5-4 Pains of Being Pure at Heart

I really hate The Local 506 for no real reason. I like that they don't allow smoking where the bands play, but hate the lighting, think the sound is only mediocre, and the membership thing has always been a bust for me. That being said, I was really excited about seeing The Pains of Being Pure at Heart.
It's been 2 months since the show, so I don't remember the opener, but I do remember that I got the first Voxtrot 7" at CD Alley across from the venue before they played. Score on a $100 7" for three bucks.





lot's and LOT'S of fender->holy grail->twin reverb, and it was cute as FUCK.

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LONG HAUL without an update:

It's been FOR-FUCKING-EVER without an update in here because I moved, had a bunch of funerals to go to, went to a graduation, went to vegas, helped lila move to Boston, and kept it punk...

Pictures that will be up soon:
-Pains of Being Pure at Heart
-Loser Life
-Grids/Meth Mountain Greensboro trip
-Noise shit at Bay Street house
-Polvo/Des_ark

4/25 Hawks/Thank God/Grids

This show was in Atlanta, and was meant to be a three day jaunt with the three bands playing in each of their hometowns. A mini-tour if you will.
Columbia fell through because Thank God didn't want to play shows too close together, which worked out well for everyone. Thank God got to record in Columbia on Sunday, while Grids recorded in Charlotte, and Hawks hung out in town.

I only really have pictures from Hawks' set, because during the other bands I was either playing, partying, or trying to not have my camera destroyed. Pictures from their set:

Dan Smith got so belligerently drunk throughout the weekend that I can honestly say, I will never drink.




I wish I could take pictures well enough to document exactly what Hawks shows look like. This is as close as I can get. There needs to be people on top of the camera, and everything has to smell like beer for it to be closer.


put your trust in men
Thank God was great. I haven't listened to their new split lp, but this band is just unrelenting. Maybe the loudest band I've ever seen, definitely some of the coolest people I've met.
Also, there is this band called Yardwork, and, by some crazy fate of god, we ended up playing at a house whose back lawn was right next to the venue they were playing that night. With Yardwork and Grids out of town, who the fuck was left in Charlotte? (please understand this is a joke)


so, the trip was eventful as fuck, and I'm not really sure if I want to, but I'm going to put some pictures from the trip because it's hard to really put the show into context without a little help.

Grids+dansmith+stew left for Atlanta from Charlotte at midnight. what the fuck were we thinking.

everyone had sword fights with some swords. swords swords

sword fighting in the street led to this

portraits




look at how happy it makes Helen to hit Bobby and Stew. What a sick fuck


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Vivian Girls-April 5th

Everyone at Penalty Box decided to head up to Chapel Hill and Local 506 to see Vivian Girls and Ariel Pink, but none of us really cared about seeing the latter. I really enjoyed the Vivian Girls lp and all the 7"s, but saw them right before the record came out and they sucked. The trip ended up being really fun, we ate cheap burritos, saw some bands, and listened to John Joseph's book again.
The pictures turned out really poorly, but I wasn't really hoping for anything and was excited just to see Vivian Girls play a good show.





Going to see Brian Jonestown Massacre tomorrow in Asheville. Probably no pictures from there. I should spend more time at punk shows and less at nonpunk shows

Thorns of Life "Live at Gilman"

I'm really excited this exists, and meant to put it online earlier but forgot.
Aaron Cometbus, Black Schwarzenbach, and the girl from The L Word start a band called Thorns of Life, and it turns out, the songs are actually really good.


This is really great and if they don't tour, I very well may fly west for a weekend or something.

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Masshysteri In Raleigh 3/21/09

I'm fucking moving to Sweden. Fuck American punk, those guys got it right.
Masshysteri is better than The Vicious, I said it. This is really late, but that's because I'm busy and time is money.






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Big house show saturday at sandbar.

All The Saints at The Milestone

I didn't take pictures of Grids or These Arms are Snakes and I'm sure everyone knows how great the latter was. Grids played well I guess, opening at the milestone is kind of rough, especially on a show when everything starts on time.
The Coathangers though, well they fucking sucked. If those girls weren't mildly attractive no one would give a shit. The first song they played sounded like the theme to Alvin and the Chipmunks. Complete garbage. I've heard the records and always just kind of thought they were another garagey band that I didn't care about, but fuck were they bad live. And they're on Suicide Squeeze now!?

So, I really like All The Saints. I'm glad I got a copy of their record, I'm glad I got to see them, and I'm glad it fucking ruled. I wish the pictures turned out better, but I'm not going to waste time photoshoping anything, so this is what they looked like to me through a viewfinder.



Dude destroyed a perfectly good Univox. Triple humbuckers and everything...


The Milestone is my favorite venue in the world. I will never get tired of Andy, Jonathan, Neal, Philip and everyone else there.

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