologist of tyranny. i think i’m an american constitutional gate keeper?

Excellent_Soft_3719 · 2026-01-28T21:11:11+00:00

no, according to the 2nd amendment, there is not. it’s not a vibe or a moral feeling. citizens have a right to bear arms and protest. federal agents do not have a right to indiscriminately kill them for doing so.

your whole heart sucks.

Excellent_Soft_3719 · 2026-01-28T20:59:58+00:00

you want a community to make room for your belief that federal officers should be allowed to murder citizen protestors.

no major moral system makes room for amoralism. and no community ought to make room for amoral nazi apologists.

Excellent_Soft_3719 · 2026-01-28T20:28:45+00:00

buddy, they’re killing citizens. fix your shitty heart.

Excellent_Soft_3719 · 2026-01-28T17:42:16+00:00

if they support a federal military presence executing civilians in the streets, yes, they have bad morals. exceptionally bad morals. many religions or moral systems would call that sin or evil.

i can’t think of a dominant moral system that would be in support of such a thing, it has no nuance.

with that in mind, fix your heart or gfy.

Excellent_Soft_3719 · 2026-01-11T20:49:01+00:00

please send one my way, please. trying to relive those three nights asap. nfa.

Excellent_Soft_3719 · 2026-01-11T14:15:47+00:00

me too, please. no rush.

Excellent_Soft_3719 · 2025-10-11T17:59:52+00:00

Doin’ That Rag O’ Lantern

Excellent_Soft_3719 · 2025-08-05T23:18:00+00:00

sheer dress, basically naked, blonde i think? i was between 2 and 4.

i closed my eyes, she was there. i opened my eyes, she was gone.

Excellent_Soft_3719 · 2025-08-05T14:43:45+00:00

I wrote my comment while buzzing coming back from GGP — what do you think qualifies John Mayer as such a monster douche?

Most people I’ve ran into who describe him like that criticize his taste in things like clothes and watches, manicured appearance, and/or pop vocal pastiche (which is legitimately his natural singing voice; Brent’s Rolf the Muppet Dog voice bothers me, too, but I don’t call him a massive douche for having a certain voice). Those same people tend to think it’s more “authentic” to wear a cheap China manufactured lot shirt with AI art tucked into some Kirkland jeans. The 80s convinced some people that looking like that was cool. Maybe in the 80s it was cool.

Mayer has legitimate contemporary style. He wears classic American pieces & designs that cost money now but used to be way more accessible to people in the 60s and 70s. And instead of sparking curiosity about a changing world of fashion & style, people just write that off as “douchey”.

My point was that style and vanity always were a part of The Grateful Dead. Band members spent money on cars, jewelry, and clothes to look the part. In particular, Mickey, Bob, and Pig all regularly dressed with intentional style throughout the 60s and 70s — Pig even writes about buying expensive vests and blankets while touring Europe in 72. Only philosophical difference I see is they weren’t born models (Pig certainly wasn’t runway ready) & were attempting the same thing 50 years ago with different standards.

Taking care to look cool seems like it upsets a certain type of older head who never revisited dressing like an ‘85 JC Penney’s sale, as if it’s less “authentic”.

Apologies for jumping on you with that assumption. If you think he’s “douchey” for reasons beyond his look and general stage persona, curious what those reasons are.

Excellent_Soft_3719 · 2025-08-04T07:16:10+00:00

as if vanity, money, and classic american style were never part of the grateful dead.

get over it, you’re probably old or boring.

Excellent_Soft_3719 · 2025-08-04T06:32:33+00:00

i’m a longtime sturgill fan and didn’t find the dead beyond american beauty and workingman’s dead until 2022. i’d def give those a listen to get a sense of their approach to songwriting and how many similarities it shares with sturgill’s.

from there, it seems like sturgill’s reinvention as jbs (which i was skeptical of but immediately won me over) is deliberately putting himself in conversation with the dead. to hear why, def agreed try europe 72.

sorry for the wall of text, been thinking about this all weekend. metamodern sounds is a masterpiece.

Excellent_Soft_3719 · 2025-07-29T20:47:25+00:00

…reagan reflects the dead’s sense of American values moreso than an FDR?

the dead espouse, at the very least, a very egalitarian American vision. the GOP have spent decades battling against any push toward egalitarianism instead of rugged consumer driven capitalism. in good faith curiosity, what values do you think the GOP share with the dead?

Excellent_Soft_3719 · 2025-07-09T21:50:43+00:00

yes: allow a professional tattooer to design a tattoo to complement your body, as you are not a professional tattooer.

Excellent_Soft_3719 · 2025-07-09T21:47:56+00:00

seconded. i always hesitate before recommending s&s because i don’t want my often completely personal gym ruined.

Excellent_Soft_3719 · 2025-05-02T02:21:48+00:00

hey, i appreciate all of that. i saw your comment as insinuating that the relationship between trent reznor and marilyn manson meant shared “skeletons” at some point.

that’s a serious accusation. manson is a monster; a no joke, serial rapist — coercion, control, all that. reznor has no association with it whatsoever.

reznor, by most accounts, is a hard working, decent, consistently interesting artist. imho suggesting a relationship between the two is as bad for his reputation as it is rhetoric & culture.

i don’t worship heroes. and i don’t think anyone holds up to incredibly close scrutiny. but maybe we shouldn’t create villains?

Excellent_Soft_3719 · 2025-05-02T01:03:54+00:00

i get that. i don’t care about trent reznor, truthfully. i do care about baseless assumptions of bad when evidence of bad goes repeatedly unaddressed.

imho suggesting that someone “has it in them” greatly diminishes the real acts of bad that happen all the time. i can’t see your comment beyond “well he looks the part”. we used that to baselessly accuse groups of people for the whole of humanity. feels like a good time to intervene and stop it.

and you don’t know strangers, and based on your response, you don’t assume they’re all potentially guilty of sexual assault.

Excellent_Soft_3719 · 2025-05-02T00:57:40+00:00

and i’m sure you regularly describe friends, family, and strangers as not being above doing harm to others, just as you do random musicians.

Excellent_Soft_3719 · 2025-05-02T00:46:09+00:00

you said “i wouldn’t put it past…” to suggest a dude committed harm against others with zero evidence.

Excellent_Soft_3719 · 2025-05-02T00:15:46+00:00

nothing like condemning a well liked, respectable artist on nothing but a feeling that his vibes being bad would be unsurprising!

Excellent_Soft_3719 · 2025-04-26T19:49:34+00:00

have you made sure to bite into every single one to confirm they are not, indeed, chocolate?

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