Trollheart

If I wasn't already voting for The Batcave this would be a serious contender for Journal of the Year, though it's a bit young for that. Maybe drive Exo even madder and suggest "Best new journal of the year" as a category?

To quote a band I'm sure you all hate, Supertramp, butthead, my man, "You're coming along!"

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The Batlord

You really do play Devil's Advocate just for the sake of it don't you? Those shows are garbage. They're doctors, doctors, who use the trust granted them as physicians to prey on women's insecurities to give them weight loss tips, cause that's what these shows are really about, under the guise of "health concerns". They're the medical version of sell-outs and should be stoned in the street.

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djchameleon

I'm not playing Devil's Advocate. I legitimately like the show. I used to watch it every day at 9am when it was on CBS or make sure that it was getting recorded. They very rarely touch on weight loss tips. They cover a wide variety of topics since they have one doctor that specializes in different fields. One is a plastic surgeon that gives skin care tips/advice. One is a pediatrician for tips related to health concerns related to kids. One is a gynecologist and she deal with female health issues and then there is one that covers general health type of topics. It is a very educational show. Maybe you should watch it one day instead of just throwing a blanket over it and generalizing it like it's the same as all of the other shows because it's NOT.

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Fame, fortune, power, titties. People say these are the most crucial things in life, but you can have a pocket full o' gold and it doesn't mean sh*t if you don't have someone to share that gold with. Seems simple. Yet it's an important lesson to learn. Even lone wolves run in packs sometimes.

The Batlord

I have seen it. I watch daytime TV all the time. General Hospital and all that. The Doctors isn't as garbage as Dr. Oz, but that show is still balls.

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butthead aka 216

Maybe I didn't see the earlier Steve wilkos shows. I don't watch a variety of shows but I have stopped a handful of times in hopes of some skeazy redneck incestual tranny action. Instead it was episodes on bad fathers or something.... Zzzzzz. I want midget tranny hookers with saggy torpedo tits and fat jailbait trailer trash from my daytime talk shows and I want it now.

As for the doctors show I admittedly have barely watched it and it's mostly in the form of internet videos but the younger guy seemed especially toolish.

The Batlord

Not to mention the chick is somehow attractive and fugly at the same time.

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butthead aka 216

Glad to see my journal seems well-received so far. I'll keep this post music-related because it's likely to be long and it will be in a little different style than previous posts.


It's really been a shame that I've waited so long to ramble about probably my favorite band of all time: Brand New. They were the first band I started really listening to... and I mean really listening to. Like the type of band you name your Myspace profile after. The type of band whose lyrics you use as your AIM away messages. Yeah dude, it was that serious back in the mid 2000s. Shit was real.

I can't remember how I first got into them, but I know I started by listening to their second album, Deja Entendu, which is considered their classic album by most people. Before this time, I'd read reviews about a band "maturing" or "growing into their sound" or whatever other overused, cliche, music reviewer term you wanna pick out of the hat, but never really understood what it meant. After going back and listening to their 1st album, Your Favorite Weapon, I was able to grasp that concept for the first time. Your Favorite Weapon is an up-tempo, teen-angsty, energy-filled piece of "this is my life as a high school senior" and Deja Entendu broke through that wall and into something else. Something better than "I just broke up with my girlfriend and here's what I think about it." It felt more like a composition and less like a weekend writing session in a garage.

But let me start at the beginning:
I'll keep it brief because in my heart of hearts I don't think anyone cares about a band's background, plus I want this journal to be more about my personal connection with the bands and less about their Wikipedia entry. They started in the early 2000s, developed through the Long Island post-hardcore scene. Them and Taking Back Sunday, probably my 2nd or 3rd favorite band, kind of came up together with TBS obviously soaring a bit higher eventually. There's more to this story that I might get into later.

So they release their first album, Your Favorite Weapon, and it's not really super mainstream popular. They have one semi-hit, Jude Law and a Semester Abroad, which is the only single from the album. The album kind of puts them in a dim limelight for the Emo revival that followed through the mid 2000s (the one that all Emo purists and originators hated). I don't think it was really appreciated until later down the road when it became a nostalgic album for a lot of teenagers in the early 2000s. To me, it's still a really fun album that's pretty light-hearted and makes you remember all the stupid feelings you used to have. My favorite from the album:

Logan To Government Center (Your Favorite Weapon)


Deja Entendu (2003ish)

So, Your Favorite Weapon sort of opens a few people's ears and gives fans reason to listen to their second album, Deja Entendu. Like I said, it's easy to see the progression from album one to album two. There's still the up-tempo aggression, but there's much more focus on the lyrics and style. I think this album showed they weren't a one-trick pony and after The Quiet Things That No One Ever Knows music video was released, it brought them to a larger audience as well as gaining fans who were still on the fence. Sic Transit Gloria...Glory Fades was also semi-big I believe. This is about the time I started to really listen to them obsessively pretty much every day. I wish I could just add the youtube videos of every song off the album, but I won't. Because I'm a good boy and don't want the journal to freeze upon opening, so I will just add one. But really, kill 45 minutes some night listening to the whole album on YouTube or something. It's one of maybe a handful of albums that is a must-listen the entire way through. Skipping a song would be doing only yourself a disservice.

I Will Play My Game Beneath The Spin Light (Deja Entendu)


FGHT FF YR DMNS

I remember in like 2006 or 2007, there was a rumor going around about a new album coming out, tentatively called FGHT FF YR DMNS. I remember buying the T-shirt.





Somehow, a group of songs got leaked to the internet. Now, Jesse Lacey (lead singer) is a big fan of Morrissey and The Smiths, though I would have never guessed it from Brand New's first 2 albums. These leaked songs, named Untitled 1, Untitled 2, etc, made his fanhood evident. Long story short, the tracks leaked and had a totally different sound than anything they had ever done. Jesse's voice was different and the songs had a much different tone to them. One of depression and sorrow in my opinion. It was kind of a cool departure from their pop-punk songs and I loved most of them immediately, but at that point I was such a fanboy that I would have loved horse shits recordings. I grew to appreciate them more after processing that these were unfinished songs and far from their intended destination. You can find songs on your own if interested.


TDAGARIM

So with the 9 "demo" tracks leaked onto the internet, Brand New scrapped most of their ideas for their next album, feeling the leak tainted the ideas for their next release (you can still hear some striking resemblance in a couple songs though). In 2006, Brand New released The Devil and God are Raging Inside Me. It caught me off guard, but shouldn't have given the sound of the leaked demos. This wasn't a slight variation of sound like Your Favorite Weapon to Deja, this was a massive change in everything.

Sowing Season (TDAGARIM)


It sounded like a new band, and maybe I was hoping for them to recycle their old stuff, but I wasn't into it at first. After a week or two though, I just started loving it. I saw them live a handful of times over this period and the new songs just started clicking with me. I understood they were getting older, as was I, and the subject matter was going to change accordingly. I don't hold it next to Deja, but a lot of people would say it's better than Your Favorite Weapon, something I usually disagree with.



Daisy

After that, they never released another album. Actually, they released Daisy, but I just pretend it never happened and you shall do the same.



That's it for now. Stay tuned, folks

Dr_Rez

Will confirm you got me to listen to both of those Brand New album a few months ago and they are now reguarly played. The Devil and God is probably one of my favorite albums I have ever heard, I really love it and think it is undoubtedly Brand News best.

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Isbjørn

Anyone know for how long Butthead will be banned?

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Taxman

I thought that account disabled mean forever? At least when I speak about bans it means " banned foreverly?" Ain't shorter bans are just penalties? Then again, I'm not so familiar with that site so I don't really know

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