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04/06/2016 · 4:04 pm

I Don’t Like The Drugs (But The Drugs Like Me)

“The sedative for coughs”, until 1913.

Here in Atlanta’s Little Five Points neighborhood, we lost another local musician to heroin. I won’t write his name here, because I don’t want to inextricably link him with the drug that killed him. But there’s an anguished frustration every time this happens, when the needle takes yet one more.

Junk has been a cancer on music since before Charlie Parker played a note. It has taken too many casualties to list here. It seeps into cinema and art like toxic groundwater. No one does better work while on heroin. It improves no experience; it only makes one atrophy. What it does, is put your soul in terrible pain, and then dulls it. Nothing it does helps you or anyone else in any legitimate way. Continue reading →

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Tagged as 1990s, alcohol, Atlanta, behind the scenes, cocaine, death, depression, despair, DMT, drugs, ecstasy, heroin, jail, John's Arm:Armageddon, laughter, Little 5 Points, LSD, suicide

02/19/2016 · 1:58 pm

The Thankless Life

A harsh truth of reality: not every movie gets a sequel, and this isn’t a bad thing. Only one thing grants a movie a sequel; money.

Money and passion are often confused by consumers. They feel the same, in many ways, and they produce similar results. But for creative people, money and passion are completely different creatures. The latter is fuel, and the former is a means to an end. You can possess a passion; money, you can only hold. Continue reading →

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Filed under Bad Influences, Faint Signals, Late To The Party, Movies You Missed, Nostalgic Obsessions, Saturday Movie Matinee

Tagged as 2006, Bands I Useta Like, behind the scenes, Betamax, Bumfights, Ceaseless Fables of Beyonding, comedy, Consumption Junction, despair, Facebook, Gary Coleman, Indecline, John's Arm:Armageddon, Killing of a Chinese Bookie, laughter, Marvel comics, Mike the Pod, Mila Kunis, movies, music, Star Wars, Stuff (magazine), The Betamax Rundown, underground, Vincent Van Gogh, YouTube

01/02/2016 · 1:05 am

Here’s Your Problem

It’s 2016, and I can tell you’re not ready. The last twelve months really added wear and tear. You’ll have to do more than make resolutions you won’t keep, if you’re gonna roll through another year. I’m here to help, though. I’ve taken a good look under your hood, and I think I see the issue. It’s not a problem yet per se, but it could seriously affect your performance in the coming days.

Let me break it down for you.

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Tagged as 1960s, 9/11/01, apology culture, Bands I Useta Like, behind the scenes, children, comedy, corporate crap, despair, ethics, George Lucas, laughter, Mike the Pod, movies, Poddism, Poddist philosophy, sellouts, South Park, Star Wars, Transformers, whores

12/06/2015 · 5:59 pm

Soundgarden

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Tagged as 1970s, 1980s, 1982, 1990s, 1991, 1994, 1995, Almost Live!, alternative music, Any Winehouse, behind the scenes, Chris Cornell, classic rock, comic, corporate crap, despair, DEVO, grunge, Infinite Zero, Kai's Power Tools, Kim Thayil, music, New Jersey, radio, Scott Weiland, Seattle, Soundgarden, Stone Temple Pilots, strips, suicide, worcestershire sauce

12/03/2015 · 1:54 pm

Mazzy Star

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Tagged as #tbt, 1990s, 1993, 95 South, alternative music, Bands I Useta Like, behind the scenes, comic, corporate crap, depression, despair, Dido, Dr. Dre, fake rap, Georgia, Hootie & The Blowfish, Hope Sandoval, Jewel, Luther Campbell, Mazzy Star, music, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, R&B, Sarah MacLachlan, Savannah Mall, Snoop Doggy Dogg, strips, suicide, SWV, whores

11/22/2015 · 1:33 am

Punch Drunk

One thing about myself I’m not proud of; I’ve been punched in the face a lot. Like, I actually don’t know how many times. I try to calculate it and things go hazy and red. I take this as an indication that I’ve been punched in the face too many times.

I’m not a boxer; I’m a skinny cartoonist with a big mouth, whom many observers assume suffers from Tourette’s Syndrome. I don’t consider my face “punchable”, but my jukebox of a head is apparently too tempting for froggy dudes to resist. Miraculously my nose has never been broken, but my back teeth bear the brunt of damage from more than a few fists.

