Probably from around 2006/7. While I was wrong about this band ever blowing up, I wasn’t wrong about the songwriters! Seeing what Nick and Ryan have gone on to do has been incredible to follow. “Siren on the 101” still shoulda been a smash though.
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The first email I have from Dave Shapiro is from 2008, but I remember talking to him even earlier during his Count the Stars era. Few people shaped the music scene we grew up with as much as he did. Another reminder that no one is promised tomorrow.
R.I.P.
24 years ago? We sure that's right? I was a senior in high school when this dropped. I can picture myself pulling into that parking lot, windows down, blasting this one. I will die on the hill that I think "A Song for Everyone" is a perfect pop-punk song.
All that I have
FenixTX - "A Song for Everyone"
Twenty Six dollars and the keys to a Cadillac
All that I know
Drive all night go anywhere you wanna go
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On May 21st, 2002, Box Car Racer released their one and only album. On that same day Something Corporate dropped Leaving Through the Window. I, for some reason, had forgotten until this year that they both came out on the same day. That's a damn good day of music right there.
This was the album I hit play on as we pulled away from the driveway in a rented van as I headed off to college. I don't know why I specifically remember that.
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I've been on a pretty big Lagwagon kick the past few days. It started on May 16th, and has just continued on through the weekend. Just great skate punk. I think I've come down on thinking Hoss is my favorite of their catalog, but, man, that first five album run is something special.
I am just another fool
Lagwagon - "Violins"
And I have to keep telling myself
That I am just a hypocrite
And I have to keep calling you one
And I forgot to bite my tongue
As my assumption is the mother of all mistakes
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‘Minimum Viable Curiousity’
Michael Lopp, writing at Rands:
I’ve made a career being a human terrified by becoming irrelevant long before AI showed up to drive my car. You bet I am poking every bit of AI that I can. Daily. I am trying to figure out what it can and can’t do, and this article aside, I am optimistic, just like I’ve been for the last three decades, that revolutionary innovations will knock your socks off in the next few years. It’s still early days for AI. Really.
However, I am deeply suspicious of AI, especially after watching decades of social networks monetize our attention while teaching us to ignore facts and truth, minimizing our desire to understand. Many humans don’t check their facts; they believe what they read in the feed. Most humans believe the manufactured reality is designed to get them to believe someone else’s agenda. The convenience of these services and tools has made us lazy and, worse, not curious.
5 mile attempt. Set the pace for 9:30, ended up a little faster. Lagwagon in the headphones.
I cannot believe it's been 25 years. There are a handful of albums I remember, vividly, listening to on my morning drive to high school my senior year. This is one of them. An absolute pantheon album of my formative years.
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This frame is all kinds of busted, but the photo doesn’t do the massive size of this one justice. Still underrated as an artist too.
I need to do a full new office post at some point soon, but this is one that made it to the wall already.
The Best Star Wars Wallpapers
Louie Mantia has updated his, unparalleled, Star Wars wallpapers. These are so good.