#Aaron cometbus

[wilhelm--fink]

Billie Joe and Aaron Cometbus

#billie joe armstrong #aaron cometbus #green day #clearing out my camera roll #429

[ashtrayfloors]

The Greek word for return is nostos. Algos means suffering. So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return. —Milan Kundera, Ignorance

Etymologically, nostalgia comes from the Greek algos meaning “pain, grief, distress” + nostos meaning “homecoming.” For about three hundred years, it was considered a disease of the mind, a “morbid longing to return to one’s home or native country, severe homesickness…” which often inflicted soldiers and sailors, convicts, slaves, anyone torn away from their home/land. It wasn’t until around 1920 that the modern meaning, of “wistful yearning for the past,” came into popular usage. In the modern conception of nostalgia, the reverie may include longing for a particular place, but “the longing for a distant place necessarily involves a separation in time.” As Aaron Cometbus wrote: Somehow things far away make sense over distance but not over time. I wish I could get it out of my head that one can make up for the other and bridging a gap in one will bridge a gap in both, because it never does work. You can go home again, but when you get there, it might not look or feel so much like home.

—Jessie Lynn McMains, from “One Long Longing” (November 2021)

#jessie lynn mcmains #prose #excerpt #essay #nostalgia #quotations #milan kundera #aaron cometbus #distance #time #homesickness #one long longing #2021 #my writing #ashtrayfloors #fucking feeling this right now #fucking feeling this forever

[gayenerd]

#phgp #live performance #billie joe armstrong #aaron cometbus

[rodeoca]

#turn it around #east bay punk #aaron cometbus #punk zines #1981-82

[yusuke1234]

Artists I like

#james ensor #george grosz #ray johnson #Rokuro Taniuchi #raymond pettibon #edvard munch #milton avery #henri matisse #h c westermann #saul steinberg #tomi ungerer #utagawa kuniyoshi #katsushika hokusai #Aaron cometbus #max Ernst #roland topor #john hubley #faith hubley #Howard finster #yoshiharu tsuge #kazuo umezu #aki kaurismaki #jacques tati #the hairy who

[geekgirl78]

#pinhead gunpowder #green day #ish #billie joe armstrong #bill schneider #aaron cometbus

[candont]

I started traveling alone more, and I ended up spending a lot of time alone, and became more comfortable with that, and spending a lot of time in libraries. I’d read the same book in each town, in the library, when it was available. I’d read 30 pages in one city, take the bus to the next, read a hundred pages, take the bus to the next.

https://larrylivermore.com/2009/08/27/interview-with-aaron-cometbus/

#aaron cometbus

[artifical-life]

from add toner

#cometbus #aaron cometbus #i think this is so incredibly niche #idc though he’s rad as hell

[onryou-onryou]

Turn It Around: The Story of East Bay Punk

#music docmentary #punk rock #80s #bay area #aaron cometbus #iggy pop #jello biafra #penelope spheeris #metal mike #tons of bands #maximum rocknroll #Youtube

[gideonthefirst]

2023 Books

favorites bolded, least favorites have an [x], rereads have an *

January

The Flash: The Death of Iris West by Cary Bates, Frank Chiaramonte, Jack Abel, Vince Colletta, Frank McLaughlin

The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones [x]

When the Angels Left the Old Country by Sacha Lamb

Princess Floralinda and the Forty-Flight Tower by Tamsyn Muir

February

Annihilation by Jeff Vandermeer [x]

We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson

The Love Song of Ivy K. Harlowe by Hannah Moskowitz

March

Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes on a Tribe Called Quest by Hanif Abdurraqib

April

The Assassin's Apprentice by Robin Hobb

May

They're Going to Love You by Meg Howrey

June

July

Where Are Your Boys Tonight?: The Oral History of Emo's Mainstream Explosion 1999-2008 by Chris Payne

The Screaming Staircase by Jonathan Stroud*

Skulduggery Pleasant by Derek Landy, books 1-7*. specifically book 7 gets a [x] for being so bad it killed the reread

