I took these screenshots because, for me, it was one of those moments where I had to pinch myself just a bit. If you had told the teenage me that any of this would happen, I wouldn’t have believed you. Reminiscing on them today made me think back about when Twitter was actually fun. Mark joking around, everyone mostly just feeling free to be weird and share funny things.
The sixth studio album from pop-punk band All Time Low found them working with a ton of outside collaborators/writers and showcased a slick sound led by production from veteran producer John Feldmann. Future Hearts is now celebrating its tenth birthday today, and each of the 13 songs found on the record featured an outside writer on it. This type of collaboration was new to the band, as they had typically composed the majority of their material in-house. Future Hearts was one of All Time Low’s most successful LPs at launch date, debuting at #2 on the Billboard 200 upon its release and selling over 80,000 copies in its first week. The band took their major label misfire (2011’s Dirty Work) in stride and would quickly follow this up with Don’t Panic and their final Hopeless Records record in Future Hearts. While the band would reach their creative peak on 2020’s Wake Up Sunshine, Future Hearts is filled with a ton of great pop-punk tunes that deserve another look.
Read More “All Time Low – Future Hearts”First new pair of actual running shoes in over fifteen years. Tried the track on Sundays the last month and decided to follow through with this whole “be more healthy” thing by adding in more cardio to my life.
Taking a little mini vacation for a week. Day one is checking out some Dino Legos at OMSI. Impressive.
Here’s the Python script I wrote that calculates how many words and articles I’ve written on this website. I run this at the end of the year, change the dates, and use it for my yearly stats posts. No idea if it’s of any interest to anyone, but if you run a WordPress blog it should be pretty plug-in-play by changing the URL, author ID, and dates.
Read More “WordPress Words Written Python Script”Hannah made me whoopie pies for my birthday. I’ll be over here in a sugar coma if anyone needs me.
A while back someone messaged me on Instagram and said they found an old CD of Blink-182’s Big Stink 4 performance at Portland Meadows in Portland, Oregon from back in August of 1999. They asked if I wanted it. I said sure! So they sent me one big MP3 file.
I cut it up and did some slight editing to try and clean it up a little bit. It’s still pretty rough, but for a live recording from 1999 I’ve definitely heard worse. (“What’s My Age Again?” has some pretty bad feedback at two spots I couldn’t fix.)
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