Bands I Useta Like

10/14/2021 · 10:14 pm

I Sees Sus Sauce

I’ve noticed that it’s become de rigueur to over-criticize everything (other than personal politics, mandates, foreign governments, or presidents not named Trump), particularly when it comes to the Sopranos prequel. People are so desperate to appear savvy and informed that they will over-analyze things, thereby nullifying the joy of discovery. You talk yourself into hating, in the futile hopes of besting the haters. You’re afraid to love something that someone else might hate.

To prove my point, I’m going to stick thoughts into your head that will make you hate your favorite things. Let’s start with The Sopranos!

Ready?

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Filed under Bad Influences, Comix Classic & Current, Faint Signals, Idiot's Delight, Movies You Missed, Nostalgic Obsessions, Unfairly Maligned, Worst Of All

Tagged as 2020s, 2021, David Chase, Disney, Futurama, Goodfellas, hatred, Internet, Marvel, political cartoons, political correctness, Quentin Tarantino, Spike Lee, stereotypes, Stonetoss, The Many Saints of Newark, The Sopranos, Yosemite Sam

10/03/2021 · 10:03 am

The Many Saints of Newark

_{I know what you’re thinking; we’re all thinking it. They dressed young Tony Soprano up to vaguely reference Chris-Chan, and they did it intentionally. It fits the timeline; filming preceded the eldritch horrors that ultimately led to prison for Chris-Chan. I don’t even want to joke about what he did, and in case you don’t know what the hell I’m talking about: I am not crazy.}

My personal credentials for this review are as follows:

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Tagged as 1960s, 1967, 1970s, 1973, Goodfellas, HBO, movies, New Jersey, Newark, The Many Saints of Newark, The Sopranos

09/19/2021 · 9:19 am

One Hundred Percent American

Here’s the good news, loyal readers! Your old pal Matty Boy is producing his first new animation in eleven years!

Ready for the bad news? Here we go…

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Filed under Animation Analysis, Bad Influences, Comix Classic & Current, Idiot's Delight, Saturday Movie Matinee, Site Stuff

Tagged as 1970s, 1978, 1990s, 2020s, 2021, animation, Bands I Useta Like, behind the scenes, Bo Harwood, Flash, John Cassavetes, Killing of a Chinese Bookie, laughter, Mike Judge, Patreon

09/11/2021 · 9:11 am

It Was Twenty Years Ago Today

“Oh, wonder! How many goodly creatures are there here! How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world, that has such people in ‘t!”
-William Shakespeare, The Tempest

For the past twenty years, I’ve tried to get over it. I’ve tried to make sense of it.

I can’t.

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Tagged as 1990s, 2000s, 2010s, 9/11, 9/11/01, China, corporate crap, death, depression, despair, Donald Trump, Family Guy, God, laughter, money, news media, political correctness, religion, social media, South Park, The Simpsons, Twitter

07/07/2021 · 7:07 am

Museless

I have now passed the half-way mark on my least productive year in a decade. Even when I was practically homeless and actually starving a ways back, I was producing more work than I have this year. I know what the problem is.

That itself is the problem.

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Tagged as 200s, 2010s, 2020 election fraud, 2020s, 2021, Alexandra Daddario, Bands I Useta Like, breasts, depression, despair, Elvira, Georgia, Harvey Weinstein, Howard Hughes, John's Arm: Armageddon, Lesley Ann Warren, movies, music, political correctness, Queen Latifah, Sarah Polley, social media, television, Tessa Fowler, vaginas, whores, women

03/25/2021 · 3:25 am

The Thirty Year Niche

This year represents a personal milestone for me, in that I have now been creating and self-publishing my own comics for thirty years.

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Tagged as #tbt, 1990s, 1991, 2021, Anarchy Comics, Art Speigelman, Bad Shape, Bands I Useta Like, behind the scenes, Bettie Page, Bob Burden, Bob Fingerman, Bob Sikoryak, breasts, Chris Ware, Dave Stevens, Dennis Worden, Doug Allen, Drop Dead, drugs, Eros Comics, Georgia, Gilbert Shelton, Glenn Head, Greg Irons, Greg Theakston, Julie Doucet, Kaz, Krsytine Kryttre, laughter, Lemmings, Mack White, Mark Beyer, Mark Newgarden, Mike the Pod, Mike The Pod Comix, Poddism, R. Crumb, Rand Holmes, S. Clay Wilson, Sam Hurt, Savannah, Savannah Mall, Subgenius Foundation, underground comix, vaginas, VHS, Wayne White

02/19/2021 · 2:19 am

Acceptance

*Pictured: The serenity to accept the things I cannot change, and the wisdom to know who should go fuck themselves.*

In case you missed it, Bands I Useta Like (the comic strip, not the site you are currently reading) is over. I am forced to accept that a printed periodical outlet for the strip I have drawn for the past twenty-three years no longer exists. This is the theme of the 2020’s; forced acceptance and submission. Historically, I do well with neither.

So, in the spirit of the current times, I am accepting my own flaws and shortcomings as personal advantages, and forcing them on the rest of society and the world. As a pipe-tooting sailor once said, I am what I am.

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Tagged as 2020 election fraud, 2020s, 2021, apology culture, Atlanta, Bands I Useta Like, cancel culture, censorship, CNN, Danny Bonaduce, Disney, Donald Trump, Hollywood, laughter, Mental Hell Online, Mike the Pod, Monty Python, Pat Benatar, Paul Winfield, political correctness, politics, Shia LaBeouf, social media, tacos, The Terminator, tobacco

02/01/2021 · 2:01 am

The Pretenders

That’s all folks!

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Tagged as 1970s, 1980s, 1994, 2021, Atlanta, Bands I Useta Like, Cheech & Chong's Next Movie, Chrissie Hynde, comic strips, drugs, James Honeyman-Scott, music, Pete Farndon, The Pretenders

01/28/2021 · 1:28 pm

Boards of Canada

One of my all-time, top-five, desert-island favorite bands is the Scottish electronic music duo Boards of Canada. For over a decade, I listened to their albums while working, for inspiration. I find their music transcendent and beautiful.

I have not listened to them in over five years.