autistic, connoisseur of masked men [he/she/it]
209 posts
I need to continue working on this so bad but my laziness is shooting me in the foot so much that my tootsies look like swiss cheese š I'm kind of dreading having to listen to so many albums again for it just because doing that in such a short timespan makes my brain feel flattened. But it will be worth it.. š
Also, when I eventually finish and post it, I'll probably write a sentence or two for each song explaining my choice. Like for example for Devo he had fucking Booji Boy living in what was essentially his basement
For my 0.5 followers no I never forgot. I just genuinely have to do research for these and don't have much time / energy to spare on that. I started on the Venture one and this is all I have so far lol, almost entirely the space age and lounge stuff so far because that's genuinely just something I enjoy listening to and already had some ready to go. YES I will be adding plenty of prog for Rusty's personal taste
Fun video preview cause I doubt a single soul viewing this will be like "ahh the commuter by les baxter I know that one" (I didn't before listening to more lounge for this lol) and I want you guys to know what it actually sounds like
Can you draw Hank and Deanās future adult versions based on what you think theyāll look like?
Sorry I donāt have too much rn! Art block</3 anyway, Hank and Dean when theyāre in their twenties about!
I headcanon they both need glasses as they get older, Hank doesnāt wear his nearly enough/he constantly breaks them lol. Dean opts for these little nerd glasses and Hank gets aviators because he thinks they look cooler.
Hank imo would start leaning into that more military surplus clothes look. And wearing jackets that look like racing jackets or his more like his s6 jacket.
Deanās a girl now and emo again. I think coming out would spark her emo phase because 1. She likes the clothes and 2. Itās another big bump in discovering herself and her identity so it goes down similar to finding out sheās a clone lmao
Sorry I donāt have anything for them much older than this, but this is kinda just building on stuff I already hadš
getting a new interest that it feels like nobody gaf about is so excruciating what do you mean people aren't going ham nuts over this thing. please start losing your minds
(requested by Instagram user_rockrollbutterbread_)
Tumblr cut off the actually interesting part of the post and now not a single soul is gonna clifk on it. Fuck my stupid baka life. YOOOOOWWW
For my 0.5 followers no I never forgot. I just genuinely have to do research for these and don't have much time / energy to spare on that. I started on the Venture one and this is all I have so far lol, almost entirely the space age and lounge stuff so far because that's genuinely just something I enjoy listening to and already had some ready to go. YES I will be adding plenty of prog for Rusty's personal taste
Fun video preview cause I doubt a single soul viewing this will be like "ahh the commuter by les baxter I know that one" (I didn't before listening to more lounge for this lol) and I want you guys to know what it actually sounds like
For my 0.5 followers no I never forgot. I just genuinely have to do research for these and don't have much time / energy to spare on that. I started on the Venture one and this is all I have so far lol, almost entirely the space age and lounge stuff so far because that's genuinely just something I enjoy listening to and already had some ready to go. YES I will be adding plenty of prog for Rusty's personal taste
Fun video preview cause I doubt a single soul viewing this will be like "ahh the commuter by les baxter I know that one" (I didn't before listening to more lounge for this lol) and I want you guys to know what it actually sounds like
I need to read the red badge of courage 1000 more times
Some of my favorites of the night ā¦. I love black women
I've been following this blog that's just this normal guy posting about his life it's so beautiful honestly. I see the most braindead and unnecessary discourse and then this guy going Haha, Spring is here! and it makes me smile and remember that the average person does not engage in tumblr infighting
i hope tumblr users never stop talking about punk music i think we deserve this
Ok! This one is finally all done. I had a lot of fun going out of my Brusty comfort zone with this
Iām gonna start posting my art here
tumblr: constantly be aware of your own privilege. constantly be aware of your capacity of be evil. hey i know you really like that new piece of media but make sure you're aware of all of the problematic elements all the time. hey i noticed you reblogged a post from a designated Bad Person so please make sure you do a thorough background check on everyone you reblog from to make sure they're not bad, otherwise people might get the wrong idea about you. always be aware of everything bad that's happening in the world all the time because silence is violence. i see you not reblogging this post btw. activist burnout is a privilege so be aware of that. xyz people are required to reblog this post. if you're not constantly fighting against designated Bad People you are inherently complicit and therefore a Bad Person.
people with ocd:
Ok sketch is done! Lines and color coming soon.
