THE MUSIC YOU HAVE IN TWEEKS PLAYLIST IS SO 🤭🤭🤭 LIKE IVE NEVER MET ANYONE THAT KNEW BLOOD FOR BLOOD
I honestly don't remember when I discovered Blood for Blood, but I think I might have my former boss (he'd get annoyed and say he wasn't my 'boss' 'cause he doesn't like 'bosses and never wanted to have nor be one; For context, he wasn't really my boss, I was self-employed, but working at his tattoo shop) / fill-in father-figure for a bit, a longtime friend of mine, to thank for that.
That man is honestly 100% self-made and has an ethic and ethos I can really look up to and respect.
We're also both into Madball, and I recently went to one of their shows. He couldn't go, due to ongoing cancer treatments.
Me and another friend of my former boss (actually, the co-owner of that shop I was working at), spoke with the band, got them all to sign a shirt for him and we brought it to his house the next day. He was super touched. Great group. We'd only asked one band member to sign as the rest were busy packing up gear, and he suggested he could go and get the rest to add their autographs, we were super grateful.
Also, I 100% get that frustration of never meeting anyone who likes/knows what you like and know. When I was a teen, the definition of 'hardcore' had slipped, and to me, it was still bands like Blood for Blood, Madball, Biohazard, Agnostic Front, Fugazi originating from the movement started by 7 Seeconds, Minor Threat, Black Flag, Sick of it All, etc. I saw Terror (which I like) as like, the band bridging how I defined hardcore to how kids of my generation defined it.
To the kids around me, it was this stuf with like, a lot of 'Woah-oh-oohs', in the midst of screaming. My whole view of it was 'it's a'ight, but that's not my scene', and I was often disappointed (and eventually disillusioned) when kids were like, "oh, I like hardcore too!". Over the years, my follow-up question changed from an enthusiastic "Oh awesome! Wanna go to a show? Wanna obsess about this Bad Brains album with me" to a bored, "Oh yeah? So like, what bands?" To which I'd hear Stick to your guns, Underoath, Silverstein or whatever else was popular at that time.
I ran into the same problem with kids saying they liked punk too. They weren't talking about Discharge or Subhumans, or Thulsa Doom, or Conflict, Descendants or NOFX. They meant The Used and Blink182, Rise Against and whatnot. I was utterly confused and felt born 20 years too late for real.
I was just...well, I longed for a more precise vocabulary to become more widely-used so I'd stop getting my hopes up/getting frustrated about the fact we really weren't talking about the same thing. I was a teenaged musical elitist, yup. A real fuckin' snob. I'm more open-minded today but it was disappointing and disheartening, only really finding like-minded musical peers among people at least a decade older than I was.
So, in contrast, meeting people who actually liked what I liked was always so exciting and felt really validating at a time when I felt as though there was always a barrier to being understood by my peers, and to connecting with them on a less than superficial level.
You didn't ask for that full analysis and I regret having overthought and rambled, but I typed it so you're getting it, I guess. Sorry?
& Thanks for reading the fic & I promise to update soon. Life's just been kicking my ass recently but it's okay, 'cause I just remembered I can kick back.
Also, I just realized maybe I rambled so much because the upcoming chapter explores some of those themes with Tweek finding it hard to find common ground with kids his age as well. So, maybe?
Anyways. THANKS FOR READING IT AND BEING PATIENT ON UPDATES.
& HMU if ever you wanna chat music or whatever else.
Name: Madd, Maddlynn Maddithan, Maddie, Maddster, The Maddest, Waffles, Maddwaffles, Maddest One Around
Age: 27+2 we ain't countin' them COVID years
Gender: pebsi (fluid)
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Food(s): Barbacoa, Tacos, Tomato, Steak, Corn on The Cob, Salsa, Mint Ice Cream, Stroganoff, (still true af untouched except ig we can add caldo de res which I have been really about lately)
Drink(s): Bepsi, Milk even tho it hurt me, Coors, Vanilla Bepis (even tho I can't fucking find it)
Book(s): The Legends of Drizzt, Percy Jackson and The Olympians, The Heroes of Olympus, Assorted D&D Manuals, Any decent Graphic Novel, Strong Manga series; Hajime no Ippo, Eyeshield 21, Boku no Hero Academia, Bleach, Dragon Ball, Hikaru no Go, Yu Yu Hakusho, Yu-Gi-Oh/GX, Naruto, Slam Dunk, karate shoukoushi kohinata minoru, One Piece. We also addin' Chainsaw Man
Favorite Author(s): R.A Salvatore, Ed Greenwood, Akira Toryiama, Tite Kubo, Masashi Kishimoto, Oda, Rowling (Pre-TERF) nah fuck that bitch not even pre-TERF she was wildly overrated, Tolkien
Song(s): We don’t have time to be here all day, I’ll list some recent listens; Ocean Avenue - Yellow Card, No Flex Zone - Karmin and Watsky, I’m Something Else - SomethingelseYT, Dammit - Blink182, Punk Rock 101 - Blink182, Almost - Bowling For Soup, Stan - Eminem feat. Elton John, Absolutely - Nine Days, Simple Plan - Summer Paradise, So many Ninjasexparty songs, Rambe - Slow, Rambe - Don’t Greed, Zombie Love Song - YFM, Maroon 5 - Sugar, Reunion - Busted, Year 3000 - Busted
Honestly those all slapped so imma add a few more recents: Montero, Good 4 u, My Nonfiction, Boyfriend Complex, anything by the nerdcore rappers
Movie(s): The New Guy, Spider-Man Homecoming (okay just that whole trilogy was best honestly), Spider-Verses too, Star Wars: A New Hope, Ed, Edd, ‘n Eddy: Big Picture Show, Hairspray (Musical)
TV Show(s): AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!! Ed, Edd, ‘n Eddy, The anime adaptations of most of the manga I listed above, Ash Vs. The Evil Dead, King of The Hill, South Park (It fell off), Community, One-Punch Man, Gravity Falls, Scrubs, Venture Bros., Bob’s Burgers, Futurama, Daria, Star Vs. The Forces of Evil, The Boondocks, Saturday night Live when it’s decent, King of The Hill, Futurama, The Conners, As Told By Ginger, The Bear
Band/group(s): Busted, Blink 182, Maroon 5, Sum 41, Bowling For Soup, Ninja Sex Party
Solo Artist(s): Rambe, Owl City, Billy Joel
Place(s): Oregon, San Diego
School Subject(s): Drawing, English, History
Sport(s): Boxing, Karate, Football
Male Actor: ??????????
