Old Vinyl

I’m sitting on the floor of my room going through boxes of my parents’ old records. Records were dead but are making a comeback. I’ve started collecting a little myself. So far I’ve found some old B.B. King performance for ABC, Neil Young’s Harvest, some Led Zeppelin, some Eagles, some of the Beatles. None of this is probably worth anything. No big deal, the meaning is more important than the money. ∞

The Gaslight Anthem Interview

The Gaslight Anthem are just over a month away from the release of their second album, The ‘59 Sound. The New Jersey-based band has had quite an explosive year with their breakout debut Sink or Swim as well as a well-received follow-up EP Señor and the Queen. The band is spending some time on the Warped Tour this summer and recently caught up with Punknews interviewer Zack Shapiro. (From Punknews)

Here’s an excerpt:

Zack: The recurring themes in your music seem to center around the radio, driving and getting out of a current situation, can you talk about that?

Brian Fallon: Yeah, that’s just what we do here. Driving and trying to get a little bit better our parents did, I guess? To not have to worry? I don’t know. That was the whole thing like “I’m gonna get in a band. I know I can’t be a doctor so I’m gonna try to leave here and make something different.” I think like, “It’s just over that next highway” thing. You know, the answer. We’re searchers, wanderers.

For the rest of the interview, click here.

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All Work and No Play

The next two weeks are work-filled with two days off. I’ll be bouncing in and out of here. Right now I’m working on designing the project that’s going to launch next. I’m sure a bunch of you will definitely dig it. Hopefully that’ll be up later this week. ∞

July 5th is boring. ∞

Developer's Note

Developer’s Note: If page looks messed up in Internet Explorer, switch to a browser that doesn’t suck. ∞

Expensive Toys

Can I please get paid so I can go buy:

- Nikon Cookpix S550

- iPhone 3G

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Under Construction

Not to give too much away but the projects I’m working on now on Tumblr involve John McCain, t-shirts, photo booths and vinyl records. I’m 100% serious. ∞

Design Complete

I’ve finally gotten the design of this site to a point where it can stay for a while. No more tweaking, no more moving things around. This is Shut Up Internet, “now with a color scheme!”

Enjoi and welcome to all the new readers/followers of the past few weeks.

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Four Things Every Tumblelog Needs

1. A means of contact - It sucks when someone posts something that you really like and you can’t get a hold of them. If you don’t want to reblog it because it’s way too long or doesn’t fit the style of your website but still want to thank the person who contributed and can’t, everyone needs to offer some means of contact for their dedicated followers.

2. Original content - What’s the point in having or maintaining a website when all of your content is a steady stream of other people’s original content. I come to your site because I want to see what you have to say, not what I’ve already read on the Internet’s most popular sites. Don’t just reblog every headline from Digg. Write something passionate, take some pictures, record and post a funny video. Do something to show who you are, someone other than a news wire.

3. Readable content - Because no one wants to strain their eyes to see what you have to say.

4. A “Go To Top” Link - For the visitors that don’t want to keep reading back into the history of your Tumblelog but want to get to the top of your page quickly and easily to follow you, please, please, provide a simple link that takes readers to the top, fast. It’s a nice gesture to save your readers’ time.

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Top 5 Graphic Novels I Need to Read

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3. Maus by Art Spiegelman- A classic graphic novel that many people have told me i need to read. Someday i’ll get around to it.

Maus was possibly the worst graphic novel I’ve read. I had to read it for school so I couldn’t even get out of it, really. I’ve only read a few but boy was it bad. If you’re expecting some kind of daring escape from a Nazi concentration camp don’t waste your time. If you’re looking for the story of an old man hiding in places without the suspense of The Diary of Anne Frank, by all means pick up Maus.

I read the first Sandman, Preludes and Nocturnes, and it was decent. Weird, but decent.

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