January 2012
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A Tribute To Drive Thru Records - The Best Of The... →
This was the label that I bought every release from - sight unseen. Hell, there was a time that even just signing to the label would mean I’d probably buy a t-shirt without ever having heard the band in question. That was trust. That was kool-aid-drinking-cult-like worship
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Sarah & The Seed →
Ryan A released the final installment of Sarah & The Seed. Read it in all its glory NOW!
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2012 year of the return of the emos &...
So it looks like I’ve been gushing Nostradamus like nuggets of truth that 2012 is THE YEAR for nostalgic hardcore & emo bands to reunite.
It’s true, I have been saying that.
Last year we saw Braid & The Promise Ring reform and The Jealous Sound got back in the studio, admittedly bands like those will NEVER get covered by mainstream alternative press - and yes, it does make me...
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Ben Gibbard
Dear Ben Gibbard,
Now that you and Zooey D are over, do you think you could find your way to either:
Writing a good Death Cab For Cutie album? One that fills my little raisin-like heart with warm unbearable sadness and then bursts it by growing a bush thick with poisoned thorns?
Finding the fucking time for a new Postal Service album? We all know your just tucked up in a dark room under your...
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Top 5 punk band appearances in 90s movies (kind of...
1. The Offspring in Idle Hands
Dexter gets scalped whilst singing ‘beheaded’. TIP TOP PUNK SCENE IN A 90s TEEN FLICK.
2. The Mighty Mighty Bosstones in Clueless
Why there is no video of this available on youtube I will never know (copyright infringement) but the lame stage dive, the way the crowd are dancing so erratically that the band could be playing thrash metal or Michael...
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Stuff That Has Made Me Happy Lately #3
The new Jealous Sound album, is amazing, superb, majestic. I don’t think there is an appropriate descriptor for it. It will successfully remind one of overwhelming emotional issues and heartaches from their past that they still have crying wanks over - In a good way. I’m pretty sure this is the only way to describe exceptionally good emo.
Into It. Over It are coming back in the UK in...
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A Bad Religion Dreamscape
Last night I dreamed I was at school, and in a loose parody of the time when a Christian rock band played in our school hall everyday for a week & my friend Alex kept asking them if they liked Bad Religion, Bad Religion were actually playing!
Although my dreamscape actually seems to have come up with The Offspring featuring Greg Graffin & the music of Bad Religion. Stupid subconscious,...
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Just say no to Dorries' abstinence education bill!
TAKE ACTION NOW! Please write to your MP and urge them to vote against the proposals.
What’s happening?
On 20 January, Nadine Dorries MP’s Sex Education (Required Content) Bill, which would introduce abstinence-only education for girls, is due to have its second reading in the House of Commons.
In May 2011 MPs voted the Bill through its first reading by 67 votes to 61, and it is vital that the...
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Invisible Girls and Phantom Ladies - The... →
Alan Moore on sexism in comics back in ye olde 1983.
Things may have changed a little, but it kind of sucks that women still take a back seat in mainstream comics. Even though we now have a Queer Batwoman and a Batgirl who-don’t-need-no-man-mmm-hmmm *sassy hand gesture* they’re still aspirationally Batman wannabes.
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Why so few teens use protection during Oral Sex →
I’ve been wondering for some time now why Dental Dams are almost entirely left out of mainstream sex education. I guess it’s because Dental Dams are seen to be exclusively for lesbians and thus not much information is divulged in heteronormative sex education.
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A study of 3 cases of actual Zombification in... →
December 2011
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Our Blood Stained Roof by Ryan A →
Please read & enjoy this awesome web comic by Ryan A.
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WatchThis bunny Western short is perfect until the humans show up.
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“In Western cultures, we give a lot of lip service to motherhood. We call...”
– Totally rad excerpt from The Pushbacks interview with Feministe’s Lauren Bruce.
I think The Pushback is totally my favourite new blog.
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November 2011
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“If you look at the words ‘don’t smoke,’ everyone figures I’m talking about...”
– Gabriel Kuhn’s interview with Ian MacKaye for Sober Living For The Revolution: Hardcore Punk, Straight Edge, and Radical Politics
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October 2011
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I usually have no interest in models, because, you know, it’s a career path for the utterly vacuous. But I want this chicks hair. ALL OF IT. I predict she is cooler than alt-model du jour Charlotte Free by about ten trillion.
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The Milk Truck
Fed up with being asked to breastfeed in a grotty toilet or to cover breast & baby in public?
I’m not because I’ve never had a baby, but I do think feeding your baby at a table in a cafe is about as valid as eating the cake you bought there. However it’s often greeted with the same offence as your baby daddy (or mummy) eating your cooch in public.
The Milk Truck is a...
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Drink Excessively. Stay skinny. Thanks Bulmers.
The already offensively named IDEAL WOMAN section of the utterly vacuous, idealistic, yawn-inducingly middle class Ideal Homes Show is sponsored by Bulmers Light. Drink safe ladies, Don’t get fat. God it makes me so angry that light or diet products are always marketed to women. In fact it makes me angry that they exist at all, because in addition to reinforcing the bullshit that thin is...
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What grinds my gears? Menstruation.
Apart from coming out of Vaginas, What do Periods & Regina George have in common?
They are Life Ruiners.
How expensive do tampons want to be? You could spend a fortune on that shit. Even own brand stuff clocks in at nearly a fiver for what looks like a few months worth of blood plugs, but no, the next time you catch a surprise period you’ll have like one left.
Guidelines say not to...
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Stuff that has made me happy lately
The first ten minutes of the teenage trashfest Jawbreaker… Boy oh boy, apart from that scene where Rose Magowan quite graphically bones Marilyn Manson (POP FACT: Who was her then boyfriend!) with her dead friend under the bed, they sure do use up their awesome chips in those first ten minutes.
I saw the episode of Sabrina The Teenage Witch where they go to see The Violent Femmes this week...
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