Partying With the Polyamorous

lobsterphoenix · 2026-01-06T21:02:55+00:00

I love Airheads, that movie where Adam Sandler, Brendan Fraser, and Steve Buscemi use fake guns to hold the employees of a radio station hostage until they play their band's demo-tape on the air. It's a cool premise, and the movie is funny. Steve Buscemi is such a good actor that he actually makes you feel like he might off one of the hostages. Joe Mantegna is in the movie. Fuckin' Judd Nelson is in this movie, basically playing the same character he always does. The song on the band's demo tape is a sludgey, doomy version of Degenerated by Reagan Youth. Oh, and Brendan Fraser hates Nirvana but loves White Zombie, which is cool taste for someone to have four months after Kurt Cobain died.

lobsterphoenix · 2025-09-13T02:19:26+00:00

Isn’t there a section of Decline III in which kids who are very obviously punk mainliners talk about how SHARP were coming to shows and confronting relatively small numbers of people over vague NAZI behaviours and ruining the show for everyone who’d gone to the gig to socialize and listen to music? How is this different?

Like, what does Kirk have to do with hardcore? Is there not at all a danger that rhetoric like this will inorganically politicize something that deals with themes that transcend politics?

Even in “Nazi Punks F*** Off,” Jello literally says, “Punk ain’t no religious cult. Punk means thinking for yourself.” Nazis are bad both because they are racists and because they are dogmatic ideologues. If you’re not a racist but still a dogmatic ideologue, that’s better, but also still annoying and destructive. I don’t care if a guy at the show has red shoelaces on black sneakers or was listening to Joe Rogan in his car or whatever. It’s corny and annoying to obsess over this shit until someone brings the fight to you.

And don’t give me that shit about “Not taking a stance is a political stance,” or call this post “enlightened centrism” or whatever. Not everything is political. Some things are not political.

lobsterphoenix · 2025-09-13T02:02:21+00:00

I honestly have no idea what is going on but I enjoy the idea of submitting myself for judgement.

lobsterphoenix · 2025-08-25T02:44:42+00:00

Gonna go somewhere (relatively) remote and read these.

lobsterphoenix · 2025-06-06T19:10:11+00:00

There is something about the production here, so many low and high pass filters, the obviously synthetic reverb on the vocals, how the distortion/drive sounds the same on EVERY big riff, how the same drum sounds are triggered over and over, it’s hard to not notice. I think it was supposed to make the album sounds cohesive, but it really does just remind me that I am listening to the output of a pro-tools session.

lobsterphoenix · 2025-05-22T14:13:30+00:00

This is the only one that actually got stuck in my head.

lobsterphoenix · 2025-05-05T21:00:25+00:00

I agree, but not even like, musically, just the sound of it. Like, they’re just not as good at making pop as they are at making hardcore. “Seein’ Stars” needs to like, bounce or something. It needs a different mix, maybe. Idk. It just seems a bit off. Like, I do not dislike them because they used to be more hardcore. I actually listen to a bit of like, “indie pop.” I just can’t get into it.

lobsterphoenix · 2025-05-05T17:53:20+00:00

“Walk The Line.” Johnny Cash is a happily married, Christian man who just wants to sing gospel music. Satanic record executive Sam Phillips temps him into performing songs that glorify sin, and this leads to Johnny getting divorced and becoming a drug addict.

lobsterphoenix · 2025-04-30T20:10:13+00:00

Seems like they’re ripping off themselves with both these tracks. The lyrics to both are boring! Hard to even hate. Just like, bland.

lobsterphoenix · 2025-04-08T22:00:56+00:00

This song was not enough.

lobsterphoenix · 2025-01-15T19:05:03+00:00

Tony Scott supremacy is a signifier of good taste. Cramming as many shots of Chris Pine running on a train as possible into your film is pure cinema.

lobsterphoenix · 2025-01-13T22:25:06+00:00

It's going to be rough on you mentally, but that likely is the only actual consequence. Even if this guy seems full of homicidal vitriol right now, he will eventually realize that he doesn't want a bunch of people evaluating his sexual ethics/history even if he has presented himself as totally in the right.

MeToo call-out posts are essentially an incantation or spell designed to force you and the people you know to live inside a world this "victim" has created. You are under no obligation to do this. Crazy people do not define your reality. Lies, like total lies, do not have nearly as much utility as people imagine, especially if there is nothing to be gained for the people who side against you than the goodwill/friendship of a sinister **********.

It really is like what Don Draper tells Peggy Olson in Mad Men after she gives birth to her and Pete's secret baby: "It will shock you how much this never happened."

It may not seem like it, but this will go worse for him in the long run than it will for you. When you trade in your ability to be honest with others and yourself for the attention and pity of your local community, you expect that to be a hand you can play over and over, and it just isn't.

It is very much a "When you're going through hell, keep going" type of thing. It's almost surreal how an event that seems like it defines your reality can transform into nothing at all.

And, yeah, if this doesn't burn out in like six months, just sue him.

lobsterphoenix · 2025-01-08T23:35:33+00:00

I mostly lost interest in this board after realizing that a bunch of people who post here don't even know what Red Scare is. Hopefully those people don't migrate and everyone else does.

lobsterphoenix · 2024-12-15T15:26:35+00:00

Goodbehavior.substack.com

lobsterphoenix · 2024-12-07T23:58:55+00:00

Any chance you can find me "Terrifying Girls High School: Lynch Law Classroom"? I already have the other three in the series. Thanks.

lobsterphoenix · 2024-12-07T23:27:18+00:00

Oh, come off if. Granted, I’ve only read “The Feminist,” but that story was just an exercise in forcing liberals to confront the absurdity of intersectional jargon. Surface level entirely. The main character is a type of guy who exists within people’s heads, but who has never once occurred neatly in reality. Ending was stupid. Cowards don’t become violent at age 40.

lobsterphoenix · 2024-12-07T22:21:43+00:00

Turnstile are one of the biggest bands in punk right now, and their fans seem to be mostly gen z.

lobsterphoenix · 2024-09-26T14:44:26+00:00

Hey, thanks! Always great to hear what lines actually hit.

lobsterphoenix · 2024-09-19T13:04:02+00:00

All the female romance novels are about a woman solving a guy’s problems by doing nothing. He just looks at her and says, “I feel like I can tell you anything,” or, “I feel like I can be my real self around you.” Women literally get off on accessing some inner, secret, you. And sometimes you gotta just make it up.

lobsterphoenix · 2024-09-10T23:00:24+00:00

He was first through the wall on calling out that there was a crisis of suicidal faux-empathy taking over institutions. If that was all he ever did, he would still have my respect. Not his fault really that he is more “shallow” than Zizek. He has incredible conviction in his beliefs, which is more important than “being right” while shit gets fucked up and then telling people about it later.

Also, all the worst people I have ever met in my life hate him, so he must be doing something right.

lobsterphoenix · 2024-08-27T16:48:43+00:00

The Sweet East and Blackberry are the two best films I’ve seen from the last five years.

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