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Here's your question and answer of the week from the Punknews Formspring:
Q: Is the Misfits font played out?A: I think most band logos who have had their font re-purposed are played out. Metallica, would be another good example. It was kind of interesting but now it's just a reference, like Family Guy. Just giving a head nod to something doesn't make it funny.
-Rich
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Hello everyone and welcome to Navel Gazing: your look back in the week in Punknews. I'm Brittany Strummer and I'll be your guide through some of the juiciest, most popular and otherwise noteworthy stories from the last seven days. Remember, every Punknews story is built from tips from our wonderful, good-looking readers, so get to submitting. Here's what got the strange, slow and old community talking this week:
With that, we hand over this Sunday evening to the Punknews community, where anything is possible, from the next amusing-then-overwrought meme, to the creation of bands and message boards, to alienating sports chatter. So talk amongst yourselves, spin some tracks in the Navel Gazing turntable.fm room and we'll see you Monday morning.
In the past few weeks we've spoken with a number of bands. Don't miss out on these interviews:
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Here's your question and answer of the week from the Punknews Formspring:
Q: Have you ever gotten your ass kicked by Pork Magazine or Maximum Rock n' Roll?A: I'm going to take your question in the literal sense (as I don't really know how they'd kick my ass with like words or ideas [In part because that's silly and in part because I couldn't possibly figure out what any music journal would say that would really constitute and ass kicking. "Your website isn't punk because X,Y,Z." Well, OH NO! I'll just file that under, "Shit that impacts my life not at all" somewhere between the price of a space ship and what Glenn Beck had for lunch]). That's hilarious for many reasons. First, I imagine anyone who takes up "journalism" (present company included) is probably about as likely to kick someone's ass as they are to develop time travel. Remember your high school newspaper? That lowly collection of guys who weren't athletic enough to play sports, so they wrote about them? Those are the same people who make up any number of music journals (except myself, who was too lazy for the school newspaper…Yeah that's right, I wasn't even committed enough to crank out a once a month article about, "Why does the lunch room smell like cod: a special investigation!")
Secondly, there's the fact that I don't even know where those magazines are located (and I imagine it's the same the other way around). For all I know MRR lives on some punk island fueled by coconuts and governed by a committee of 12….OR they're located out of Dubai. Either is equally possible to me. So I don't really see me running into any of those folks any time soon.
Third, and most importantly, I'm a really fucking fast runner. Like not for long distances. Sure I can trek up to 8 miles at a running pace but we're talking between 6.5 and 7 MPH, not exactly lighting it up. But in a sprint?! Oh, shit. In a sprint I'm Usain Bolt (If he were a lot slower and I was located on a people mover while running [Side note: I've always felt that with a 2 second head start and a people mover, I could probably come pretty close to a tie with Usain Bolt in the 100m dash]). Anyhow, the point is, if I ever got into a "fight or flight" situation, you better believe I could flight the fuck out of there before you could say, "Kick his ass, Sea bass."
So…Not yet. Nope. Though I guess Razorcake did verbally (writtenly?) assault me. Which I thought was both very mature and reasonable of them. So, I'm sure if we ever met, I'd have a good chance to run away from them.
-Rich
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Hello everyone and welcome to Navel Gazing: your look back in the week in Punknews. I'm Brittany Strummer and I'll be your guide through some of the juiciest, most popular and otherwise noteworthy stories from the last seven days. Remember, every Punknews story is built from tips from our wonderful, good-looking readers, so get to submitting. Here's what got the strange, slow and old community talking this week:
With that, we hand over this Sunday evening to the Punknews community, where anything is possible, from the next amusing-then-overwrought meme, to the creation of bands and message boards, to alienating sports chatter. So talk amongst yourselves, spin some tracks in the Navel Gazing turntable.fm room and we'll see you Monday morning.
In the past few weeks we've spoken with a number of bands. Don't miss out on these interviews:
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Here's your question and answer of the week from the Punknews Formspring:
Q: Please describe your best FEST-perience. Please describe your worst FEST-perience.A I wasn't at this year's (or last year's) but I'll tell you what I know:
BEST: Absolutely has to be Comadre performing a Refused cover set at a house show. This was before all the reunions and what not, so it was as close as I thought I'd ever get. Not only does the band know the songs, they know how they were recorded and produced (Jack Shirley of Comadre runs a studio and is a HUGE production nerd). So it wasn't just "Play it like we remember it" but a really well done cover set. Not only that, Comadre are a fucking insane live band. So having them in a tiny house, going apeshit, was absolutely incredible.
WORST: The Menzingers at The Atlantic (might have been the same year). The Menzingers were great but everyone in the venue kept trying to climb on stage to the point where equipment was getting unplugged (and possibly damaged). The band had a couple of people help watch the front of the stage and keep people off. Towards the end a guy climbed on stage and one of their friends was trying to get him off, I patted the guy's leg, trying to get his attention that the band wanted him off the stage. The guy looked down at me, and swung his heel back and nailed my right in the eye. That sucked shit.
Later I came to find out a couple of people I knew, knew the individual in question and all apologized for his actions. Not like I was really too mad, but I did have a pretty good bruise for the remainder of Fest.
-Rich
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Where else are you online? Share your links below and keep connected with the Punknews community.
Check out the Punknews Music page to stream all sorts of new music from recent or upcoming releases. Our latest additions include:
Also, don't forget to check out a new track from Sacremento, CA's Yankee Brutal.
We've also expanded our podcast empire to something that will eventually resemble a network. Be sure to check out the original Punknews Podcast (subscribe via RSS or iTunes), Jesse and Goodrich's metal/hardcore/jokes bonanza The Wizard's Beard (subscribe via RSS or iTunes), Matt and Mondo's Punk Rock Power Hour, and Greg Simpson and Greg Moore's Two Gregs One Podcast.