The hats will probably change the mostā¦hats are tough. I feel like any slight change in shape or size and it throws the whole look off.
Also for anyone who suggested Rusty or Brockā¦I only didnāt do them bc I literally always draw them š
NEGATIVLAND - Aluminum Or Glass: The Memo (1997)
Muttering shit like this at work and they send me home after 2 hours
Just a friendly reminder that the official Venture Bros book uses the terms crush and jealous for Rusty in regards to Brock š¤
Blue Fish Tank Cleaner That Works Like Adderall
digital illustration and collage
(2025)
"red-pill" "snowflake" everything about v for vendetta...fascists really do love to steal and bastardize culture from the queer people they are trying to destroy
still cant get over sparks. yeah theyve been kicking since the 70s theyre still going. yes theyre responsible for the sound of most pop music. uh huh the gentleman with the emo haircut is 73
Heartwarming! 19 year old punk historian on the internet doesnt know what a skinhead is
āI just found the bio I wrote for āquebecā in 2003āthe label never used it. some of the sentiments are outdated now as things have drastically changedābut itās funny to read where it was at back then, at least according to my sorry ass: WTSR (Trenton State Collegeās radio station) was the central source of all things music in my life from 1984 to 1988. Trenton, NJ is about 12 miles south of where I grew up (and still live) in New Hope, PA today. Trenton also had a now legendary club called City Gardens that hosted every important band of the 80ās many times, and after 1984 I donāt think I missed a single show there. I saw every important band of the day there many times. the Dead Kennedys, Black Flag, Husker Du, the Replacements, Fugazi, the Butthole Surfers, Sonic Youth, the Ramones, the Pogues, the list of bands goes on forever and I saw them all. The promoter at city Gardens was a man named Randy Ellis, a legendary and semi-controversial figure in the 80ās local music scene. I only say āsemi-controversialā because he would charge 8 dollars to see 4 bands when other clubs would charge 5; if people only knew then. He also became one of my closest friends, and Ween opened for many of the bands on that list above. Randy was also a DJ at WTSR and had the most popular show on the station. His radio show, which was every Wednesday night, was spent promoting the upcoming shows at the club and interviewing the touring bands to help plug the show. I quickly became one of his biggest listeners, and eventually I would get my folks to drive me to the radio station so I could watch him DJ and meet the bands. My parents were very cool and liberal with letting their 14 year old son be in such an environment, but my family was from the Trenton area and dropping me off at a college campus for a few hours didnāt seem all that badāplus Randy was a truly nice guy and was very cordial to them. Going to City Gardens was another story thoughāthe club was located on Calhoun Street in Trenton, in one of the worst ghettos that New Jersey has to offer. There would be no way in hell my folks would ever let me go there, it was a very dangerous place to be for a 14 year old white boy from the suburbs. Finally, one Friday night I had my father drop me off at the radio station with an agreement that he would pick me up in 4 hours, but I was lying to him and wasnāt going to the radio station at all. I was going to my first show at City Gardens and had arranged a ride with one of the djs. The band was the Minutemen, and they were touring in support of Double Nickels on the Dime, their now legendary double album. There were about 25 people at the show and there were some opening bandsāI donāt remember who they are now. The show literally changed my life and the direction my life would take. I met Mike Watt, Dennis Boon, and George Hurley, they let me sit in their dressing room, they did an interview for my fanzine, they autographed my flyer, I helped them load out their gear. They were the nicest most down to earth band ever and they had come to play. The fact that this was a band on a mission was clearāthese guys would play 7 nights a week and sleep on floors. They were completely accessible and doing it solely for the love of the music and it was glaringly obvious in the way they carried themselves. To me they were rock stars, living the ultimate life, touring and playing music and (barely) making a living at it. To say it inspired me would be a massive understatement. It was also the first ānationalā band that I had ever interviewed for my fanzine, which was called āYuck.