Female Actor: ???????????? I CAN LIST CRUSHES I GUESS BUT YOU DIDN’T ASK I DON’T THINK ABOUT ACTORS THAT MUCH
Life
Best Friend: Brandon (no longer roommate, he still isn’t on tumblr)
Significant Other: Am the Single Pringle ;'(
Siblings: TONS
Dream Job: Online Content Creator, Teacher, Professor
Tattoos: Nada
Piercings: Nope
Languages: English, Spanglish, Spanish Lite
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Reason Behind URL: Well Madd is a component to my standard web handle maddwaffles, for prefix being appropriated from an ex while we were dating (it was a cute thing because we matched) that just hasn’t really evaded me. When it was yallneedahero I would have a more clever answer for you.
Reason Behind Icon: I love Isane Nami and you should too
# of Posts: 20,535!!!! HOLY SHIT BEFORE IT WAS ONLY 5,235 I SCALE SO HARD
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# of Blogs: P much just this one now
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SAAAABB.. i see blink182 tmr i'm so excited !!!! this isn't my first concert,, my first concert was weezer 😞 HELP i sound like someone's dad
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I'M EXCITED FOR YOUU concerts r always so fun !!! idk either of the bands so i looked them up and 1. the tattooed guy in blink182 looks like my old math teacher but with tattoos HELP .. and 2. one of the members of weezer looks like this:
Here’s another #artvsartist post…. this time we’re highlighting my colour markers work… not done one in a while so i might have to dust them off and get working… #art #artist #artvsartist2022 #marker #colour #photooftheday #littleshopofhorrors #mortalkombat @blink182 @noobde @edwardnortonofficial @littleshopnyc @hellraisermovies @thetexaschainsawmassacre @fridaythe13thfranchisecom @oldfartists @mortalkombat #tattoo #comics #comic #movie #bike #biker #fightclub #adventuretime #selfportrait #horror #halloween #parody #sinner #sketchoholix (at Louis 'Lucifer' Slater, Art & Tattoos) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cmt-wXfs_oj/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
Happy Saturday. “Tom Delonge Pursuit of Tone” is porn for @blink182 fans. @tomdelonge goes into more detail about the writing process behind their songs than I’ve heard him go into before. Free to watch on YouTube if you want to check it out.
“Face Tattoo” may have had the most difficult production process of any GoBoy song. Series of events…
1) recorded the vocals with brand new recording equipment and spent a few days mixing them.
2) found out that the brand new recording equipment had a negative impact on the audio quality of the vocals that I just spent days mixing, so vocals were re-recorded using the old recording equipment and a few days were spent mixing those.
3) bought Waves OVox plugin for a chorus idea and spent a day or so on that.
4) discovered that the chorus idea didn’t work, so I deleted it and spliced segments of the verses together to create a new chorus.
5) after spending a few days developing instrument tracks, they weren’t meshing with the vocals, so the instrument tracks were deleted and a few days were spent creating new ones.
6) repeated step 5, as once again, the new instruments didn’t mesh with the vocals.
7) spent about 5 days tweaking the mix.
8) cut out portions of the song to increase replay value.
These might be the most bubblegum poppy lyrics in any GoBoy song. They’re meant to be dumb fun, nothing more.
In April, 2021, almost all of GoBoy 3, 4 and 5 songs were restructured to be under 2m 30s, including this song. In an attempt to increase replay value in this streaming era, most of GoBoy’s songs are now purposely around 2m 20s.
A bass boost was added to songs 37-99 in Nov, 2021, while I had covid (this paragraph is an excerpt from post 38). As a result, this song feels more powerful. The bass boost isn’t a simple plugin nonchalantly added to each song. It’s a process that took about 3.5 hours per song, or one whole month to complete all songs. Admittedly, I pushed the bass boost a little too far for some of them. The bass in some songs sounds like a freaking earthquake (unnecessarily pronounced low frequencies 20 - 50 Hz). Might dial that back someday. The bass boost was also applied to every song on GoBoy 6 and beyond.