Yeah, dunno what you are talking about, but I just can’t help but feel skeptical at this point, but I suppose it’s totally acceptable to not feel skeptical as well.

I find starting wars and raping kids disheartening. I find it equally disheartening that it’s plausible someone would try to take attention away from those things by stirring up some shit.

Facades.

I’ve never found MDMA to be sexual. Yeah, you like physical contact, and definitely feel the love, but it never made a horndog out of me. I think that’s an old wives tale, and I’ll say I’ve got plenty of experience over the last 15+ years.

I always talk about how life and trends are just a pendulum, And how it swings, and that I have this hope for the generation(s) after me swinging the pendulum in the other direction. I’m born in '87. We embraced technology to the fullest. And now, unfortunately, technology has been ruined, in the fashion of things gaining popularity going to shit. Way she goes.

I have this idea that the pendulum will come back to a point where kids want to separate themselves from the lens of the internet, where you’ll be chastised for using your phone. And perhaps this is just some strange (anti?)dystopian story in the making, but a tale as old as time is kids being like “That’s not cool, fuck that shit.” I’m just hopeful that “that shit” is tiktok and its ilk.

I used to go on Nextdoor; I said it was because I liked to be connected to the neighborhood, but if was really for the drama, and one time this woman came in spewing some nonsense, her name was Paula, and another poster comes in and says “That’s not how life works, Paula, you absolute buffoon, go back to Facebook,” and so, since then, I’ve called many, many people absolute buffoons.

I got poison ivy pretty bad one time, and discovered that very hot water in the shower directly on the rash is one of the best things I’ve ever felt. And it also completely stops the itch for like 12h.

Had a friend in Philly who had his bike stolen. Custom paint job, BMX, it was his bike, no doubt about it. He knows who stole it too, sees a shady character every day, and eventually sees him riding it. He yells at the dude, that’s my bike, and I’m going to get it back.

One day he sees it chained up to a sign. Happens to be right near a hardware store, and goes in, gives the worker his phone as collateral for some bolt cutters, goes out, cuts the chain off, and takes his bike back.

This all happened while we were at a party at his house, and he walks in all triumphant, it was pretty spectacular shit.

I got my watch on stuff often enough. It’s why I don’t opt for the super expensive ones.

Classics is definitely when they blew up a bit. It’s LP2, in the scheme of things. They had five total, all great. LP3 and LP4 seem to be similar.

The song Jogger by Nephicide is the absolute penultimate example of this. The song is a weird black metal electronic mashup up happy beats and growling vocals. Nothing they ever made sounded at all like it. The song was a complete one-off.

God dammit, now I have it in my head.

Hands Down is so similar though, but maybe I just lump them together because they were such big hits way back when.

When I first started getting into EDM, I’d hear a tune and be like, damn, I need more tunes by this artist, but found they would never click really. But then I would go to a show and hear tunes, or listen to mixes, and it would all really come alive then. I was big in that scene from probably 2009 to 2015, and I’ve reverted to more general love for music, though I haven’t stopped listening.

Recently, I found a list of the 25 best EDM albums of 2025, obviously just one site’s collective opinions, but I ran through it, it was more than just dubstep (which was always what I leaned toward), and I ended up really digging so much of it, just from going through album by album.

And that being said, there were some acts who would put out legit albums. Early Ganja White Night, with Addiction especially, and Hybrid Distillery, were such great albums, really told a story when you listened cover to cover. But they’re definitely not the norm. Zeds Dead’s most recent album was also top notch.

I feel that way about Poppy and honestly about Knocked Loose. I think the first song I heard from them was Forget Your Name with Keith Buckley on it. And I was a huge ETID guy, so the song got me super excited, but I just never really got into them beyond that. And I wanted to, just never clicked.

Magnifique is their worst album though. I am an LP3 fanatic, but the first four are all just so good. Magnifique was … different. And perhaps it was an unfortunate sign of things (not) to come.

I miss Ratatat more than any other band, and I think that’s that.

B.O.B., come on!

I served with dudes whose motto was if you can’t truck it, fuck it, but I get what you’re saying. I also think we’re not talking crazy heavy shit. A case of MREs is like 20lbs, and I’m sure you, like me, did many an assembly line of MREs. I actually found loading trucks via assembly line to be efficient. And did I sometimes carry 100+lbs of shit? Absolutely, but I also did that 03 job.

They’ll find a place for the older, heftier folks to serve. And they’ll also get those people in better shape.

There’s plenty of jobs in the military that aren’t fighting on the front lines. US power at war is derived from its logistics. Need people to drive trucks, get water, build shit. USMC has over 300 jobs, but 03 jobs are essentially the ones considered front lines. They always throw the 10% number around, 10% do the fighting while 90% support.

Loading the dishwasher is its own battle.

Que sera! My house is a disaster, and we pick it up once a week only to have it disasterize itself again in a couple days anyway. And we harp on the kids, but in the same way my folks harped on me, so obviously it’s just in my genes and so fuck it.

My house is also spotless if we have people by, but during the week, things just pile up, and we just keep our heads above water.