ā After this show I pulled the same routine with my parents a few more times, them thinking they were dropping me off at a radio station while I was really paying cab drivers to take me from the campus to this shit hole punk rock club in the ghetto of Trenton. After the Minutemen show, I was hooked though and had to see every band, it was IMPORTANT even. I came clean with my folks about needing to go to these shows so I could interview the bands and sell my fanzine and they reluctantly agreed after Randy Ellis called them personally and took responsibility for my safety there. It was like I had been given the keys to the kingdom. I donāt know exactly how many shows I saw there, but I saw all of them basically, literally hundreds of shows. Ween eventually started playing there (and this is no exageration) at least 50 times, opening for everyone. Our first gig was with the Butthole Surfers in May of 1985, we also played with the Ramones, Mojo Nixon, Killing Joke, Fugazi, even Foghat, the list goes on forever. I also worked at the front bar serving sodas and water, I did lights for the bands, I was the dj on many of the shows, I helped load gear, anything Randy would let me do. I never had to pay admission to get ināthe owners of the club were the Nalbones, an Italian family from Trenton like mine, they knew my family and thatās why I got in for free, itās an Italian thingāif youāre a guinea like me then you understand. I was a permanent fixture at City Gardens, and those are my roots. I was also a full-time DJ at WTSR by this pointāunbeknownst to anyone in charge at the college, they had a 14 year old kid (and obviously not a student) on their airwaves with a regular time-slot. Looking back now, I realize that there was a hell of a lot still happening in the early to mid-80āsāthis was punk rockās last great era. There were labels like Twin-Tone, Homestead, and SST Records, their roster had Black Flag, the Minutemen, the Meat Puppets, Husker Du, Sonic Youthā-all I had to do was call the label (Mike Watt might even answer the phone) and say that I wanted to interview Curt Kirkwood. Theyād give me his home phone number and Iād call him without any go-between or promotion asshole in my way. This was punk rock, and the whole idea of radio promotion or selling a lot of records was never even considered or important to anyone. The idea of a band like Husker Du being on Warner Brothers was fucking laughable at the time, those labels were homes to bands like Van Halen, who played stadiums and did cocaine in the limo, not guys like Greg Ginn or Bob Mould or Mike Watt. For some reason, this year Iāve been doing a lot of reflecting. Iāve started to wonder how the music scene in the mid-80ās made the transition to where things are currently. Iām not sure exactly. I remember Husker Du getting signed to Warner Brothers, and the Replacements going to a major label, and the strangest one of all, Sonic Youth on Geffen, which still sort of has me baffled to this day. None of these bands really enjoyed any massive mainstream success in the major leagues, but slowly over a period of time things did start changing. City Gardens suffered the fate of most clubs, police hassles, lack of money, lawsuits. In addition to CGās there were no more shows in fire houses, Elks Lodges, peopleās basements, this all slowly disappeared. I was changing too, I had stopped doing my fanzine and was now completely focused on Ween. I wanted to be the guy in the band now and not the kid watching the show, I wanted to be sleeping in the van, playing in front of people in some shitty club halfway across the country, this was for me. One of the first people to show any real interest in Ween was Andrew Weiss, a bass player in a local band called Regressive Aid that I used to go see a lot. Andrew had a small record label with his friend called Bird OāPray and he released our earliest home recordings, he also re-mixed them. When word spread that Greg Ginn (of Black Flag) was looking for a rhythm section to start a new band, Randy Ellis recommended Andrew and Regressive Aidās drummer, Sim Cain, for the gig. This was a huge opportunity for them and I would (in a secondhand sorta way) receive the benefits of it later on. Within weeks of their first practice, the band (which was called GONE) embarked on one of Black Flagās legendary never-ending grueling tours playing in the opening slot. Ginn and Rollins taught Andrew how they did it at SST, they played 7 nights a week, sometimes 2 or 3 shows a day. They carried their own gear, they hung up flyers, they talked to fanzines and djs, they played in record stores and radio stations, they took turns driving the van, they slept on floors