WHY WE DON'T POST ABOUT MUSIC ANYMORE | IT'S PROBABLY BECAUSE YOU SUCK
1. We took down the live music stream because it was a waste of money. If someone wants to donate $1,000+ per year to keep it operating just for 2 listeners on average, feel free to reach out.
2. Your music mostly fucking sucks ass. If your music actually made it on to our live stream, I'm not talking about you. But 95% of the music sent to us is complete garbage, especially the crap promoters typically send us. If you're promoter is sending your death metal music to Pop Punk Radio, you need to hire a better fucking promoter.
3. My views have gone up exponentially ever since I started making strongly worded posts. So you're either a complete fucking retard who focuses their own valuable time and energy on rage-bait, or your someone who has been personally affected by the things I talk about and enjoy seeing someone else with a large platform bringing this to people's attention.
4. I'm busy working on other things unrelated to this website. Things that do much more for me. No, you don't get to know about it.
Ok, now for a real answer.
To be quite honest, I fucking hate what this so-called "scene" has become, and I've also outgrown what it once served for me.
I saw Screeching Weasel in June earlier this year, they were great. I got to fist-bump Ben Weasel during a song. And I was able to get a small group of people around me to chant "FUCK NOFX!" after Ben gave a little speech about why they haven't toured as much until recently. Screeching Weasel's set made me feel like I was moshing with like-minded individuals.
However, before they came on, I was standing around waiting (because I sure as fuck wasn't watching) for The Dickies set to end, I looked around the Observatory and noted that nearly every god damn mother fucker in that building was wearing either a black vest with stupid-ass cloth patches, or a black jacket. Every dude had un-kept Brillo beards. The whole shtick reeked of "pretend to be homeless."
Then the singer of The Dickies pulled a fucking sock puppet out of his ass and held it out in front of the microphone pretending to sing the lyrics of the song... I've seen better stage presence at a elementary school play! He didn't even hold the fucking puppet up to the microphone to at least make it look like the stupid puppet was the one singing. He just stood there with a mic held up to his mouth in one hand and the puppet extended in front of the microphone towards the crowd.
Now, I have no grudge against the Dickies, although they might carry one against me after writing this. I'm a 90s kid, and they were a little before my time. I really never listened to their music much.
I have nothing personal against them. But it was during their set that I looked around the audience and thought to myself... "Why in the ever-loving-fuck do I want to be here with these people?" Because I don't.
("If you're ugly and you know it, pierce your face! If you're beta and you know it, grow a Brillo beard!")
I used to steal followers from a "libertarian punks" social media account. This was a huge mistake. I thought that we at least saw eye to eye during the pandemic when so much authoritarian bullshit was being forced upon us, which it absolutely was. But after the pandemic dust settled and these people still kept complaining about every new political development, I realized that some people just want to piss and cry and complain no matter what happens. Even if what happens is overall a good thing.
Being a "libertarian" basically means "I wanna do illegal shit, and if you look the other way when I do illegal shit, I'll look the other way when you do illegal shit." Unless we're talking about recreational cocaine, I don't agree with it. And even then, I probably shouldn't.
This website is not a career, nor does it provide any income. In fact, people in this scene seem to be quite adverse to the notion of "income." If your business model involves trying to advertise to a niche group of mostly broke-ass mfers, you're gonna have a bad time. And as much as it sounds virtuous to say "music shouldn't be about money" it's also not fun to be completely fucking broke either. Some of us actually want to work hard to reap our own rewards, rather than wait for some career scammer (aka politician) to throw a few dollar bills at my face before he busts a nut all over it, laughing maniacally all the way.
If going to college had worked out for me, I might have ended up with a cushy high-paying job that allowed me to fund this website while I was still interested in growing it. These days, I've transitioned into other projects that are showing far more promise in terms of helping me support myself and start a family.
A man only has so much time and mental bandwidth. Aside from posting a few videos here and that make good points that I agree with, this website is on the back-burner. Nor do I have any interest in carrying this whiny-ass "community" with me into my next project.
I completely understand why Finn McKenty told everyone to fuck off and said he hates this scene. It sounds like he finally grew up and decided to look outside of Chuck-E-Cheese for entertainment and community.
Just like I have. And just as you should.
You'll thank yourself for it later on down the line.
