Lol no

I know it’s not a popular opinion these days, but I’ve always loved the SN95 Mustangs. They’re the right balance of (then) modern design and retro callbacks, they look sporty and fast without being cartoonishly aggressive, and they’re overall well proportioned. The New Edge cars screwed up some of the details that…

Because they’re deeply in love?

This is the only correct answer.

Shortly before that goal, I remember looking at the clock and expecting it to say 75:something and going “54?! Not even 10 minutes? Uuuuuugggggghhhhhhh”

Pass. Wil Wheaton is the living embodiment of Lund’s criticism of the material. This makes him the perfect person to read it on multiple levels, but it doesn’t make this something I want to read or listen to any more than I did before, which is zero.

Promoters can be the venue or a third party with an agreement to use the room for a night. Some of them are skeezy, and word gets around that you don’t deal with them, some aren’t, and a lot of them are in bands themselves. They generally get relied on for this sort of thing because most musicians have poor…

Depends on the level you’re operating at. Touring bands above a certain level tend to get a flat guarantee, regardless of how the show does. At the local/DIY touring level, guarantees are rare. Generally, the venue and/or promoter will take their cut from the door off the top (this cut may be 0 at smaller venues or if…

It’s on the bands, too. Behaving with even a small measure of professionalism shows respect for your peers. I usually give the band before us about 5-10 minutes to get off stage. If they’re taking longer but they have a wildass rig and they’re making progress, then fine, but if they’ve barely disconnected their cables…

The 15 minute changeover is the thing that most bands can’t seem to handle. The number of times I’ve seen bands do their entire setup and teardown on-stage, at half speed, mixed with bullshitting with their friends after the set, is fucking nuts. I’ve always done a pre-setup and full teardown in the gear stash area…

One of the main indie promoters in my town started promising “done by midnight” for all his shows and it’s honestly pretty nice. The shows still start at either 9 or 10 depending on how many bands are on the bill, but the headliner never goes on later than 11:30 and the shows are done at a reasonable time. I went to a…

Counter-point: that guitar playing is way more interesting than an ex-punk singer who found his grandpa’s record collection when he turned 30 and decided to sing songs about being a character in Red Dead Redemption.

Sounds like someone hasn’t heard about Terryology.

I think we need to drop the pretense that college athletes are getting paid with an education if this is the kind of shit they say when they’re done.

You guys feature some really nice cars on these posts, but I do wish they came in more phone-friendly resolutions.

I actually like this but it’s apparently not coming to Canada, Australia, or New Zealand.

I’ve seen them all across western Canada. They’re just truck stops and gas stations. Some of them were co-branded with Shell, so it’s possible you’ve driven past them on the highway and just not noticed.

I like to play grindy JRPG’s when I ride a stationary bike. Powerleveling is tedious shit, but I’m not doing anything else for the next 30-45 minutes so I might as well grind this damn dungeon.

I agree with this a lot. I spend a lot of my free time doing two things, making music and lifting weights. I treat both like a job, probably more so than my actual job. Some of my musician friends ask how I can be as prolific as I am. It’s because, whether I “feel like it” or not, I pick up a guitar, or a bass, or a…

Just want to point out that major junior hockey players are not NCAA-eligible. Junior A players are, but they almost never turn pro (or at least not at the NHL level) at the end of their junior careers. I agree with your overall point, just wanted to clarify that.