to save money for gas and food. Later on when Ween started recording albums with Andrew (and he eventually joined the band on bass), we would benefit greatly from the knowledge that had been passed from Ginn, to Rollins, to Andrew. Nobody had a work ethic like these guys. Andrew still pretty much keeps us in check and calls bullshit on us as he sees it. So where am I going with all of this? You guys pretty much know Weenās deal by now, we released a few tapes and an e.p. on Andrewās label before getting signed to Twin-Tone in 1989 for our national debut, then we went to Kramerās label, Shimmy Disc, and then on to Elektra for a ten year stint. Now weāre on a āsemi-independentā label, Sanctuary Records. Now itās 2004 and all that shit I mentioned in the paragraph above? That shit is gone now and the state of rock and roll is bad, really bad, maybe rock and roll is even in the worst place in itās 50 or 60 year history. The radio, which was the single most important thing in my development, is very different, and with a few small exceptions itās complete dogshit on the airwaves. This unfortunately includes college radio too. I wonāt get into how Clear channel owns all the stations and chooses what you listen to because you already know thisā¦.but why does it seem like people donāt care, and what is gonna cause the dam to burst? There have been some very significant revolutions in music the last hundred years and they usually take place when people get tired of the pre-packaged corporate music theyāve been force-fed. for every Little Richard there was a Pat Boone, for every Chuck D there was a Vanilla Ice, but people have always caught on to the bullshit and searched out THE REAL THING, and historically if they canāt find it they start doing it themselves. Hereās the thing though, any significant revolution in music has to come FROM THE KIDS, teenagers. Iām 33 and Iād like to believe that Ween have always maintained our integrity and attitude and can still make a difference, but I know that any kind of REAL CHANGE has to start with a young band that has HAD ENOUGH. Had enough of the fake dishonest bullshit music that is forced on them by radio programmers and major labels. Historically, teenagers have been the most influential people when you talk about a real music revolution. 50 Cent, currently the most successful rapper on the planet, is covered in scars from bullet holes and you can find him on the cover of People magazine. Rock and Roll is supposed to be dangerous right? Your parents are supposed to hate it. My parents know more about 50 Cent than I probably do though. Hip-hop is used in most McDonaldās commercials now. One of the main problems I have with music in 2004 is that thereās NO such thing as āartist developmentā anymore at a record label. You either sell a million records on your first go-round or you get dropped by the label like a hot potato and they try throwing another young band at the wall (the radio) and hope that it sticks. By the time Ween landed on Elektra we had already made a bunch of records and played a million gigs. We had been together as a band for almost 10 years, producing our own recordings and had hundreds of gigs under our belt. We were on the best major label at the time too. Our debut record for Elektra was recorded in our apartment on a 4 track and their plan was to build up Ween at college radio for a few records before they tried to āblow us upā and sell a shitload of records. Obviously their plan was flawed. Mostly because our music is too strange to be commercially succesful, and also because the executives at Time/Warner wanted bigger bottom lines and decided to fire the entire staff at Elektra shortly after the release of our 2nd album for the label, āChocolate and Cheeseā. Signing bands like Ween did not impress the people who were really in charge. So they brought in a new president, Sylvia Rhone who would make her presence felt immediately. Sylvia Rhone is still the president at Elektra and she did a damn good job in changing the bottom lines. Under Sylviaās rule, Elektra has brought you some of the music you havenāt been able to avoid the last few years, she brought Staind, Third Eye Blind, but nothing with any real integrity. I have no grudges with Elektra or Sylvia Rhoneā-they are trying to sell a lot of records, thatās what theyāre there to do, but at what cost? Have you listened to Rock radio or college radio nowadays? Is it important to sleep on floors and play shitty bars for 10 years before you should be allowed to go nationwide? I doubt it, but there are some fundamental things that ARE important to good music making and they