Nimona by N.D. Stevenson*

You Feel It Just Below the Ribs by Jeffrey Cranor and Janina Matthewson

August

Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett*

September

Poison for Breakfast by Lemony Snicket

A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance by Hanif Abdurraqib

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

A Punkhouse in the Deep South: The Oral History of 309 by Scott Satterwhite and Aaron Cometbus

October

Trick to Catch the Old One by Thomas Middleton

The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

Stephen Florida by Gabe Habash

Wage Labor and Capital by Karl Marx

November

Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism by Vladimir Lenin

Trust by Hernán Diaz

Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov

December

The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering by Norman G. Finkelstein

A Master of Djinn by P Djèlí Clark [x]

Prosper's Demon by K.J. Parker

Blackouts by Justin Torres

Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

The Book of Eels: Our Enduring Fascination with the Most Mysterious Creature in the Natural World by Patrik Svensson [x]

Hangsaman by Shirley Jackson

#books 2023 #i kinda Liked most books i read this year. sort of crazy #personal #my storygraph is kestrells come hang out :]

[upthewitchypunx]

Last night I got invited to a house show. Upon further realization, it's got a new name, but it's at The Dustbin, the punk house I l lived in over a 20 years ago. I'm kind of freaking out and excited to see what it's like now. I thought the owner sold it, but it's still a collective house, just with a new name.

Do I tell them the reason the kitchen is an odd shape because they ripped out one of the bedrooms after they found out someone was cooking meth in that room? Are their still holes in the floor so you can see into the basement? Did someone paint over the story written on the under the stairs door scrawled by a zine kid? Does anyone still live in the L shaped mudroom I lived in? Do random traveling punx still show up to sleep on the couch on the porch? Do any of the new denizens fall asleep in their bedroom when touring bands play like I did when Hot Hot Heat played in our living room?

I met Aaron Cometbus for the first time in that kitchen. I was dressed in footie pajamas and carrying a a Punky Brewster lunchbox at a Halloween party.

[ashtrayfloors]

I remember we lost her car keys on the beach in Evanston and there was no hope of finding them before the sun came up. She was from the suburbs and I knew how all the suburban girls came to Belmont Street for a year to go out with skinheads and do drugs and make mistakes, and the next year they were gone without a trace. Disappeared just as fast as they had come, never to be found again.

—Aaron Cometbus, from "(This Is A) Haunted Town" (Chicago Stories, 2004)

#quotations #aaron cometbus #this is a haunted town #girls #chicago #memory #it's #belmont ave. #aaron #not street! #but otherwise this is the #story of my god damn life #i was that ‘suburban’ girl who came to belmont for a year to do drugs and date skinheads #and the evanston beach thing…well. #see: the photo i just posted

[gayenerd]

#billie joe armstrong #aaron cometbus #phgp

[rodeoca]

#get off my guts #east bay punk #aaron cometbus #1982

[stgloria]

Can you show the aaron cometbus' zine where he says billie is a sensitive person? i would like to read it

Sure! The only problem is that the text is in Russian, so I had to translate it into English, so it may be different from the English original 😅

“Tre and Mike were better prepared for a negative reaction. Mike had never cared much for punk tradition, and Tre just didn't care about it, at least he wanted everyone to believe it. Billie, on the other hand, was vulnerable because he really gave special importance to what people thought of him. He is the most vulnerable person I know, completely not adapted to fame and pressure. One bad press review made more of an impression on Billie than an entire stadium of raging fans”.

#green day #billie joe armstrong #anon ask

[drpistol]

Some things are like that—they strike you as repugnant for instinctive reasons, probably having to do with your culture and the way you were raised. The French word “gauche” comes to mind, but I preferred the Hebrew word “treyf.” Literally, it means not kosher, but I also use it to describe things like cars, bars, strip clubs, guns, dogs, rock-n-roll, and football games. Things that are treyf, you avoid, not because you hate them per se, but because in avoiding them you keep yourself from becoming like the people you hate.

— Aaron Cometbus, Cometbus #54