Stay Together For The "Kids"

Today is all about the kids*. 

1. I’m starting to watch through the MCU with my eleven year old. He’s been a slow adapter to movies (too scary, too emotional) and the truth is, I was also a slow adapter to movies. For him, it really started with Comic Con this summer. I convinced my boys to go see Fantastic Four with me in theaters and they both loved it. They’ve seen the Spider-verse movies and loved those as well. I told Henry he’d like the Tom Holland Spider-Man movies so we’ve done it a little out of order. BUT he wanted to watch Tom Holland Spider-Man Number 2 and I realized that movie centers on some massive in universe spoilers soooooooooo boom, we’re starting at the beginning. We’ve done Iron Man 1 and 2. Next up is Thor. I’m a big movie watcher, obviously, so my heart is full. My heart also aches cause Iron Man 1 came out when I was in college. Iron Man 2 came out the year I got married. I didn’t see Thor in theaters cause I was too cool for MCU for a couple years…. I’m getting older, y’all.  I’m excited for the next couple years with Henry. We’ll ramp up on the MCU but also start dabbling with Indiana Jones…. Pirates of The Caribbean…. Jurassic Park. There’s so much movie history to consume! Stoked. Will keep you in the loop.

2. Vigilant Booking is bringing hardcore back to the kids. And we are so here for it. This past weekend, we played our first Vigilant Booking show at Garcia’s Tire Shop. We played at 4PM. It was awesome. But the highlight of the day was the kids. Over course of the night 130+ heads came through the door and 80% were “kids” under 20. They moshed and dance all night. We’ve only had that one other time. Shout out Buffalo, New York. STG, we’ve been trying to find where all the hardcore kids have gone for about 8 years and we maybe finally found them. In a tire shop. In Lakeside, CA. At a DIY $10 show. Instead of a 21+ venue where we play at 11pm. I don’t know what it means, but we’re definitely gonna try to play some more DIY outside shows. We’ll see. Hardcore kids are so important to the scene. Their future is the lifeblood of music. DIY shows. Word of mouth bands. All that jazz is so important. I thought it was lost, but it appears to be thriving. 

3. Task finished up this week. What was advertised as a rural Philly “Heat” was actually an awesome meditation on forgiveness and allowing the kids to move past the “sins of the father.” Highly recommend checking out “Task” on HBO. 

4. “All Smiles” comes out this Friday. Single number three. Internally this song was called “Nuance” because I wrote some lyrics for a song that included the word nuance, right? But then Johnny wrote riffs to those lyrics and I ended up changing the lyrics to the song. In the future, the original lyrics to “Nuance” will be on a different song. That song is currently titled “Dumb” or “Be Positive.” I digress - “All Smiles” is out this weekend. Hope you like it. Its fast. I’m finally yelling out the phrase “eating teeth” which I wrote in Texas in 2022. “Had a bad habit of eating teeth” which kinda means we are willing to get punched in the mouth over and over again and just go on pretending that everything is okay. We’re “all smiles” despite eating a couple teeth in the process. It’s a lyric I’ve obviously wanted to use for a long time and finally had the chance. A couple bands used similar phrases and every time I was like “nooooooo” now I can’t use it, but who cares. We’ve been playing the song live for a minute so if you’ve seen us, you’ve most likely heard it. Here’s the song

Shameless plug (its our newsletter): Please consider buying one of our new shirts. Or grab an old shirt!

Song of the Week

Song of the Week 2 - have zero memory of the video being this weird.

*kids is defined as anyone under 20. I’m getting old.