are nowhere to be found on the radio or in the shitty magazines on your newsstand. Very basic creative virtues like honesty, integrity, and what about some kind of variety? All you have to do is turn on the radio and hear 2 seconds of the modern rock band of the day before you know what to expect melodically, or production wise. Is there only one producer and one mix engineer in the world recording rock records? It all sounds the same, and it sounds BAD, really bad. I read an article recently where it was revealed that the major labels have begun using a piece of software that analyzes the top 10 songs on the radio and the software looks for similarities in tempo and melody, etc. They are now having their producers work within these parameters to craft songs based on these factors āāare you getting this? Turn on the radio if you donāt believe me. And where do these ābandsā come from? Like I said before, I donāt buy into the idea that ādues payingā is essential to writing a good song, but really though, where do these bands come from? Did anyone see Good Charlotte ever play in a bar? Iām curious. Is there like some obscure 7 inch available that maybe they made before their first record sold 20 million? Does it matter? It sure as shit does, because everything is like this now. EVERYTHING. While we were recording āWhite Pepperā up in Woodstock NY, RCA records had a band next door making their debut record. The ābandā had 2 programmers, 2 producers, record company people there listening to every note, personal assistants, someone to give the singer āmedia lessonsā so he could pretend to be articulate if anyone ever tried to ask him a question, and they had never even done ONE TOUR or made ONE RECORD. This is the way it is now at every labelānot just RCA or Elektra or anywhere else; itās reflected in the final product, and at the end of the day it is just āproductā. Thereās no love basically, no sense of purpose, no conviction in the writing and playing, no message- no balls- no attitude. No dirt underneath the fingernails, it is wimpy corporate music no different than Britney Spears on āN Sync. (Actually Iād rather listen to Britney any day because at least you know what youāre getting up front and not being tricked somehow into believing that she actually writes her own tunes or has anything to say to begin with.) Because Iām in a band Iām on a lot of comp lists for magazines, I basically get a lot of free subscriptions to music magazines. But I canāt read them, if I even open one up and read 2 pages I get so fucking pissed off that it brings me down, same with listening to the radio. So where will it end? Whoās gonna throw a wrench in this system? People always ask me how I feel about people downloading music for free online. I mean, I guess I need for people to buy Ween records so a record company will keep us on their roster but are you fucking kidding me? Is that question a joke or something? Not only do I support people downloading music, I wish theyād burglarize the offices of the record companies and kill the staff while theyāre there. There are a lot of people who feel the way that I do; other than my family, music is the most important thing in my life. It has pulled me through some really bad times where I may have not made it otherwise. What concerns me is how does a kid whoās 18 even have a fair chance at finding ārealā music on his own with the current state of the radio? Either his older brother has to help the poor fuckinā dude out or heāll never know anything other than Creed, or Linkin Park, or whatever. I mean itās been so bad for so long that when HE was 14, the band BUSH was probably at the top of the charts. A band that rips off bands that ripped off bands that werenāt even all that good to start with. That kid doesnāt have a fuckin chance. So is he (as a teenager) gonna be the one that starts a band that changes music and with it society? Like the Beatles did? Or Elvis? Or the Sex Pistols? Or Run DMC and Grandmaster Flash? This is no fuckin joke people. This is important to us as a society, is that being overly dramatic? Not the way I see it anyway. Anyway, Iāll close with a story. I donāt know if it relates at all to that whole tirade I just spewed out of nowhere, but it sticks out in my mind for some reason. I have a lot of respect for Henry Rollins, maybe moreso than any other person Iāve ever come across in the music biz. This motherfucker works HARD, and does everything with a sense of conviction unlike anyone else iāve ever encountered. He tours (or he did for over 20 years) tirelessly, 7 nights a week, maybe a day off and then he goes and does a spoken word