fuck yes.

"MOTHERFUCKING SNAKES MOTHERFUCKER!"

They're showing the trailer at the new X-Men movie. I'm in.

and that is... that

so i mentioned 'the siren six!' earlier...

they were this band that my friend used to book back in kansas city, who would come through town with this other band 'animal chin' and at the time (as well as now) i have nothing but fond memories and nice things to say...

'the siren six' looked cool and emulated that '60s mod style that made you feel like less of a nerd when they were around... at least... a little bit less of a nerd for listening to third-wave ska anyway... a lot of their songs off of 'young and professional' and 'voice' were fucking powerful for a 15 year old, and all of the writing was really simplistic where words often had to do with creating change in some vague form or other, all while being belted out by a pretty convincing frontman... i liked their name. i liked their songs. i liked their album title so much that it probably remains my favorite to this day. i even remember wanting to hump the one girl in the band. so what happened? a moment please...

'animal chin' on the other hand was a much more punk rock band with ska-influences that i saw at a different time, but since they were from minneapolis as well, they eventually toured with the siren six enough to where they were an item of sorts... at least for us... at that time... whatever. these guys spit on eachother, minimalized the cheese factor in ska-punk at the time AND named their band after a pretty fucking old ass skate video that is now somewhat legendary... (HAVE YOU SEEN HIM?)

still...

now the siren six is 'big city rock' (atlantic records) after moving to LA and animal chin (or rather jamie woolford and soon enough... rory from the impossibles) had one semi-decent record as 'the stereo'... before mercy-sinking that band and finally hitting the coffin nail on the head with their new turd of a band 'let go'...

i remember watching the siren six play back when i was a high school retard and despite not knowing a goddamn thing about music (not that i know much more now), i thought they would have, or at least, could have been huge and that if i ever had a band i wanted to look like they did -- like what i was a part of was more important than anything else in the world at that point in time.

now i have more friends than they do on myspace and whatever collective they have together now has a 'douchebaggery' kind of feel to it. i mean, look at that fucking promotional photo.

jesus.

somethings are best left in our childhoods... regardless of the fact that i'll probably see 'big city rock' at the marquis this june... if only because i don't have to pay admission there...

and all of my friends will think i'm on fucking mars when i tell them that a few of the guys used to be in a good band that played pixies covers and talked about killing your parents.

dumb.

blogs. everywhere.

so this will ultimately be an mp3 blog that will replace all of the raving and complaining i do on myspace... AND will hopefully work in cohesion with scottlongman.com, once i decide what the hell i want that to look like.

uh-hum.

post script:

i ripped the title/theme for this from a siren six album, but no one knows who they are... regardless of whether they covered the pixies' 'holiday' and beat them at their own game. i'm going to look them up on wikipedia now. keep your fingers crossed and your legs covered.