T.S.R.

Current Weight: 206 lbs.

I'm changing my writing style as an experiment. We're only going to focus on one topic each post. When I started writing the older posts I would loose interest half way, get bored & cap it off some how uninteresting. So we're just going to talk about a favorite band of mine, "Against Me!".

I first heard of Against Me! in the Winter of 2003, on Mitch Clem's website Nothing Nice 2 Say. I had no idea who the band was but Mitch is great about setting up punch lines so I just let it go & waited for the next update. Throughout NN2S's run AM! jokes continued & I kept thinking "I really need to check out this band, hell- in his first news post about then Mitch said they were God's of Punk Rock." but I was too lazy.

When I got to college my neighbor/roommate/friend/philosophy advocate Daryl & I started swapping mix tapes & he asked what I liked because he knew of this great acoustic punk band from Florida that he thought I would like a whole lot. I asked what their name was & then fell out of the chair when he said "Against Me! The apostrophe is theirs, it makes it sound charged up when you say it out loud." So he gave me a copy of Crime as Forgive by Against Me! their second acoustic EP. Holy Kablamos is this an awesome record. Every question running through Tom Gabel's chorus' were things I was wondering about, it was like AM! was offering a handshake. "Welcome to young adulthood spiked with conscious decisions. It never gets easier. Try to stay comfortable." I still scream along to Y'all Don't Wanna Step to Dis, What We Worked For, and the rest of the album.

If anyone is looking for some simple, stripped-out songs speaking on the comfort pains of living in too familiar of a place, relationships that could never last but have been started, and seeing the inner workings of a touring band Against Me! is the place to go..


Maybe somehow
This scam will still save us all...