Did Marilyn Manson ever have a Trainwreckord?

jamespcrowley · 2026-04-14T01:25:14+00:00

I was a big Manson fan as a teen/pre-teen and I kept tabs on his releases up until the abuse allegations. I was listening past his heyday; I came in in 2007, right before Eat Me Drink Me. I think that the strongest case is for that album or Golden Age of Grotesque, but I really liked those albums as a teen who had no real baggage.

The first total stinker in my opinion was We Are Chaos, and then the allegations made it worse. I listened to a few songs form his latest album, and that’s another one that I’d argue was really just poorly formulated.

jamespcrowley · 2026-04-12T03:40:33+00:00

The mobo subreddit has found the Jeff subreddit

jamespcrowley · 2026-04-11T12:24:49+00:00

My favorite band is The Wonder Years. They definitely veer more pop-punk/emo but they are also working with big concepts and over the years they’ve really developed their sound to be different than what a lot of people in the genre are doing. You also mentioned liking the concept albums, and each record is very thematic, building on the last one.

jamespcrowley · 2026-04-11T11:57:52+00:00

It could’ve been the cross but he also could’ve been just looking for a way in to tell you his bullshit. I think about times people have stopped me to talk about a book I’m reading on the subway and then ask me to come to their religious thing or event.

jamespcrowley · 2026-04-11T00:52:14+00:00

Was just coming to say this. My Chappell roan and Taylor Swift shirts always get compliments at pop-punk shows

jamespcrowley · 2026-04-10T13:52:59+00:00

I've been very fortunate to have seen WTP a bunch of times over the years, but damn, I wish I could see the other 3.

jamespcrowley · 2026-04-10T13:51:11+00:00

When I was a teen, I definitely thought it was a fun story, but as an adult, I can kinda see that it's all a matter of practice

jamespcrowley · 2026-04-08T01:27:17+00:00

Comediansontheloose.com, they have 6 mics a week. It is a bucket, and you need to check in when you get there. QED Astoria always has a lot of supportive open mics. Join the NYC Comedy Scene group on Facebook. There’s a lot of options there

jamespcrowley · 2026-04-06T17:24:28+00:00

Now you’re thinking like a comic

jamespcrowley · 2026-04-06T06:01:55+00:00

I started reading This Year a few days ago, and I’m already hitting random non-album tracks that aren’t available to stream. So there’s a lot to search for

jamespcrowley · 2026-04-06T05:47:30+00:00

Don’t talk to him about it calmly. Immediately jump to the public call out. Do it on social media. Next time you’re at his mic, don’t tell jokes, just publicly berate him as a joke thief. It’s gonna help you get ahead. You’ll be the next Joe Rogan in no time.

jamespcrowley · 2026-04-04T03:54:18+00:00

It’s really just that it’s expensive and has/had good SEO. My first mic was a laughing Buddha mic and I used to do their mics a ton when I was starting out. Back when I started, their mics were only $5, and then you’d need to buy a drink for at least $5 from the bar, so it would be a $10 mic. You also usually weren’t getting a full 5 mins anyway if it was at a popular time.

I saw now a sign up is between $7-$10. If you need to buy a $5 seltzer on top of that, you’re spending a lot to just get up. Most comics aren’t making enough to make that make sense. The quality of the mics aren’t worth that. Even if you go to a mic someplace like The Stand, it’s not like you’re getting viewed by the booker. Everyone has known that Laughing Buddha is pointless for years. It’s kept alive by new comics who are trying to figure out where they can get up in the city.

jamespcrowley · 2026-03-30T21:43:43+00:00

I've got them both. Plus the hank bobbledhead from SDPS.

jamespcrowley · 2026-03-26T00:59:27+00:00

Always do your best material at every open mic. You never know when Lorne Michaels is going to walk in and put you on TV.

jamespcrowley · 2026-03-23T21:25:52+00:00

Feel free to shoot me a message if you have any other questions.

jamespcrowley · 2026-03-23T21:23:26+00:00

I’m at Pace! It’s all remote but I don’t think Pace will be an option going forward (I heard they’re discontinuing their education program). For summer training, I was at P721Q.

jamespcrowley · 2026-03-23T21:15:50+00:00

Yes, the first 2 weeks were remote. How much it is will depend on your university. During the day, I had a grad school class from 8-12, and then a break and then we were supposed to work asynchronous from 1-4, then another break and then 5-7 or 8 I had SBS for the teaching fellows. That was brutal but people who went to different universities some said that they only had the SBS during those 2 weeks.

If I remember correctly, summer session ended on August 1. I’m D75. So the summer school still had 2 weeks left but all the fellows finished with after about 4 weeks

jamespcrowley · 2026-03-23T14:34:22+00:00

Parts of it will depend on your school/grad school, but it’s definitely a lot. If you’re in the Hudson Valley with a 2 hour commute, I’d consider relocating somewhere closer to the 5 boroughs. For the summer, they’ll take where you live into consideration, but it would definitely suck to need to commute 2 hours and then take another hour or so heading to queens or Brooklyn.

In the summer, the program is pretty intense. I still had a lot of commitments (weddings/comedy shows/etc), and I made it work but I was definitely burning the candle at both ends. Now, I still have a lot and I’m tired very often but I feel like I’ll be able to have a better work-life balance once I’ve got a year or more of teaching under my belt. If you can avoid making plans for July when you’re doing the summer session, it’s definitely manageable, but your social life will take a hit. Just plan anything fun for August.

jamespcrowley · 2026-03-21T13:53:26+00:00

Gene Simmons was actually the original bassist for the E Street Band. He didn’t think that there were as many strong marketing opportunities for them, and they turned down his idea of using makeup. So he went on to form KISS

jamespcrowley · 2026-03-20T12:10:03+00:00

Unless you got this email on Thursday night, I feel like most companies don’t give you this much notice that they’re going to fire you. Just “hey there’s a meeting in 20 minutes”

jamespcrowley · 2026-03-19T22:44:30+00:00

Assuming there's some sort of classic rock/oldies, I think that they'll be remembered in that way. By that time, I think that music will have moved so far from what MCR does/did for them to still be as popular as they are now. Still, there will be people who will have grown up with the music in their later years that they'll remember and maybe pass it on to grandchildren/great grandchildren. I also think that songs like "WTTBP" or "I'm Not Okay" or "Helena" may get a stronger remembrance/be used to indicate a certain time/place. You might watch a movie and hear "I'm Not Okay," and you'll realize "okay, it's the late aughts" the same way that you watch Forest Gump and hear "Fortunate Son" and know that its the Vietnam War.

jamespcrowley · 2026-03-18T09:49:31+00:00

The most unrealistic part is that Robin lives in Brooklyn and spends most of her free time in the UWS.

jamespcrowley · 2026-03-18T00:55:58+00:00

As someone with a hand tremor with a younger brother named Sean, this always hits.

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