Don’t freak, this was years ago.

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Tagged as 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2011, behind the scenes, brain damage, Bumfights, depression, despair, Fight Club, fighting, New Jersey, violence

10/07/2015 · 9:41 pm

Another Podcast!

Would you trust these men?

As promised, the AGE OF THE SHRUG podcast has begun! Have you ever wondered what it would sound like if you were stuck in a room with an insufferable cartoonist and his equally grouchy friend? Wonder no longer, person I sure hope exists!

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Tagged as Age of the Shrug podcast, Bands I Useta Like, behind the scenes, Mike the Pod, music

09/08/2015 · 3:59 pm

Atlanta Is My Lady

You wanna know how to tell if a city is your home? When terrible things happen to you there, and it never occurs to you to leave. You don’t abandon your home. You stay and tough it out.

There was a night during my stay in Fulton County Jail where all of us were herded into the rec area, so that the guards could search the ward for contraband. Apparently some inmates had been smoking weed in their cell. Since that cell was mine, and one of the inmates was me, I spent my time in the rec room deep in contemplation. As time wore on no quicker than molasses, we all started to chat to break the tension.

The cement room was sweltering. The walls were nine feet high, rimmed with cyclone fencing. If I jumped vertically, I could catch a glimpse of the glimmering Atlanta skyline I missed so terribly. This was soothing. Some of the inmates I’d befriended took notice, and I eagerly explained myself. It was the first view of the city I’d had in a month.

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Tagged as 1990s, 1996, Atlanta, Baltimore, behind the scenes, Bob Burden, Dave Foley, depression, DragonCon, Evan Dorkin, Frank Sinatra, Frank Zappa, Georgia, John Waters, Little 5 Points, New Jersey, NYC, Prefuse 73, Subgenius Foundation, Tony Bennett

09/01/2015 · 2:55 pm

Big Ban On Campus

It’s September, folks, and you know what that means! Fall weather, leaves changing color, ringing school bells, and a new issue of BANDS I USETA LIKE.

Available everywhere this fall

It’s the perfect item to get you kicked out of class this semester! Forget about technicolored hair, tribal piercings, and half-exposed genitalia. When your teacher or professor sees this in your hands, they’ll know you’re a true subversive– the type of weirdo that always grows up smarter than everyone else. You don’t just take the trends and paradigms that life hands you- you subvert them, and expose their hidden hypocrisies for all to see. Your contempt for the lowest common denominator is already deep in amber. You’re the reason there used to be not only MAD, but CRAZY, SICK, PLOP, and even a little rag called TRUMP. They kept young minds like yours from becoming good little automatons.

I got your back. Print is forever. How do I know? Because I have piles of it, going back two hundred years. People and computers die. Books do not.

Get ready. Class begins again this fall.

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Tagged as back to school, Bands I Useta Like, Basil Wolverton, behind the scenes, comedy, comix, limited edition, MAD magazine, Mike the Pod, music, strips

08/03/2015 · 7:52 pm

That ’90s Comic Book

No, not Peter Bagge’s HATE. I mean that ’90s comic book you’ve never heard of.

A short-lived little funnybook called DROP DEAD, which any fool could see was inspired by Bagge’s neat stuff. Some kid who called himself Matty Boy Anderson was barely out of high school when he started cranking out copies, and timidly mailing them to review periodicals like Factsheet Five, and cartoonists he admired, such as Bagge, Roy (Trailer Trash) Tompkins, and Evan Dorkin.

It began in 1993, when self-publishing meant a trip to Kinko’s. The black & white interior was cheap to print (and fun to huff), but full-color covers were expensive. So typically an office color-copier was secretly abused for free, someplace prior. With a book stapler, you were all set to collate and fold your comix. This is the way it was done. Plus, not sinking your life savings into a print run left you more open to trading, which is also the way it was done. When you submitted your publication to Factsheet Five, you indicated whether trades were welcome. If you did, you found yourself with quite a “zine” collection, very rapidly.

It was actually pretty grand. Continue reading →

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Tagged as #tbt, 1990s, 1993, alternative comics, behind the scenes, comix, depression, despair, Drop Dead, HATE, Lemmings, mall culture, Mike the Pod, One Hundred Percent American, parental advisory labels, Peter Bagge, strips, suicide, underground, zine culture, zines

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