tour, 7 nights a week. He never fuckin stops. Anyway, we were doing a european festival tour in 2000 and the Rollins band were on most of the same shows. Ween, of course, was relegated to the second stage as were the Rollins band and a few other bands who i canāt remember. The main stage was occupied by Limp Bizkit, Blink 182, the Deftones, and a few other ābig name rock bandsā of the day. Anyway, I hadnāt seen Rollins in many years, he and Andrew Weiss had a major falling out when Andrew quit the Rollins band and they basically hate each other now. After that i sort of lost touch with rollins save for a few short encounters. Anyway, so i see Henry backstage in this outdoor area they had sectioned off for the bands after the ānewā Rollins band played their set. They were good, really fuckin good, better than any lineup i had seen him with him in a long ass time. Compared to the bullshit acts on the main stage the difference was night and day. I have no idea how old Rollins is, but whatever, at least 40 weāll say, and he rocked hard, kicked fucking ass even. So heās sitting there drenched in sweat having just walked offstage and I walk over to say hello. Heās genuinely happy to see me and tells me that he loved āthe molluskā which makes me happy too. We bullshit a little bit and suddenly I hear something. I look up and itās none other than Fred Durst, surrounded by 2 bodyguards that look like theyāre from the WWF. Also in his little entourage are a few fake tits looking model bitches and personal assistants or whatever. He looks at me and Rollins sitting there and he announces to his little pack of yes-men, āwhoa guys, stand back, look at this, itās Henry Rollinsā-give the man some airā-this is some punk rock shit sitting right here.ā It was totally sarcastic and his little pack of hanger-ons were laughing at their bossās funny little jab at Henry. I expected Rollins to split this little prickās brain open with his chair but instead he just continued what he was saying before we were interrupted, never even acknowledging what had just occured. Because you know what? Nothing needed to be said. This guy couldnāt carry Henryās jock, he doesnāt even deserve the opportunity. He couldnāt do what Rollins does for 2 months, it would kill him. We both knew it. Hereās the irony of the story though, after Limp Bizkitās record sold 80 trillion copies, Fred Durst, singer for one of the worst bands in rock history, was given some position of authority at Interscope Records, one of the more successful labels in the biz. Put in a position to sign bands that get programmed on the radio youāre forced to listen to. The whole incident happened in a few short seconds, but it stuck in my mind. I was thinking āthis guy embodies everything thatās wrong with rock and roll in the year 2000.ā I had no idea that the values of rock and roll and the radio would get increasingly worse over the next 4 years and the foreseeable future. You have a lot of down time on a long tour, and that means a lot of time for reflecting. Itās not always easy to sleep on a tour bus, and this year I spent a lot of nights awake in my bunk thinking about who I am and where I come from, and how lucky Ween is to even be able to afford to rent a bus now. A lot of musicians are whiny little pricks, I know this from firsthand experience, but Iām not interested in surrounding myself, or making music with people like this. The guys in my band love what they do, thatās why theyāre in Ween. Not a day goes by that Iām not thankful to be able to play music and make a living from it, itās a privilege that Iāve been fortunate enough to be in this position and I try my best to never forget it when I step on a stage or talk to a fan. Thatās not meant to sound self serving, itās just the way it is. The current climate of the music industry and the radio (in particular) really bothers me. I donāt know if the opportunities that Ween were given are available to a young band anymore. It seems like the labels are just throwing darts, trying to hit the jackpot, and if it doesnāt work out on the 1st try they just move on to the next pre-packaged crap du jour. Donāt be fooled, there is a lot of great music out there, you just have to search very hard to find it anymore. I have a basic faith in people, I still feel that kids want the āreal shitā and if given the opportunity they will recognize it and support it. If youāre passionate about music, you should start your own band, promote your own show, make a fanzine, or even a website. Itās not as hard as you might think and itās actually a hell of a lot of fun too. -Mickey Melchiondo 2/04ā
ā Mickey Melchiondo